Originally posted by: Jumpman
Scruffy,
Between Naboo, Coruscant, and the Jedi Order, you get a sense of the Great Republic in Episode I and Episode II, even if its starting to crumble in Episode II.
Scruffy,
Between Naboo, Coruscant, and the Jedi Order, you get a sense of the Great Republic in Episode I and Episode II, even if its starting to crumble in Episode II.
Naboo had a divided population and was under siege with little or no official relief from the Republic, Coruscant was rife with corruption and incompetence, Tatooine was run by criminals and didn't even implement Republican laws ... this is all in accordance with Lucas's original ideas about the Republic falling apart toward the end. I don't know why you're trying to tear down one of the ideas he stuck to and implemented with some success. If California besieged Nevada while Washington debated tax rates and the mafia reestablished slavery in Alabama, would you call it "the Golden Age of the United States?" The Republic is clearly a failing state from the beginning of TPM, there's no other way to look at it.