Anonymous
6/27/2025, 9:58:26 PM
No.23352023
>>23351980
>And that's probably why it then never gets brought up again in the next 2 movies. Even with the Trade Federation lingering on as villains, and getting new groups added like the Banking Clans and whatever, it never even makes an effort to hint at what their dispute with the Republic is supposed to be by the time of AotC. Because it doesn't fucking matter
More than anything I think this is the greatest weakness of the Prequels. There's just a skeleton of wider galactic politics. It's a great thing to expand upon with side material but in the movies themselves I don't think they devote as much time to them as they should. Like there's that cut scene from Episode 3 of Padme, Bail, and Mon Mothma talking with other senators about how the Republic is spiraling out of control. Cut for time I'm sure but it's a useful scene for establishing the political situation. Plus there's that damn 'heroes on both sides' line from the opening crawl that feels so at odds with the movies itself. What heroes do the Separatists have? Dooku being their charismatic leader who's secretly a Sith Lord and General Grievous who's entire screentime is being a bloodthirsty maniac? Does the Separatist public look up to Nute Gunray as a paragon of virtue? Hell even in the Clone Wars cartoon the closest we get to that is Senator Bonteri and she gets assassinated for her trouble. Literally every other major Separatist character we is some kind of assassin or war criminal, but to be fair Anakin and Obi-Wan are also war criminals with how much perfidity they engage in. I get that the true believers are being taken for a ride by Palpamemes, even the corporate bankrollers are, but it is a little silly.
I'm saying this as a Dooku fanboy who thinks the CIS was right to rebel in the first place.
>And that's probably why it then never gets brought up again in the next 2 movies. Even with the Trade Federation lingering on as villains, and getting new groups added like the Banking Clans and whatever, it never even makes an effort to hint at what their dispute with the Republic is supposed to be by the time of AotC. Because it doesn't fucking matter
More than anything I think this is the greatest weakness of the Prequels. There's just a skeleton of wider galactic politics. It's a great thing to expand upon with side material but in the movies themselves I don't think they devote as much time to them as they should. Like there's that cut scene from Episode 3 of Padme, Bail, and Mon Mothma talking with other senators about how the Republic is spiraling out of control. Cut for time I'm sure but it's a useful scene for establishing the political situation. Plus there's that damn 'heroes on both sides' line from the opening crawl that feels so at odds with the movies itself. What heroes do the Separatists have? Dooku being their charismatic leader who's secretly a Sith Lord and General Grievous who's entire screentime is being a bloodthirsty maniac? Does the Separatist public look up to Nute Gunray as a paragon of virtue? Hell even in the Clone Wars cartoon the closest we get to that is Senator Bonteri and she gets assassinated for her trouble. Literally every other major Separatist character we is some kind of assassin or war criminal, but to be fair Anakin and Obi-Wan are also war criminals with how much perfidity they engage in. I get that the true believers are being taken for a ride by Palpamemes, even the corporate bankrollers are, but it is a little silly.
I'm saying this as a Dooku fanboy who thinks the CIS was right to rebel in the first place.