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Post #1500928

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Vladius
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Re-evaluating Revenge of the Sith
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20-Aug-2022, 8:52 AM

Peter Pan said:

An interesting read on the trilogy, maybe Palpatine could have picked up on his involvement with everything that has transpired in his conversation with Grievous.

Other than that I feel like the Jedi are too gullible throughout the movies to pose a threat to Palatines plans. In TPM Qui-Gon senses that there is more behind the Federation invasion but he doesn’t investigate and in AOTC does nobody investigate the mystery behind the creation of the clones. Only in ROTS do the Jedi start to suspect Palpatine after he placed Anakin on the council and thereby openly challenged the Jedi.
This makes the plot feel less like a tense game of chess and more like a GM taking on an amateur.

100%

This is where a lot of people nowadays get it twisted. Oh the Jedi were corrupt and blinded by hypocrisy and dogmatism, that was their downfall! Palpatine was such a brilliant manipulator!

Actually no, as depicted their downfall was stupidity, as in not doing basic stuff that you would see on any hack cop procedural. Hey who paid for these clones? Who was building all these ships and landing craft for them? Why did Sifo Dyas order an army? Why didn’t the Kaminoans contact anybody in the Republic for 10 whole years to give them a status update or collect payments? Was it all in cash up front? (remember one of the only things we know about the Kaminoans is that they care about “how big your pocketbook is,” so it’s not like the money trail isn’t explicitly important) Were there senators that did know about the army and were hiding it? If there were, why didn’t the Jedi question them? Why was Jango Fett, the template of the clone army literally still living on the same planet where they’re still making the clones, sent to assassinate Padme on behalf of Count Dooku and the Trade Federation? Why does the trail lead straight from Kamino, the center point of the new Republic army, to Geonosis, the center point of the new Separatist army? Anyone care to examine any of this for more than 2 seconds?

All this gets waved away as “the dark side clouding their vision.” Which you would think is supposed to mean their ability to see the future, not their basic intelligence unrelated to the Force.

As for Clone Wars, we shouldn’t be reliant on an extra show for information that should have been in the movie. That’s assuming it actually explains everything in the movie, which it doesn’t.