Star Wars Episode VII - Official release date

[dtolman]

Clone Wars - as seen on Disney+ - is out of order, and about 20% of the arc’s should be skipped. There are a number of guides online that tell you what order to watch the show (and what to skip), and if you follow that its Very Good.

[lordkosc]

A lot of droid shooting takes place, but the best part of the clone wars series was that it really fleshed out all the characters.

[Tin_Wisdom]

@Woolen_Horde

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.

I can’t argue with the creative bankruptcy, but I think that the repeat planet complaint is a little overblown.

I did a little Googling, and near as I can tell, there are only a handful of planets that have turned up multiple times in the movies (I haven’t seen any of the cartoons, so I didn’t want to try and count TV shows). Note that I don’t consider two seconds of “celebration” footage in the revised Return of the Jedi to count.

Tatooine (6) – this is the big one. It features fairly prominently in all three prequel movies, A New Hope, and (briefly) Rise of Skywalker.

Corsucant (3) – Unsurprisingly, this shows up in the three prequel movies, but I don’t believe it appears in any of the other movies.

Ahch-To (3) – This is the Irish-looking planet that Luke was hiding on; and it technically makes an appearance (post-credits?) in Force Awakens as well as the extended stay in Last Jedi and the little coda in Revenge of the Sith.

Naboo (3) – Also was featured (at least briefly) in all three prequel movies.

Alderran (2) – We don’t get to see the planet’s surface in A New Hope, but we see it briefly in Revenge of the Sith so it technically counts as a repeated location.

Dagobah (2) – Both Empire and Return of the Jedi spend some time here.

Yavin 4 (2) – A New Hope and Rogue One.

I believe that’s it? Wikipedia says that about three-dozen planets actually made their way on to the screen in the eleven movies, so seven repeated locations seems kind of paltry… even if Tatooine does seem to have a ludicrous amount of screen-minutes.

[spiffy]

@Tin_Wisdom

Tatooine does seem to have a ludicrous amount of screen-minutes.

That’s the main one, really. Other than having Jabba’s crime network there should be zero reason to go back to the place. The whole point to hide Luke was to find a backwater place where no one thinks to look (except that Darth Vader grew up there too … ugh), hence I guess why Jabba can have his palace in the open, and yet it seems every star wars story wants to hang out in the desert. And I always assumed Jabba’s organization spanned many planets and places, not just a shitty town. Again, my brain seems to fill in better details than the writers keep coming up with.

[CraigM]

Many Star Wars stories take place featuring characters and events on the fringes, both legal and physical, of society. Do you really need an intense bounty hunter network in a core world with a functional civil society? Or does it make more sense to be some fringe planet where the legal and civil systems barely exist?

Its like asking why would a western take place in Yuma or Tombstone and not New York City.

[spiffy]

There’s plenty of underbelly for the criminal fringes to romp around in in civil society, but to use your example, rather than choose any one of thousands of appropriate locales in the States to shoot your Western, you keep going back to Hedwigs Hill Texas, population 150.

If it’s an entire galaxy StarWars has chosen to make its playground, surely its rougher edge isn’t 50% Tatooine.

[Profanicus]

Looks like they can reuse the same actor as in the other current shows too, even though this one’s set in a different time! Genius! ;)

edit: maybe it's a spoiler? Don't know

Also pretty sure it’s a photoshop. :)

[Jazar]

@LMN8R

And each planet is apparently only a single biome, instead of a diversity of different locations like…Earth

I used to think that but aren’t most planets mostly one biome? Too hot, too cold, too stormy, or gassy. Earth is the rare goldilocks.

[rshetts]

@Jazar

aren’t most planets mostly one biome?

Honestly, who knows? We have virtually so little information on other worlds that any conclusion is pretty much pointless. Although one point to consider in your goldilocks theory is that most of the planets they show in Star Wars to be single biome are inhabitable and while uninhabitable planets may tend to be single biome, inhabitable ones should not be if the goldilocks theory holds true. Then again, its space fantasy so we are really overthinking the whole thing.