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sade1212
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5-Dec-2020, 6:38 AM

There’s certainly interest in the fact that the Republic is portrayed as a completely ineffectual opposition to Palpatine’s rise - the deleted subplot from ROTS where a group of senators gather together with the apparent aim of stopping Palpatine consolidating power, but achieve absolutely nothing except a completely useless meeting and thus doom the galaxy to 25 years of violent resistance, comes to mind. Palpatine’s use of a scapegoat enemy he himself manufactured to justify his forever war is also notable, as is the reference to the military-industrial complex via the Trade Federation, Commerce Guild, Banking Clan etc. And of course the visceral display of inequality and arrogance in how the Jedi and Senate literally live and work in ivory towers and great domes miles above the average people of Coruscant with whom they rarely seem to have any interaction (and even further from the Outer Rim), despite suffering, crime, slavery, and so on being very prevalent. These aren’t especially profound or controversial takes generally, but are a little spicier than what most movies aimed at a similar demographic have to say.

I agree that TCW rarely has much to say in it’s “political” arcs, since they’re mostly only political in so far as they’re Padme-centric. When it does get at something interesting re:Republic interventionism and whether the Separatists actually have a point, it’s undermined by always resolving to Republic good/Separatists bad. Off the top of my head, only the Ahsoka Leaves arc ultimately does anything I find interesting in that respect.

Plus the Republic literally grows and enslaves child soldiers, which is sort of hilariously definitely a war crime, especially since the opposition are just droids so the Republic’s sentient death toll winds up way, way higher than that of the Separatists.