Palpatines planning flaw
I've just been watching tpm, and i have a problem with part of the pot. If amidala had been captured and signed the treaty how would palpatine have got into power, the trade federation would have done nothing wrong, there would be no call for Valorums resignation and Palpatine would have no sympathy vote. I do not believe that Sidious knew admidala wouldn't sign the treaty, he was pretty serious when the ship had escaped to tatooine so how did he expect to be elected chancellor without admidala and the sympathy vote? 😕