My only criticism to an otherwise good idea is that I like how the audience gets to gradually realise the Republic is starting to fail across the prequels. It’s not obvious at first, as the different stakeholders attempt to keep up appearances to hold onto their positions (the Jedi’s ability to use the Force has diminished, the Senate has become a bureaucracy, everyone except Sidious is one step behind everything that’s happening across all three films), and in the end that’s their undoing as Sidious sweeps in at the last minute and knocks the final pretence of function out of a system that was already dysfunctional. (That’s drawing across AOTC and ROTS as well, but it starts in TPM.)
The problem with this is that it’s all conveyed through dialogue and there’s no visual element. Palpatine tells us that the senate isn’t what it once was and it’s all squabbling bureaucrats now. Count Dooku says it’s corrupt and Qui Gon knew all about it, and in the deleted scene he says that the Republic doesn’t work and it’s time to start over. Mace Windu tells us that their ability to use the Force is diminished and Yoda says the dark side clouds everything and it’s impossible to see the future.
But do we see this change? We don’t ever see the Republic or senate functioning correctly or incorrectly, so there’s nothing to judge it by. The senate scenes in TPM come across as slow, procedural and not a lot happening, but that’s not unusual for politics in real life. If anything following procedures is what a Republic is supposed to do. There isn’t so much as a shot of a senator taking a bribe or meeting with the Trade Federation. Ships can move pretty much instantaneously in Star Wars, so when they talk about actually checking out the blockade it’s not unreasonable to think that that’s a good idea. Also wouldn’t all the places that trade with Naboo also speak up about it since it affects them? You can explain all of this away with corruption but we have to SEE it happen. It’s a movie. Even if it were a book it would be bad to tell instead of show.
We also don’t see the Jedi using the Force to the degree that we would notice if anything was different. If anything they start using it more after that. There’s no scenes of Yoda or whoever else making prophecies about the future before it gets switched off. They just end up looking dumb for not using common sense instead of the victims of supernatural effects. Yoda says “only the Dark Lord of the Sith knows our weakness” and then this is never elaborated on or brought up again, we just have to take their word for it that there is a weakness and it’s getting used.