I love how Mon Mothma's story feels almost like a mystery story because it engages us on a meta level. We're not just observing events in a fictional world, we are being told a story by story telling writers.
We are invited to ponder why the writers are introducing us to Perrin and Leida. We think, are they going to betray Mon later on? Where are their loyalties? We're looking at it through the lens of a cloak-and-dagger spy/political drama. Who will backstab who? Who is allied with who?
But no. This is a STAR WARS story. It's about the light and the dark. It's about Anakin's fall.
It wasn't about whether Perrin or Leida would betray Mon Mothma. It was always going to be about Mon Mothma betraying Leida, and thereby selling her own soul. Everything about the relationship between Mon and Perrin ... all to establish their culture's arranged marriage customs ... all to establish the stakes of what it means to sell out her own daughter. And what that means for Mon Mothma's own soul to do so.
It's great story telling because it embraces the relationship between the viewers and the writers. The art of story telling isn't just in the telling, it's in the give and take between the story teller and the understanding of the audience.
