Quote Originally Posted by Jasdoif View Post
At the same time....So even after each seasons' set of stories is trimmed down for episodes to move into producing, nearly every season has a droid episode/arc and a political episode/arc, which frequently include the worst episodes in the season...and which were written in the first place because they were presumably favored among George Lucas' basic concepts.
While the droid episodes were probably doomed from the get go, I do feel bad about the various political arcs. They include some of the most important world-building in the series and have lots of potential, but they just never cohere into anything useful. In part I blame Padme, who is just a terrible character. Catherine Taber does a much better job as Padme than Natalie Portman ever did, but it's not enough to make her capable of carrying a half-decent plotline. I wish they'd done more with Bail Organa instead, his character has much more potential.