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pleckthaniel · 2 years

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one of my favorite insane little worldbuilding details in star wars that eventually got kinda fucked up by the prequels is the very strong implication that humans on tatooine specifically have ‘normal’ names, to the point that obi-wan kenobi has to change his name to ‘ben’ to get around without invoking suspicion. this is even funnier/more interesting with the context that tatooine is a thinly veiled arrakis expy, and the situation was very purposefully and pointedly the opposite in dune, where the native arrakeens all had ‘weird’ sounding names based on bastardized arabic words and names while the colonizing offworlders were the ones named things like paul and jessica

#george lucas missing the entire point of dune part 12314324 #no actually i find it hard to blame him for this because he was just doing something fundamentally different with the worldbuilding #making luke be not only a pretty normal guy but also from a pretty normal culture makes him a better everyman #and while i know star wars is explicitly disconnected from our universe and history #i still think theres something interesting to the idea that planets with more isolated populations (like tatooine)#would have more strongly preserved elements of 'original' human culture than places where there was more intercultural mixing and sharing #scout talks #idk im just thinking about stuff. sorry for being an english major #sw #dune #i need a better dune tag lol i want to stop tossing my rambles directly into the main tag #whatever will figure it out later

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