The Politics of Star Wars: The Phantom Menace Explained

Don't understand the politics from The Phantom Menace? Let us help you with that...

Narrated and Animated by Robert Angelli

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[JDarach]

"Naboo has two natural resources. Plasma energy and angsty young political science majors" best line in the video

[beardguy]

It would be funny as shit to see Plagueis and Palpatine getting fucking WASTED while Maul is working his ass of to fight Qui Gon and Obi Wan.

[starlighter]

- That plant was a gift.
- Pizza delivery!
- Step 8: Get Plagueis absolutely wasted.
I love these bits. :D

[zaragozrex]

Oh no, I'm not brave enough for politics.

[arthinugami]

They really should make a house of cards style series off of this.

[ftjqvil]

When you're such a good manipulator even the stuff you didn't plan ends up benefiting you

[ricosavage]

Even as a kid I liked the politics of the prequels, there were none in the OT cuz emperor palpating wiped out the senate during episode 4

[maverickay]

Call me weird but this video sums up my love for star wars. Jedi, Sith, and a whole lot of politics.

[fisyr]

I don't know why people complain so much about politics in the Phantom Menace. If anything, I think it had the most well thought out politics out of all Star Wars movies.
Basically it's about what would happen if Amazon had its own private army of robots and its board members had a permanent seat in the congress.
The movie did a good job of showing how incredibly corrupt the Galactic Republic was and ultimately why it ended up becoming a fascist-like regime.

[ThreeProphets]

This was exactly what I needed to figure out why the Federation blocked communications from Naboo. The Senate was meant to know about the blockade, but not the invasion. Not until the Queen signed the agreement to legalize it. The miracle here is that Valorum was still ousted as Chancellor in spite of Qui-Gon reporting the invasion

[mustafakhan]

I never hated starwars politics like other people, but this made me laugh so hard, imagine me learning real world politics, starwars politics is just better

[patrickfrost]

You skipped the part where Palpatine is given a baby and he's just like "I guess this is mine now." And that's Darth Maul's backstory.

[wmadd]

Two dislikes.


This is getting out of hand! Now there are two of them!

[stthbldt]

I absolutely love this! I'm always looking for more ways to explain how intellectually dense The Phantom Menace truly is...

[gryphonbotha]

I died when Palpatine suggested taxing the Free Trade Zones and Valorum went along with it.

[dalekbumps]

Prequel critics complain that the films were too 'political', but honestly I think they weren't political enough. George Lucas should have included this contextual information in the movie, then maybe general audiences would have understood the plot a bit more.

[briansheehan]

"Hego learns all he can from Tenebrous. Then one day he decides to accidentally drop an entire cave on his master."

😂

[savagepanda]

7:19 To clarify, this sequence of events is a bit different, according to the Plagueis novel. The assassination attempt that actually hurt Plagueis was orchestrated by a rival senator who Plagueis had previously screwed over. Palpatine then tracked down the senator and brutality murdered him, along with everyone else present. King Veruna’s assassination attempt didn’t come until later. Plagueis waited a little while before going after Veruna himself, where he slowly drained the life out of him as part of his experiments with Midichlorians.

[Daniel_Lancelin]

This entire video is basically just the stuff my kid brain tuned out when I watched the prequel movies 15 years ago lol.