It doesn’t seem like a good sign that five of the planets on this list were completely obliterated/are no longer habitable. Rather than ranking them individually I’ll put them into loose categories.
Good place to live:
Coruscant. That’s it. Well-developed, center of galactic civilization, has plot immunity to the extent they created Hosnia just to be destroyed in its place.
Good places to live, with caveats:
Naboo, as long as you are not a Palpatine. You’re fine if your first name is Sheev, though.
Kamino, if you like water and biotechnology.
Kashyyk, if you like forests and are seven feet tall.
Felucia, if you like jungles.
Cato Neimoidia, if you are a merchant prince.
Saleucami, if you are a deserting Clone Trooper.
Kessel, if you are the royal family.
Savareen, if you like brandy.
Lah-mu, if your last name is not Erso.
Yavin IV, just watch out for space battles.
Bespin, if you stick to Cloud City.
Endor, if you are a sentient teddy bear.
Takodana, if you can avoid being randomly massacred by invading assholes.
D’Qar, just don’t miss the evacuation transports. Or maybe you should miss them. Idk.
Ahch-To, but watch out for troubled teens randomly wrecking stuff.
Cantonica, unless you want to put your fist through this whole lousy beautiful town.
Bad places to live, with reasons:
Geonosis. Too many giant insects and gladitorial combat.
And Boba didn’t get revenge on any of them lol. Ironically he has worked with Vader who was responsible for both Windu’s and Kenobi’s deaths, the enemy of my enemies is my friend and all?
Also I have him hating Anakin too because he was there and a big part of why Kenobi went to Kamino. He’s shocked and pissed when he finds out who Vader is
I know of RL siblings with different last names, due to remarriages, blended families and so on. If Depa’s sister is not a Jedi, she could have changed her last name on marriage. And that’s to say nothing of what kind of naming customs different civilizations might have. Mace Windu for instance had a clan brother named Kar Vastor who does not seem to be his biological brother.
Jedi were allowed to get married under certain circumstances.
Ki-Adi-Mundi had 4 wives and 7 children due to the low birth rate of his species.
And if we’re talking Old Republic, Basttila married Revan and had a daughter with him.
And her daughter, Satele, would go on to have a son of her own.
There are special cases where Jedi married, just most of the time it was under special circumstances where the council approved.
Also, adoption? I mean, Luke Skywalker kept his name as it was, but nobody called his sister “Leia Skywalker”, rather than Organa, which was the name of her adoptive parents? (Dang, now I’m laughing at the concept of “Luke Lars”)
That too! Looking back I can’t believe Luke lived so openly right on Tatooine under the name Skywalker lol
I wanted to add in some senior citizen characters, although they would probably only show up in books and comics. Alternate Sequel Extended Universe?
Left to Right:
In making my latest video, I got awfully sad about how the new canon left Barriss. I’d love there to be some kind of way to bring her closer to her old EU counterpart. Perhaps she was possessed by the Son of Mortis, who corrupted her through the Jedi Temple (a cop-out, but still better than Ventress’s “my childhood sucked” motive or the canonical “Jedi are too violent to not be bombed” motive). In her imprisonment, the Son sought out new targets, but she never plead for her freedom, haunted by her actions. However, decades later, when Luke was helping liberate Coruscant’s underworld, he sensed her anguish. Needing experienced Jedi for his new praexum, and feeling compassion for her suffering, Luke asked Barriss to join him as chief medical officer. Though she’s still mournful for her actions, in her free time she studies ancient Force artifacts, hoping to find out more about the Celestial beings manipulating things beyond the senses.
For Kes Dameron, a peaceful life of nearly 30 years of peace was bliss. He became a skilled farmer, and happily raised his son in honor of his wife. Yavin IV is still relatively unpopulated, but the Mandalorian traders nearby still come visit his farm to get food, and Poe visits every week. Poe cautions his father against letting the Mandalorians know how close he was tied to the Republic, which makes Kes laugh, as he’s been open with them about it for years. I tried to give him a tattered version of Shara’s jacket, and an older, still handsome face that’s found peace in a peaceless galaxy.
The Jedi Younglings arc in The Clone Wars sets up these adorable little twelve year olds and then nothing… nothing in Rebels, or books, or comics, says they survive Order 66, or even that they died. My headcanon was that Hondo knew about the Order and was able to save them. He offered them positions in his gang, but they just wanted a place to be safe. Hondo took them to Florrum, safely out of the gaze of the Empire. When Katooni turned eighteen, Hondo offered her a job again. She accepted on one condition: half of the jobs she took needed to be helping people. Hondo begrudgingly accepted, and she quickly rose to second-in-command, with Hondo giving her his old jacket and hat as gifts. In between then and the new trilogy, Hondo died, and Katooni took over the gang, as well as repurposing Hondo’s old staff.
Wicket settled down after the war, save a few skirmishes in forest environments as favors to Leia, and training New Republic forces in geurilla tactics. He married Kneesaa, who became chief of the Bright Tree Village tribe, and had a child (that showed up in the last drawing). He’s got a wheelchair, which I think, at least to my knowledge, would be new to Star Wars. There’ve been a few floating chairs, but the wheels specifically would require accessibility in the New Republic, which I think could make for interesting stories.
People always forget that Shmi started the Skywalker line. People always forget that Anakin carried Shmi in his heart until he died, that her death was the reason he turned to the dark side. People always forget that Leia’s resilience and strength is also from Shmi, and that Luke’s kindness and ever hopeful outlook on life is Shmi’s blood running through his veins. When people think of Leia and Luke, they never think of them as descendants of Shmi. The fandom never credits Shmi Skywalker as being a strong female character. No one ever makes comics or fics of Shmi’s ghost watching over the Skywalker twins.
The fandom just forgets about Shmi, forgets that she is the mother of the most powerful line in current canon. We forget that she is one of the most strongest female characters in the saga. To raise a son in slavery, to make sure he is healthy and care for, and to give him away so he could have a better life is strength. And to essentially be forgotten by the Republic,to be forgotten by the literal queen/Senator she gave aid and shelter to and who eventually marries her son-who had the resources to save her, and to receive no aid in return, yet still stay strong in the face of torture just to see her son one last time, takes strength.
We see her in Anakin, Luke and Leia yet, there is hardly ever mention. There is hardly ever recognition for her connection to them in the fandom. Well, guess it’s time to make my own Shmi content since the fans pretend she doesn’t exist.
Like for real, the skywalker line was started by a slave woman who gave all she had to help her son, and her granddaughter became a senator and her grandson became the head of the new jedi order. That is big and none of that would have happened without Shmi.
One of the reasons the idea of “TLJ is good because it was subversive” bothers me is because the prequels were more subversive and that doesn’t give them a free pass for their racism and moments of bad writing in media discussion.
Japanese stereotypes used in Neimodians, cultural dressing slapped across Naboo, and Watto all deserve to be criticized, and they are. But a lot of “liberal” fans of TLJ will explain away any claims of racism as reaching and any claims of bad writing as whiny fanboys. Yet for every point of subversion that TLJ tries, the prequels do it better.
TLJ: Luke throws away the lightsaber when we expect him to do something proactive.
Prequels: Supposedly peaceful Jedi are violent in the first scene.
TLJ: OT Sad Yoda became carefree after death.
Prequels: OT Pacifist Yoda wasn’t always a pacifist. (I’ve seen so many people complain that Yoda is a different character in AoTC, ignoring that he becomes the hideaway after RoTS.)
TLJ: Rey’s parents are nobodies.
Prequels: The origins of fan favorite Obi-Wan Kenobi don’t bother with his parentage, as it’s unimportant.
TLJ: Luke was willing to kill his nephew to prevent a massacre.
Prequels: The Republic, expected to be good compared to the Empire, was willing to utilize a slave army to win a war.
TLJ: You can’t trust criminals and terrorists after all, but military secrets are good.
Prequels: The Jedi weren’t guardians of peace, but mongers of war.
Subversion doesn’t equal quality, and weak subversions aren’t even worth getting excited about. (Moth)
The latter by far. That green puppet has done so much harm I’m half ready to believe he’s already Dark Side anyway. At the very least his puritan authoritarianism helped push Anakin toward Palpatine, which is more of a coup for the Dark Side than most actual Sith ever achieved.
Also, like, he legit used Force Lightning from beyond his swampy little grave cackling about burning ancient Jedi texts. It’s not even subtle at this point.
There was actually a dark side version of him in TCW. Considering was a pretty shit Grand Master. Mace Windu would have been a much better leader. Yoda should have known when to step away.
Evidently Yoda was being his shitty meddling self even while Mace was head of the Council? Damn, if Mace had only been left to do things his own way things could have been very different.
I think you have to understand that these movies were made in a different era in the 80s, the target audience for the trilogy had grown up and weren’t maybe into the next three as were the teens of today’ society. Different people reacted differently, I think everyone watched it because it was Star Wars and it had played a part in so many peoples childhood and it was one of those movies that would be remembered forever!
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