I've actually come to find Tatooine a magical place of sorts. Not on the surface, mind you, in its towns and other settlements, but in its deep desert regions, where there are few men. It is there where I get a sense that the planet has some deep, hidden secrets -- like its own version of Atlantis buried out there somewhere in the Dune Sea or something along those lines.
Of course, how much of this has been influenced by the EU I can't say.