Why is it less a Star Wars locale than Tunisia, Quatemala, or a glacier in Norway?
Well what can I say… it just is. Feel is a feel… if I could derive you a formula for a feeling I would but I cannot. I guess it takes a talent to pick the right stuff. When Lucas was in change he and his team seemed to always be able to do it right.
Not that ruling out that Irish island in a shitty weather require any talent. It is a common sense. In the last scene I felt like I was on Craggy Island with Father Ted.
If they used an Irish island in 1977 and Tunisia in 2015, I guarantee you would have said it was Tunisia that didn’t feel like Star Wars.
You cannot guarantee that. I still dislike (feel-wise) a few of the original scenes from ANH for the very same reason.
…ANH doesn’t feel like star wars?
Well if you make a nice cake and you put a little piece of feces inside a tiny part of the cake, that tiny part will most certainly not feel like the overall cake.