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Or they could sell the damaged but otherwise luxurious royal yacht and buy a smaller but still-functional ship to get them to Coruscant. Or even just tickets to Coruscant. Even if it's just tickets for "Padme" and her one handmaid who looks like Natalie Portman, plus Qui Gon and Obi-Wan, and everyone else in the royal party has to hole up for a while, it's not like it's going to take very long for them to send someone back to pick them up.
With the added bonus that they wouldn’t be found by the merchant guild assassins if they were in a shit-ship
May also be a state property issue - Queen is only a title, and we learn in the second movie that Amidala has been electorally replaced as Queen.
Sorta like if a president tried to sell Air Force One.
While the President probably couldn't sell Air Force One in a desperate situation, the Secret Service and/or Air Force people on board could. If there were any legal issues with this, the President could pardon them afterwards. While the power of the pardon is often abused, but this would actually be a good case for it to be used.
Consider that all the money handlers probably work for the Hutts, who they're trying to avoid.
Now imagine one of those handlers reporting to the Hutts tip them off that someone is exchanging a shit ton of republic credits, someone who hasn't checked into a ship dock and is trying to stay low.
Now, I don't actually think George Lucas thought of that, but it's easy enough to explain away.
Nice. That was decent apologetics
Honestly the pod race was one of the few parts of Episode 1 that were actually pretty good.
Pod race. Fight at the end. Gungaboss shaking his head for no real reason.
It's their culture!
I JUDGE THEIR CULTURE
My mitichlorians! Noooooooooo
"Oh, you need a hyperdrive? NP we'll send someone to pick you up instead."
I still don't understand why the currency wasn't good. Travel pretty often abroad for work and fun, exchanging euros or dollars for local is less painful than shaving. You go to a booth, usually at the airport, and they do it right there. Yes you can usually get a slightly better rate if you go to a bank but it usually isn't massively better. Also they have like FTL communication plus plenty of computers. Why not use a credit card?
'Cause Republic currency is digital (or at least I assume it is because it's called "dataries" and Watoo says it isn't "real" enough) and Tatooine is the ass-end of space. Either they don't have the communication infrastructure to deal with Republic credits or they just refuse to due to fears of having their transactions tracked.
Ok I guess. Been to places in the world where the bidet/tolietpaper/sink was a garden hose that was tied to a gravity feed rain water tank that you had to sort out yourself over the toilet mounted over a hole and was still able to use my credit card.
Surely, even Tatooine will have money changers, no magic required?
I bet that is like the last profession. Long after even hookers are replaced with robots there will still be someone willing to make currency a into currency b while skimming a bit off the top for themselves.
Qui-Gon would never take any action likely to mess with ~~the plot~~ the Will of the Force.
People give the sequels a bad rep, but the Phantom menace has a lot more plot holes than all 3 sequels combined.
Like queen Amidala, who hired Jedi to break her through a blockade in order to participate in a senate meeting, only to want to return immediately afterwards because "her people need her".
And that in a world where holographic meetings are the norm.
The blockade was jamming communication. The reason she wanted to return was that the republic refused to help, which was the whole reason she traveled Coruscant in the first place. She had to get back to Naboo in person to make an alliance with the Gungans.
Or ask Watto what kind of miraculous favors he'd be willing to pay for. Say, if he had a morally flexible space wizard and his apprentice, at a disadvantage and in a hurry. Dirty deeds done for the best of intentions.