Blockading trade routes in general is a historical way wars start. The whole reason why Japan attacked America at Pearl Harbor was because America implemented an oil embargo on Japan. Most of Star Wars is based on WW2 so this isn’t much of a surprise really.
Star Wars isn't just based on one thing. The empire definitely has a tint of Nazis, the plot is inspired by "The Hidden Fortress", and yeah the Rebels are part Viet Cong.
TPM IS good in a lot of subtle ways that were completely nullified by Lucas chickening out on making Jar Jar a sith lord. Watch* again with an eye on JJB and you'll notice him subtly manipulating all the characters and action in the movie.
I think Jar Jar was too successful at being marketable comic relief. I'm fully camp sith JJB as written TPM. It would've been much more compelling story-wise, but we know Lucas is all about those merchandising rights, and I'd put real money on him seeing his popularity with the kids and chickening out for the bag.
It doesn't work as well on a galactic level because planets tend to be self sufficient on the millions to billions of years scale. But Star Wars always treated the scale as rather small, so it's not a really good critique anyway.
To be honest, without going too deep into SW lore, it is entirely reasonable for a given planet to have to import certain goods from elsewhere. Life did not originate on most of the SW planets - they were colonized (at least when humans are concerned). Now, in today’s globalized world trade sanctions can be a debilitating tool, so it’s reasonable to assume that in the SW galaxy the specialization has gone far enough that no single planet can sustain its needs when isolated.
The problem with Naboo specifically was food and exports - it did not grow enough food from what I can remember, and its valuable exports were halted by the Trade Federation. So, in my opinion, it sort of makes sense, especially if we compare it to cough fresher SW writing
Beside the specific excuse given for Naboo, there's more to trade than basic life sustainability - there's still material coming in and out for all sorts of technologies. Andor recently had an entire planet get strip-mined for its core made of a crystal that was super rare everywhere else, for one. Naboo can easily need some material for hyperspace travel or whatever that doesn't exist on site, or not in sufficient quantity.
It's easily observed in History right here too, where most Bronze Age cultures in the Mediterrannean collapsed when trade routes for tin and copper got burned down. People survived, but civilization and writing went into a Dark Age there. And populations tanked too by half or something, so life does get impacted.
All you saying its based on this or that. Star Wars is a full length mass story board spanning an esoterical universe. It probably more then just based on this or that, who knows how much may be based on it. Although an esoterical Universum typically plays on all narratives while building some grander plot on the greater stage of reality and conceptual scenarios.
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ThanksObama@sh.itjust.works · 134 pts · 166d
gibmiser@lemmy.world · 34 pts · 166d
More like that's nice but what about the wookie files?
TallonMetroid@lemmy.world · 15 pts · 166d
What do the Wookiees have to do with the Caamas Document?
PalmTreeIsBestTree@lemmy.world · 90 pts · 166d
Blockading trade routes in general is a historical way wars start. The whole reason why Japan attacked America at Pearl Harbor was because America implemented an oil embargo on Japan. Most of Star Wars is based on WW2 so this isn’t much of a surprise really.
WanderingThoughts@europe.pub · 19 pts · 166d
“When goods don’t cross borders, soldiers will”
Semi_Hemi_Demigod@lemmy.world · 16 pts · 166d
It’s so based on WWII that the Millenium Falcon has a B-29 cockpit.
PalmTreeIsBestTree@lemmy.world · 8 pts · 166d
And all the starship battles are referenced from WW2 aerial combat footage
Tiresia@slrpnk.net · 14 pts · 166d
Who do you think the historical analogue for the Rebellion is?
Star Wars is based on the Vietnam War.
David_Eight@lemmy.world · 30 pts · 166d
Star Wars isn't just based on one thing. The empire definitely has a tint of Nazis, the plot is inspired by "The Hidden Fortress", and yeah the Rebels are part Viet Cong.
Herr_S_aus_H@lemmy.zip · -2 pts · 165d
The officers of the Empire are Nazis with english upper-class accents, so the british empire.
PalmTreeIsBestTree@lemmy.world · 10 pts · 166d
It’s a combination of the two. All the spaceship combat and the Empire aesthetics in general is all WW2.
Hackworth@piefed.ca · 29 pts · 166d
I started typing this in Jar Jar's voice, but I hated myself mid-sentence, so instead:
This means Phantom Menace is good now, right?
Liome@pawb.social · 29 pts · 166d
Mesa thinks it is now, yesa!
alekwithak@lemmy.world · 26 pts · 166d
TPM IS good in a lot of subtle ways that were completely nullified by Lucas chickening out on making Jar Jar a sith lord. Watch* again with an eye on JJB and you'll notice him subtly manipulating all the characters and action in the movie.
agamemnonymous@sh.itjust.works · 5 pts · 165d
I think Jar Jar was too successful at being marketable comic relief. I'm fully camp sith JJB as written TPM. It would've been much more compelling story-wise, but we know Lucas is all about those merchandising rights, and I'd put real money on him seeing his popularity with the kids and chickening out for the bag.
funkless_eck@sh.itjust.works · 11 pts · 166d
ArgumentativeMonotheist@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 166d
Better than what came after, worse than what was made before.
Thedogdrinkscoffee@lemmy.ca · 7 pts · 166d
Enter the Andor redemption arc.
SpaceNoodle@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 166d
No
This is precisely why it is bad
dreadbeef@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 2 pts · 165d
The Phantom Menace is good now?
Always has been
MinoriMirariRProductions@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 162d
💗 XD.
samus12345@sh.itjust.works · 25 pts · 166d
At least Anakin only killed younglings. There are worse things.
scibra122@piefed.social · 26 pts · 166d
People are saying that the Tusken Raiders have lightsabers and probably killed their own women and children
MinoriMirariRProductions@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 162d
probably.
ThunderQueen@lemmy.world · 8 pts · 166d
samus12345@sh.itjust.works · 11 pts · 166d
Killing the weird dog thing was actually the worst part!
ThunderQueen@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 166d
Skyrmir@lemmy.world · 8 pts · 166d
Like bombing them?
samus12345@sh.itjust.works · 16 pts · 166d
Thedogdrinkscoffee@lemmy.ca · 8 pts · 166d
Like sand?
agamemnonymous@sh.itjust.works · 7 pts · 166d
Look, logistics and trade agreements are incredibly important and influential , nobody's arguing that. The problem is that they're really boring.
davetortoise@reddthat.com · 7 pts · 165d
First as tragedy, then as farce
AmazingSUPERG@thelemmy.club · 5 pts · 165d
It’s like poetry.
CurlyWurlies4All@slrpnk.net · 3 pts · 165d
It rhymes.
Snowclone@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 166d
It doesn't work as well on a galactic level because planets tend to be self sufficient on the millions to billions of years scale. But Star Wars always treated the scale as rather small, so it's not a really good critique anyway.
veleth@lemmy.wtf · 4 pts · 165d
To be honest, without going too deep into SW lore, it is entirely reasonable for a given planet to have to import certain goods from elsewhere. Life did not originate on most of the SW planets - they were colonized (at least when humans are concerned). Now, in today’s globalized world trade sanctions can be a debilitating tool, so it’s reasonable to assume that in the SW galaxy the specialization has gone far enough that no single planet can sustain its needs when isolated.
The problem with Naboo specifically was food and exports - it did not grow enough food from what I can remember, and its valuable exports were halted by the Trade Federation. So, in my opinion, it sort of makes sense, especially if we compare it to cough fresher SW writing
Uruanna@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 165d
Beside the specific excuse given for Naboo, there's more to trade than basic life sustainability - there's still material coming in and out for all sorts of technologies. Andor recently had an entire planet get strip-mined for its core made of a crystal that was super rare everywhere else, for one. Naboo can easily need some material for hyperspace travel or whatever that doesn't exist on site, or not in sufficient quantity.
It's easily observed in History right here too, where most Bronze Age cultures in the Mediterrannean collapsed when trade routes for tin and copper got burned down. People survived, but civilization and writing went into a Dark Age there. And populations tanked too by half or something, so life does get impacted.
MinoriMirariRProductions@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 162d
mmmm wholesome memes 🤤
MinoriMirariRProductions@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 162d
All you saying its based on this or that. Star Wars is a full length mass story board spanning an esoterical universe. It probably more then just based on this or that, who knows how much may be based on it. Although an esoterical Universum typically plays on all narratives while building some grander plot on the greater stage of reality and conceptual scenarios.