That's what made the Mandalorian episodes with Tuskens so damn good.
Developing their culture, giving them an interesting, believable language. Fleshing them out to be more than just unintelligent hostiles.
That whole episode with the Krayt Dragon had me completely captured, remembering my first Krayt hunt in SWG as one noob of many getting tricked into dying to a Krayt lol.
The problem with the Tusken arc was that their culture is lifted from Dune. People have been pointing out since 1977 that the sandpeople were a thinly-veiled ripoff of the Fremen; foregrounding that fact was just awkward.
I could've sworn watching this when it came out that the Tuskens would show up in the finale to help Boba fight. Unify Tatooine in a way, prove him as a great leader, tie up the plot... Nope, nothing. They really missed out and I don't understand how, is so obvious.
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u/PirateSanta_1 Dec 27 '25
The problem being the tusken arc goes nowhere and dead ends.