The story makes no sense, can you explain to me what qui-gons bet was with watto?
First off, Watto is sick, in the sense that he's a gambler. He cannot resist placing a bet if it intrigues him. Having said that:
1.QuiGon needs a part for the ship. He has no money, so he needs an alternative.
2.Anakin offers to help by podracing for him (and informing him that Watto is a bet-oholic).
3.Thus, Qui makes a bet with Watto that if Anakin wins the podrace, he'll get the part.
4.Then Qui realizes Anakin's midichlorian count.
5.He makes the stakes of the bet higher by telling Watto that if Anakin wins, the boy is free and Watto also gets his podracer.
First he wanted the Queen to sign his treaty and he was pretty damned adamant "I want that treaty signed".
Yes, initially.
He told the Trade Federation to kill the Jedi, even though he really needed the Jedi to go back and declare that there was a war going on. He should have had the Federation tell them "there will be no negotiations we plan to invade the planet".
He didn't need the Jedi to do anything. The plan was indeed an invasion at first. He changed his plan when the Queen escaped. He's a political schemer.
He sent Darth Maul to like kill them on Tatooine...why? He needs Amadala to get back to Courescant to declare that vote of no confidence at this point so why is he sending Darth Maul after them?
At that point the Queen would blow the true nature of the embargo, aka that it was an invasion. She was more useful to him dead. When they finally got to Coruscant he saw the new opportunity that arose from her arrival and changed his plan to that of the vote of no confidence.
Then on Naboo why did he send Darth Maul to Naboo? At this point he's got what he needs theres no reason to send Maul to Naboo because the planet is now irrelevant to his goals of becoming Supreme Chancellor.
Then at the end of the movie Darth Sidious just screws em over.
Then in Episodes II-III these same idiots get involved in another one of Darth Sidious's convoluted schemes and he once again screws them over. It's just too stupid to take seriously.
He didn't screw them over, that's why he sent Maul to help on Naboo. Actually, of course he intended to screw them over eventually, but he obviously didn't want them to know they were expendable to him. But sure, nobody's forcing you to find it not stupid or to take it seriously.
And I don't wanna here about Darth Plagueis or Darth Mauls Journal or anyother books that fill in the gaps, this is a movie it shouldn't need books to explain its self.
No books necessary. The PT is pretty contained.