ST Planets in the ST

I suppose a professional movie crew working round the clock for several months could take some location in New Jersey and make it look as nice as Dagobah......

My theory, if they need to go to Tatooine, is that maybe Luke needs to retrieve something that Obi-Wan had hidden away in his hut..... either that or the Tosche Station called and said if he doesn't pick up those power converters soon, they will be sent back to the manufacturer......

 

Rotta the Hutt?

 

Doesn't seem "natural" to me. Visit a dangerous harsh & remote backwater? The planet where Luke's aunt & uncle were slaughtered, where their grandfather was a slave & his mother was murdered. Surely there are nicer vacation destinations than that.

 

I love vacations. I also love learning about my family's history and where I came from - even the dark, painful sides of that. They're very different things and people can, over the course of their lives, do both.

 

I guess it's not too unreasonable, if they're that curious. Anyway, we could be jumping the gun in assuming Tatooine will feature.

 

Maybe Luke decides it's finally time to free the slaves on Tatooine.

 

Would be about frickin time

 

Seriously! They didn't even build pyramids, train tracks, or iPhones. Waste of slavery.

 

No Coruscant? AotC had 5 planets & RotS had...alot.

 

So that would mean that either the Republic Senate/leadership isn't based on Coruscant, or there will be no scenes involving them in Ep7. Which of those do you predict?

 

I wonder what Yavin IV's role is in the galaxy these days.

 

Hippie music festivals.

 

I'm honestly hoping that the only planet we revisit is Coruscant. It makes sense, since it's the galactic centre. Other than that... give us new locations.

Yes. This.

Or... well... to be honest, anything that gives us Corellia on screen

 

I've been thinking about that too. Maybe that is how he discovers Obi Wan's daughter/grand daughter among the slaves there. I don't think he would have waited 30 years to free the slaves though so maybe it'll be talked about but not shown.

 

Somebody should draw a hippie Exar Kun spirit.

 

If so I hope they don't go with the lame & predictable choice of having Han be representative of the whole planet. Just bcs he's a wise cracking rogue we don't need to see a planet full of wise cracking rogues.

 

I was half joking although I do think it would be cool if we finally saw that happen. It seems like kind of a strange thing for him to be doing in the movie after ROTJ though, in terms of narrative flow. But as for the Obi-Wan relative thing, I have also been thinking that there's a distinct possibility that he would find her there... if she even exists. Perhaps he finds her in Episode VII, but gets on Rotta the Hutt's radar in the process. Then in the second movie one of his or Leia's children is kidnapped and enslaved as revenge for Jabba being killed and yet another rescue attempt is mounted at the beginning of the third film which this time results in freeing the entire planet and bringing it into the Republic. Kind of a side plot which has parallels with both of the first two trilogies, and that kind of fits with the basic storytelling method of these things. Plus it wraps up a problem in the last film that is presented in Episode I. Hmmm I think I may be talking myself into liking this idea.

 

You'd have to work hard to make New Jersey looks as good as Dagobah. I used to live in Newark.

 

Does anyone else want this Obi-Wan descendant thing to not happen? Doesn't fit with his story at all.

 

Most people, including myself

 

Definitely not. If they overload the ST with too many sons, daughters, & nephews it will seem like some lame soap opera relaunch like Dallas. Now people are throwing in Jabba's son?
What's next Porkins' niece !?

 

For me it all depends on execution. If they were to present a scenario in which it makes sense then I'd probably go with it. It probably isn't true anyway, but I'll keep an open mind if it is.