This article contains spoilers for The Book of Boba Fett episode 1.
The Book of Boba Fett has unwittingly highlighted a problem the Obi-Wan Kenobi series needs to overcome. "Well, if there's a bright center to the universe, you're on the planet that it's farthest from," Luke Skywalker famously complained in the first Star Wars film. To Luke, the desert world of Tatooine was a place where nothing ever happened, and he yearned for adventures offworld. Luke even considered joining the Empire in his desperation to escape.
And yet, for all Luke may believe Tatooine to be something of a galactic irrelevance, Star Wars has revisited his homeworld so many times. The prequels revealed it was Anakin Skywalker's homeworld as well in Star Wars: Episode I - The Phantom Menace, and Anakin's fall to the dark side arguably began when he returned to Tatooine in Star Wars: Episode II - Attack of the Clones. Jabba the Hutt's criminal empire was centered on Tatooine, with Luke and Leia returning there to rescue Han Solo in Return of the Jedi. Tatooine even appeared in the sequel trilogy, with Rey hiding Leia and Luke's lightsabers in the desert sands in Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker. And the desert world has been just as important in Lucasfilm's TV shows as well, with Darth Maul hunting Obi-Wan Kenobi there in Star Wars Rebels, and Din Djarin heading to Tatooine in The Mandalorian. No world has been featured more in Star Wars than Tatooine. But The Book of Boba Fett is taking this to new extremes. It's now clear Tatooine is the principal location for the show, the center of Boba Fett's new criminal empire.
This has unintentionally highlighted a major problem the upcoming Obi-Wan Kenobi Disney+ TV series must overcome. That series is set in a very different time period, during the Dark Times between Star Wars: Episode III - Revenge of the Sith and the first Star Wars film. This is the time of Obi-Wan Kenobi's self-imposed exile to Tatooine, with the Jedi Master supposedly retiring there to keep a watchful eye on Luke Skywalker. But, in sheer creative terms, there's simply no need for yet another Star Wars series to explore life on Tatooine - more is now known about Luke Skywalker's homeworld than any other planet in the galaxy, with Lucasfilm even fleshing out Tusken culture and civilization. After The Book of Boba Fett, Obi-Wan Kenobi really needs to take its protagonist offworld as soon as possible.
It's ironic that the planet Luke claimed was farthest from the galaxy's bright center has been better developed than any of the Core Worlds, including Coruscant - which surely has grounds to claim to be that "bright center." In part, Tatooine has become so important because George Lucas liked the idea of Star Wars being like poetry, famously claiming it "rhymes." Thus he wrote Anakin Skywalker originating from Tatooine like his son Luke, in order to create a sort of cyclical arc. That's the same reason J.J. Abrams brought Rey back to Tatooine in Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker's final scene.
The same problem of overusing Tatooine happened in the old Expanded Universe as well, with the desert planet turning up in countless books, games, and comics; there, the future Sith Lord Darth Krayt hid on Tatooine, a twisted mirror image of Obi-Wan Kenobi. It's ironic that Disney declared the EU non-canon when they purchased Lucasfilm back in 2012, and yet the Disney era is making exactly the same mistake. Hopefully Star Wars will move away from Tatooine, and begin to develop other worlds to the same extent as Luke Skywalker's homeworld.
The Book of Boba Fett releases new episodes Wednesdays on Disney+.