This thread is like the other characterization threads; it is a place to discuss aspects about things. However, instead of focusing on a single character, it will be on a planet. Aspects of the planet and its role in the CT can be discussed, and the planets will change once in a while. You can add small EU references to this thread, but please don't use too much outside-the-Saga information.

Tatooine has lots of sand.


Also, it has the most awesome sunset everrr!

It also had a big slug, and a crab. I never really got the crab.

So, what makes Tatooine so memorable as a SW location?

It's the first planet that you actually see from on planet. It also has the first non-human species ever seen in the entire saga.

And Anakin and Luke are both from there. In case anyone forgot that. Pretty much the super-major planet in Star Wars, even if it's not the most important in the galaxy. I mean, it's not Coruscant or anything.

Coruscant wasn't even in the OT, so its importance is almost zilch. Tatooine appears in all but ESB.

Although Tatooine is such a desolate planet, it certainly is important in the story arc.

Weird, how all the boring places are the ones that get action and recognition.

Well, there isn't much action on Tatooine. It's more of an acting planet instead of an action one in the films.

It gets a lot of the emotional action of the story. Like when Anakin kills all the Sand People, and Luke finds Beru and Owen killed. There's also Leia in a bikini, that seems to attract the guys to Tatooine, but... I don't quite know where I was going with this....

Emotional action yes, but not a lot of real "action".

Yeah, but Star Wars isn't really an action film in the truest sense. It's an epic. Therefore, there shouldn't be action in every single scene.

I didn't say that SW was an "all-action" movie; I just wanted to say that a lot of the tense action does not happen on Tatooine.

I know, but I couldn't think of anything else to say.

OK. Should we change planets?

Yes, I think so.

I vote Bespin!