weird... but warm

One detail that I might have always noticed but never really pinpointed until just now is a particular of this shot:

The traffic just keeps rushing by in the background.

The wheels of darkness are finally grinding into full spin. The galaxy is about to fall. Four Jedi Masters are dead, the Chosen One has pledged his service to the Dark Lord of the Sith, and Sidious is unveiling his plan for the future.

"Absolutely no one comes to save us but us."

But how they actually worked was manipulating racist policies to cause as much of a delay as possible. They'd sit down at the bar to order (that's how those restaurants worked, you had to sit down to order and there weren't many tables) and when the waiter said they couldn't serve them, they'd respond that they would wait until they could be served. And then all their friends who they organized this with would do the same, and they would sit there at every seat until they're holding up the whole line. Then nobody could order and the restaurant was forced to either close, serve them, or try and fail to work around them. It wasn't just to make a point, it was to cost them money and time.