Saturday, July 27, 2024

Low stakes Star Wars annoyance

 

This is a very low-stakes annoyance. It would be better to air it here than talk to Ed because Ed could not care less.

So here is my annoyance. For a highly advanced civilization, they have some pretty backward planets. I kind of got it in the first (now 4th) movie. Luke was stuck on Tatooine, which was very backward on purpose to keep him from the prying eyes of the Empire.

But in all the movies, the constant theme is very rich or very poor planets. And it isn't just "high tech bad, low tech good;" it is just random. In some ways, it is a Production Designer's wet dream. There is no Star Wars Wisconsin-type planet, but it is lazy.

I'm just saying...

Crap Planets

Luxury Planets

And finally, I totally agree with this:


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