SW:TPM questions

[lord of the mark]

1. Why is it that theres a majority in the Galactic Senate to vote out Chancellor Valorem, but not to send relief to Naboo??
2. Speaking of which, Chancellor VALOREM is imposing TRADE TAXES. I mean, bad pun city, you know?
3. Doesnt Sen. Palpatine look uncannily like Sen. Joe Leiberman? Has this been noted?
4. The TF has a legal right to blockade planets over disputes? This is one helluva Republic, no?
5. So like Jedi knights dont carry even small change in alternate currencies with them, even when traveling near the outer rim? Like "be prepared" isnt part of the Jedi code, is it?
6. Pretty decent looking house for a slave quarters, huh?
7. So tatooine is a small poor outpost, but has huge stadium for pod races. what gives?
8. Do pod races HAVE to be this long? Or is that a way of punishing the slaves?
9. So the Gung gung have a massive, sparkling underwater city, and the surface folks still despise them for backwardness? Oh, its secret. So they like hide all their tech and civ, and they wonder why the Naboo think theyre backward?
10. So charming, sophisticated Sen Palapatine, when hes being Sidious, hangs out with Darth Maul. Like do they talk strategy over coffee??
11. why harvest moisture on a desert planet? Why not, you know, import it? If you cant, why settle the planet at all? Does like Tattoine produce anything it actually has a comparative advantage in? Other than long lost Jedi, that is? I mean Coruscant is a planet thats all city, so must import all food, and in massive amounts - so transport must be very efficient, no?
12 - so did like a spirit appear to Shmi and tell her what was going on when she became preggers? Or did she just shrug, and say, oh well, stuff like this just happens, even to good girls?

[Atahualpa]

7. So tatooine is a small poor outpost, but has huge stadium for pod races. what gives?

Brazil is very poor and yet has the biggest football stadiums in the world. Poor countries often put a lot of effort into sports.

[Immortal Wombat]

Where did LOTM copy and paste those questions from, I wonder...

6. Rich slave-owner.
7. That isn't a stadium I don't think. The race just goes across deserted areas of the planet
8. See also: Formula One.
9. What we have here... is a failure to communicate.
10. Strategy is probably discussed by holovid, while Sidious is doing his "you shall not know my true identity" thing.
11. Everyone knows that desert planets have Spice.
12. In Ep3 it is mentioned by Sidious that a powerful Sith (his former master, Darth Plagueis) was able to use the Force to literally create life. Although the matter is left deliberately mysterious, the two explanations which Lucas gives are 1) The Force creates Anakin as an effect of its imbalance- like Force homeostasis, or 2) Plagueis or Sidious were able to use the dark side of the Force to intentionally create Anakin to train up as a powerful Sith. Either way, Schmi would not have known the reason.

[Jaguar]

Number three has been noted.

http://www.geocities.com/robertwgardner2000/palpatine.html

[Last Conformist]

11. why harvest moisture on a desert planet? Why not, you know, import it? If you cant, why settle the planet at all? Does like Tattoine produce anything it actually has a comparative advantage in? Other than long lost Jedi, that is? I mean Coruscant is a planet thats all city, so must import all food, and in massive amounts - so transport must be very efficient, no?

Maybe Corustant grows its food from yeast, like Trantor (in the later books - in the original triology, it's IIRC implied they import it all).

[Kuciwalker]

Re: SW:TPM questions

Originally posted by lord of the mark
11. why harvest moisture on a desert planet? Why not, you know, import it? If you cant, why settle the planet at all? Does like Tattoine produce anything it actually has a comparative advantage in? Other than long lost Jedi, that is? I mean Coruscant is a planet thats all city, so must import all food, and in massive amounts - so transport must be very efficient, no?

No. Coruscant is the capital of the galaxy. Therefore it receives tons of Republic money, kinda like DC, enough to import food.

[BlackCat]

Why do people settle in arctic and desert areas of this planet ?

[Tassadar500]

Originally posted by BlackCat
Why do people settle in arctic and desert areas of this planet ?

Because it's the only planet we have?

[Barinthus]

Off the track yet related to SW. Earlier I was at a bookstore and read last chapter of Return of the Jedi section in that SW Triology book. According to the reading, Anakin was Darth Vader for 20 years (some line referring to his skin not seeing sun for 2 decades) and he was described as an old man.

So how old was Anakin when he was physically transformed into the dude we affectively know as Darth Vader? Also Obi-Wan didn't seem that old in ROTS yet less than 20 years later in New Hope he's an old fart.

Also Luke would be in his middle teens at the best by the time he met up with Han Solo and the rest.

Wondering whether if a mistake was made here.

[BlackCat]

Originally posted by Lord Nuclear


Because it's the only planet we have?

Don't think so. The populations of those areas could easily move to more pleasant parts of the planet. My guess that if there are a void some people would be attracted to fill it out and the same would go for tatooine. Especially since tatooine seems to be a place of extreme freedom - that could attract certain people like Ned.

[MrFun]

Re: SW:TPM questions

Originally posted by lord of the mark

6. Pretty decent looking house for a slave quarters, huh?

In ancient Greek society, some slaves were actually fairly well off even given their status of not being free. So why do you think this could not be possible in a Star Wars movie?

[Jaguar]

Originally posted by Barinthus
Off the track yet related to SW. Earlier I was at a bookstore and read last chapter of Return of the Jedi section in that SW Triology book. According to the reading, Anakin was Darth Vader for 20 years (some line referring to his skin not seeing sun for 2 decades) and he was described as an old man.

So how old was Anakin when he was physically transformed into the dude we affectively know as Darth Vader? Also Obi-Wan didn't seem that old in ROTS yet less than 20 years later in New Hope he's an old fart.

Also Luke would be in his middle teens at the best by the time he met up with Han Solo and the rest.

Wondering whether if a mistake was made here.

He became Vader at roughly 22, and died at 45. Luke is ~19, Kenobi is ~57, and Vader is ~41 at the beginning of the original trilogy.

Kenobi aged quite a bit in the 19 years between the two trilogies, but not so much that it's a continuity problem. There are many continuity problems, even if you only accept the movies as canon, but the ages aren't one of them.

[Kassiopeia]

The Chancellor's name is actually Valorum, but I suppose you can still see the ad valorem connection there.

[Jaguar]

Re: Re: SW:TPM questions

Originally posted by Kuciwalker


No. Coruscant is the capital of the galaxy. Therefore it receives tons of Republic money, kinda like DC, enough to import food.

How big is Coruscant? If you assume its population density is the same as that of Manhattan, and you assume it's roughly the size of Earth, you get about 15 trillion. I think it's probably higher, though.

[Kuciwalker]

Pop density same as manhattan? Gotta be way higher, since you don't see the bottoms of the buildings.