Why this battle was so damn weird
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- Опубликовано: 24 май 2023
- The Battle of Naboo is one of the weirdest battles in Star Wars history, we'll discuss all that and more in today's Star Wars lore.
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It looks like they're fighting on the Windows XP Bliss wallpaper
The battle makes sense from the perspective of two military forces that haven't fought a real war in a very long time but have continued to develop new weapon systems and tactics for those weapon systems in the interim.
To be truthful Padme did say it was to draw away the droid army from Theed. So diversion battles are always common.
The fact that the viceroy is still in power after all he has done is quite realistic in my opinion I really like it lmao
I loved this battle. The CGI was amazing for the time.
I always thought the Gungan's plasma balls were some form of ion weapon due to the droids short circuiting. This battle was odd for me because it made me a fan of Gungans, but it took me so long to forgive Jar-Jar for existing. I do hope we get more examples of out there technology and species in Star Wars, and we see more things like Gungans showing up.
Don't forget that it was said in Attack of the Clones that Nute Gunray had four trials before the Republic's Supreme Court, only to not face any consequences other than substantial fines.
On the Nute Gunray part, in Attack of the Clones Sio Bibble says, "It's outrageous, that after four trials in the Supreme Court, Nute Gunray is still the Viceroy of the Trade Federation." so the Republic "tried" to bring him to justice, they were just terrible at it lol
I actually went back and revisited this film recently, and you know what really stood out to me about the battle specifically? The sound effects. The hover of the tanks coming over the hill, the shots colliding with the Gungan shields, the deployment of the battle droids, the whole thing really did sound great 😊
Honestly I think this battle stands out because it's the FIRST time we actually see two more or less equal sides fight a face to face battle. No walkers, no dark Lord's, no overwhelming fire power. We have a space battle and a ground battle and one influences the other. That was very new in regards to the star wars films and really even the SW media and most times, the EU sucked at actually explaining non space non small scale fights
It's also possible that, in the earlier iteration of the battle droids and their control system, their limited computational capacity meant they were more suited to mass, formation warfare as opposed to more squad based, dynamic warfare you'd start seeing crop up in the Clone Wars series.
Kinda sad that Lucas changed the original concept of Binks from a more Chewbacca like figure to the comedy relief. The Gungans were meant to be proud and competent warriors...which didn't really translate well when their main representative was a klutz with jokes that don't land.
If you watch the ep.1 battle, you get to see gungans going hand-to-hand with droids and kicking their asses pretty hard.
The blockade being legal is pretty simple when you realize that the Trade Federation is a recognized power in the Senate.
Its hard to reconcile the other action scenes with this big battle sequence, but I sort of took the same view in my head that you did. Large scale ground combat was just not really well practiced, so when it game to breaking down the Gungan formation the droids/Trade Federation just didn't have any experience and adopted a pretty linear strategy. Fits in with the technological limitations of the droids at that time. You could even see this battle as the catalyst for the tactical droid development, meant to take the lessons of this and other historic ground combats and adopt them to new battlefield situations to improve the speed and quality of a victory.
The Gungans could've had much better chances in the ground battle if their infantry had deployed at the inside edge of the shield and engaged the droids in close quarters melee as soon as they entered. The fallen droids would become obstacles for the TF and cover for the Gungans, allowing them to last longer and perhaps even prevail. I also must say I really like the visuals of the battles in this movie. It all looked so real and believable (honestly the explosions were probably practical effects so that's why.)
The old style battle makes sense. If the galaxy’s been at peace for over a 1000 years battle tactics and training will diminish. The style of battle also seems more to demoralize than be combat effective. This is also before they’re upgrade.
The Battle of Naboo is my favorite Prequel battle purely because the droids were treated as serious threats and were intimidating as they should've always been. The scene of the droid army deploying and marching into combat under what I've seen called the Trade Federation March (a short bit of music that's not really part of anything else and isn't credited) is just so good. The Phantom Menace in general is my favorite prequel movie just because it's different. Jar Jar is ungodly annoying and is imo the only real bad part of the movie
If you watch Episode two's behind the scenes content, they talks about how it's been so long since they had an actual war that they forgot how to wage a modern war. Also the Trade Federation is skirting the anti-armament laws. As such their entire army is made on the cheep, their blasters are prone to failure, that's they their droids are ran by a central control ship, also why they are using droids.
I love the naboo fight I wish they had another battle here with the clones though that would look awesome visually