#window dressings meant to establish a setting (bantha)

[ryehouses]

if ur saying George Lucas thought thru the ramifications of all of his choices... u know that ain't true lol like SW is not "good" sci-fi (it's not even "good" literature) like how does Tatooine support all that mega fauna? They 100% did shit just bcuz it looked cool and came up with a flimsy explanation later. George cared so much about ish looking cool that he remade them with CGI and made everyone buy a new VHS boxset. Since when has any SW writer cared about physics or biology or even narrative consistency? This ain't Ursula K. Le Guin lol just sayin

two arguments here, distilled over many a long hike with my wife, during which we picked apart star wars, because we're nerds:

1. yeah george lucas did a lot of shit that was ???? at best, but very rarely was it to the detriment of his own narrative, unlike much of current star wars, which contradicts and backtracks and retcons itself constantly, mostly because one writer wants to do something cool and doesn't give a shit about what's been established before. (for example, the differences between the force awakens and the last jedi, which were so wide that they pretty much schismed the sequel trilogy.)

2. Wookieepedia is compiled OBSESSIVELY by fans, for free, and is available to literally everyone with an internet connection, also for free, so I have less patience with current star wars projects that can't get the details of their own universe straight than I do for star wars in the 1970s and 1980s, when you had to, like, idk, put it all on a typewriter and get it bound at kinko's