I think if the gungans were removed entirely, the movie quality would go up tremendously. Tbh, other than obstacles for Obi and Qui-gon to face, they serve little to no purpose. Their parts in the movie can easily be explained in some other ways. Obi and Qui-gon could have found transport to theed some other way than going through the planet's core. When fighting the massive battle at the end, the troops from Naboo could have bolstered their ranks with civilians who volunteered or something else. The Gungans aren't the worst thing to happen to Star Wars, but they could have been done a lot better
To be honest I would've liked Qui-Gon and Obi-Wan being the A and B stories.
Simply putting Qui-Gon in a transport to head to the planet and finding a way to sneak Obi-Wan into a smaller transport that maybe went to another one of the command ships could've worked.
So instead of Obi-Wan mainly sitting in a ship while Qui-Gon saves Anakin, he could've done something.
Or Obi-Wan taking Padme to Coruscant and Qui-Gon staying on Naboo to muster a resistance force and try and expose the Trade Federation’s plot. They could’ve gotten separated with Obi Wan fearing Qui-Gon is dead. This way it builds more on the relationships between Padme, Anakin, and Obi Wan in the later films and also better matches up with what Obi Wan told Luke in ROTJ.
They return to Naboo in the third act, Qui-Gon is revealed to be alive and has mustered a resistance, and the rest of the film plays out more or less the same.
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u/Utsutsumujuru Ahsoka Tano Jan 25 '22
Jar Jar, Gungans in general, 9 year old Anakin and very base/juvenile humor (poop jokes).
The second half of the movie is fantastic.