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[-] EfreetSK@lemmy.world 114 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

This is one of my pet peeves - so you have a HUGE universe to work with, thousands and thousands of interresting planets, anything you can imagine. But no, because of callback$ and reference$ we're getting to the same planets over and over again, even to Tatooine which should be by its purpose in the story forgetable, boring, a planet everyone overlooks

[-] bob_lemon@feddit.de 34 points 9 months ago

I mean, Tatooine comes up more than other planets in the movies, but it's not actually all that strange.

Tatooine is where Luke grew up, in the farm of his uncle and aunt. Which immediately ties his father to that place in some fashion. Or you would have to explain why Owen and Beru chose to move there, which seems much more difficult.

Han Solo is there trying to work things out with Jabba, which doesn't go well at all, but does explain why we go back to Tatooine for a third time in RotJ: that's just where Jabba lives.

[-] marcos@lemmy.world 27 points 9 months ago

Well, it is a planet everyone overlooks.

[-] crackajack@reddthat.com 11 points 9 months ago

As much as Lucas is rightfully getting criticised for hammy dialogues and slacking narrative in the prequels, what I love about the prequels is that it's got a vision and it is wholly original because it is made by an auteur. Lucas created new, interesting and unique set pieces that are integral to the plot. Whereas the sequel trilogy, while they have some original set pieces, most of them feel dead, forgettable and basically remake of previous settings from old movies like Jakku (a carbon copy of Tatooine), the Moon Death Star (which is well-- a carbon copy of the Death Star), and Ahch-To, where Luke hid, is a lush version of Dagobah.

[-] anonymouse@lemmings.world 1 points 9 months ago

I feel this way about the Clone Wars animated series. Lots of people dismiss it as being just for kids, or hate it 'cause 'Snips', but it did more to bring me into the lore than the original trilogy.

[-] No_Eponym@lemmy.ca 77 points 9 months ago

"...but I have never bothered to check because I hate sand."

[-] ArcaneGadget@lemmy.world 31 points 9 months ago

Comb the dessert!

[-] jawa21@startrek.website 22 points 9 months ago

We ain't found shit!

[-] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 3 points 9 months ago

You know who that actor was? Tim Russ, who played Tuvok on Voyager!

[-] jawa21@startrek.website 2 points 9 months ago
[-] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 1 points 9 months ago

Thank you! That was awesome!

[-] jawa21@startrek.website 2 points 9 months ago

You're welcome! I'm kinda surprised you hadn't seen that before.

[-] XTornado@lemmy.ml 7 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

I mean with the mask and the breathing difficulties I wouldn't trust it, he is one grain of sand away of asphyxiation.

[-] Lath@kbin.social 62 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

No wonder all the sand people are so darn tired of all them immigrants messing up their lands.

[-] Death_Equity@lemmy.world 42 points 9 months ago

Are we still talking about Star Wars?

[-] dditty@lemm.ee 11 points 9 months ago

Naw we're talking about Dune

[-] WhiskyTangoFoxtrot@lemmy.world 4 points 9 months ago

Then I can dig it.

[-] possiblylinux127@lemmy.zip 8 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

plane sounds

[-] original_reader@lemm.ee 5 points 9 months ago

๐Ÿ‘€

[-] george@lemmon.website 56 points 9 months ago

There's so much happening on Tatooine, it's crazy that Luke ever wanted to leave in the first place

[-] LZamperini@kbin.social 32 points 9 months ago

Helicopter parents will do that

[-] hydrospanner@lemmy.world 2 points 9 months ago

I was hoping that, if we had to return to Tatooine in the sequel trilogy, they'd at least lampshade it and show us a budding historical tourism industry getting going.

Guided tours of significant locations, hunting expeditions, museums...

Instead they just gave it a different name.

[-] CptEnder@lemmy.world 25 points 9 months ago

"Its even got a fucking Star Forge buried in it"

[-] Maultasche@feddit.de 22 points 9 months ago

Wasn't it just a Star Map?

[-] Igloojoe@lemm.ee 13 points 9 months ago

Ya. It was just a map piece. The star forge was destroyed above Abo according to wookieepedia.

[-] DragonTypeWyvern@literature.cafe 2 points 9 months ago

You went back to it in the MMO for some reason. I don't remember why. Sith just be Sithing around I guess.

[-] CptEnder@lemmy.world 1 points 9 months ago

Ahh yeah that's what I was thinking, got them mixed up with the map

[-] Possible_EmuWrangler@lemmy.world 1 points 9 months ago

And a very helpful protocol droid.

[-] Underwaterbob@lemm.ee 19 points 9 months ago

The point where Star Wars totally lost me was when it turned out C3PO was fucking built by Darth Vader when he was a kid. I just couldn't suspend my disbelief anymore. I loved the original three movies when I was a kid, but damn, it's completely left me behind at this point.

[-] hakunawazo@lemmy.world 15 points 9 months ago

[-] carpelbridgesyndrome@sh.itjust.works 13 points 9 months ago

Hey, occasionally things happen on [Death Star flavor of the month].

[-] mo_lave@reddthat.com 9 points 9 months ago

Is Tatooine the Brazil of the Galaxy?

[-] Kaizodrack@lemmy.eco.br 1 points 9 months ago

Brasil, but instead of tropical beaches and jungle it's just sand

[-] anakin@lemmon.website 3 points 9 months ago

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