Am I the only one who was a bit annoyed they retconned the Krayt Dragon to just be a Dune sandworm clone rather than the more lizard like creature it has always been in the old EU?
I wasn’t annoyed that they retconned the Krayt dragon design so much as that they went with the sandworm idea that just felt very un-original and “been there, done that”. Would’ve preferred something different. And you could easily accomplish the same story with a different creature design.
I actually thought it was an upgrade, not just because now the Krayt dragon is bigger. Having a comically large sandworm that can eat an entire building whole if it feels like it… just feels to me like the kind of exaggerated Star Wars creature design that Tatooine would have. In Knights of the Old Republic, there’s loads of setting up how big and difficult to kill it is, and we already know that the Tusken Raiders got the life scared out of them just by hearing its call in the movie… then the dragon emerges and is killed fairly easily. No harm to KOTOR, and it’s nice that The Mandalorian referenced that bit. I thought the new canon Krayt dragon was much more of a challenge, and fits the purposes of the story better. As a sand worm it’s better for it to be able to disappear and re-appear, constantly building and dropping the tension, and staying a step ahead of the characters.