Let's talk about Mina Bonteri. I actually liked her quite a bit, because in my view, her storyline was a relatively mature attempt within the children's animated series The Clone Wars. But Disney ultimately hit the brakes.
Anyone who watched the show knew that, in the original plot, Mina had been assassinated by Count Dooku for advocating peace, and even her death had only been glossed over. You could clearly see the patchwork and compromises in the writing here.
Why? Because Mina had died for justice in the animated series. But that justice was not her own—it was justice imposed on her by the writers. That justice was the Galactic Republic and the Jedi Order.
A children's story had to have good guys and bad guys. So the entire plot emphasized how right Anakin and the others were, how right the Galactic Republic was, portraying Mina as someone who had abandoned darkness and embraced the light.
As a children's cartoon, there was nothing inherently wrong with that kind of design. But in terms of character development, it was downright tragic.
Mina did advocate peace, but her foundation for advocating peace was Onderon and the Confederacy of Independent Systems—not the Galactic Republic or the Jedi Order. She should have had her own thoughts, her own stance, and her own interests, rather than sacrificing her life for the Galactic Republic's grand cause of unification.
In fact, the animated storyline had initially tried to portray life in the Confederacy of Independent Systems from another perspective, which would have made the war more three-dimensional. But it was obvious that Disney had hit the brakes, dragging the plot back into the good-guys-versus-bad-guys framework.
But was the Galactic Republic really the good side? Was the Confederacy of Independent Systems really the bad side? I had already