No one has done more to rehabilitate The Phantom Menace than Dave Filoni
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To describe something in the Star Wars galaxy as divisive is merely to say that it exists. With each new movie or TV series that comes out, the fandom gets increasingly fractured, with factions picking sides and digging in on multiple fronts. The discourse has gotten so toxic that it almost makes the debates from 25 years ago over whether Star Wars: Episode I—The Phantom Menace did or did not have the power to ruin actual childhoods seem quaint in comparison. Not that people ever really stopped...

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