...yeah, but who fucking cares? Backstory is something writers put in because they think they need it and audiences hate because they don't. You want backstory? "He fought with your father in the clone wars." DONE. Tolkien put this one to bed succinctly when someone asked him what lay beyond the "distant mountains of Mordor." I don't know the quote exactly, but he essentially said "if I told you, you'd ask what lay beyond that. Know that I know what lies beyond the distant mountains of Mordor, and that is enough." STAR WARS owes its existence to Kurasawa, who basically made Imperial westerns. We're talking Edo-era Japan... yet Kurosawa never once went to Edo.However, I get why so much of episodes 2 and 3 took place in the Senate and in the capital. It's backstory. We are being shown why the rebels fled to the frontier in the first place, and how it is that Palpatine becomes the Emperor. There's no way to take over a government from the frontier