The Hidden Beauty Behind Star Wars Planets

What makes Star Wars Planets so iconic, why do they fill our heads with imagination? In this video I explore the deeper meanings found within these planets and how they shape Star Wars as a story.

[bestofmovieanalysisandvide]

Whenever the moon is visible during the day, it always makes me feel like I'm in the star wars universe

[TJ]

Say what you will about TLJ but the planets definitely stand out, especially among the other recent films. Ach-To is filled with ancient Jedi history, Canto Bight shows a side of the galaxy we've never seen before, and Crait creates a very distinct landscape unlike anything on earth and uses it to create a visually stunning battle.

[thefirstorder]

Should’ve went more in depth on the prequels. Hopefully you’ll cover that in another video.

[LoverboyMedia]

TRANSITION GAME IS STRONG WITH THIS ONE

[Foomandoonian]

I’m disappointed you brushed over the prequels. For all their flaws, they have some of the best planets and this WAS a Star Wars planets video.

[kylemaw]

I would love to see a video on the Prequel planets. Great video as always!

[SharpDesign]

Mustafa means Chosen One in Arabic. #Trivia

[meme]

Ahch-to and crait give me such goosebumps every time I watch them. The foggy and rainy weather feel so weird but perfect on ahch-to especially.

[rottensquid]

Wow! Just wow! This was a master class in clever editing to convey smart observations. I loved the way you demonstrated the transition from Act 1 to Act 2. That's some top notch video essaying.

Also, I gotta give you props for looking beyond the story surface. It seems like one of the chronic issues with Star Wars fans and Star Wars discussion is how literal it is, when the very reason for its popularity is weight of its subtext. It's not complex subtext, but man when you point it out, don't fans just dig their heels in. I'm sure a lot of fans got their hackles raised when you listed the Death Star as a planet, but you nailed its symbolic nature, and how it fit into the the film's thematic language. I honestly never considered that.

Excellent work! Thumbs up!

[winesgone]

I hope you’re gonna make a prequel planet video!

[jakejohnson]

I absolutely love the video. Only enriches the movies in a way I’ve never thought about them before!

[Balthazar]

@11:36 The Jedi Texts weren't destroyed; Rey took them (you can catch a glimpse of them in the Falcon at the end of the film). Today even says that the place "did not contain anything that the girl Rey does not already possess".

[MrArtiomdey]

A video about prequel planets would be very good. The universe is shown mostly vivid and vast in these movies

[TheCloserLook]

I'd say one of my biggest gripes with star wars planets is how they are all so singular in their biomes. A planet is either entirely sea, or entirely desert, or entirely jungle e.g:

Degobah: Swampland
Kamino: Sea
Hoth: Arctic Tundra
Coroscant: Urban
Tatooine: Desert
Genonisis: Desert

...

The list goes on for a while. That is a major flaw with the star wars planets as they feel so 2D because they are all just one thing. Look at earth for example, we have arctic tundra, deserts, oceans, swamps, woodlands, jungles e.t.c.

A realistic sci-fi world should have more than 1 biome. It is simply unrealistic for every single inhabited planet to have no more than 1. Not only for the sake of realism, but also just diversity in the world building. A complex world full of different biomes, and lived on by dozens of different governments all with their own different beliefs will always be more interesting than just: this planet is entirely a desert and is run entirely by the Hutt gang.

It would be so much more interesting if say: a single desert on a planet is ruled by a gang, and a nearby jungle is run by a communistic society, and across an ocean is a different country that's fascist lets say.

Diversity in worldbuilding is not just realistic, but also very interesting. Many star wars planets lack that diverse worldbuilding.

[tiagotozo]

can you make the prequels video pls?!!

[gridcoregilry]

BRILLIANT! Great work! unfortunately the prequels + sequels were a bit rushed. I would have loved a 30min version of the whole vid! Great take on Arch-To! <3

[THATGuy]

I started listening to this not knowing how long it was, nor when it came out. So I was just going, "I hope he makes it through Rise of Skywalker without having a seizure."

[unclearsector]

this is a great video, however you got one thing wrong at the very beginning: the fact that the characters can breathe on every planet. The Star Wars galaxy has *millions* of stars and *millions* of other celestial bodies. Out of these millions, only very few have a breathable atmosphere. These systems are the ones plotted on the Star Wars maps, and are obviously the only ones the characters go to. These are the only planets that have life, had life, cities etc. There is no reason for the characters to venture to the millions of uninhabitable planets, and they are therefore rarely shown in canon Star Wars and not plotted on maps that we have of the galaxy. even if you tried to make a map that only plotted one in every hundred stars, it would be impossible. Yes, there seems to be an awful amount of planets and moons with a breathable atmosphere, but there really inst. If, say, one in every 10000 planets was livable, the number of planets would still make sense. If you have every played the space game Elite: Dangerous, the galaxy maps will give you a glimpse into the expanse of a galaxy. It is ridiculous. Sure, planets like Hoth, Crait, and Tatooine are completely ice, salt, and sand respectively, but you also have to consider the hundreds of thousands of other purely ice, salt, or sand planets that *no not* have a breathable atmosphere. These three just to have that. Think of our solar system. The entirety of Mars, Venus, Mercury, Pluto, Ceres, Makemake, Humena, and Eris are essentially the same ecosystem all around. The only one with different ecosystems is Earth, whose differences are all in different locations. For almost all planets in Star Wars, we never see an area *close up* outside of a few kilometers of where our heroes are. On earth, most of these differences are not rally seen from space, except for the largest of them, like the Sahara and Antarctica. so yes, it is entirely possible, and in all reality, probable, for these single-themed planets to exist.

[anthonyknight-fallows]

if you read the art of book for rogue one, they talk quite a bit about the process of planets you visit very similar to the act structure you mentioned for the Original trilogy. Might be worth a read if you ever revisit this idea

[Moonfaster]

This was over 11 minutes of goosebumps