Star Wars planets are all the same.

How come in the Star Wars films, (and most other Sci-fi films for that matter) the planets only have one environment type?

Tatooine-Desert
Hoth-Ice
Dagobah-Swamp
Coruscant-"The whole planet is one giant city"

The only exception I can think of is Naboo, and even then you only see some countryside, under the ocean (which doesn't count in my opinion) and the city of Theed. I always wondered why there were never any planets like Earth with a little bit of everything. I do understand that it may be easier to sell an alien world that way to an audience but come on, paint the sky green or something!

Originally posted by Dr Mystery
How come in the Star Wars films, (and most other Sci-fi films for that matter) the planets only have one environment type?

Tatooine-Desert
Hoth-Ice
Dagobah-Swamp
Coruscant-"The whole planet is one giant city"

The only exception I can think of is Naboo, and even then you only see some countryside, under the ocean (which doesn't count in my opinion) and the city of Theed. I always wondered why there were never any planets like Earth with a little bit of everything. I do understand that it may be easier to sell an alien world that way to an audience but come on, paint the sky green or something!

Alderaan?

Kashyyyk?

Corellia?

Yavin?

Originally posted by roughrider
Alderaan?

Kashyyyk?

Corellia?

Yavin?

Alderaan? To my knowledge I've never seen.
Kashyyyk I think is just a jungle planet.
Don't know about Corellia.
I think you meant Yavin 4 Which as far as I can remember is a temple in a forest and a town square.

There's also,

Mustafar,

Geonosis,

Utapau,

Bespin,

Kamino,

To name but a few.

My point is, those planets are not defined as being a one climate place.

Corellia wasn't seen on screen, but we saw Alderaan at the end of ROTS. It was like a planet-sized version of Switzerland, as Lucas described it.

Fair enough. It's just something that's bugged me for years. I'd like to see someone try and do an "Earth, but slightly different" angle. I know Star Trek do it for the TV shows (and others I'm sure) and they're usually good episodes.

Originally posted by Dr Mystery
How come in the Star Wars films, (and most other Sci-fi films for that matter) the planets only have one environment type?

Tatooine-Desert
Hoth-Ice
Dagobah-Swamp
Coruscant-"The whole planet is one giant city"

The only exception I can think of is Naboo, and even then you only see some countryside, under the ocean (which doesn't count in my opinion) and the city of Theed. I always wondered why there were never any planets like Earth with a little bit of everything. I do understand that it may be easier to sell an alien world that way to an audience but come on, paint the sky green or something!

In star wars there is no time for that, at least in the movies anyway.
they are not going to explore the whole planet.
another 2 planets was the one where the penis head jedi got killed that had snow on it.
and the other one where the hot blue tweilek jedi got killed with all the huge flowers.

That's right.
I forget the Name of the planet where Penis Head (I think his name is Ki-Adi-Mundi) was killed.
The hot blue Jedi is Rayla Secura and she was killed on Felucia.

Single biome planets, like single culture planets are inventions of sci fi that could probably never become reality.

Essentially it saves the writer the trouble of actually creating a vibrant world filled with contrasts like Earth.

I thought it was an intentional thing by Lucas? I think i remember him saying it in an interview years ago -tries to remember-

Also, penis head was killed on Mygeeto.

Originally posted by Dr Mystery

Kashyyyk I think is just a jungle planet.

I remember in this novel it is said that such is a common misconception among civilians in Star Wars. 😉

I think they are all different in there own ways.

It isn't that strange overall. If you look in our own solar system, most of our planets have one main environment with the only major differences being on their north and south poles. If a planet had more than one sun, it would even take care of some of that.

Though, not all the planets makes sense. The forest planet for instance. I would think that in order to have that much forest life, there would need to be a decent amount of rain, and thus would need large bodies of water to supply that rain.

Originally posted by Hewhoknowsall
I remember in this novel it is said that such is a common misconception among civilians in Star Wars. 😉

Woo hoo! I'm a civilian in the Star Wars Universe.

I suppose when you think about it Earth is predominantly a water planet.

Pretty much what I was just thinking!

Originally posted by Dr Mystery
That's right.
I forget the Name of the planet where Penis Head (I think his name is Ki-Adi-Mundi) was killed.
The hot blue Jedi is Rayla Secura and she was killed on Felucia.

No...

Aayla Secura.

There was a classification of types of planetary atmospheres.

But really, one more can they do? It's like b*tching that sci-fi doesn't show any colors beyond the usual spectrum.

Well okay. what I think I'm getting at is that I'd like to see more cultural diversity in Sci-Fi movies. In the way that Earth has many races, beliefs, customs etc. Like I said, I know Star Trek do a bit of planetary civil war stuff with them interfering. But it just seems that a lot of films tend to go down the route of "One species, one belief, one language, one enemy per planet" type of thing.

Can you imagine how difficult it would be to come up with so much cultural variety for something like Star Wars? The movies, novels, and games are all story driven; there just isn't enough time or space (or patience) to create so many brand new cultures and peoples every time something new pops up. I'd never be bothered with Star Wars again if they wasted all their efforts doing that.

Yes, I know. I said in my first post that I understand that it is easier to do it this way, but given the scope that Sci-Fi can actually cover I'm kinda thinking why isn't there more interplanetary diversity at least thrown into the mix.

Because of that reason. There's no in-universe reason for it. There's no diversity because there's no time to create it. That's it.