It makes no sense to anyone but GL. The plot of the PT is so lacking in common sense that it cannot exist in any plane of reality. You are forced to accept that it is just a movie and cannot suspend your disbelief in watching it. With this knowledge you realize you are seeing something artificially written and this is the ultimate violation of cinema. With the OT, you don't see actors standing in front of a green screen speaking forced, unnatural dialogue written by a man who has no connection with reality, you see a world you are convinced exists in the same reality as we do, despite having fantastical elements. Even Jedi has this edge of realism over the PT. Palpatine could not one step of his convoluted, irrational grand scheme within the constructs of the OT. It only works as fiction written by a schizophrenic. Therefore, the entire PT is an unintentional work of surrealism.