What I hate about it though is Tatooine use to fucking matter. It was carbon copied and recycled into yet another meaningless desert planet for no reason.
There is zero fucking reason for Jakku to exist, because it IS Tatooine.
P.S. Let’s not even talk about how the planet’s signature attire suddenly became The Old Republic’ Jedi robes
And now we have the full spectrum. From 1) why is everything happening on Tatooine to 2) it sucks that Tatooine no longer matters.
Maybe Lucas was inspired by Dune. It does seem that a lot of sci fi shit happens on desert worlds.
I don’t think that’s really in dispute.
Yeah, I mean there is that.
I am an old Star Wars fan. I love the original trilogy. Everything after is…dust in the wind dude. (although I secretly love Luke in The Last Jedi)
For me, after the first movies, it’s mostly about the video games. There have been some great ones.
Yeah, there is. I feel like OG Trilogy and the content / expanded universe is the best.
Yeah, there is a lot of Dune there. And in Mandalorian, there is a bit of A Man Called Horse too.
I wonder where the Kenobi show will be set…
Tatooine matters in the same way the Shire matters in Lord of the Rings. Kinda, but not really?
With so many planets around, I would prefer future settings to be somewhere that is actually important, if at all possible.
This is a problem with Star Wars. It’s supposedly an entire galaxy of stories spanning thousands of years, and yet we keep getting the same handful of planets, with the same characters. It’s creatively bankrupt.
LMN8R
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And each planet is apparently only a single biome, instead of a diversity of different locations like…Earth
Maybe this is what some see it as, but at least with respect to Lucas and the direction of the movies, it is the story of a single family, set in a galaxy. Stuff like the Mandalorian gets us some distance from the that family, but perhaps they felt like they couldn’t completely step away from all of Star Wars, so they do hit up the usual waterholes, overly much.
Frankly, I still come back to Rogue One as the best use of the franchise, without overly relying on what came before, despite the timeframe in which it is set.
I mean, this is the obviously correct take if you’re not literally drawing income from whatever Disney is vomiting out.
I suppose Rebels is pretty good. Haven’t watched Bad Batch. Mando has its moments. But…yeah, slim pickins.
Dejin
1655
Bad Batch is okay. It’s got some really emotionally resonant parts to it — I really liked the last couple of episodes on the season. But it suffers from having a fairly long season (16 episodes) and a lot of the middle episodes aren’t particularly strong and feel like filler.
Clone Wars you fucks. It’s the best Star Wars that ever Warsed. Goes to tons of planets.
To each their own. I felt like I had to get through a lot of dreck to get to good episodes.
Only some of the first season is dreck due to over reliance on Jar Jar. It gets amazing when he stops showing up.
Murph
1659
I wouldn’t call it the best, but damn does Clone Wars do some great stuff!
spiffy
1660
I only watched the first episode of Bad Batch, where it seems Clone Wars is wrapping up… are all those seasons of Clone Wars really shooting up Droids and finding Grievous under the direction of Palpatine the entire time?
I’ve tried to watch Clone Wars I think three times, and bounced off every time. Must get good later.
