>>212119414>>212119414No knowledge of Ben Quadinaros is necessary to understand the movie, nobody forced you to read about him. It's just background fluff for people who care.
But when you watch the podrace sequence in Episode I, every racer acts in a unique way, which is cool even if you don't know the backstory. Ben Quadinaros fucks up because he is new to podracing. Teemto Pagalies is a very good racer but he is also an alcoholic that spent the night at the cantina so he underperfoms despite starting off well and being a favourite. Dud Bolt is a hitman and a bodyguard and one of Sebulba's henchmen so he helps him trying to make Anakin crash, but that risky manouver takes him out of the race instead.
Sebulba we all know him, he's the top racer and stays on top through blatant cheating, bribing and killing off oponents.
Thst's the reason the fluff exists. because it results in a better creative process if you fill the race with competitors who are characters with backstories rather than nameless entities. That's why Disney Wars aliens are so bland in comparison, they never care about thinking about them or their backstories they are all random blobs and thus souless.
Imagine getting filtered by a side character existing. And being proud of that.
>Boy this guy George Lucas makes a backstory for every background character, how weird and embarrassing!