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As someone who loves the EU/now Legends sadly, I've got to say this was very well done! Way better explained and accurate than most other self-proclaimed "lore" channels.
Ottoman claims have been denied by the talibans (as they have been denied by the rebuplicans before the fall of Kabul) : The airport of Kabul will be under Afghans/talibans control; they did not negotiated with ottoman; the islamic republic of Afghanistan, and after them thé talibans regime did not five or grant them any permit, this is why they fled. MEE (an ottoman propaganda agency) claims have been debunked.
This was informative and hilarious! Any chance we can get more videos like this? Since Darth Bane showed up at the beginning, a video about his life and legacy would be cool...
Even the best laid plans can go awry, and circumstances can change. When dealing with military or economic matters, it’a pretty much a guaranteed fact that you likely won’t be able to execute a plan perfectly, even someone as skilled as Palpatine can only observe as ground level events change the plans. The best plans are adaptable.
@@phantomkryptid2549 there is another factor - the Force. Many coincidences that altered the plan, and benefited him were events manipulated by exceptional circumstances - such as the discovery of the Chosen One. He really had to improvise when two things he planned didn't happened as he foresaw: His apprentice dying, and he discovering a impressionable young boy that was far too talented for his own good.
@@rafaelfarias4359 Reminder, the Force wanted all present Jedi and Sith of the time dead because they kept disobeying it, and thus let Palpatine make the Empire, purely for Luke to eventually end up getting Palpatine killed (except apparently the sequels decided Palpatine was really, really good at cheating death. I don't approve if you couldn't guess).
I never hated starwars politics like other people, but this made me laugh so hard, imagine me learning real world politics, starwars politics is just better
Mustafa Khan you're an idiot if you believe star wars politics is "better" than real world politics. The wars and conflicts you see in star wars are directly based on real world conflicts. You're either too young or too selfishly stupid to make such an arrogantly foolish statement like that
I actually began to love the ideas of all these things at an older age so yea. Now Star Wars should explore this. Fr it’s really great setup for shows/movies
I don't know why people complain so much about politics in the Phantom Menace. If anything, I think it had the most well thought out politics out of all Star Wars movies. Basically it's about what would happen if Amazon had its own private army of robots and its board members had a permanent seat in the congress. The movie did a good job of showing how incredibly corrupt the Galactic Republic was and ultimately why it ended up becoming a fascist-like regime.
It's all explained outside of the big screen, unfortunately. Instead on focusing on politics, the movie spends time on the Boonta Eve Pod Race Special. It's a nice segment (i love Sebulba's engine sound), but adds little to the story.
@@IronShocker77 It is, but the movie still explained that there was a powerful Trade Federation with a private army objecting to the taxation of trade routes. People claimed they didn't understand what that means, but it honestly seems pretty straightforward.
@@IronShocker77 you can get it also from the movies alone, people were just "reee no politics" so they should shut the hell up they got the sequels no politics in universe only out universe.
Oh my god I use that same pfp on my insta so I got super confused when i saw this comment cuz I thought I accidentally watched this video again and commented on it lol
Prequel critics complain that the films were too 'political', but honestly I think they weren't political enough. George Lucas should have included this contextual information in the movie, then maybe general audiences would have understood the plot a bit more.
They could have gone either way and been better movies. If you're looking for an action-adventure like the OT, the prequels don't respect your time, with tons and tons of time spent on characters dully discussing things in front of greenscreens. A New Hope used politics to set the stakes to the conflict without bogging down in meaningless detail, and they did it in five minutes of screentime instead of an hour. If you're looking for a political thriller where 'taxation of trade routes' is an actually meaningful phrase, the prequels don't respect your intelligence, pushing over interesting dilemmas on their way to get more fart jokes and podracing and shootbangs. In the end it doesn't seem like the Republic is corrupt so much as that everyone in it is a moron waiting for their turn to get outsmarted by Palpatine. The EU (specifically James Luceno here, NOT George Lucas; he didn't put that contextual information in the movie because that information didn't exist when he wrote it) takes a pretty lousy framework and makes a good novel by actually respecting the reader's intelligence and giving details that matter.
@@IvanKinkle The whole 'the prequels are explained by TCW' argument is stupid. you shouldn't have to watch seven seasons of an animated spinoff to understand the plot of a live action movie that was released nearly a decade prior. Not to mention the fact that the vast majority of Clone Wars episodes are predictable, repetitive and poorly paced, especially the early ones.
7:19 To clarify, this sequence of events is a bit different, according to the Plagueis novel. The assassination attempt that actually hurt Plagueis was orchestrated by a rival senator who Plagueis had previously screwed over. Palpatine then tracked down the senator and brutality murdered him, along with everyone else present. King Veruna’s assassination attempt didn’t come until later. Plagueis waited a little while before going after Veruna himself, where he slowly drained the life out of him as part of his experiments with Midichlorians.
Stop ottoman lies : Ottoman claims have been denied by the talibans (as they have been denied by the rebuplicans before the fall of Kabul) : The airport of Kabul will be under Afghans/talibans control; they did not negotiated with ottoman; the islamic republic of Afghanistan, and after them thé talibans regime did not five or grant them any permit, this is why they fled. MEE (an ottoman propaganda agency) claims have been debunked.
Agreed but now i'm pissed they never showed us Plageus., Why ? He was there with ol palpy right until the end. I've read that the novel covering his death is pretty good.
Imagine if there was an Oversimplified-esque channel that summarized Star Wars politics and wars. This is perhaps the closest thing we have to that dream.
The amount of people bitching about the politics in TPM is insane. I've seen 10 year-olds watch this film and explain the motives of each faction or prominent politician and if a 10 year-old manages to display an understanding of this film's plot, then it's mind-boggling how "professional film critics" complain that the politics in this film is incomprehensible. Seriously, it is NOT that complicated.
7:33 Palpatine doesn't kill Veruna, Plageius himself visits him in exile and Veruna is "mysteriously" found dead the next morning. Palpatine goes after another senator who planned an assassination, Pax Teem.
"Now, the interesting thing about Muuns is that they pretty much controlled all of the banks in the galaxy, and every single one of them was obsessed with money." Damn, and here I thought Toydarians were supposed to be the demeaning Jewish stereotype in Star Wars.
So Nute Gunray became ViceRoy of the trade federation because Palpatine ordered him a pizza. That should be Cannon 😂 Also, I love how he didn't order the pizza yet he still pays for it and intends on eating it 😂😂😂 Edit: TBF he did pay for it
So many people complain about the politics of the prequels, but politics are the best part of the movies for me. Lucas can't write dialog to save his life, but he knows how to write politics. "So this is how liberty dies? With thunderous applause." In terms of narrative depth and complexity, the prequels stand above either of the other trilogies.
Great video, always loved the politics of star wars, ads a lot of realism and depth to the world and characters and gives very strong and interesting motivations that actually make a lot of sense.
This is both amazing and infuriating. If episode 1 was all about this. All about Palpatine’a rise and galatic politics, It wouldve been an amazing first movie. Imagine getting the rug pulled under you that our young ambitious hero was going to be the dark lord Sicidous all along? Beutiful…
I like how these universes have factions that are just absolute evil, and then they have the heroes (who probably end up being flawed but whatever) but the publics like "nah take your fighting out of here!". Im sure the good guys would probably oblige, but y'all aint going to be safe from the evil dudes that come back every 5 years lol
A Star Wars analysis video that's under an hour... no under 15 minutes long!? Finally something that I can watch after coming home from work without losing sleep!
btw great video .you should do more of these. makes me wish the plagieus novel was a fucking movie. like it should be instead of han solo, which I still plan to see anyway.
Thanks so much for making this. As a relatively newcomer to Star Wars lore ( I mainly know only the movies and the Clone Wars show as a kid in Nigeria) I always got frustrated whenever I heard people say that politics and world building don't belong in Star Wars. Glad to see those people proven wrong with retrospect. Also, I really like how you used so many references to the Darth Bane trilogy. I have only read Path of Destruction but this makes me even more excited to read all the "Legends" novels I bought after getting disappointed with the disney sequels and wanting to revisit more of good Star Wars lore.
This was awesome! Is there any chance you could do more of these explaining the politics of Attack of the Clones, The Clone Wars, and/or Revenger of the Sith?
I can't believe how big brain Palpatine's play is. His Plan A was halted because of the unexpected aid of the Gungans but it doesn't matter at that point, because his Plan B of being nominated Chancellor is already in play. No matter who wins, TradeFed/Separatist or Republic, he still wins either way cause he is both Phantom Menace & Chancellor. Also the victory music that played in the end of Ep 1 with all the choir vocals, it's the Emperor's theme in disguise, because he won in disguise
That song is called duel of fates and it's not about the emperor at all its about the fate of Anakin being fought over by Qui Gon Jin and Darth Maul. The moment Qui Gon lost Anakin's fate to falling to the dark side was sealed and it's the most pivotal moment in the entire franchise.
@@robertortiz-wilson1588 In my mind, maybe I’m just being an optimist, but I like to think that Phantom Menace provided the material, and the EU expanded on it!
Republic: let’s tax hyper lanes and leave only a few untaxed limiting competition and free trade!! A company grows on the free trade routes and can afford the taxed ones: Monopoly Time!!! Republic: Let’s tax it again!! Twice is the charm!!!
The reason why the republic couldn’t do things about some outer rim systems like Tatooine because they were controlled by Hutt Space the only other government in the galaxy pre-clone wars
Pretty spot on summary of the politics going on in The Phantom Menace, Darth Plagueis, Cloak of Deception, the latter two I just recently read. I only have some minor corrections. It was Plagueis himself who killed King Veruna, not Palpatine. Nute Gunray wasn't the only survivor of the assassination at Eriadu. He took the Trade Federation's senator Lott Dod with him to check out the parking disturbance.
I'm a grown ass man and I read the opening text of this movie like three times and I still struggle with it. They made it such a complex setup for a kids movie.
And it is precisely because of THIS that I love the Prequels so much! Not only do they complement the OT nicely and make it even better, but they also show what a master manipulator Sidious actually was.
If only they taught us this in school 5 months before the movie we would have been all caught up and understood what was going on besides the pretty laser swords
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Have you made more videos like this?
As someone who loves the EU/now Legends sadly, I've got to say this was very well done! Way better explained and accurate than most other self-proclaimed "lore" channels.
Ottoman claims have been denied by the talibans (as they have been denied by the rebuplicans before the fall of Kabul) : The airport of Kabul will be under Afghans/talibans control; they did not negotiated with ottoman; the islamic republic of Afghanistan, and after them thé talibans regime did not five or grant them any permit, this is why they fled. MEE (an ottoman propaganda agency) claims have been debunked.
This was informative and hilarious! Any chance we can get more videos like this? Since Darth Bane showed up at the beginning, a video about his life and legacy would be cool...
this felt like an over simplified video
"Naboo has two natural resources. Plasma energy and angsty young political science majors" best line in the video
Oh yeah? Well, I’ll bet you a very specific amount of an obscure foreign currency that it’s not!
@@stvbrsn credits *will* do fine
@@johnr797
No they won’t
@@sjh199 credits *WILL* do fine
@@johnr797 no they *won’ta*
When you're such a good manipulator even the stuff you didn't plan ends up benefiting you
Even the best laid plans can go awry, and circumstances can change. When dealing with military or economic matters, it’a pretty much a guaranteed fact that you likely won’t be able to execute a plan perfectly, even someone as skilled as Palpatine can only observe as ground level events change the plans. The best plans are adaptable.
@@phantomkryptid2549 there is another factor - the Force. Many coincidences that altered the plan, and benefited him were events manipulated by exceptional circumstances - such as the discovery of the Chosen One.
He really had to improvise when two things he planned didn't happened as he foresaw: His apprentice dying, and he discovering a impressionable young boy that was far too talented for his own good.
His core plan and objectives were so solid that the partial failure of the Trade Federation plot was worked to his benefit.
@@rafaelfarias4359 Reminder, the Force wanted all present Jedi and Sith of the time dead because they kept disobeying it, and thus let Palpatine make the Empire, purely for Luke to eventually end up getting Palpatine killed (except apparently the sequels decided Palpatine was really, really good at cheating death. I don't approve if you couldn't guess).
He didn't plan everything but he sure as hell knows how to turn events to his benefit
- That plant was a gift.
- Pizza delivery!
- Step 8: Get Plagueis absolutely wasted.
I love these bits. :D
Loved how the pizza delivery guy was Philip J Fry.
@@themole4369 Now we just need to see how Nixon's head would handle this situation, let the crossovers continue.
To be fair, getting Plagueis plastered was actually Palpatine’s plan.
Even as a kid I liked the politics of the prequels, there were none in the OT cuz emperor palpating wiped out the senate during episode 4
The politics in OT was like any other Dictatorship. Nepotism of course. The more you kissed ass, the higher you would go.
Star Wars is probably what made me be a huge political dork
About 80% of this is only explained in EU(Legends) material. The Phantom Menace didn't actually bother giving sufficient background information.
I'm your 500th like
post endor "ot" politics was really cool, warlords and junk
I never hated starwars politics like other people, but this made me laugh so hard, imagine me learning real world politics, starwars politics is just better
Star wars poltics is based on Hitlers rise to power and US citizens trading their rights for peace and security in post 9/11 world
Mustafa Khan you're an idiot if you believe star wars politics is "better" than real world politics.
The wars and conflicts you see in star wars are directly based on real world conflicts.
You're either too young or too selfishly stupid to make such an arrogantly foolish statement like that
George Lucas was a genius for taking inspiration from real historical governments
The best part no one can be salty because it is fictional
Call me weird but this video sums up my love for star wars. Jedi, Sith, and a whole lot of politics.
Hell yeah dude
I actually began to love the ideas of all these things at an older age so yea. Now Star Wars should explore this. Fr it’s really great setup for shows/movies
@@raissasuwardhono eh, TCW did everything the EU did but worse at the end of the day
@@robertogurrola7465 some of the EU*
There was a lot of terrible shit from the EU. But yeah, TCW was worse than the best of the EU
I always found it weird that people disliked the politics of the prequels. That was basically the only good part imo apart from the action scenes.
I don't know why people complain so much about politics in the Phantom Menace. If anything, I think it had the most well thought out politics out of all Star Wars movies.
Basically it's about what would happen if Amazon had its own private army of robots and its board members had a permanent seat in the congress.
The movie did a good job of showing how incredibly corrupt the Galactic Republic was and ultimately why it ended up becoming a fascist-like regime.
It's all explained outside of the big screen, unfortunately. Instead on focusing on politics, the movie spends time on the Boonta Eve Pod Race Special. It's a nice segment (i love Sebulba's engine sound), but adds little to the story.
@@IronShocker77 lmao, people legit complained because too much was explained on screen actually.
In my opinion their just boring. Big grey room in which the senate talks about the senate to the senate.
@@IronShocker77 It is, but the movie still explained that there was a powerful Trade Federation with a private army objecting to the taxation of trade routes. People claimed they didn't understand what that means, but it honestly seems pretty straightforward.
@@IronShocker77 you can get it also from the movies alone, people were just "reee no politics" so they should shut the hell up they got the sequels no politics in universe only out universe.
Two dislikes.
This is getting out of hand! Now there are two of them!
Twenty two in fact.
Do we need to bomb Korriban again?
I want droidikas here at once!
Oh my god I use that same pfp on my insta so I got super confused when i saw this comment cuz I thought I accidentally watched this video again and commented on it lol
*65 dislikes*
We were on the verge of greatness, we were this close
*Execute Order 66.*
I died when Palpatine suggested taxing the Free Trade Zones and Valorum went along with it.
Prequel critics complain that the films were too 'political', but honestly I think they weren't political enough. George Lucas should have included this contextual information in the movie, then maybe general audiences would have understood the plot a bit more.
They could have gone either way and been better movies. If you're looking for an action-adventure like the OT, the prequels don't respect your time, with tons and tons of time spent on characters dully discussing things in front of greenscreens. A New Hope used politics to set the stakes to the conflict without bogging down in meaningless detail, and they did it in five minutes of screentime instead of an hour.
If you're looking for a political thriller where 'taxation of trade routes' is an actually meaningful phrase, the prequels don't respect your intelligence, pushing over interesting dilemmas on their way to get more fart jokes and podracing and shootbangs. In the end it doesn't seem like the Republic is corrupt so much as that everyone in it is a moron waiting for their turn to get outsmarted by Palpatine.
The EU (specifically James Luceno here, NOT George Lucas; he didn't put that contextual information in the movie because that information didn't exist when he wrote it) takes a pretty lousy framework and makes a good novel by actually respecting the reader's intelligence and giving details that matter.
But… he did. Especially in TCW.
@@IvanKinkle Look at the writing credits for TCW. George Lucas isn't in there anywhere.
@@IvanKinkle The whole 'the prequels are explained by TCW' argument is stupid. you shouldn't have to watch seven seasons of an animated spinoff to understand the plot of a live action movie that was released nearly a decade prior. Not to mention the fact that the vast majority of Clone Wars episodes are predictable, repetitive and poorly paced, especially the early ones.
@@Geesaroni 90% of the things that was in clone wars was green lit and reviewed with George Lucas.
7:19 To clarify, this sequence of events is a bit different, according to the Plagueis novel. The assassination attempt that actually hurt Plagueis was orchestrated by a rival senator who Plagueis had previously screwed over. Palpatine then tracked down the senator and brutality murdered him, along with everyone else present. King Veruna’s assassination attempt didn’t come until later. Plagueis waited a little while before going after Veruna himself, where he slowly drained the life out of him as part of his experiments with Midichlorians.
I was going to comment the same
Indeed, Pax Teem
didnt they also try to cover up the failed assassination by dropping a literal nuke on him afterwards?
ah. i see you're a fan of the EU as well
@@jsamue12 the nuke part was the wildest shit. Book is fucking fantastic too. Just finished it.
"Hego learns all he can from Tenebrous. Then one day he decides to accidentally drop an entire cave on his master."
😂
Stop ottoman lies : Ottoman claims have been denied by the talibans (as they have been denied by the rebuplicans before the fall of Kabul) : The airport of Kabul will be under Afghans/talibans control; they did not negotiated with ottoman; the islamic republic of Afghanistan, and after them thé talibans regime did not five or grant them any permit, this is why they fled. MEE (an ottoman propaganda agency) claims have been debunked.
@@palbez8593 RETVRN CONSTANTINOPLE.
@@palbez8593 This is a Star Wars video.
@@palbez8593 dude ottoman empire already dead
@@palbez8593 rebuplicans
This entire video is basically just the stuff my kid brain tuned out when I watched the prequel movies 15 years ago lol.
Not actually. Most of this stuff is Expanded Universe lore and isn't actually in the movie itself.
@@Ladondorf WRITING 100
Expanded universe that is no longer canon
@@fatcat1 its the logical explanation for the movie tho even if its not canon its still what George Lucas intended it to be
@@fatcat1 I don’t let Disney tell me what is and isn’t canon.
this was very fun, entertaining and easy to watch. I love it and the beginning of Phantom Menace is a lot more coherent now!
Agreed but now i'm pissed they never showed us Plageus., Why ? He was there with ol palpy right until the end. I've read that the novel covering his death is pretty good.
This has aged quite well!
Yep 😁👍
Indeed
3:59 “The Federation is basically space Comcast.”
Man, that really hit home.
Imagine if there was an Oversimplified-esque channel that summarized Star Wars politics and wars.
This is perhaps the closest thing we have to that dream.
I'm pretty sure this is all Legends now. But I imagine a lot of the key points will be put back in eventually.
Damm really.?
@@trla6505 well, as long as it doesn't break anything canon, I consider it canon.
Who cares. Disney can fuck right off, this is good stuff
The vast majority is confirmed by the movies, the rest just makes sense
Well , it didn't.
The amount of people bitching about the politics in TPM is insane. I've seen 10 year-olds watch this film and explain the motives of each faction or prominent politician and if a 10 year-old manages to display an understanding of this film's plot, then it's mind-boggling how "professional film critics" complain that the politics in this film is incomprehensible. Seriously, it is NOT that complicated.
Alex Jones explained it perfectly. (Probably because George based it on a lot of what he thought was happening at the time)
Section Ratio General!
@@gryphonbotha1880 Everybody is good!
@@gryphonbotha1880 whats botha
@@LucyWest370 It's one letter away from "Bothan". As in, "Many Bothans died to bring us this information."
7:33 Palpatine doesn't kill Veruna, Plageius himself visits him in exile and Veruna is "mysteriously" found dead the next morning. Palpatine goes after another senator who planned an assassination, Pax Teem.
"Now, the interesting thing about Muuns is that they pretty much controlled all of the banks in the galaxy, and every single one of them was obsessed with money."
Damn, and here I thought Toydarians were supposed to be the demeaning Jewish stereotype in Star Wars.
Yup same thing and I'm Jewish
So I am lol, that's why I made the joke.
@@ArkenTheAmerikan rascism or inclusion?
Um... inclusion, obviously?
@@ArkenTheAmerikan I feel so welcomed
So Nute Gunray became ViceRoy of the trade federation because Palpatine ordered him a pizza. That should be Cannon 😂
Also, I love how he didn't order the pizza yet he still pays for it and intends on eating it 😂😂😂
Edit: TBF he did pay for it
So many people complain about the politics of the prequels, but politics are the best part of the movies for me. Lucas can't write dialog to save his life, but he knows how to write politics.
"So this is how liberty dies? With thunderous applause."
In terms of narrative depth and complexity, the prequels stand above either of the other trilogies.
Great video, always loved the politics of star wars, ads a lot of realism and depth to the world and characters and gives very strong and interesting motivations that actually make a lot of sense.
This is both amazing and infuriating. If episode 1 was all about this. All about Palpatine’a rise and galatic politics, It wouldve been an amazing first movie. Imagine getting the rug pulled under you that our young ambitious hero was going to be the dark lord Sicidous all along? Beutiful…
I like how these universes have factions that are just absolute evil, and then they have the heroes (who probably end up being flawed but whatever) but the publics like "nah take your fighting out of here!". Im sure the good guys would probably oblige, but y'all aint going to be safe from the evil dudes that come back every 5 years lol
You have a real talent for condensing a lot of information into a simple form
James Luceno is the only guy that can make Star Wars politics make sense.
He has an incredible aptitude for worldbuilding
A Star Wars analysis video that's under an hour... no under 15 minutes long!? Finally something that I can watch after coming home from work without losing sleep!
Geez, didn't know how large a web Palpatine weaved just to set up TPM
Love the nod to the Bane novel at the beginning. Farfalla's lightsaber has always been my favorite.
Was Farfalla the Jedi who met the first Valorum?
@@johnnygyro2295 I think so, as he was one of the few senior masters to survive the last battle on Ruusan.
“A little girl could garner more sympathy in the Senate than some old dude”
Shit he’s right
I didn't expect so much of this to be from the Darth Plagueis book. Or that it would be so funny. I like that Lord Hoth was in the intro too
btw great video .you should do more of these. makes me wish the plagieus novel was a fucking movie. like it should be instead of han solo, which I still plan to see anyway.
"that plant was a gift" lmao
in the novel Sidious actually killed or threatened to kill (I don't remeber it exactly) some rare paradise birds that Gunray had
Thanks so much for making this. As a relatively newcomer to Star Wars lore ( I mainly know only the movies and the Clone Wars show as a kid in Nigeria) I always got frustrated whenever I heard people say that politics and world building don't belong in Star Wars. Glad to see those people proven wrong with retrospect. Also, I really like how you used so many references to the Darth Bane trilogy. I have only read Path of Destruction but this makes me even more excited to read all the "Legends" novels I bought after getting disappointed with the disney sequels and wanting to revisit more of good Star Wars lore.
I will take politics over "somehow Palpatine has returned"
Technically in Legends he wasn't Sheev. He was just Palpatine, having thrown off his first name to spite the dad who picked it for him.
I think he's totally named after his dad, like Damask ironically
In a way, the prequels are a story about an arrogant religion getting its hands on the messiah... and accidentally handing him over to the devil.
I remember that from somewhere…
@@mahmoudsalaheddine8358 A video essay by So Uncivilized.
@@Trey_816 i knew it
how can this masterpiece only have few views
This was awesome!
Is there any chance you could do more of these explaining the politics of Attack of the Clones, The Clone Wars, and/or Revenger of the Sith?
Palpatine never actually wanted to take the title of Dark Lord from Plagueis, he just didn’t want that stunted slime in his sight again.
Finally, after watching a 12 minute video I finally get the plot of movies that people praise for some reason
Hopefully one day, we’ll get one for the sequels that explains why everybody suddenly became an idiot immediately after episode 6.
@@williamwebb580 hopefully not, hopefully everyone forgets about the sequels and disney remakes those with actual competent writers in charge.
I love how Yoda's brow is always smiling.
I absolutely love this! Do you possibly have a video explaining what was the politics behind declaring the clone wars?
This was fantastic. I would love to see more videos like this for the other movies. Good work!
I love that at 0:17 the jedi and sith characters are based on Lord Hoth, Lord Farfalla, Lord Kaan and Lord Kopecz
The fabric of palpatines deceptive veil is so intricately woven
Thanks for summarizing the Darth Plagueis by James Luceno
I wish I could have more videos on the politics of Star Wars like this
Ok this is not only informative, but also insanely cute. The voices are all great and even Senator Palpatine's hair is on point.
I can't believe how big brain Palpatine's play is. His Plan A was halted because of the unexpected aid of the Gungans but it doesn't matter at that point, because his Plan B of being nominated Chancellor is already in play. No matter who wins, TradeFed/Separatist or Republic, he still wins either way cause he is both Phantom Menace & Chancellor. Also the victory music that played in the end of Ep 1 with all the choir vocals, it's the Emperor's theme in disguise, because he won in disguise
That song is called duel of fates and it's not about the emperor at all its about the fate of Anakin being fought over by Qui Gon Jin and Darth Maul. The moment Qui Gon lost Anakin's fate to falling to the dark side was sealed and it's the most pivotal moment in the entire franchise.
@@superpacemaker444 That wasn't what I was talking about. I was talking about the chanting kind of music that was played after Qui-Gon's funeral.
@@superpacemaker444 ua-cam.com/video/aAs7Wxvc1_o/v-deo.html Here's the link if you want to listen to it btw
@@user-uo8mx3cv5k ah mb bro
This deserves so many more views. I thoroughly enjoyed this video. Well done.
THIS is why I LOVE Episode 1.
About 80% of this is only explained in EU(Legends) material. The Phantom Menace didn't actually bother giving sufficient background information.
@@robertortiz-wilson1588 In my mind, maybe I’m just being an optimist, but I like to think that Phantom Menace provided the material, and the EU expanded on it!
The Nemoidians are the Middle Eastern oil sheikhs of Star Wars
And the Muuns are... You know
More like the British East Indian trade company. They even had there own private army.
To bad the phantom menace couldn't be 4 hours long to include all of this extra context. Would have made for an even better film. Or mini series.
We need prequel movies about a young palpatine and his journey to the dark side.
"No pizza delivery was made to Nute Gunray"
Even so, I want to believe that's exactly what happened.
"That plant was a gift," 🤣
I haven't laughed this hard on commonly known movie content is a while. Subbed!
I like this format. It reminds me of real life history channels like oversimplified, but for star wars, it's great
Great video, I wish all of this was shown in the movie
Republic: let’s tax hyper lanes and leave only a few untaxed limiting competition and free trade!!
A company grows on the free trade routes and can afford the taxed ones: Monopoly Time!!!
Republic: Let’s tax it again!! Twice is the charm!!!
I feel like a huge nerd for knowing who all these characters are.
That's kinda like Oversimplified for Star Wars
Honestly have watched this so many times and it never gets boring lol
"ThE aCoLyTe BrEaKs CaNoN"
me knowing the Sith was still around thanks to this video for nearly 6 years:
You should make more of these! This video was great.
The reason why the republic couldn’t do things about some outer rim systems like Tatooine because they were controlled by Hutt Space the only other government in the galaxy pre-clone wars
I just realized they high key threw qui-gon under the bus because he wasn’t completely in line with them. Noooooooooo. I never wanted this realization
Had to watch this at least 5 times to get it. Star Wars lore is so complex i love it!
Pretty spot on summary of the politics going on in The Phantom Menace, Darth Plagueis, Cloak of Deception, the latter two I just recently read. I only have some minor corrections.
It was Plagueis himself who killed King Veruna, not Palpatine.
Nute Gunray wasn't the only survivor of the assassination at Eriadu. He took the Trade Federation's senator Lott Dod with him to check out the parking disturbance.
Your channel has done may entertain things for us to enjoy l. Thank you!
Bro we absolutely need more of these
I'm a grown ass man and I read the opening text of this movie like three times and I still struggle with it. They made it such a complex setup for a kids movie.
Some things definitely should have been in the movie...
But Jar Jar was the key of all of it
That was great. Funny and informative. Hope you make more off these type of videos in the future. 👍
Thanks for a great video, I like to come back to it from time to time
How can I not have seen this channel earlier? Brilliant.
It's is so frustrating that this is legends now... holyyyy SHIT
2:00 nice touch adding a banking clan frigate
"that plant was a gift!"
This gives me a better understanding of Star Wars politics than 3 scrolling paragraphs would
For some reason "Turmail has engulfed the Galaxy" is extremely funny to me
And it is precisely because of THIS that I love the Prequels so much! Not only do they complement the OT nicely and make it even better, but they also show what a master manipulator Sidious actually was.
Please do a video about the politics of Episode 2.
This was so well done! Thanks for the video!
It's ironic; we used to hate politics in our Star Wars movies, but we came to miss them in the sequels
This video needs so many more views
MOAR
I rewatched episode 1 and episode 2 over the last two days... I gotta say, everything is there... like em or not, the pieces are all there...
Great video
Me: "Oh I'm not brave enough for politics"
3 drinks later:
Even zemo's plan from civil war makes more sense
You should do another one of these.
This video has now made me appreciate the in-universe politics of Star Wars.
If only they taught us this in school 5 months before the movie we would have been all caught up and understood what was going on besides the pretty laser swords
I liked the politics in phantom Menace, it’s really interesting, but it was the presentation that set ppl off it
Gotta make more of these! These are gold af