I was thinking more of her mom's people. As far as we know Palpatine only had the one son. But that would’ve been an interesting idea — make Naboo the First Order's capital planet. Like Argentina after WWII.
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Replying to @Elpico72 @arthur_affect and
This planet we think of as a center of culture and peaceful philosophy— have it turn out to be the galaxy's heart of darkness.
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Replying to @Elpico72 @NussbaumAbigail and
There's a lot of hints that Naboo is a reactionary backwater and the stuff that makes us supposed to like it is just more "traditional heartland" discourse like American conservative pundits spew about flyover country
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Replying to @arthur_affect @Elpico72 and
The new Disney canon says the Empire was officially homophobic and this was an attitude Palpatine brought to the cosmopolitan city world of Coruscant from his old fashioned Mid Rim home planet
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Replying to @arthur_affect @Elpico72 and
Also come on, whatever they say about the Naboo and the Gungans being "symbiotic" it sure comes off as the Gungans being an oppressed and exploited indigenous population
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Replying to @arthur_affect @NussbaumAbigail and
I think the Gungans and the Naboo being part of a "symbiont circle" was part of a plotline that Lucas abandoned once he realized everyone hated Jar Jar. In some ways TPM is the most interesting prequel b/c it's the purest Star Wars film -- closest to Lucas' vision.
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Replying to @Elpico72 @arthur_affect and
It's the only one he wrote and directed entirely by himself.
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Replying to @beetlefella101 @arthur_affect and
I think TPM comes off as weirdly confident? He hadn't directed a movie in 22 yrs. but he seems to know what he wants. And this confidence is missing from II & III. He seems to be second-guessing himself a lot due to the negative feedback on the first one.
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Replying to @Elpico72 @beetlefella101 and
Big parallel w/Star Trek: TMP. That is Roddenberry's Platonic concept of Star Trek. Which is to say ponderous, pretentious, no humor or conflict, spandex onesies... TNG's first couple of seasons are the same way.
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Replying to @Elpico72 @beetlefella101 and
The Slow Motion Picture, as they say And yeah Wrath of Khan was made in the wake of TMP's failure to be an action packed crowd pleaser That's one of those "franchise original sins" - yes, bringing him back again was cheap pandering, but so was bringing him back the first time
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Fun coincidence that TPM and TMP are the same letters
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