Apologize.
Mesa sorry
>They got it all blocked off
>>220372929I'm so sorry George, we were led astray by false prophets of the internet.
>>220374176>apologizing to a billionaireBoot licker. You will be the first one purged.
>>220372929why the fuck is this dumb meme so popularnobody ever said trade routes aren't important. they said making a trade route a crucial plot point of what Lucas himself describes as a children's movie was retarded. and it was. no kid gives a shit about the politics of international (sorry, i mean intergalactic) commerce.
>>220374206Unironically Reddit made this popular
>>220372929I can pretend the prequels don't exist and enjoy their soundtracks but you must pay for the crimes of the special editions.
>>220374206>no kid gives a shit about the politics of international (sorry, i mean intergalactic) commerceNo shit, that's why it's only really background dressing for all the cool merchandising shit like lightsabers, battle droids, starfighters and pod racers.
The criticism of the phantom trade blockade isn't based on its unlikelihood, but rather the fact that it's a major plot point in a movie made for children.
>>220372929Still garbage movies
Why did the Trade Federation not blockade Coruscant instead of Naboo, since the blockade's original purpose was protesting the Republic's taxes on the trade routes anyway? What the fuck did Naboo have to do with anything?
>>220372929do prequelfags think lucas invented trade routes?
>>220374535Because blockading Coruscant would probably have lead to the whole Trade Federation getting blown out of orbit the minute they tried that. Naboo is a shitty backwater planet.
>>220372929I've always been on his side.
>>220372929have you ever seen Alex Jones go through and explain the prequals? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oKm4ueVuxpY>>220374153affects other countries more than us, therefore it's based
>>220372929*In the voice of Luke Skywalker getting harassed at the cantina* I'm sorry!
>>220374535Because Palpatine told them to, so he could show the Senate's lack of reaction to prevent it as an example of the Chancellor's weakness and get himself elected in his place.
>>220374223>>220374206a trade 'fedaration' in the 3 dimensions of space if fucking retarded, redditors will never conceit to it though
>>220374570>Naboo is a shitty backwater planet.the mid-rim ain't exactly the outer rim I mean c'mon
>>220374619oh word?
>>220374206Well I thought that the Phantom Menace was the greatest shit ever when I was a kid, so I guess it was just angry gen X'ers seething. Not one kid I knew who liked Star Wars complained about the politics. The kind of person who would hate the political side of the prequels thinks that JJ Abram's style of having characters frantically running for no reason while discussing things would an improvement because they're stupid.
>>220374636Anon, their political system involves giving actual political power to a teenage girl.Now call me old fashioned but I don't think a teenage girl should have the power to make an invasion on your planet legal.
>>220374619>Because Palpatine told them to, so he could show the Senate's lack of reaction to prevent it as an example of the Chancellor's weakness and get himself elected in his place.Wait, then what was Palpatine's quid pro quo to the Trade Federation? What could he have given that would've made it worthwhile to blockade an entire planet?
>>220374570>Because blockading Coruscant would probably have lead to the whole Trade Federation getting blown out of orbit the minute they tried that.Did Courscant even have a good military before the Clone Wars though?
>>220374234Some of the changes made with the special editions were fine, some were even improvements, but yeah, I'd say that the worst changes made with the special editions (and that includes the DVD and blu-ray releases) are far worse and more damaging than any movie Disney could make. I am so depressed by Vader's added dialogue in Return of the Jedi. I've gone through so many stages trying to accept that and I can't. I wish George had sold Star Wars earlier if it would have meant preventing that. Ruined the fucking movie.
>>220374698It was probably enough to defend the planet. Considering it's the Republic's seat of power
I was 18 in 1999.Too young to understand the trade route political shit. Too old to stomach JarJar and the little earnest slave boy who says yippeeI disliked it, but it's grown on me. But I always like AotC, although Dooku shows up out of nowhere, and the Master Sifo Dyas shit goes unexplained. The set pieces in Clones are great.
>>220374756I unironically would eat at Dex's Diner everyday if I lived in Courscant.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=neyY2qC9pCA
>>220374756>the Master Sifo Dyas shit goes unexplainedIt's not really that hard to infer that Palpatine used the name of a dead Jedi knight to order the clone army.
His birthday is this week, lol
Permaban all prequelfags.
https://youtu.be/Y8IWXoPdlW8?si=TqrW2ne8s3AMhQL4
>>220374206It's not a pro Lucas memes tho. Everybody knows the PT is shit, which is part of why the OP is funny.
>>220372929YEAH BUT HOW DO YOU BLOCK OF SPACE WHEN THERE IS THE ABILITY TO JUMP THROUGH SLIP SPACE
>>220374922Or just firing the corpse of an old woman at the ships
>>220372929WERE SORRY
>>220372929When will Disney sell him back his franchise for 2millionarios?That's about all it's worth now, anyway.
>>220374935
>>220374206>why the fuck is this dumb meme so popularIt's not "popular". There's just a Prequeltranny here who thinks it's unironically "clever" so he keeps reposting it every day.
>>220374706just rewatched the Vader scene and it sounds like they modified existing voice clips instead of bothering to get James Earl Jones say no a few more time kek
>>220374206i found it very interesting as a child. i thought real world politics was gay as fuck, and still do, so star wars actually made me interested in the process.
>>220374190race traitors are the first to go, anon
>>220374535You don't start by nuking the enemy's capital, you start with a border skirmish. Then, if your demands aren't met, you proceed to the next stage of escalations. In war and in business, people tend to avoid going all in unless they know that a successful outcome is guaranteed. Much too much to lose if you don't get your way.>>220374683It should be made clear that Sheev didn't convince them to blockade a planet. What happened is that they wanted to blockade a planet, and Sheev pointed them to Naboo specifically.Naboo was a small, weak planet going through a bunch of internal socioeconomic crises and tensions with the Trade Federation (most of them engineered by Sheev himself), and since the Trade Federation already was determined to retaliate against the Republic for the raised taxes, it wouldn't be difficult to persuade them to pick Naboo specifically as their target.
>>220372929Chancellor Valerian solved the blockade of Naboo by blockading it himself.
>>220374206>Movie made primarily for kids, but also the whole family>Has various plots to keep everybody in the family interested at the same timeAs usual, the turbo autists here can only see black and white and don't realise a story can have multiple things going on at the same time so more people can enjoy it at the same time for different reasons.Why do I even fucking come to this hellhole.
>>220374621spaceships flying like planes is retarded too but you'll never concede that fact.
>>220372929Apologize.
>>220374756>18>too young to understand politicsLol, lmao
>>220376347It sure is nice of you to do all the work Lucas DIDN’T do in the actual fucking movie. Thanks for your service and your headcanon, but it doesn’t make TPM a single iota better.
>>220376751when I was writing the post you're replying to, I also wrote that while the exact reasons behind the blockade on Naboo specifically may be interesting to loreheads and econ nerds, the opening crawl provides a satisfactory explanation to the conflict that kickstarts the movie. I ended up deleting that part, believing it self-evident. Clearly, I was wrong.Here is the opening crawl. We are told that the Galactic Republic is struggling to push through a consensus on taxation. We are also told that the Trade Federation is tired of their shit and is resorting to a display of force to resolve the matter in their interest. What do you struggle to understand here?
>>220374286this. even as a kid i understood even movies like Star Wars and Jurassic Park also had their "boring parts" and i just had to sit through them and not complain like a sperg until the dinosaurs and space/lightsabers showed up. whats with this revisionism that kids somehow HATE boring scenes and they are unacceptable in a kid movies?
>>220374636Why the fuck did they never really colonize anything to the west of Coruscant
It's retarded because Star Wars has literally MILLIONS of inhabited planets. Okay, like two of them do some fuckery, so what? Just wait it out. Who cares.
>>220376969how's waiting things out working for you at the gas pump?
kill yourselves /pol/niggers. stop flooding /tv/.
>>220372929GOD FUCKING DAMN YOU FUCKING PREQUELTARDS ARE THE BIGGEST FUCKING PSEUDOINTELECTUALS ON THE INTERNET.Let me explain this shit to you faggots for the thousandth time. The blockade in Phantom menace is a fucking retarded plot point and no just pointing out some random historical event doesn't change that. Look at the actual plot of the movie you suck off. The opening crawl you fags cite says that the republic is taxing the Trade Fedration's trade routes and blockaded Naboo in retaliation. Now you retards claim this is enough but of course you retards don't actually think about the logistics. Ask your dumb monkey brain how blockading a random planet somehow will get taxes revoked because it won't. It's fucking space, everyone is just going to fly around naboo and continue on their trade routes so great nothing was done. Shit the movie itself shoes that the blockade is literally doing nothing to get the taxes revoked because the grand majority of the senate doesn't give a shit. Actually we see that somehow those faggot TF members somehow have every lobbyist in their pocket yet they can't get one single bit of legislation changed? This is why you fucking retards need to fucking give up trying to make the phantom menace of all things seem smart. When your inciting incident for the entire fucking saga makes no logistical sense the people are going to shit on it.
>>220376850For fuck's sake, it's not that it's too COMPLICATED. It's that it's fucking boring and stupid. It only works if we assume information that's not in the movie and that Palpatine is basically orchestrating every single thing that's happening in the entire galaxy.
>>220376850>the exact reasons behind the blockade on Naboo specifically may be interestingthe tradians from planet trade blockaded a planet (read: stopped trading with them) to protest galactic republic taxation of trade
>>220372929>deliberately sold everything for less than it's worth as a "fuck you" to the fan base who got tired of him constantly altering the original trilogy>supported Kathleen Kennedy taking over Lucasfilm, and suported all she did to fuck up Star Wars forever>apologize
>>220377000>000Bodied that freak
>>220377120to be fairer than the prequels deserve, the first lines of the tpm is obiwan talking about feeling something orchestrating the events they found themselves in, and quigon telling obiwan to shut the fuck up and ignore it.
>>220377106>Ask your dumb monkey brain how blockading a random planet somehow will get taxes revoked because it won't. It's fucking space, everyone is just going to fly around naboo and continue on their trade routes so great nothing was done.The TRADE FEDERATION is not blockading TRADE ROUTES, you fucking RETARD. They're blockading Naboo to put pressure on the Republic, which Naboo is part of.>>220377120He IS orchestrating every single [plot-relevant] thing in the entire galaxy! That's the whole fucking point! He's playing all sides against one another! He sends a Jedi delegation to Nute Gunray, and when Nute shits himself in fear, he manipulates him to invade Naboo outright! He then proceeds to play the victim in the Senate, catapulting himself into power! That's his entire plan!>>220377235they take over the whole planet in the first thirty minutes of the movie. You missed that part?
>>220377257the tradeians from planet trade were also part of the republic.
>>220372929I AM SO SORRY GEORGEYOU WERE RIGHT ALL ALONGPLEASE COME BACK
>>220372929>let's have a silly lizard man, the kids will live that>let's put a kid in it, the kids will love that>let's put a bunch of boring politics in it, the kids will love that
>>220377257>They're blockading Naboo to put pressure on the Republic, which Naboo is part of.Hey retard. How does that work?Oh right it doesn't because.1. This blockade was such a nothing burger Chancellor Valorum had to covertly send Jedi to negotiate its end because the Senate literally didn't care enough to send its own dignitaries2. Naboo has no fucking political pull whatsoever on the Republic. They can't even muster enough support to get a security force to help remove an invasion because no one believes them despite having Jedi Testimony.3. The blockade doesn't harm the republic logistically, economically, or militarily. Hell it doesn't even appear to harm Naboo as they seem completely self sustained.None of this makes sense when once again the TF have so much fucking sway in the senate as to hold off an investigation into Naboo's invasion BUT can't simply buy enough senators to vote away the taxes on their Trade Routes.
>>220374165>THE PASSAGE FRANCIS>THEY GOT IT ALL BLOCKED OFF
>>220376385except nobody was interested in the trade bullshit, you smacked ass. You think adults who chose to come to a Star Wars got excited because it was suddenly like C-SPAN?
>>220377249His public support for Disney Wars was part of the deal. If he said or did anything to damage their PR up until the release of TFA he would have been sued and lost a big chunk of the 4 billion.At best I’d say he’s indifferent, he just wanted to move on to semi-retirement and make passion projects nobody gives a shit about. I don’t have to like him but I can’t blame him.
>>220377412Gof Lucas apologists are bigger simps than any faggot donating to an E thot.
>>220377269and when the Republic changed their laws in a way that hurt them, they began to escalate diplomatic, economic and military pressure to resolve the situation semi-amicably. When that didn't work out, they violently seceded from the Republic. All of this is covered in the movies, I'm not dropping some secret lore here.>>220377318>1, 2Did we watch the same movie? In my universe, Chancellor Valorum's perceived weakness and inability to respond to the crisis leads to him getting voted out to be replaced by Sheev. People don't vote out politicians over nothingburgers.>3Do you not understand that a military that doesn't answer to the central authority of the state (which ought to hold the monopoly on force) running rampant and blockading planets is kind of a big deal? If a PMC just took over a town in Nebraska somewhere, do you think the American politicians would go, "but how does this affect me personally?"
>>220377459it seems you've put a lot of effort into defending each isolated plot point of the prequels. too bad the republic deciding to go to war, with the monastic peacekeeping force leading an army of clones, with people who try to leave it doesn't make any sense either.
>>220377501there is no effort on my part here beyond not letting my brain shut down at the sight of yellow letters on a black screen.
>>220377525all you're doing is patching the holes in the narrative with headcanon. your brain is working harder to make the movies good than george lucas did.
>>220374652Then gen X mind cannot comprehend anything more than "big thing go boom"
>>220377558"Headcanon" implies that any of the things I talked about were made up by me and aren't present in the movies. Name a single thing I talked about past >>220376850 that fits this description.
>>220377596Yes, things that weren't in the movie, that you "deduced," still count as headcanon.
>>220377459Hey dumbass do you not see the problem with the writing at all in your defense of it.>The republic doesn't give a shit about Naboo and can't send ambassador to settle it>Buh buh they also think their Chancellor is voted out because he couldn't deal with a Crisis they didn't care about themselves!Also the vote of no confidence was over Valorum being at the behest of the Beurecrats owned by the TF dumbass. Which once again doesn't make sense because as re-established he was the only one to send anyone to deliberate in the first place. It's complete retardation.>oh no the TF is showing force how scary.Yeah on a small fucking planet with a single major populated area that's mostly composed of grasslands and forests. This isn't an impressive feat in the slightest. As previously stated NO ONE in the senate cared about the blockade. This isn't like a PMC taking over a town in Nebraska, this is like a Corporation putting down a protest in one of their sweatshops in asia.Regardless every solution you provide creates a paradox that contradicts pre-established plot points. You are defending bad writing.
>>220377616i like the part where the trade federation blockades and invades a planet to protest taxation of trade, but then denies blockading and invading the planet in the senate.
>>220376940Because its too hard to navigate and it's controlled by the Chiss
I give up. I wish to publicly acknowledge that my involvement in this argument was stupid and pointless. I apologize for wasting bandwidth of anyone who has to scroll past any of this.
>>220376751>>220377120>the movie should spoon feed me everything because I don't understand subtext>no it's not too complicated, it's just boringYou lie like a jew but jews aren't this outright stupid
>>220377714its easy to confuse subtext with headcanon. especially if you can't actually perceive subtext.
>>220372929Mike committing suicide rn
>>220377727The only subtext that anon can percieve is buttsex.
>>220374636And you should never block someone when they're mid-rim, that's what I always say.
>>220372929Pretty crazy how important the scantily clad teenage girls are right now. George, I fucking KNEEL.
>>220372929>>220374153the worst part of the prequels is latched onto by reddit islamic leftists and russian shillspottery
>>220374535>hurr durr, why didnt Vercingetorix besieged Rome instead of trying to engage Caesar who he outnumbered 3:1 at Alesia.
>>220379818based george, she should have the shaak ti eyes though
>>220376921>whats with this revisionism that kids somehow HATE boring scenes and they are unacceptable in a kid movies?TikTok and other apps have nuked children's attention spans, so the kids of today don't have the ability to sit through "boring" expository diaogue. Hell, most adults now can't either.
>>220372929People always say Star Wars is for kids by why would kids be interested in trade routes, blockades, and political drama? You don't see any of this in other children's media.
star wars is great, fuck jack posobiec
>>220372929its still fucking boring george! who the fuck is going to watch a movie about the cucking of the united states? everyones just gonna skip to the part where trump strokes out on live tv
>>220380801When I was a kid I didn't understand at first but it interest me enough that I looked into it and learned real life history
>>220372929Speaking of grasping to fucking straws...I've read that prequeloids are mentally deficient, I'm starting to believe it.
>>220381283>grasping to fucking strawswhat is this guys first language yall think
>>220381298Spanish, probably
>>220372929george lucas was right about everything
>>220372929Watch the Plinkett reviews.
>>220374206When I was a kid I was bored of adults kissing and going to bed in James Bond. Politics was boring adult stuff too, and I found toilet humor crude. Kids are going to focus differently. They'll still watch important films for dozens of times- be it Star Wars ep 1-6 or the Lion King.
>>220379906>shaak tiShaak Ti didn't kill herself
>>220374922There are spaceships that can generate strong enough gravity to pull ships out of hyperspace
