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So the new Chancellor arrives to congratulate the queen on freeing her people. With just a teensy bit of smug foreshadowing....



Watch your career with great interest indeed, you snake.



His smirk only intensifies as he slips out of sight. Ugggh.

But the real kicker is at Qui-Gon's funeral. In case we had any doubts, after Mace and Yoda worriedly wonder where the remaining Sith might be, whether master or apprentice, we pan across the faces to settle quite firmly on this one.



There's no nonsense about a "surprise box" or any of that sloppy, hack-ish storytelling. When people asked George Lucas who the Phantom Menace was, he immediately answered "Darth Sidious." And here you are.

Yet there's subtlety as well, and I still discover something new everything I look at these films. Just today, while I was screencapping this moment, I noticed a comment pointing out that there are two people standing between Palpatine and Anakin. And those two, Obi-Wan and Padmé Amidala, will be his biggest obstacles to claiming Anakin for the Dark Side. Eep! A picture can, indeed, say so much more than words.

Next time, some intriguing closing shots....

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