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Post #1474867

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ZkinandBonez
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The Book Of Boba Fett (live action series) - a general discussion thread - * SPOILERS *
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6-Mar-2022, 4:58 PM

jedi_bendu said:

ZkinandBonez said:

SW is not Star Trek so I can do without arbitrary depth and nuance added to creatures that were originally made to serve as simple monsters or caricatures of life and history.

I think it’s a very fundamentally bad idea to vilify an entire species, no matter what universe you’re writing for.

Considering we’re talking about fictional fantasy creatures I don’t see the problem. None of them a real individuals, there’s no history, culture, etc. Most of the “scary” creatures we’ve seen in live-action SW don’t represent any real people who can be misrepresented.

F.ex. Bossk was simply a monstrous-looking lizard bounty hunter. His purpose was to be a villain in a scene of villains. That’s it. Other Trandoshans in SW have stayed true to the original idea and are all hunters of some kind that are always (at least in movies and TV series) depicted as cold-blooded. There’s no real Trandoshans to be demonized, they’re just cruel lizard-monsters that serve a narrative purpose.

The Tusken Raiders on the other hand have real-life parallels, and therefore it made sense to give them more depth in BOBF and treat them as if they were a real people. Though primarily this also served a narrative function. There’s obviously nothing wrong with some character depth in SW, but doing it for the sake of doing it, or to emulate the more naturalistic narratives of more hard Sci-Fi is simply missing the point.

Star Wars is a fairy tale, a “myth for the space age” as Lucas once put it, and therefore we get many archetypal monsters in the guise as “aliens” (an SF concept). A dragon who hordes gold in a cave is simply a mythic symbol for greed, it follows no evolutionary pattern, it has no real psychology to speak of, it’s a symbol, a universal abstraction. These are the ideas that Lucas was going for when making SW, and overanalyzing the Trandoshans, the Klatooinians, or the Hutts, I feel is doing disservice to both Lucas and their function within the SW universe.