I'm procrastinating, Stancil is getting dragged over it, and the Rewatchables podcast guys finally covered it, so I guess it's time for what I hope is my last thread ever on Star Wars. Let's do this. 🧵
May 9, 2025 18:14To me, there's one basic reason why Star Wars (1977) -- the first trilogy, but particularly the first movie -- was good and basically every subsequent SW property got worse (Andor excepted).
Crucially, *George Lucas never understood it*. He did not understand why SW took off. Never did.
The reason is this: the movie is incredibly, richly *suggestive*. It gestures at all kinds of things that it does not show or explain to you. In fact, virtually every line is like this. What are power converters? What is the Kessel Run? What was Han Solo's history with Jabba?
Agree with most of this thread. This kind of depth — alluded to but never exhaustively described— is an essential component of really good fictional world building. Interesting to think that Lucas may have achieved it *inadvertently*
Thats alotta words for "World-building"
