Post by Noelemahc on Aug 17, 2014 13:47:03 GMT -5
Phantom Menace was actually on TV earlier today, and I had to sit around through the cringeworthiest bit of the movie as I ate. No, not Jar-Jar hanging onto Qui-Gon's neck.
The Senate hearing with the vote of no confidence.
It's actually interesting to try and rationalize the bullshit Padme's got to deal with her space equivalent of Montenegro being locked out of interstellar trade by the space equivalent of WTO merely because Palpatine wanted to get off that backwater boring-ass planet to interstellar political stardom. The space equivalent of the UN sits around on its ass doing fuck-all, while the space equivalent of the motherfucking CRUSADES decides to get involved in a roundabout way.
All of the above means the Trade Federation operates with no oversight (if it is an interstellar agency like the not-space WTO) or counterbalance (if it is what it looks like to me as a Soviet-born - a crude pastiche of how most of the world sees America and its single-minded belief that whatever it says, goes)... and that Vallorum is obviously on the take, or bluntly stupid, because there are several FAT implications that Naboo is not the first, or the only, planet which the Trade Federation has pulled such shit with, but it's the first where the Jedi threw their lot in. (that said, it's also implied that they did so at Vallorum's behest... yet offer him no backing when he's voted out of office).
TLDR: Palpatine's ability to cloud the Jedi mind eye is truly spectacular... or, perhaps, he was right, Coruscant was rotten to the core, filled to the brim with people too used to the way things were going and too afraid to lose their cushy everything, so he took a girl and a boy that were unafraid, and manipulated them into making history.
One way or another, he's one smart son of a Rancor.
The Senate hearing with the vote of no confidence.
It's actually interesting to try and rationalize the bullshit Padme's got to deal with her space equivalent of Montenegro being locked out of interstellar trade by the space equivalent of WTO merely because Palpatine wanted to get off that backwater boring-ass planet to interstellar political stardom. The space equivalent of the UN sits around on its ass doing fuck-all, while the space equivalent of the motherfucking CRUSADES decides to get involved in a roundabout way.
All of the above means the Trade Federation operates with no oversight (if it is an interstellar agency like the not-space WTO) or counterbalance (if it is what it looks like to me as a Soviet-born - a crude pastiche of how most of the world sees America and its single-minded belief that whatever it says, goes)... and that Vallorum is obviously on the take, or bluntly stupid, because there are several FAT implications that Naboo is not the first, or the only, planet which the Trade Federation has pulled such shit with, but it's the first where the Jedi threw their lot in. (that said, it's also implied that they did so at Vallorum's behest... yet offer him no backing when he's voted out of office).
TLDR: Palpatine's ability to cloud the Jedi mind eye is truly spectacular... or, perhaps, he was right, Coruscant was rotten to the core, filled to the brim with people too used to the way things were going and too afraid to lose their cushy everything, so he took a girl and a boy that were unafraid, and manipulated them into making history.
One way or another, he's one smart son of a Rancor.