Oooh, I like the Han:slavery::Anakin:geocide-of-Alderaan analogy! Spot-on! They are both complicit by their tolerance, even though (or even to some extent precisely because) they find it distasteful/objectionable.
I like the Old West comparison too--- and that Tatooine, like the Old West, hasn't fully organized itself for "statehood" i.e. membership as such in the governing body in question.
Padme mentions "the Republic's anti-slavery laws" in TPM, and it's definitely in-character for a queen and future senator to be well up on the laws of the Republic (and in-character for Padme specifically to be somewhat clueless about how they work in practice, especially in terms of the uglier side of things). But Shmi immediately counters that with "The Republic doesn't exist out here" which makes me think that there are a lot of places where the Jedi operate that aren't under Republic law, because two planets that are side-by-side might not both be members of the Republic--- Naboo and Tatooine, for example, are astrographically close enough (on at least most of the GFFA maps I've seen) that Qui-gon and Co. can duck over there in a pinch, but Naboo is a Republic world and Tatooine isn't.
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on 2011-10-10 11:20 pm (UTC)I like the Old West comparison too--- and that Tatooine, like the Old West, hasn't fully organized itself for "statehood" i.e. membership as such in the governing body in question.
Padme mentions "the Republic's anti-slavery laws" in TPM, and it's definitely in-character for a queen and future senator to be well up on the laws of the Republic (and in-character for Padme specifically to be somewhat clueless about how they work in practice, especially in terms of the uglier side of things). But Shmi immediately counters that with "The Republic doesn't exist out here" which makes me think that there are a lot of places where the Jedi operate that aren't under Republic law, because two planets that are side-by-side might not both be members of the Republic--- Naboo and Tatooine, for example, are astrographically close enough (on at least most of the GFFA maps I've seen) that Qui-gon and Co. can duck over there in a pinch, but Naboo is a Republic world and Tatooine isn't.
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