TheBoost said:

Bingowings said:

ROTJ and TPM have already blown the idea of Tatooine being a nowhere place.

There's a difference between the plot of a movie taking characters to an out of the way location, and that location being given major prominence in galactic history.

As the childhood home of both Vader and Luke it's already quite prominent in galactic history.

But what we see in Star Wars isn't a league table of Galactic prominence, that would be the historians of their Galaxy to decide over.

It's about where the story is set and in six films that can only take place on a few worlds.

Take any space opera with a galactic setting and count how many worlds we actually see in the same amount of screen time.

Romulus didn't even turn up in a Star Trek film until Nemesis, Qo'noS never did (I don't think it ever got a direct mention) because neither were important to the stories that were being told but both a very important to the history of that fictional version of our galaxy.

A change of location should only happen if it serves the story in some way.

TPM already suffers from too much hopping about.

AOTC and ROTS refuse to address much of what was set up in TPM and AOTC sets it's own set of dangling threads.