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Post #1311693

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RU.08
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Episode IX: The Rise Of Skywalker - Discussion * SPOILER THREAD *
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Date created
18-Dec-2019, 8:12 AM

One problem with the prequels was exposition. Lots of people complained about Palpatine being a grinning two-faced politician, but how else was he meant to claw his way to the top and then topple the democratic order?

A much better example of a terrible scene, done purely for exposition, is where Anakin declares to Padme that he dislikes democracy. Why is this a bad scene? Well it doesn’t make sense for his character arc. There’s no reason behind it. Did democracy sell him and his mum into slavery, that’d be a good justification for his distrust. Maybe his Jedi training has indoctrinated him into this belief? Maybe there is a genuine dislike he has for the Republic, something, anything? Alas, he has literally no reason to say he dislikes the institution and that people “should be made to agree”. With good storytelling there should be a reason behind his line of thought, but there’s none. This is pure exposition to inform the audience that Anakin has authoritarian tendencies. This is one of the unfortunate storytelling tropes Disney Star Wars has been using.