Editor’s Note: The following contains spoilers from Season 2 Episode 10 of The Bad Batch.
Tyrannical empires are built on fear – using leverage on a population to keep them subjugated, and too afraid to fight back.
Fear, however, is a finite resource.
There is only so far you can push people before they’re backed into a corner, and start to push back.
Smart tyrants supplement fear with propaganda – give their people a lie to believe in, to rally behind.
A reason to think that the life the Empire is providing them is the best life they could hope for.
While Palpatine’s hand in creating the Galactic Empire was nothing short of genius, The Bad Batch is showing us the relatively unexplored early days of the Empire’s power, and it’s clear that the reason the Galactic Empire fell as quickly as it did (19 years from the date
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