The better republic not working isn't right, because the sequels are non-canon.

In other words, the empire was pretty chill

What are you talking about? Jabba (a major crime boss)was still around and in his palace and all of legends is not considered cannon. And the outer rim worlds still looks like they are poorer than our countries

The bored capital unexpectedly imagine because japanese basally remember next a sick trail. glossy, uncovered shield

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Hey Matt Pat I have a question what would happen if a light saber hit a star and can a light saber cut a star in half?

Me when I watch this ;me:🖕🏼🖕🏼🖕🏼

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What if, just here me out on this, what if Empire is actually the good guys? I mean, every movies were told by the Rebel...

Me when I see that his last name is booey: bababooey

Matt is such a sith

This really isn't a film theory it's film fact this was all george lucas goal and showing the jedi and the republic as not pure good hearted beings is something he wanted to do.

Film theory needs to watch Star Wars rebels

I have a feeling that the empire are racists. Only humans are allowed in their society. You ever think of that?

Vader killed kids...remember...hes Anakin...seems evil to me.

I find the argument to have a few fallacies. The outer rim was exploited/ignored by the empire just as much the new/old republic. Look at tatooine in a new hope. There's no imperial presence there, until Vader shows up looking for the droids. Crime and smuggling is rampant. While the moff system might be more efficent, they were always portrayed as either corrupt, or authoritarian. They never show a "nice" moff. The empire was shown burning and razing whole worlds for resources to fund it's war machine, in both the mandalorian, and various other shows/movies. Not to mention the rampant alienism. If you weren't human, it would take superhuman efforts to make any headway in the empire proper. Thrawn was an exception. They enslaved the wookies. I don't see the new or old republic enslaving races (Maybe clones, but that ended up just being the empire's doing in the end). Both styles of governance were bad, but I'll take mine with less slavery and genocide any day.

Didnt the new republic demilitarize or something?

I don’t know man, if I was about to be cooked and eaten, I probably would’ve told my protocol droid he is a god for a borderline animal tribe of fur monkeys. But still many great points.

The Empire is very much like Communism . Total control over people.

"Yo dude, the empire is pretty chill! Maybe you could like, join it or something?"

Jedi are evil because they brutally abuse innocent droids.

6:59 Sounds a bit COMMUNIST?

I don’t know if the mandalorian proves the Empire was right. In season 2, they had Bill Burr killing a high ranking Imperial officer for having such a callous, cold view on sacrificing thousands of people. Not to mention how the Empire is chasing baby yoda for evil practises. The empire is definitely evil and the people who serve it have a very harsh, callous, un empathetic mindset

In The Clone Wars series it's made very clear that the Jedi do not forcefully take the children rather the parents give them up so they can become a Jedi. The parents have the choice to keep their child.

hmm🤔

Anikin: Parents died, had a giant space station with a built in lazer capable of destroying planets, has been "betrayed" by friends, tries to bring order and security, slowly becomes evil. Guess Anikin/Darth Vader was the Handsome Jack before Handsome Jack.

Thank you so much for making this video! I totally agree!!! However I really hate that the Empire had slavery. That is something I am not ok with. The same thing with Alderaan being blown up. Anyway, Great Video!!!

the sequel trilogy are not well made movies

Palpatine controlled the Old Republic tho. The Sith diluted the system for the Empire to take over.

Yo dudes, the empire is pretty chill maybe you could like join it or something.

The New republic kinda sounds like Weimar Germany

Dear God my worst fear was supporting the totalitarianism and communism aspect view and I failed

This video is like a mini-masterclass in how to make near-absolute power and its near-absolute corruption sound good.

The empire lise if he sed the empier wanted to be rich and and dose not ker about the pepeol more pepeol world rebel

Order I see not, empire bad is. Judge me for my thoughts do you?

Matpat: Empire is the good guys (Showing a picture of tarkin right before he blows a planet up)

Star Wars rebels actually gives a newer interpretation on what it was like to live under the empire and, yeah. It wasn’t all that great. I think that what the empire viewed as a good life for the average citizen and what regular citizens in the galaxy view as a good life didn’t really Mach up all that much. Such as how the empire was restrictive on speech, expression, had curfews in place, taxed it’s citizens heavily, and generally oppressed the citizens when it wasn’t necessary.

That is just propaganda

What about the wookie slavery on kasheek?

10:20 I mean that's just the new trilogy's trash writing xD

Yo dudes, The empire is pretty chill

how dare you!

Matpat, you're great and all, but one key detail. The Empire enslaved an entire race.

better for humans not really for aliens. ewoks on the other hand were high and tried to sacrifice people in honor of C-3PO

Grey Jedi: am I an joke to you? Sith and Jedi: Yes. Grey Jedi: than, you'll never understand the force clearly. *Grey Jedi put on their sunglasses and walk away* Everyone: OOOOOOHHHHHHH!!

Leia: I'm on a diplomatic mission to alderan Vader *having just watched rogue one*: 🤨

"A tyrannical governent is ok as long as it is stable" Seriously, you guys have been a democracy for 200 years, you don't know what it is like to live in a dictatorship. You suport the empire with the same mentality of the presidents in the 60s to the 80s, who suported fascist dictorships because they weren't comunist. The other systems were flawed, but at least they weren't fascist dictorships (and ok, the jedi were pretty evil, but they were barely involved with the new republic).

Can you do a video on the CIS (Confederacy of Independent Systems)

even if there is death and “chaos” if people have the choice over their lives then that’s better than dictatorship

I’m glad that I subscribed

Rebel: *attacks Empire* Empire: *fights back* Rebels: “doesn’t.. that make you evil?”

bro if you think for a second the Empire wouldn't have enslaved the Ewoks just like they did just about EVERY OTHER ALIEN SPECIES you're fucking stupid

Why are the subtitles Korean?

this man used facts from legends... this puts the whole video on a rly risky place. you can't just trust legends like that mat.

You didn’t mention the fact that the Jedi are basically war criminals under the Genova convention. They falsely surrendered several times to the CIS, then attacked them. No wonder the droids didn’t take prisoners.

I'd appreciate this theory alot more if you weren't relying on the messy, inconsistent, illogical world building of the sequel trilogy to back up your points. Nothing about the first order or the new republic makes an ounce of sense, and so shouldn't be held up as some kind of proof or evidence of anything.

The empire did have a pretty speciest outlook on things do. Classifying most of them as Non-Sentient or Near-Human. Basically if you human, you good! The less human you look, the worse you get treated. Remember the Death Star was mostly build by Wookie Slaves & other class 1 slaves. Soooo Good job Empire #HumanityFirst

Look your first half was good, but the second part about Rian's trilogy is just bad writing. You should have used the expanded trilogy that basically explains that the New Republic goes back to it's old ways and that only the Jedi Order makes a bit of progress.

To be fair the sequel trilogy sucks.

Remember genosis The time where The empire committed genocide yeah definitely better

You should do that analysis but for countries 😂

At the time of starkiller base corosaunt wasn't the capital of the new Republic as in legends the yuson vong took over the planet and turned into essentially a greenhouse

So is this martial law

Mat Pat: yeah a global fascist government sounds much better than individual national sovereignty. Me: Idiot. But seriously this one of the worst laid out theories. He says at the beginning, Anakin's life wasn't so bad, you know under the old republic. Then later, life under the old republic was so bad! Doesn't hold water in my opinion. PS. I don't really think Mat Pat is an idiot.

I thought anakin wanted to be a jedi

Yo dude the empire is petty chill

Things matt gets wrong and is overthinking because he doesn’t know enough: The Jedi were never considered good, there is no good vs evil... only Jedi vs sith. The new galactic republic is not powerful enough because they aren’t conscripting children like the empire did Prequel republic had many flaws however they had control of the galaxy and they weren’t as bad as the empire... as you can see by the formation of the rebellion in the first place. Clearly Matt hasn’t watched Star Wars rebels or played many of the Star Wars games like Fallen order

Matt pat is secretly the emperor

I'm just gonna say that one of the main reasons the Republic was trash was because of Palatines manipulation and corruption that led to the fall of the Republic. Thus creating the Empire. Without Palps, there wouldn't have been such chaos and war between the Republic and the CIS. Or maybe I'm just bias, cause Clone bois under the Republic make the coolest military.

When you realize Cal Kestis was the only good Jedi

"Yo dude the empire is pretty chill , maybe you can like , join it or something." so Darth Vader is telling the truth

Just killing off the guys in charge and taking over doesnt just result in everything becoming better, it just means their problems are now your problems

Hey great video super fun but you can’t mix Star Wars legends and Cannon. The new republic is vastly different in both. The essential guide to warfare and the sequels aren’t even in the same universe. The New Republic may have sucked in Cannon but in Legends it was pretty’s good. Also the book Tarkin is Cannon

The empire isn't as great at governing planets as you think, sure they are helping the galaxy but most of the empire is biased against aliens and aren't as willing to give help to the outer rim compared to the core worlds. The emperor helped a lot with the outer rim but eventually gave up when it became too much and basically left the planets in the outer rim to fend for themselves. This is the main reason why the rebellion had so many worlds that were aligned to their cause, since the rebellion promised to help their planets.

Mon mothma is the leader of the new Republic and it's her fault not Leia's however she failed the resistance

Any Star Wars fan can tell you the Empire wasn't all that bad. This isn't shocking, most actually hope that Thrawn never failed his conquest. #HumanityFirst

Yo dudes, the Empire's pretty chill. Maybe you could like join it or something.

Yeah and plus the stormtroopers were made up of volunteers and citizens who wanted to join the military and the rebels are made up of smugglers criminals and mercenary’s and let’s be honest the rebels start most of the fights and they’ve definitely killed a lot of civilians one story in the Novels is even about a boy who’s sister was crushed to death when rebels attacked his farms seriously screw the rebels the empire is so much better

Very good job doing your research. I will quibble on the fact that you seemed selective about which things you took from Legends. If you're going to use Legends to back up your claims, you ought to use the universe as established by legends to determine whether the New Republic was successful. On the flip side, if you're ignoring the Legends, and very reasonably looking at the current canon to see the end result, it is unreasonable to use the Legends material to support your claims. Still, very little of this came from Legends and I think you did a great job supporting this theory. I think the sequel series did a pretty poor job at this stuff though. How *did* the First Order, ostensibly a small splinter of the formerly massive Galactic Empire, fund some of its tech like the Mega class Star Destroyer, not to mention the monstrosity that was Starkiller Base? If you look at the source material, the Death Stars cost enough to bankrupt whole star systems for *decades*! (kinda questionable money managing in a governing body there if you ask me, spending that much on a weapon built purely to terrorize) The Executor was pretty ridiculous too. And the whole New Republic crumbling in decades was swept under the rug too. I prefer the Legends universe, and they talk a *lot* about politics, and trying to balance the burgeoning New Republic and get it started, and yes, it was *much* harder than taking it, but they *did* do it. They faced their own rebellions, and fought other massive wars, and even had their original government fall apart under a galactic invasion, having to rebuild from the ground up again, but they also actually reduced slavery and smuggling, and *improved* the infrastructure. Of course, that's not canon now, and what MatPat is reporting on is the current canon. One last thing before I end my rant. The Empire was great for its individuals...*some* of them. It brought order to the Outer Rim through an iron fist and military might, leaving military outposts on worlds across the galaxy to maintain order. It also replaced the current governing bodies with its moffs...who were exclusively *human*. The Empire was great, for *humans*. It placed indigenous non human sentient populations under the rule of human moffs who answered to the Empire, giving the actual people no say. There are a few worlds (many of the ones we see in the movies) that are human dominated, but the vast majority of the sentient beings are not human, though humans may be the largest single population. Maybe it doesn't outweigh the other issues, but there is a reason many of the rebels were non-human, and you don't see any non-humans in the Empire.

yo dudes the empire is pretty chill maybe you would like join it or something

I guess the Empire really is pretty chill

Long live the Empire!

Tbh i like the empire the first order and the separatist better than the rebellion and the new republic and the clone's

I have all nine symptoms of bpd lol rip me

Palpatine set up the galaxy to fall apart if he died

I think the fallen empire was using baby yoda to apply the force to the clones of palpatine.

and ewoks were eating luke and han

i agree that empire is better at ruling but they should have a little good motive to do it

also they created death star to destroy innocent planets

stormtroppers had burned luke's grandpa just to find death star plans

It was boba fett who killed them

He failed to mention all the the war crimes committed, indentured servitude, straight up slavery, and lack of compromising with individual systems used by the empire. Also tarkins words should be taken with a grain of salt because he is an imperial and that system benefits him a lot so of course he would want to endorse it.

From a certain point of view.

Yo dudes the Empire is pretty chill maybe you could like join it or something

"Mussolini made the trains run on time"

Yo dudes the Empire is pretty chill maybe you could like join it or something

I agree with this, although technically the sith did the same thing Jedi did but much crueler

yes, i did replied to my own comment

Times like these, im reminded that I want a "Palpatine was right" shirt. Seriously though, screw the jedi council.

Sounds to me like matpat is turning to the dark side

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mabey your right all though the jedi saved planets and billions of people

I have borderline, and tbh your points about Anakin were pretty spot on.