First as tragedy, then as farce
It’s like poetry.
It rhymes.
Blockading trade routes in general is a historical way wars start. The whole reason why Japan attacked America at Pearl Harbor was because America implemented an oil embargo on Japan. Most of Star Wars is based on WW2 so this isn’t much of a surprise really.
It’s so based on WWII that the Millenium Falcon has a B-29 cockpit.
And all the starship battles are referenced from WW2 aerial combat footage
“When goods don’t cross borders, soldiers will”
Most of Star Wars is based on WW2
Who do you think the historical analogue for the Rebellion is?
Star Wars is based on the Vietnam War.
Star Wars isn’t just based on one thing. The empire definitely has a tint of Nazis, the plot is inspired by “The Hidden Fortress”, and yeah the Rebels are part Viet Cong.
The officers of the Empire are Nazis with english upper-class accents, so the british empire.
It’s a combination of the two. All the spaceship combat and the Empire aesthetics in general is all WW2.
More like that’s nice but what about the wookie files?
What do the Wookiees have to do with the Caamas Document?
At least Anakin only killed younglings. There are worse things.
People are saying that the Tusken Raiders have lightsabers and probably killed their own women and children
He “[didnt kill] just the men, but the women and children too.” (and at least one of those weird dog things)
Killing the weird dog thing was actually the worst part!
It really was 😭
Like bombing them?
Like sand?
I started typing this in Jar Jar’s voice, but I hated myself mid-sentence, so instead:
This means Phantom Menace is good now, right?
TPM IS good in a lot of subtle ways that were completely nullified by Lucas chickening out on making Jar Jar a sith lord. Watch* again with an eye on JJB and you’ll notice him subtly manipulating all the characters and action in the movie.
I think Jar Jar was too successful at being marketable comic relief. I’m fully camp sith JJB as written TPM. It would’ve been much more compelling story-wise, but we know Lucas is all about those merchandising rights, and I’d put real money on him seeing his popularity with the kids and chickening out for the bag.
Mesa thinks it is now, yesa!
The Phantom Menace is good now?
Always has been
Better than what came after, worse than what was made before.
Enter the Andor redemption arc.
No
This is precisely why it is bad
It doesn’t work as well on a galactic level because planets tend to be self sufficient on the millions to billions of years scale. But Star Wars always treated the scale as rather small, so it’s not a really good critique anyway.
Beside the specific excuse given for Naboo, there’s more to trade than basic life sustainability - there’s still material coming in and out for all sorts of technologies. Andor recently had an entire planet get strip-mined for its core made of a crystal that was super rare everywhere else, for one. Naboo can easily need some material for hyperspace travel or whatever that doesn’t exist on site, or not in sufficient quantity.
It’s easily observed in History right here too, where most Bronze Age cultures in the Mediterrannean collapsed when trade routes for tin and copper got burned down. People survived, but civilization and writing went into a Dark Age there. And populations tanked too by half or something, so life does get impacted.
To be honest, without going too deep into SW lore, it is entirely reasonable for a given planet to have to import certain goods from elsewhere. Life did not originate on most of the SW planets - they were colonized (at least when humans are concerned). Now, in today’s globalized world trade sanctions can be a debilitating tool, so it’s reasonable to assume that in the SW galaxy the specialization has gone far enough that no single planet can sustain its needs when isolated.
The problem with Naboo specifically was food and exports - it did not grow enough food from what I can remember, and its valuable exports were halted by the Trade Federation. So, in my opinion, it sort of makes sense, especially if we compare it to cough fresher SW writing
Look, logistics and trade agreements are incredibly important and influential , nobody’s arguing that. The problem is that they’re really boring.
