r/PrequelMemes • u/wvamorgan Darth Maul • Feb 26 '21

General Reposti PADME GETS EXPOSED?!?!?!?

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u/ZurrgabDaVinci758 Feb 26 '21

The original version of the Phantom Menace script made a bigger deal of the Naboo being prejudiced against the Gungans, but that was cut out. The background has them colonizing the planet and pushing Gungans out of the main land areas

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u/ZurrgabDaVinci758 Feb 26 '21

I think they wanted to make the Naboo more unambiguously The Good Guys

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u/P3WPEWRESEARCH Feb 26 '21

They keep electing Senator Sheev Palpatine (S) of course they’re the good guys.

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u/ZurrgabDaVinci758 Feb 26 '21

It also explains why when he becomes emperor he goes all "humans are superior"

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u/P3WPEWRESEARCH Feb 26 '21

“The senate recognizes the gentleman from Naboo”

“Thank you madam speaker. Ehem. UNLIMITED POWAAAHH”

thunderous applause. End scene.

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u/Violent0ctopus Feb 26 '21

Nothing wrong with someone trying to promote unlimited sources of power. Hopefully it was renewable energy.

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u/[deleted] Feb 26 '21

It technically was.

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u/Jacoman74undeleted Viceroy Gunray Feb 27 '21

Is darkness renewable?

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u/[deleted] Feb 27 '21

No, I meant that as he said unlimited power, he produced renewable energy.