SilverWook said:"Itchy" and "Lumpy" are nicknames, just like "Chewie" is. Look it up!
There wasn't a whole lot of canon on Wookiees back in 1978. But Chewie isn't a total primitive as originally conceived, and it's silly to assume Wookiees don't have the basic comforts of home.
I don't know of any 20th century dwellings that look like that, and happen to be in the top of giant trees though. (Nor do I know of anyone who had holographic displays, video communications, or virtual reality porn devices in their homes at the time.)
Ralph McQuarrie designed the Wookiee home, so blame him. ;)
The Wookiees all wear red gowns at the end to conceal the fact they only made new costumes for Chewie's family. In fact, all the extras are wearing modified Don Post Chewie masks!
No major network or studio would shoot a tv special on U-matic in 1978. It was probably one-inch broadcast tape on a reel. U-matic was what colleges and cable access channels once used because it was cheaper than most broadcast gear. Some news broadcasts used it early on for it's portability in the field.
"Itchy" and "Lumpy" are nicknames, just like "Chewie" is. Look it up!
I know full well that they're nicknames. So what. That doesn't mitigate the awfulness of them. Also, you have to go outside the Holiday Special to find out that they're nicknames. And you can have one silly nickname like "Chewie" and pass it off as a coincidence (in-universe) that it sounds like a word and that it sounds a bit silly, but when you have a whole dose of them you can't escape the silliness. And "itchy" and "lumpy" sounds like a disease. I don't know WHAT they were thinking. And when all's said and done, we have a Holiday Special in which Chewbacca's relatives are named Itchy and Lumpy.
But Chewie isn't a total primitive as originally conceived, and it's silly to assume Wookiees don't have the basic comforts of home.
I made no "silly" assumptions. It's inappropriate for such a species to be portrayed as having such normal earthlike home life. If they have "comforts of home", let those comforts be a bit more alien in style and in a style more appropriate for a species that lives in trees, wears no clothes and talks in growls. They made wookiees too much like modern day earth people. Epic fail. Worthy of the prequels, which had all sorts of aliens coming off like they were just humans in costumes/makeup.
I don't know of any 20th century dwellings that look like that, and happen to be in the top of giant trees though. (Nor do I know of anyone who had holographic displays, video communications, or virtual reality porn devices in their homes at the time.)
I made it clear I was talking about the INTERIOR of the home, not the exterior, so the fact that it's in a giant tree is irrelevant (also, btw, really weak exterior painting, didn't look real at all). And I've seen plenty 20th century homes with interiors just like that. As for holographic displays, vid communications and virtual reality porn devices, well, if the home is going to be portrayed as being up to Star Wars general tech level then you'd expect there to be at least some high tech stuff in it, but the presence of that stuff does not change the overall feel of it being very 20th century American.
Ralph McQuarrie designed the Wookiee home, so blame him. ;)
Did he design the interior?