A sarlacc. The one pulling down a spaceship may have been a larger specimen. While the Hutt Clan may have specifically picked out a smaller specimen to use as a death pit, just to avoid the whole “it’s eating out sand barge” problem.
Not only is it the same Sarlacc (the Almighty Sarlacc), the reason it was so bad at eating Lando is because the Almighty Sarlacc was a vegetarian and really didn’t want to eat Lando.
Although most sarlaccs ate flesh, this one preferred vegetation, and especially did not want to eat sentient beings. Despite attempting to communicate this to visitors in the Sarlacc language, they did not understand and regularly pushed each other into the Almighty Sarlacc’s mouth. Unable to spit them out, it would store them within its ninth stomach.
It told C-3PO about its life and experiences, and asked that it stop being force-fed living beings. When it discovered that C-3PO was in the service of Luke Skywalker, it attempted to convince him that serving others was not his higher purpose. C-3PO explained that he was created to serve, and that he needed to assist in a great struggle. After C-3PO was gone, the sarlacc was left with only the company of Boba Fett, but was glad when he escaped.
One of my absolute favorite pieces of plothole-plastering, in such a short story it manages to re-contextualize the Sarlacc into a really rich and tragic character.
Really dumb, but still better than most writing we’ve seen in Star Wars recently.
Lets be real: On a scale that blew past “I hate sand” with the writing genius that was Rey Palpatine, this is barely a blip on the ol’ dumbometer.
To their credit, at least they didn’t go with the test that was Droid Rey. So bad even the starwars execs didn’t like itRecently? …
Lando is the sweetest talking man in the galaxy. The sarlacc had been told to change it’s diet and to lay off the sweets.
Maybe it was diabetic, we don’t know
It was vegetarian.
Vegetarians can be diabetic.
You know what, that’s a very good point.
The Sarlac just wasn’t that hungry
Wtf is that top scene from??
The Book of Boba Fett — Disney’s response to years of years of active lobbying to “let the wookipedia editors contribute to the canon”.
Or at least, that’s the only explanation that makes sense to me. That show was an incredible contribution to the lore and such a slog to sit through. Even the show got bored halfway through and it went back to being The Mandalorian for a few episodes, just to keep you watching.
Saw the whole thing and didn’t even remember this scene with the ship getting swallowed?
*Edit: just rewatched the scene. Dumb. Guess I wiped most this show from my brain
Yep 4th episode, might have been blocked out because the reveal that Fennec Shand was rebuilt by the fucking Space Vespa squad sure caused me some synaptic damage.
You mean “the mods” and their surgeon “the modifier” played by some musician who goes by “thundercat”. Whoo boy.
"What’s going to resonate with the fans, I know, jokes about Mod Culture!" I just have no idea what anyone was thinking with that one.
Y’know what would fit in with the general dreary nature of Tatooine, a known back water planet at the edge of the outer rim where literally nothing good happens and is just a depressing mess? COLORFUL VESPA SPEADERS that have never come up in any other scenes ever before.
lol I haven’t been keeping up with anything Star Wars lately, so I had to look those up, and holy shit they look out of place. It’s like the goddamn Power Rangers rolled up to Tatooine.
maybe Lando was lubed up
