Anonymous
6/19/2025, 1:52:18 PM
No.211680962
>>211679164
the main cast of lucas' movies are all humans, because star wars is fundamentally a soap opera, and making one of the main characters in a soap opera a slug monster would ruin the drama.
But while star wars is a soap opera, it's one that's nonetheless set against the backdrop of a vibrant fantasy world, and you need lots of new exotic creatures, alien races, locales, vehicles, etc., in the background to sell it. So yes, there's no aliens in the rebellion in ANH, but ANH nonetheless gives us
>jawas and their landcrawlers filled with various droids
>tusken raiders
>C-3PO and R2-D2
>Chewbacca
>sandtroopers mounted on dewbacks
>all the countless alien extras in mos eisley
>the cantina band looking like weird butthead dudes with space oboes
>the rebellion being headquartered out of the megalithic ruins of an ancient civilization, rather than just being in some generic space military base
the main cast of lucas' movies are all humans, because star wars is fundamentally a soap opera, and making one of the main characters in a soap opera a slug monster would ruin the drama.
But while star wars is a soap opera, it's one that's nonetheless set against the backdrop of a vibrant fantasy world, and you need lots of new exotic creatures, alien races, locales, vehicles, etc., in the background to sell it. So yes, there's no aliens in the rebellion in ANH, but ANH nonetheless gives us
>jawas and their landcrawlers filled with various droids
>tusken raiders
>C-3PO and R2-D2
>Chewbacca
>sandtroopers mounted on dewbacks
>all the countless alien extras in mos eisley
>the cantina band looking like weird butthead dudes with space oboes
>the rebellion being headquartered out of the megalithic ruins of an ancient civilization, rather than just being in some generic space military base