Film Theory: Luke SHOULDN'T Destroy The Death Star (Star Wars) 

So im watching this while doing my math home work and my mom walks into my room and i pause it on the part talking about all the money in the world and my mom was about to yell at me for not doing my math but then she saw the numbers on the screen and said "oh this is helping you never mind i thought you were watching videos about movies again." so i just wanted to say thanks mat pat for saving me from being yelled at.

So you could call it... A debt star?

Matpat: Plapatine's take over was smooth. Plapatine: Engineers a war in order to take over

I’d argue that Palpatine’s takeover was no where near as smooth as you’re saying. Don’t forget, he engineered a galactic war between the Seperatists and the Republic, funded the Clone Army and the Droid Army and I can’t imagine that war being all that healthy on the economy either. While it may not have been as damaging as the Rebellion’s hostile takeover, it was hardly a smooth and peaceful transition that hardly affected the livelihoods of the galactic population.

Darth Vader: "Luke, put the Death Star down right now! It was really expensive and I don't want you to break it."

Thanks for that Matt! Now I need to save up 193 Quintilion bucks, and the universe will be mine.

Comparing blowing up the Death Star to 911 has to be one of the funniest MatPat takes ever

A couple of things are being ignored here: 1. The destruction of the first Death Star would've been bad for the economy yes, but the blow would've been softened as more planets joined the Rebellion and led to both the Rebellion and the Empire pumping a lot more money into the economy and helping it to grow. 2. The Empire did not leave the galactic population alone. The Empire's policies would show that they were extremely oppressive to non-humans, for example committing genocide against the Lasat population and enslaving the Wookies.

Well, they can just borrow a small loan of 193 quintillion dollars.

If matpat was the director of Star Wars movies, this would be the most depressing series on earth

“When palpatine died” Yea,well about that

"But he pretty much left the galactic population alone in the process. Everyone else was able to live their lives with too much problem." *The clone wars have entered the chat*

So are we just going to ignore the U.S. government response to the petition, THIS IS NOT THE PETITION RESPONSE YOU ARE LOOKING FOR

Everyone: palpatine died in the deathstar. Palpatine 36 years later: laughs.

Matpat: "Everyone else was able to live their lives unharmed." Me: **laughs in Star Wars Rebels**

step one: build big thing step two: destroy it steep three: crash the economy

"The world is run by nerds" I'd be more worried if the world was run by jocks.

Star Wars The Stock Market Awakens

Superweapon made by a tyrannical empire: *is destroyed* Everyone: Oh no! This will surely be terrible for the economy

We'll miss you, MatPat, thanks for the memories!

So the death star should have been named the debt star?

Missing the fact that the empire didn't pay for a whole lot. They just took what they wanted and blew up everything else.

It's shown in the comics that the imperials were incredibly corrupt, and the fallout is shown You also see how the empire got their funding Plus the rebels needed to destroy the death start before they destroyed MORE planets! Great video though!

I think that this is a good demonstration of the nature of Sith: acquire power, and then use it. If the thing they want to use it for isnt all that bad, then a Sith can actually make a pretty decent leader.

Now then, let's talk the Starkiller planet...

I'm really glad he out those brackets in the title, I wasn't sure if he was talking about the Death Star from Star Trek or not

"everyone else was able to live their lives without much of a problem" *Coughs in slave labor* *Sneezes in oppression* *Sniffles in planetary geonocide*

You say the emperor came to power while the normal people just lived out their life, but he literally created a galactic war to get his power.

Next Star Wars Movie. Episode 8: The Search For More Money.

"Palpatine died in the second one." lol, you thought

The empire was trying to keep the Death Star a secret, so not many normal people (non-imperials) knew that it even existed.

“Huge Power Struggle after the Emporers Death” well yeah, that exactly happend. Independent warlords who worked for the Empure attempted to take over the Galaxy, eead yiur books MATPAT *uncontrollable sobbing*

“THE WORLD IS RUN BY NERDS!” yay

“That thing wasn’t even fully paid of yet!”

About this theory: The frankly amazing Aftermath series agrees (yes, it's canon). It covers the events after the second death star and shows how the galaxy, particularly the empire, has gone to crap. They're great books and I would recommend reading them if you're interested.

Watching this from 7 years later, I'm starting to thinking MatPat shouldn't have ever let go of that original opening theme song.

" So after the death of Palpatine " Yeah... About that...

*One Punch Man Theory:* How much force is in one of Saitama's "casual" punches or even a "serious" punch?

They should make a movie about the empire, it should focus on their point of view. I would watch that movie, in fact I would probably watch it over and over again

I'm watching the 6 years later and its just insane to think this was the video that got me into film theory,game theory,and food theory just amazing

Me as a kid: The Rebels are the good guys Me now: The Empire did nothing wrong

11:39 Even Starbucks want to grab the power... :p

When Palpatine died in death star 2. Oh boy, you are in for a Great story matpat

bro, coming back watching an older episode of film theory just gave me so much nostagia, mainly from the intro.

30 years later "HEY GUYS WE BUILT A NEW PLANET LOL"

"Palpatine took over relatively peaceful without hurting the galaxy" Literally started a Galactic War that nearly bankrupt the galaxy and caused misery for nearly everyone

Palpatine when creating clones: I'm never gonna financially recover from this expense. Palpatine when creating 2 death stars, each costing 11000x the GDP of the ENTIRE EARTH: INVEST.

Palpatine dies you say? Palpatine: double it and give it to someone else

''the steel is just the beginning'' and the next part is... the plastic needed to make a LEGO death star

Matpat, what if the Empire stole the iron?

Vader to Luke: This is why we can’t have nice things

I love the old intro. We will miss you matpat

This makes me realize how much I want to see multiple factions battle it out for control of a broken galaxy. Sequels, you could have been so much more...

11:40 Starbucks is a *REBEL CONSPIRACY!*

in universe, the death star cost around 1 trillion credits and almost 20 years to build

To be fair, the Empire did put all it's eggs into one basket... Twice...

Everyone hated the empire, and the transition wasn't smooth. They declared non-humans second class citizens, held the entire senate hostage until they signed a treaty, invaded Corroscant, and destroyed the Jedi Temple. Poverty rates were at an all time high, they forced certain species like Wookies into slavery. Basically, everyone hated these guys. The rebels WEREN'T terrorists just like the US Marine Corp isn't full of terrorists. These people declared a WAR, and they weren't committing acts of terror to scare people. That's what the EMPIRE was doing, they blew up a whole planet, and intended to blow up more. They used fear to keep people inline. The Alliance didn't kill innocents to state a message, but the Empire did. The economy crashed with the empire, and under a new system of government, it could heal again. EDIT: Yes I know the difference between the Sith Empire and Palpatine's Empire, yes I got them mixed up. I acknowledged that, please stop commenting about it.

>Fullmetal theory *You have my attention*

The second the old intro came on I screamed and started dancing because marpat doesn’t use it anymore

I love the intro, always start dancing when it starts

*I will finish..... What you started..... in easily manageable monthly payments"

The empire probably just took all their resources without paying any credits.

i love all channels of matpats content you get to learn and seeing amzing videos that amazing great job matpat you made amazing channels and video

For some reason the film theory intro feels more nostalgic than the game theory intro

So if we can't build the death star then what about the star forge?

Death Star was an inside job, Vader was on his tie fighter when it went down. Coincidence? I think not!

I love how in all of Mat Pat's empire apologist videos he just choses to brush Alderaan

Luke is the Star Wars equivalent of Osma Bin Laden

MatPat: Palpatine dies in the Death Star II. Palpatine: *Laughs in Sith Lord*

We need to build a Death Star, and we're going to make the Martians pay for it!

I love how mat put starbucks on the logo screen... As if starbucks would take over

“We can’t track ( insert number here) amount of dollars” Next day: ✈️✈️🗼🗼

Destroying Alderann pretty much ruined any chances of anyone showing sympathy for the Empire. In the books the Empire destroying a planet caused massive defections and support for the Rebellion. Think about the economic impact the annihilation of one of the core worlds would have.

wait star bucks wants to take the empires place!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!?????????????

Boba Fett: Um, yeah. Let me get out of this kriffing pit and I'll be right with you. Someone get my armor away from those silly Jawas while you're at it?

Funny that Robot Chicken Palpy kinda pointed this out to Vader in that phone call “That thing wasn’t even fully paid off yet!”

You do realize that the Death Star was primarily constructed via slave labor, yes? And that the Empire was extremely racist (speciesist?) and treated every alien species as second class citizens? Bullshit that the Empire didn't effect imperial citizens. And Darth Vader was feared throughout the entire galaxy. There is also the Base Delta Zero operations carried out as a result of the Tarkin Doctrine. Another thing. Attacking a military target and attacking a civilian target are completely different things. Don't try to equate them. The Alliance to Restore the Republic were NOT terrorists. A terrorist attacks civilian targets to instill fear in the populace. If anything, the rebels were stopping attacks like this from happening by destroying the Death Star and opposing the Empire's tyranny. EDIT: You also are ignoring that the Empire had complete control over the economy. They could have forced the economy not to react. Plus they used propaganda to reduce the spread of information, such as them losing their most powerful military asset.

your reference to the emperor "he pretty much left the galactic population alone" is wrong. He was the master mind behind the clone wars so everything since Naboo to his rise as the empire should be considered his fault. While the rebels may seem as terrorist who put the galaxy in a huge recession, the emperor is the one who engulfed the galaxy in a war, destroyed the balance of power from the inside, created dozens of rebel factions and small civil wars and destroyed the jedi order who was tasked to bring peace thus allowing even more crime to rise. you said that people spend less when they are scared and thats one of the first things to happen when a recession hits, well im pretty sure people were really scared the entire time the emperor was in power. sorry matt patt, im unconvinced about this theory. the only reason why they were able to build the death star was due to slave labor not a strong economy.

I saw in a video that george lucas originally intended for the sequel trilogy to be about the recovery from the war, how luke would train new jedi, darth maul would be the main villain by being an underworld crime lord.

''Killing of major world leaders is bad'' Gavrilo Pincip would like to argue with that

Wow, That would actually make a much better story than what was actually in Episode VII. Imagine the galaxy being in economic ruins while the new republic struggles to maintain order and rebuild. Meanwhile Grand Admiral Thrawn gathers and organizes the imperial remnant forces to strike at the New Republic during their weakest moment. I vote we scrap episode 7, 8 and 9 and work with this plot line.

Luke didn't destroy it though! The Death Star was an inside job!

Isn't it funny that I'm watching a Star Wars theory & get an ad for Star Wars; Galaxy of Heros?

Just imagine how the movies would play out if the rebels actually saw this before they went to blow up the first Death Star

"Empeor Palpatine was pretty harmless" Also emperor Palpatine killing innocent members of the senate and having hostile takeovers on planets.

just wanted to mention that non-human planets were discriminated and strip-mined for resources, in the canon books of rogue one and the aftermath series, the empire going all apartheid was a recurring theme.

Imagine my surprise when watching old Theory videos and come across Lehigh University! I knew my hometown was filled with fellow nerds lol

"left the majority population alone" You know there was an entire war orchestrated by palpatine to seize that transition of power you know?

[SPOILER] The Death Star is Kylo Ren.

I like this theory, BUT: I think we can assume a few more things about the Empire and how it dealt with its populace. We can assume, for starters, that the resources, labor and cost it took to build the Death Star (remember. It's called the DEATH. STAR.) would not have been taken ethically. A common theory (in fact, I believe it's technically confirmed) is that Geonosians were either used as slaves by force, or coerced (much like the Trade Federation were in the Prequels) to construct the Death Star. It can also be assumed, then, that Geonosis itself must have been a profitable resource planet, based on all the massive industry we can see going on there in Episode II. Therefore, we can assume that the vast majority, or possibly ALL of the resources used in constructing the Death Star were gathered from Geonosis for relatively free, and the labor used would have been free as well. After the construction of the Death Star, the Empire would have smartly turned on Geonosis and all its populace, destroying the planet, eradicating any debts or obligations it would have had toward it's people. Secondly, we're not dealing with a free, sovereign nation here. We're dealing with a Galactic Empire. They wouldn't have had to go into debt in order to gather funding for the Death Star. Just like they took labor and resources from Geonosis, they would have simply taken monetary funding by force from other planets by raising the taxes - not by borrowing money from other (non-existent at the time) nations like the United States does as a democratic nation in *this* galaxy. The final part about multiple factions rushing for a power grab after the collapse of the Empire is totally right. In fact, it's safe to say we're witnessing the results of that in the Sequel Trilogy. Remember how after WWII, the USSR and NATO competed in a Cold War to grab power over a crumbled Nazi regime? The exact same thing is happening in the Star Wars galaxy at this point in the series, only far more violent. We can assume that the New Republic, with their "Capitol-from-the-Hunger-Games-esque" way of life represents western NATO states, whereas the First Order, with their authoritarian, dictatorship-style regime, represents the USSR. What's being shown in TFA is what would have potentially happened had an all-out nuclear war taken place in an alternative Cold War timeline. Oh, and the Resistance? Yeah, that kind of reminds me of the guerrillas from the Bay of Pigs, and other extremist groups the US funded during the Cold War. Of course, I'm no historian, but that's a fun thought to entertain.

I never looked at that scene the same way in the first place as I'm old enough to remember the original explosion.

This man legit compared the destruction of the Death Star to 9/11 I love Film Theory lmao

Wait.... So destroying the Death Star has a heavy impact on the economy.... BUT DESTROYING ALDERAAN WONT?!

This is mentioned often in Star Wars Legends, and the moral problem is easily rectified if one remembers that the Emperor would have likely destroyed the Entire Galaxy if it suited his lust for power.

Thx for reminding me to not destroy my local Deathstar.

This was made in 2016. 5 years ago. God, this makes me feel old.

So the Jedi are ISIS minus the beards, robes and swinging swords around. It all makes sense now.

11:39 I never knew Starbucks is a galactic power-hungry faction which have a gigantic military force and proves to be a threat to the Empire *The More You Know*

I love how Starbucks was one of the listed factions that would be involved with the power grab resulting from the Empire's/Palpatine's defeat.

One of my favorite theories and helped me learn a lot about economics 10/10 theory too. 👍