Zee reads The Phantom Menace: Why Naboo?

 


Using a RepComm quote as an intro while reading The Phantom Menace is truly something, but I really find it fitting because Darth Sidious didn't destroy the Jedi Order with his dark sith force osik, no. He succeeded in his plan because he was a damn fucking good politician. No magic was needed. It needed money, it needed manipulation, it needed wits, it needed useful pawns. 

Probably one of my best decision to read the books. I already liked the snippets I have read from the Revenge of the Sith especially regarding Palpatine and I'm even more intrigued in his character more than ever. 

It gives so much more context what is exactly happening in movie, and because you already have the whole plot of the movies in your brain, you can simply just put the puzzle pieces together and getting so much AHA!!!! moments. And Qui-gon Jinn asked a very important question right at the start: Why Naboo? 

Just a little burb is my little self-indulgent lore hunting about the Trade Federation and how the invasion of Naboo made it possible to get Palpatine into leading position. 

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