The Phantom Menace: Things you may not know

The Phantom Menace is considered by most fans and critics to be the worst of the Star Wars Saga but there are many things you may not know.

1. The "Phantom" - In Revenge of the Sith, Chancellor Palpatine tells Anakin about  Darth Plagueis. He says that Darth Plagueis can use Medicholrians to create life. You can take two things from this. 1. Palpatine is lying. 2. It is possible that Plagueis (who we know was around during the events of the Phantom Menace) created Anakin himself.

2. The Force Child - In some sources it suggests that Palpatine knew that his master had created a force child (when he met Anakin on Naboo) and therefore that was the reason that he killed his master as he feared that Plageuis was going to use Anakin and replace Palpatine. Palpatine therefore used him for himself. Palpatine was already going behind his master's back by training a secret apprentice of his own.

3. Why on Tatooine? - Well the answer to that question is that Plageuis wanted his force child away from Coruscont. Palpatine knew how he was going to get Anakin to Corucont however.
You may remember that the communications were jammed so how was Darth Maul able to track them to Tatooine? Easy Palpatine knew they would land on Tatooine and told Maul to go there. Qui Gwon and Anakin would leave falling Palpatine to continue with his plot.

At first we just thought that Palpatine was leading both sides so that who ever one he would still come out on top but really he started the war to get the Jedi distracted from his main objective: The force child Anakin Skywalker to turn to the Dark Side.