Inconsequential thing that bugs me about Star Wars:
In Empire Strikes Back, getting frozen in carbonite was about the most traumatic and melodramatic thing that could possibly happen to a person, and they played it up like it was the end of the world. And then in ROTJ it required a long recovery.
Since then, in the comics and even the Mandalorian, they’ve done it casually to dozens of people, and the effects are no worse than taking a nap.
@ja2ke I don't know if it's worldbuilding as much as "give the people what they want" lack of ambition.it seems like George Lucas's "it rhymes" quote has been interpreted as permission to keep going back to the same well over and over again. And that's how we end up with 3 death stars and 1000 star destroyers (each with a Death Star laser attached because why not?)
@SasquatcherGeneral Yeah I think that is accurate. And I think the word “rule” was maybe more important than worldbuilding in my reply. Like, a one-off story offered a solution to a problem, now that is How It Happens In The World. Like Star Wars is licensed IP of itself, with a brand manager that will only let you do things that have already been depicted in earlier works. But also a big percent of the fanbase agrees with the brand manager.
@SasquatcherGeneral Obi Wan was wearing an old tattered robe when hiding out in the desert, and he’s an old Jedi? Of course all other Jedi wear those robes, because that’s What The Jedi Wore the first time. Now it’s the rule. Ignoring entirely Luke’s look in ROTJ, which really felt like “oh he’s come into his own as a Jedi”
@ja2ke@SasquatcherGeneral The "Jedi all wear desert hobo robes now" thing has bugged me since the shot of Qui Gon running from a droid army transport in first trailer for Episode 1 >_<
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