Expalin the Watto and Jin bet

He didn't know about the pod since anakin built it in secret, qui-gon claimed he owned it.

Does this actually sit well with you, or is not a strange twist of logic to justify the middle of this movie?

So he does own the pod already, and really has nothing to gain from the bet?

Oscar Isaac blows both of them out of the water despite being a gigamanlet

QuiGon bets Padme's ship too

No. Qui Gon "owns" the pod which is entered, watto pays the entrance fee.
If Anakin wins watto gets the pod and all the winnings from the race but loses a slave and some ship part. If Anakin loses watto is still getting a Nubian starship.
Watto doesnt really lose

>So he does own the pod already
He doesn't know he owns it.

The entire point of the prequels and especially The Phantom Menace, is that the Republic is in such severe decline that you have fake wars between caked-up aristocrats and businesses, and the government is so irrelevant it can’t prevent war between its states, and its agents have to barter with slave owners to seize children to turn into warrior monks

So it's not Qui Gonn's ship to bet (so he can't actually lose it) and
It's not Qui Gonn's pod to bet, since Anakin made it and therefore it's actually Watto's already, Qui Gonn has effectively stolen the pod.

Unfortunately it does make sense as Qui Gon helping Anakin to both race and win his freedom, using a cute little lie, but it’s still strange and pulls the rug out from under the plot there

why didn't qui-gon just kill watto in his sleep and leave with anakin and the pod? the dude is a slaver

Because the Jedi Government is incompetent and unwilling to rule

Now I really want to see one of those stupid 'What if' Star Wars videos about Anakin failing and Qui Gon losing the bet

Jin was gambling with things that weren't his and lying about it.

Yeah, and Anakin was smiley about it and wanted to race and be a Jedi. It was supposed to be a bold act of Jedi diplomacy, to trick a slaver, but yep it’s stupid and strange. Watto is definitely a huge shithead regardless of how phony the slave situation is though

>the Jedi Government
holy shit you're retarded

they finished the script like two weeks before shooting
one rewrite would have been enough to make it so that they crashed their ship landing instead, didn't have any money to buy another one and betting on a race with this kid who is so exceptional with the force would have been their only hope of escaping the planet
As it is now, they have so many options at their disposal it's absurd they go with the podracing bet
then they could have had a twist where someone doubled down on the bet to save Anakin as well out of gratitude, but they only had enough for him and not his mother or some shit
Anything but what we got really, I don't know why they had such trouble establishing a single plot point which is "and then they race and there's a bet"
I don't hate the prequels btw just some plot points are very contrived for no reason

why didnt ewan mcgregor just use force run to get through the forcefields at the end

Qui-Gon needs the parts from Watto, so he makes a bet to get them.
Qui-Gon bets the Naboo ship that his podracer (actually Anakin's) is the fastest. Watto pays the entry fee and allows Anakin to pilot the podracer. If Qui-Gon wins, he gets the parts to the ship. If Watto wins, he gets the ship.

Later, Watto reveals he has bet everything on the current racing champion, Sebulba. Qui-Gon counters the bet, wagering his podracer against Watto's two slaves. Watto is only willing to wager one slave. He rolls a dice to decide which slave he'll put up, and it comes up Anakin.

Anakin wins the race, and Qui-Gon wins the bet. Anakin is free and they get the parts from Watto's shop. Since Watto bet everything on Sebulba, he ends up destitute by the next film and is forced to sell Shmi to pay rent on his junk shop.

Why wouldn't Qui-Gon just sell the luxury cruiser, or at least its most valuable parts, and buy a new ship or hire someone to transport them to Coruscant? Isn't that a sneakier alternative to using the recognisable and rare Naboo space yacht than waiting around on the planet and betting everything on some weird violent pod race? You probably wouldn't even have to sell any parts, just find a pilot willing to take you on just the promise of payment.

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lol

What don’t you get exactly?

Why bother when replacing the one part worked?

He looks good for someone pushing 40

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>I don't know why they had such trouble establishing a single plot point
But they didn’t. It was easy to follow.

he looks too young nigga looks 19 but with wrinkly old man edges and foreheadsd

yeah but it was more complicated and depended on a totally unknown kid winning a race that could just as well have been rigged. not to mention Darth Maul almost decapitated Anakin because he was looking specifically for the luxury cruiser. if they had all boarded a more regular transport junk then Darth Maul would likely never have found them.

It was, but it was very contrived
As I said they had a miriad of options at their disposal not the least of which was getting back to the ship and moving to another planet, try to exchange their republic credits, try to buy the hyperdrive engine elsewhere, most of them a lot more convenient than betting on a race
Meanwhile if they had raised the stakes (the ship being completely trashed, the race prize being enough to buy another one, their money being lost with the ship) it would have been a lot more seamless to go from them crashing into the podrace and it would have been more exciting because worst case scenario they're stuck in tatooine until the republic happens to find them, if they ever do

There was nothing contrived about it.

Jin was going off the Force for his decision, and it is dependable. There’s no saying there were any ships for sale. And his simple plan worked, so it’s validated.

The republic

Why didn't they just lock Watto in a cupboard and steal the part?

It works okay, but turns the plot into what feels like a series of distractions. The whole of TPM is littered with distractions like the gungan visit at the start, and podracing, that spend big chunks of the runtime divorced from the bigger plot they set up. It makes for an okay adventure, but the time and focus spent on this slew bet and podracing is totally a distraction from the pending assassination and invasion that they’re supposed to be resolving. Audiences catch themselves thinking, ‘wait why are we doing this?’ during these sequences, because they’re not intuitively connected to the plot

Go home uggos, Adam Driver is the king.

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It’s a daisy chain of unrelated coincidences, entirely contrived

The fact that this entire 40 minute Tatooine plot takes place during a pit stop back to the capital makes the whole thing ridiculous. They might have well discovered Anakin while going to the bathroom

>Mark Hamill was relentlessly handsome

too bad about his shitty personality

It's against the Jedi code!

>It's not Qui Gonn's pod to bet, since Anakin made it and therefore it's actually Watto's already, Qui Gonn has effectively stolen the pod.
Watto doesn't know that Anakin made it.

How does he not know? All the fucking kids in the neighborhood of the house Anakin lives in that Watto owns hang around the thing while Anakin is working on it in broad daylight, was Watto fucking retarded?

Because it’s a contrived storyline with more cheap explanation and plot hole filling than story

>No pod is worth two slaves
Can someone explain this line? I'd think a high performace racing hovercraft fast enough to win an intergalactic championship is worth a more than a little boy and an elderly housekeeper.

Well if slave boy Anakin can somehow afford to repair, maintain and modify it it can't be worth all that much

Why didn’t slave Anakin just build pods for Watto

Quigon has a pod, but no driver.
Watto has a driver, but no pod.
Quigon tells watto to post the entry fee
If they win, they get the hyperdrive, and watto keeps the winnings.
Quigon then has a side bet, that if they win he releases anakin to them, and if they lose, he gives them the queen's ship.

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>There’s no saying there were any ships for sale.
They didn't even check. They didn't even check any other junk shops for parts, despite Qui-Gon clearly saying Watto was "one of the smaller dealers".

Yeah it’s a bunched of rushed contrivances

its bad

She was his hoe. You don't sell yo hoes, unless you have to nigga.

>ewan doesnt force take mauls lightsaber out of thin air
turned it off when this happened

This isn't some strange logic, this is literally just the scene.
I'm sorry you can't understand a basic scene, perhaps George made it too high IQ for you.

Because pods are easily destroyed in the races, and given a slave can build one the parts are probably pretty common/cheap.
Also they mention that most people don't have the reflexes to race so watto would need to find a pilot (who has a high chance of crashing the pod and dying in a race).