Chat corner 175: Seasons

[annathecrow]

Welcome to the Monday chat corner!

This week is general topic week, and our discussion topic is "seasons" of any kind. Seasons of the year, TV show seasons, social seasons, fashion seasons, or maybe even food seasoning if you want to stretch it!

Comments

[yourlibrarian]

I hadn't thought about it until this question but I guess I now notice the absence of seasons in Star Wars. Mostly this is because the characters are rarely in the same place for long and the verse has the common space setting problem of having one or two locations on a planet standing in for the whole planet. So we might see the four seasons represented across different planets but not the same one.

[annathecrow]

Huh. I haven't noticed it either, but I see it. Hoth is cold, Tatooine is hot, Naboo has permanent spring/summer.

Although, Uncle Owen and Luke do talk about seasons in Ep IV! Harvest season, at least. I've done some worldbuilding gymnastics trying to figure out why exactly would a moisture farm on a desert planet have harvests...

(My explanation is "water containers have finite sizes" and "regular tax collection might result in regular selling of water before the date of said collection", for the record.)

[yourlibrarian]

Your harvest explanation makes sense to me!