the "taxation to outlying star systems"?
The detail and attention given to the geopolitical (cosmopolitical?) context is by far one of the greatest and most admirable things about the prequels, and disparaging it is a surefire way of making me want to disregard any opinion you have about Star Wars.
Agreed, though it could've been better worded and used more as background element.
Evidently establishing a context is important (the sequel trilogy is remarklably bad at this, no complaint there), but I struggle to see how the context that was established in TPM was well handled or well used. So much wasted potential...
It got a lot better in AOTC and ROTS, but it still had its issues.
That's not even the direct text from the crawl, this is: "The taxation of trade routes to outlying star systems is in dispute. ..." It very clearly shows what is happening politically in the galaxy. The ST, focuses too much on the characters and doesn't explain the development of the New Republic/Resistance and the First Order very well in-movie, although it does explain this in the new books.
Yeah, but you shouldn't have to read side-stories to get the context of what's actually going on in your main story. It really wouldn't have taken that much to give us a sense of what happened beyond "BOOM, the Republic is gone, back to square 1 except with a giant with a stupid-sounding name instead of Palpatine and an emo kid instead of Darth Vader".
As for the prequels, of course they have their own issues, but at least I can say that
on paper their plot sounds very solid (arguably even better than the original). All the problems are in the execution.
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