Have you made more videos like this?

As someone who loves the EU/now Legends sadly, I've got to say this was very well done! Way better explained and accurate than most other self-proclaimed "lore" channels.

Ottoman claims have been denied by the talibans (as they have been denied by the rebuplicans before the fall of Kabul) : The airport of Kabul will be under Afghans/talibans control; they did not negotiated with ottoman; the islamic republic of Afghanistan, and after them thé talibans regime did not five or grant them any permit, this is why they fled. MEE (an ottoman propaganda agency) claims have been debunked.

This was informative and hilarious! Any chance we can get more videos like this? Since Darth Bane showed up at the beginning, a video about his life and legacy would be cool...

this felt like an over simplified video

Oh yeah? Well, I’ll bet you a very specific amount of an obscure foreign currency that it’s not!

@@stvbrsn credits *will* do fine

@@johnr797 No they won’t

@@sjh199 credits *WILL* do fine

@@johnr797 no they *won’ta*

Me? I love democracy! I love the politics in Star Wars. Especially the one in The Clone Wars show. There’s stuff about interests and bills, corruption and all. So fun

it's more of a puppet show than politics difference being it that former has less puppet masters than actual politics, Palpatine runs the whole show

lmao just spotted a fellow r/prequelmemes member in the wild

Two drinks later "ANAKIN THE CHANCELLOR IS EVIL MY ALLEGIANCE IS TO THE REPUBLICAN TO DEMOCRACY!" -ratio tile kenobi

@@devintariel3769 if you're not with me, then you're my enemy -Allah Gold

Palpatine: *calling Maul after killing Plagueis* "Hey Maul, *hic*, guess what? Plagueis is dead, you're officially a Sith Lord!" Maul: *Gets bisected by Obi-Wan and proceeds to fall down the reactor shaft* Palpatine: "Maul? Maul?! Well... Shit."

It's a real Papa Palpatine move

Adultswim should made this sketch

would be doubly funny if it turned out palpatine just killed plagueis in a drunken speeder accident and made up the story of a clever assassination to save face

Chug Chug Chug!

Hell yeah dude

I actually began to love the ideas of all these things at an older age so yea. Now Star Wars should explore this. Fr it’s really great setup for shows/movies

@@raissasuwardhono eh, TCW did everything the EU did but worse at the end of the day

@@robertogurrola7465 some of the EU* There was a lot of terrible shit from the EU. But yeah, TCW was worse than the best of the EU

I always found it weird that people disliked the politics of the prequels. That was basically the only good part imo apart from the action scenes.

Loved how the pizza delivery guy was Philip J Fry.

@@themole4369 Now we just need to see how Nixon's head would handle this situation, let the crossovers continue.

To be fair, getting Plagueis plastered was actually Palpatine’s plan.

The politics in OT was like any other Dictatorship. Nepotism of course. The more you kissed ass, the higher you would go.

Star Wars is probably what made me be a huge political dork

About 80% of this is only explained in EU(Legends) material. The Phantom Menace didn't actually bother giving sufficient background information.

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post endor "ot" politics was really cool, warlords and junk

Even the best laid plans can go awry, and circumstances can change. When dealing with military or economic matters, it’a pretty much a guaranteed fact that you likely won’t be able to execute a plan perfectly, even someone as skilled as Palpatine can only observe as ground level events change the plans. The best plans are adaptable.

@@phantomkryptid2549 there is another factor - the Force. Many coincidences that altered the plan, and benefited him were events manipulated by exceptional circumstances - such as the discovery of the Chosen One. He really had to improvise when two things he planned didn't happened as he foresaw: His apprentice dying, and he discovering a impressionable young boy that was far too talented for his own good.

His core plan and objectives were so solid that the partial failure of the Trade Federation plot was worked to his benefit.

@@rafaelfarias4359 Reminder, the Force wanted all present Jedi and Sith of the time dead because they kept disobeying it, and thus let Palpatine make the Empire, purely for Luke to eventually end up getting Palpatine killed (except apparently the sequels decided Palpatine was really, really good at cheating death. I don't approve if you couldn't guess).

He didn't plan everything but he sure as hell knows how to turn events to his benefit

I would totally love it! Like some series of Sheev rasing the power in Senate.

It would be like the clone wars all over again. 😂😂😂

THAT'S WHAT I'VE BEEN SAYING ALL THIS TIME! They need to cancel Kathleen Kennedy's weak-ass show and replace it with a House of Cards style show about Plagueis and Sidious!

honestly

Think the Padme episodes of TCW, but with more complexity.

It's all explained outside of the big screen, unfortunately. Instead on focusing on politics, the movie spends time on the Boonta Eve Pod Race Special. It's a nice segment (i love Sebulba's engine sound), but adds little to the story.

@@IronShocker77 lmao, people legit complained because too much was explained on screen actually.

In my opinion their just boring. Big grey room in which the senate talks about the senate to the senate.

@@IronShocker77 It is, but the movie still explained that there was a powerful Trade Federation with a private army objecting to the taxation of trade routes. People claimed they didn't understand what that means, but it honestly seems pretty straightforward.

@@IronShocker77 you can get it also from the movies alone, people were just "reee no politics" so they should shut the hell up they got the sequels no politics in universe only out universe.

Star wars poltics is based on Hitlers rise to power and US citizens trading their rights for peace and security in post 9/11 world

Mustafa Khan you're an idiot if you believe star wars politics is "better" than real world politics. The wars and conflicts you see in star wars are directly based on real world conflicts. You're either too young or too selfishly stupid to make such an arrogantly foolish statement like that

George Lucas was a genius for taking inspiration from real historical governments

The best part no one can be salty because it is fictional

Maul’s backstory is messed up on so many levels

​@@princeoffools1058You mean when Maul is like 8 years old and being slowly lowered into a vat of acid, expected to Houdini his way out of his chains while Sidious distracts him by telling him his opinion on how awful the Jedi are? In a Scholastic book targeted towards elementary-age children? Yeah

@@MattMelon519 that was like the least of palpatine's sins after the assassin school massacre.

@@MattMelon519bro that book was so fkn good😂I reread so many times in middle school

Because ol' Palps talked young Padmé into calling a vote of no confidence upon Valorun, since he had little power to do anything to help Naboo, and was held up by the bureaucrats keeping him at bay with those accusations of corruption. She straight-up backstabbed her ally for the sake of Naboo.

It's easy, between the title crawl and the halfway point in the movie, Valorum just straight-up forgets he was the one to send the Jedi in the first place. Clearly so senile he shouldn't be in charge of anything.

@@Geesaroni It also says he sent two Jedi secretly and that there’s rumors of corruption with the chancellor. So if the chancellor brought them as witnesses, then that would confirm the shadiness and corruption to the whole senate. Again, this is all in the opening crawl by the way.

.......all of this was literally explained in the movie. Even as a kid I was able to understand this. Comments like this makes me wonder if people even paid attention to the damn movie

@@557deadpool I completely agree, I think this applies to many of the typical prequel “criticisms” that if they paid attention a lot of it would be cleared up. Not all the problems, but a decent amount of them.

Twenty two in fact. Do we need to bomb Korriban again?

I want droidikas here at once!

Oh my god I use that same pfp on my insta so I got super confused when i saw this comment cuz I thought I accidentally watched this video again and commented on it lol

*65 dislikes* We were on the verge of greatness, we were this close

*Execute Order 66.*

I was going to comment the same

Indeed, Pax Teem

didnt they also try to cover up the failed assassination by dropping a literal nuke on him afterwards?

ah. i see you're a fan of the EU as well

@@jsamue12 the nuke part was the wildest shit. Book is fucking fantastic too. Just finished it.

They could have gone either way and been better movies. If you're looking for an action-adventure like the OT, the prequels don't respect your time, with tons and tons of time spent on characters dully discussing things in front of greenscreens. A New Hope used politics to set the stakes to the conflict without bogging down in meaningless detail, and they did it in five minutes of screentime instead of an hour. If you're looking for a political thriller where 'taxation of trade routes' is an actually meaningful phrase, the prequels don't respect your intelligence, pushing over interesting dilemmas on their way to get more fart jokes and podracing and shootbangs. In the end it doesn't seem like the Republic is corrupt so much as that everyone in it is a moron waiting for their turn to get outsmarted by Palpatine. The EU (specifically James Luceno here, NOT George Lucas; he didn't put that contextual information in the movie because that information didn't exist when he wrote it) takes a pretty lousy framework and makes a good novel by actually respecting the reader's intelligence and giving details that matter.

But… he did. Especially in TCW.

@@IvanKinkle Look at the writing credits for TCW. George Lucas isn't in there anywhere.

@@IvanKinkle The whole 'the prequels are explained by TCW' argument is stupid. you shouldn't have to watch seven seasons of an animated spinoff to understand the plot of a live action movie that was released nearly a decade prior. Not to mention the fact that the vast majority of Clone Wars episodes are predictable, repetitive and poorly paced, especially the early ones.

@@Geesaroni 90% of the things that was in clone wars was green lit and reviewed with George Lucas.

Stop ottoman lies : Ottoman claims have been denied by the talibans (as they have been denied by the rebuplicans before the fall of Kabul) : The airport of Kabul will be under Afghans/talibans control; they did not negotiated with ottoman; the islamic republic of Afghanistan, and after them thé talibans regime did not five or grant them any permit, this is why they fled. MEE (an ottoman propaganda agency) claims have been debunked.

@@palbez8593 RETVRN CONSTANTINOPLE.

@@palbez8593 This is a Star Wars video.

@@palbez8593 dude ottoman empire already dead

@@palbez8593 rebuplicans

Scott Humboldt It’s so dense, every single image has so many things going on...

Idr. It's so good and complex! I love it.

It's so dense. Every single image has so many things going on.

@@archiejohnson6711 It's like poetry.

@@cts006 jar jar is the key to all this

Don't forget that he was a Sith after all. A Force user. A DARK SIDE user. He didn't need political cloud when he could just fool people with the Force

Don't need political clout to do big things when you have the force and connections that give you a good look into the workings of the corporate sphere

Legends is the real canon anyway.

Well until Disney finds something else to fill in the blanks for the 30 some odd years leading up to the phantom menace i still see books Plagueis and cloak of deception as canon. I mean James luceno made multiple direct references to both Plagueis and cloak of deception alongside a few other legends material in his canon Tarkin novel which essentially canonizes characters like 11-4D (Plagueis’s personal droid), and the Eriadu incident with the trade federation. The only major retcon for Plagueis that I known of is from tales of the Jedi which speeds up dooku’s knowledge of sideous to happen before rather than after the phantom menace

Yep 😁👍

Indeed

Agreed but now i'm pissed they never showed us Plageus., Why ? He was there with ol palpy right until the end. I've read that the novel covering his death is pretty good.

Not actually. Most of this stuff is Expanded Universe lore and isn't actually in the movie itself.

@@Ladondorf WRITING 100

Expanded universe that is no longer canon

@@fatcat1 its the logical explanation for the movie tho even if its not canon its still what George Lucas intended it to be

@@fatcat1 I don’t let Disney tell me what is and isn’t canon.

Ooh it's you!

It's immensly complex and difficult to do in a universe with only millions like GoT. To do it in a universe with untold trillions of sentient beings and millions of cultures and an unimagineable amount of wealth, capital, military forces, etc. And there were the humans, breeding like rabbits until they make up most of the jedi, and much of everything that matters. Bc they were willing to do any job. Some humans were anyway.

Yes, the majority of the content came from Cloak of Deception. It's definitely one of my favorite Star Wars novels. I'm glad you liked the video! :)

Politics is easy

It's real right doesn't come from the comics

There's a little within Darth Plagueis. Such as the working with the Federation and taxing of the space lines and the multiple assassinations. Getting Padame as Queen etc

A big portion of the schemeing and politics in the Plagueis book has to do with setting up the the Clone Wars and how to destroy the Jedi from within. Much less to do with whats discussed in the video.

No one likes the sequels. Their is no "Legends", just the EU

Damm really.?

@@trla6505 well, as long as it doesn't break anything canon, I consider it canon.

Who cares. Disney can fuck right off, this is good stuff

It’s still relevant & exist in the Star Wars universe.

The vast majority is confirmed by the movies, the rest just makes sense

but what about the droid attack on the wookies?

Hold on. This whole operation was your idea.

what do i need to look up to find this?

@@ShadeStormXD "Alex Jones explains prequel trilogy" got me to the video.

He tends to be right most of the time, while sounding completely insane.

@@1993Redemption My favorite quote about AJ is: "He is 50% right, 100% of the time."

I remember that! It was a fascinating video. The prequels are essentially a giant conspiracy taking place on a galactic level, so it's natural Alex would understand it very clearly.

Yup same thing and I'm Jewish

So I am lol, that's why I made the joke.

@@ArkenTheAmerikan rascism or inclusion?

Um... inclusion, obviously?

@@ArkenTheAmerikan I feel so welcomed

The demilitarisation was not complete. The jedi were still there, and the Judicial Department had some decent firepower. Plus, most planet still had the possibility to defend themselves with their own military forces. And if something goes really wrong and you need to make the blaster talk, the filthy rich republic can hire a shiton of mercenary and create legions of robots. There are some examples of governement disbanding their army in real history as well. If your country is peacefull, unified and protected from foreigners by some sweet geographic barriers, the need to pay taxes for a bunch of proffessional soldier who train continuously for a war that will never come becomes questionable. Go check out the history of japan

​@@romualdcaffeserre6230 1 - The Jedi, already pretty dogmatic and morally myopic, became the "gunboat diplomacy stick" of the Senate. While they claim to be guardians of peace and justice, Windu pretty much admits that they only care about maintaining the Republic alive because "Civilization = Peace" in their minds. The Jedi only settle revolts and disputes, they don't really offer any long-term solutions, because much like every religious nutjob, democrat/communist fanatic and arrogant oligarch, they think that silence and submission is the same as peace and stability. All the Jedi did was silencing anyone who spoke against the corrupt Republic and the decadent "peace" they installed, which is EXACTLY what Darth Bane and his successors wanted. THAT is why few people cried in protest when Order 66 came. For all their talk of being guardians of peace and protecting the people, most of the galaxy hated the Jedi. They weren't as bad as the Samurai in Real Life, but they were still completely divorced from the common folk's reality and struggles beyond "we must defend the Republic and its illusion of democracy". 2 - As far as I've read, the Judicial Department is as effective at settling anything in the galaxy as the UN is in Real Life. As shown in Naboo, each planet depended on their own token militia and praying for the Jedi's aid. Those terrorists Palpatine used to cause problem? Go search "Stark Hyperspace War" and see how THAT went for the Republic in general. That and Naboo is precisely why the Separatists came to be in the first place. The fact that some corporation could suddenly build their own Droid Army and Fleet, blockade a planet and then start a war is PRECISELY why very few opposed Palpatine when he declared the Empire. 3 - Oh, I know PLENTY about Japan's history, but clearly you don't. Japan only truly demilitarized completely after Hiroshima and Nagasaki, because they LOST the war (after enacting so many war crimes even the Sith would gawk in shock) and essentially became a client country of USA (until recently, since they've started training an army again, mainly because of North Korea's craziness, I think). Someone (some say Thomas Jefferson, but some disagree) once said "the price of peace is eternal vigilance". And the failure to understand THAT notion is why people like the Jedi are always fucking up. Having a gun close by isn't to start a war needlessly, it so you can defend yourself when someone INEVITABLY tries attacking you. To sum things up: "Hard times create strong men, strong men create good times, good times create weak men, and weak men create hard times." -Those Who Remain by G. Michael Hopf "I hold it that a little rebellion now and then is a good thing, and as necessary in the political world as storms in the physical." - Thomas Jefferson And literally any quote of Kreia/Darth Traya about the Republic, civilization and humans in general. Peace is a Lie pal, as the Sith says, and that's a unfortunate fundamental truth of the universe. There's no such thing as "permanent peace" where everyone can melt down all guns and go Steven Universe or Hakuna Matata. Blind idealism, optimism and pacifism is always the path to downfall and, inevitably, more war and hatred.

The remilitarization is a large part of what allowed for the empire to rise in the first place. And 1000 years peace is good enough if theres only 40 years of complete chaos at yhe end until going back to the status. quo

@@atari947 You're wrong. Having an army didn't turn the Republic into the Empire. Being a corrupt state that thrives on taking advantage of the Outer Rim worlds did. And the Jedi allowed it. The Sith only helped along. If tou think there was chaos only at the end, you REALLY didn't read on old EU lore.

@@DeathMessenger1988 i meant the 40 years after endor.

Qui-Gon's former apprentice, Xanatos, went to the Dark side in Legends. Qui-Gon's just surrounded by the Dark side, it's a wonder how Obi-Wan ever avoided it. :)

ohhhhh alright, makes a bit more sense, thanks for telling me

@@robertangelli8843 Obi just rolled a nat 20 and so the Force made him one of the best Jedi around.

@@robertangelli8843 I think he tapped into it when he fought Darth Maul, but that was it.

@@robertangelli8843 Because people learn from their mistakes, the Qui-Gon that teached Obi-Wan was a far better master than the one who teached Xanatos.

He has an incredible aptitude for worldbuilding

What don't you like about Star Wars Theory?

@@mrboost4186 love theory but when he tries to be funny it’s incredibly cringy

@@olddoggo6769 fair

in the novel Sidious actually killed or threatened to kill (I don't remeber it exactly) some rare paradise birds that Gunray had

Sequels? What sequels? I think you just meant the EU

Kids are not as dumb as you think they are

@@JohnDoe-nf6yk so freaking true when I was 12 I knew about my countries politics.

@@JohnDoe-nf6yk kids are becoming dumb because our culture teaches them to be

@@mms1938 This is a _little_ more complicated than real life politics.

And when I watched this at twelve I understood this

Was Farfalla the Jedi who met the first Valorum?

@@johnnygyro2295 I think so, as he was one of the few senior masters to survive the last battle on Ruusan.

I think he's totally named after his dad, like Damask ironically

Hopefully one day, we’ll get one for the sequels that explains why everybody suddenly became an idiot immediately after episode 6.

@@williamwebb580 hopefully not, hopefully everyone forgets about the sequels and disney remakes those with actual competent writers in charge.