Why MON MOTHMA Was Crucial for the Rebel Alliance's Survival and Victory 

She's one classy lady.

She was in Episode 3 as well wasn’t she?

@@mgway4661 I believe so, but not in to many scenes.

@@lamarravery4094 is that the footage they showing the video of Bail, Padme and Mon? I didnt recognize it

@@Jeffworkman deleted scenes from sw3 :)

With the exception of Darth Vader, everyone suffers from Disney canon.

And chewie he doesn’t get hit by that moon

@@GenerationTech and we lost the coolest super weapons The World Devastators.

I'm pretty sure most of us would prefer legends content over what Disney says is star wars canon

@@hkxeno001 they are cool but way to op.

Rebel leaders tend to be poor government officials. Also, deep cover spies in the NR did not help.

@@robertnelson9599 That's the thing I get that the rebels were... well, rebels, good at tearing down a regime but terrible at building a government but people like Mon Mothma were senators and government officials At least they should know the basics of a government And aside from the building a government, how in the hell did they miss a new regime rising? At least go rebel against that before it gets out of hand and Palpatine somehow returns

I would argue that legislators are typically terrible at running things. Governor-> chancellor is a better route. Having said that I actually enjoyed the new republic early struggles, thought it was quite realistic. Within a few decades you had new generations that grew up after the galactic civil war and treated individuals like Leia as war mongerers. It’s similar to how Europe was in between wwi and wwii. Some people never believed that a Second World War could happen.

I would argue that legislators are typically terrible at running things. Governor-> chancellor is a better route. Having said that I actually enjoyed the new republic early struggles, thought it was quite realistic. Within a few decades you had new generations that grew up after the galactic civil war and treated individuals like Leia as war mongerers. It’s similar to how Europe was in between wwi and wwii. Some people never believed that a Second World War could happen.

@@GenerationTech I get your point and comparison, but the in-between WWI and WWII was a bit different In both cases it was a continuation of the previous war, that much is true but for different reasons The Germans were punished too severely after WWI having to pay a big amount of gold, lost a seventh of their land and other things WWII and Hitlers rise to power was because the German people were sick of it and the Allies (mainly Brittain) took a bit of pity and allowed the Germans to rise up again and reclaim their former glory with the hopeful intention Germany could be an ally and a trading partner I don't know if this also happened in the books or comics but in the movies none of that is mentioned From what I understand is that the First Order is just a remnant faction of the Empire and is out for war and to reclaim the galaxy just for the heck of it, not because of some 'unreasonable' punishments or anything like that

Maybe they should work together for variation and tactical confusion

I would argue that Saw Gerrera _was_ such a figure, but only until the death of his sister. The before and after presents an image akin to that of Mao Zedong vs self-proclaimed 'Maoists' like the Shining Path, bombing random populated areas and boiling young children to death.

She's more a John Adams.

yup and thats why people in colombia for example dotn trust the rebel guerillas because they have become so corrupted due to dealin in drug money to fund their revolution.

You're gonna love Andor. This is a salient plot point, actually

Ironically the Death Star united the entire Galaxy against Palpatine. When Tarkin destroyed Alderaan, he made it glaringly obvious that the Empire was a genocidal regime that posed a real danger to the public. The Rebel Alliance swelled with new recruits and the Imperial military faced widespread acts of sedition, defection and petty sabotage. Armed resistance had become a matter of survival.v

Leia's story in Claudia Gray's SW novel Bloodlines would be a solid sw film spinoff imho :) she gets outed - feeds her son Ben's backstory big time!

And more emphasis on Padmé’s legacy

I think she knew they had to destroy the Death Star and was grateful that Jyn managed to get the ball rolling.

He definitely gives us an education, brilliant guy.

@@lamarravery4094 love the boxers used to hide a persnickety light in this vid lol

Additionally without a Jedi Order (with it's own share of failings) to support the Republic. Something that was also mentioned in the Expanded Universe how much more difficult it was for the New Republic because to that.

Under Mothma the Republic was genuinly.... decent, but when she retired it became just as bad as the first one

“Democracy bad, authoritarianism good, give me likes now”

@@wildfire9280 You have missed the point so badly that a Stormtrooper would cringe.

@@wildfire9280 They never said that, they said that she was right to fight authoritarianism. They were pointing out how corrupt and morally bankrupt the republic was, and the fact that she didn't plan to improve on it, especially given that the Republic was only a democracy in name, it was more like a bureaucratic organisation, run like a large religion or company rather than a democratic nation state so to speak.

Probably had pre determined coordinates just waiting for the sign.... the sign being her speech

She has a certain grace and stillness, along with a clarity of diction that makes her memorable

Disney Star Wars in a whole is just inferior to Legends Star Wars.

That is debatable. The Old Republic lasted over 25,000 YEARS. The New Republic didn't even last a century in Legends. The New Republic was grossly incompetent when it at war with the Vong. Then after the defeat of Darth Cadus, it ceased being called the Republic and became the Alliance.

The New Republic in Legends lasted only 20-ish years up to the Yuuzhan Vong: after the fall of Coruscant it disintegrated, and a new successor state was formed, the GFFA (Galactic Alliance), as a merger of the anti-Vong states and with a new form of government (e.g. a formal ministerial role for Jedi). Legends, inspired by the post-Soviet wars of the 1990s, consistently painted the NR as a flawed democracy undermined by ethnic tensions: aliens mistrusted humans, imagining them to be equivalent to the speciesist Imperials (not entirely wrong, as many Imperials defected to keep their power; and Luke and Leia turned out to be Vader's kids - to some nonhumans, the Empire/Alliance conflict appeared to be a purely intra-human political issue). In localities like Corellia, Koornacht and Bakura, the NR's legitimacy came under strain as cultural groups and species mistrusted each other and carried old grudges into democracy with them; at central level, events like the X-Wing series' nonhuman plague (I forget the name) and the Bothan/Camaasi crisis all undermined credibility of various key Rebellion-era cultures. Then, when the Vong arrived, their militarily inferior forces was able to conquer Coruscant so easily precisely because they sent advance agents to scout out simmering tensions, and stoke the existing ethnic rivalries to pull apart the Republic from within. Finally the victorious GFFA was formed precisely by and from the one truly multiethnic and meritocratic force in the galaxy, the only one effectively resisting: the Jedi. Personally I find that a far more interesting political background to the cartoonish crisis of democracy portrayed in Disney canon (as well as the dull obsession with superweapons and superpowers that other Legends authors focussed on). But anyone who thinks Legends NR was a strong, stable and noble democracy wasn't really paying attention.

Wrong...Even in the EU the Republic had many issues and it wasn't no beacon of hope as it lacked the centralized institutions that kept the Empire running on a day to day basis. They experienced plenty of unrest, aggressive alien advances in backwater worlds, the Empire remnants and their fleets wreaking havoc on NR systems, Thrawn, and the Yuuzhan Vong invasion of the galaxy that crippled them. I'm so glad the EU stepped out of the bubble to also indicate the NR was weak and decentralized holding on a significant portion of the Galaxy. Authors decided to step out of the bubble of George Lucas' (black and white OT events) and portray both sides for having both great and bad people. Also another EU flaw is that the main Star Wars cast behaved like a Justice League (even with the fact that the main OT characters acted pretty much like that) during that era.

@@stevenbaumann5911 Well, the Old Republic had a legion of Space Wizards on it's side. 😁

And Dame Julie Andrews

We haven’t seen a lot of but she would probably pull her weight considering she had ends up as their leader

That and she was part of the glue that kept it all together. Without her, the Empire would have won and did a defeat in detail on the pro-republic forces. The problem was, she (and those similar to her) were blind to the problems of the Old Republic... and thus _made the same mistakes_ and even made worse ones, especially since Leia (Mon's planned successor) got ousted as _Vader's daughter_ which completely sank Leia's political career.

Actually, Saw knew the Empire considered him and Mon criminals. He just didn't care.

And scruffy looking

Rogue one?

Ep iii

Padme became queen around the same age. I believe Princess Leia was also around the same age when she joined the senate

@@GenerationTech well dang, im 25 and havent become senator yet. :( I wonder if the Republic had less strict rules arrounding child labor because of the influence of the jedi and their use of child soldiers (padawans) in combat

@@bigafroman4277 They were definitely more lax on child labor laws haha, especially in the outer rim

@@bigafroman4277 No offense, but you're probably not as brilliant as these characters were at a younger age.

That was a deleted scene from the Revenge of the Sith movie

thanks!@@RyanCunningham

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