Have you ever seen Election and Election 2? Johnnie To not Reese Witherspoon that is. It has a very nuance power struggle with characters that are neither good nor evil, but are pushed towards power by personal circumstances and often just bad luck. Even if they don’t want it, each decision has a repercussion. Now that’s how you do a modern take on The Godfather arc. But since Anakin is barely a character in The Phantom Menace you’ve lost so much time. Really that plot could have been part of the AOTC crawl, then there should have been a movie before TROS like the Clone Wars show era. Ah well.