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Post #1486861

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Spottyfriend
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Star Wars Episode III: Labyrinth Of Evil (Released)
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1-Jun-2022, 7:15 PM

G&G-Fan said:

That moment is when the audience learns that the Chancellor is moving to take control of the Jedi council.

Ahh see I think that’s where I disagree, because it’s where the audience learns that the Jedi believe that the Chancellor is moving to take control of the Jedi council.

The natural question of the viewer is ‘why?’ and LOE doesn’t give an answer for that until afterwards, which I think doesn’t make for very clear storytelling. The only answer the viewer can give at that moment is that we know that the chancellor is Sidious and is evil, or if the viewer doesn’t know that, it seems like Yoda is beyond paranoid for no reason at all. I love LOE and its intentions - particularly in the way it portrays the Jedi as completely playing into Sidious’ hands and being politically over-assertive in such a way that the audience should end up with a critique of them - however, here Yoda seems completely irrational and I think more importantly it is a moment where you as the viewer may well feel like they’ve missed crucial information that explains the Yoda’s quite specific worries about the Chancellor. (Tbf if Yoda/the council were expressing more general worries in this scene, it would do a good job of introducing the viewer to the idea that Palpatine is looking to tighten his grip on power, but they are specific enough that I felt it was a bit of a ‘Huh?’ moment).