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Off on a slight tangent... It has nothing to do with the Clone Wars but I didn't want to start a new topic and it has to do with Jabba the Hutt and Tatooine.
I was thinking about some peoples criticism of ROTJ, something that I've only learnt about in the the last few years, that it's too much of a rehash of SW with the second Death Star etc, this had never occured to me previously.
Anyway previous to 1982 was there anything in the SW universe to suggest that Jabba the Hutt was a crime boss on Tatooine? Apart from the Jabba deleted scene from SW which places him on Tatooine.
I was thinking it was a curious decision to have Luke return home in ROTJ to rescue Han. Could the story have been as easily as written having Jabba a gangster of some other random lawless planet. And Greedo having tracked Solo across the galaxy to some backwater planet called Tatooine in SW.
Like I said it's just a curiosity. I still love ROTJ despite its few flaws. The Jabba's Palace/ Tatooine stuff was always one of my favourite parts of the trilogy as a kid. Nothing excites the inner child in me quite like Luke igniting his new lightsaber for the first time
I feel this way too. My suspicion is that Jabba was never a native to Tatooine, but Lucas used the line in ESB "I'll meet you on Tatooine," as an excuse to place the Han rescue there. Mos Eisley is a space port after all--Han lands there, having come from wherever he was before, and Jabba and Greedo track him there. They weren't actually just living there, and by coincidence Han--supposedly avoiding them--just happens to cross paths with them. The line in ESB is not implied as where Jabba is--its just a rendevouz point when Luke gets out of the hospital. When Lando finds Han he will send Luke a signal and they will reunite on a remote planet--Tatooine.
If you look at the ESB dialog:
Lando: When we find Jabba the Hutt and that bounty hunter, we'll contact you...Princess, we'll find Han. I promise.
Luke: I'll be waiting for your signal...I'll meet you at the rendevouz point on Tatooine.
Lando and Chewie are going off to find Han. They don't know where Fett has taken him, because Jabba is just some gangster, not the ruler of Tatooine with a palace. So if they know Jabba lives on Tatooine, then why the big deal about finding and searching for Han? Tatooine is just a rendevouz place for when they finally track where Han has been brought. But maybe Lucas just wanted to simplify things so he just made it that they go to Tatooine because Jabba lives there and has this cool palace with muppets and aliens and it will be a cool action sequence that basically rehashes the cantina, only better.