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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Celebrim" data-source="post: 9664076" data-attributes="member: 4937">The set up was just, "We pull back the security at the plaza a little bit and hope that this creates an armed protest even though we no longer have an insider to suggest it?"  It's not smart.  For example, I would have announced a "March for Peace" with loyal citizens of the Empire showing up to protest the Ghorman Front.  The Plaza would be opened for that.  Then you could have the Ghor's arguing over whether to organize a counter-protest, and over the merits of doing so, deciding for the counter protest to show the Galaxy that their side has the overwhelming support of the people of Ghorman and if they don't counter protest then they are conceding to the Imperials control over the narrative - failing to understand that the narrative the Empire really wants is that the whole planet is hostile.  Then everything proceeds as orchestrated except anyone viewing events from the outside would see them as logical and not orchestrated.  Even sending in the green squad to provide security would have had a visible purpose: to protect the loyal citizens caught in the middle of the "increasingly violent counter protest"   The Empire would have been made to seem intelligent; but equally, the Ghorman wouldn't have been made to seem stupid.  Personally, I would have loved a pullback shot harkening to the Euromaiden or Arab Spring or Civil Rights marches or really any big familiar political event, then the shooting starts and then we have AT-ST's stomping on people, scores of KX droids, phalanxes of storm troopers, probe and camera droids following people through the streets making it impossible for them to hide.  And the Ghormon Front increasingly aware that the Empire is prepared for everything that they can do.  Which is what we are given to see, just at a smaller scale than what is implied by a planetary insurrection and massive mining fleets.Ghorman by this point is just as much of a war zone as Jedha; the only reason we don't see that in the show is budget, not story telling.  Heck, by this point in the story the Ghorman Front is in terms of scale a bigger threat to the Empire than Saw's Partisans.  It's been allowed to grow out of control to justify the massive crackdown.</blockquote>

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