PT Isnt Anakin a bit too young for Padme?

Well as the title says ive always wondered how this relationship developed itself... i mean he's a kid in TPM and boom Amidala remains young and pretty while he quickly blossoms into a strong young man xD

I always thought it didnt make much sense...

 

I thought it was a bit strange for a 12-13 year old Padme to have feelings for a 9 year old Anakin in TPM. It didn't really bother me, though.

In AOTC, he was 19 so I was cool with it. It is a bit like a babysitter hooking up with the kid she babysat, but I'm sure that happens all the time.

 

4 years is not a big deal once you're over twenty. Besides, Portman and Christensen are the same age so you kind of forget it.

I think the difference was there to imply oedipus complex on Anakin's part. Shmi and Padme even resemble each other somewhat (although it could have been a coincidence).

 

As strange as this may sound I believe that Padme just felt sorry for Anakin in the Phantom Menace. He was a little kid on that ship on the way to Coruscant sitting with droids by a window pretty much depressed about Shimi. She went to him to comfort him. After all Anakin had already somewhat laid the ground work by calling her an "Angel" from the moons of Lego. The sad part is she had the necklace he gave her at the end of Revenge of the Sith at her funeral. What this tells me is that is when she started to really care about him. That Anakin was gone as he was consumed by Darth Vader.

 

I think this sentiment most likely stems from confusion about their ages. I've seen people think that Anakin is supposed to be 6 and that Padmé is as old as 18 in TPM. Which would make them 16 and 28 by the time AOTC rolls around. That, yes, would be rather unsettling. However, Anakin is 9 in TPM and Padmé is 14. So they only have 4 to 5 years between them. And I don't think it's problematic in that regard. I've frequently seen relationships between 21 year old women and 27 year old men. Or 22 year old women and 30 year old men. So I don't consider Anakin "too young" for Padmé if he's 19 and she's 24, to be honest.

It's just that the older man-younger woman dynamic is much more common so people don't usually think anything of it.
Hence why people seem to ignore the 10-year age gap between Han Solo and Leia (and the 14 year age gap between their actors). And Leia wasn't much older than Anakin when she became involved with Han.

 

I thought it was a bit strange for a 12-13 year old Padme to have feelings for a 9 year old Anakin in TPM. It didn't really bother me, though.

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she didn't..

it wasn't until AOTC she had "feelings" (if you meant it in that way) for him

"..since you came back into my life"

 

Opinion noted. I respectfully disagree.

 

care to post some of your opinions, quotes on why you disagree?

(no that wasn't me being an *** just genuinly interested if I missed something from TPM)

 

I don't see Padme's feelings in TPM go beyond friendship or affection she'd feel for a younger brother.

 

that's what I got from TPM.

 

I'm a whopping six years older than my wife. I'm glad she'll be around when I need help getting dressed in about thirty years.

But yeah, don't see the issue here. It'd actually be strange if Anakin was the same age/older-a big part of padme's role is keeping his paranoia in check. Younger people usually don't do that for people who are older than them.

 

The only thing that gets me is how Anakin has feelings for a woman he hasn't seen in over 10 years...

 

Shrugs. Infatuation and projection can keep you going and going and going. It seems more realistic for a guy who's basically living in a monastery to get wrapped around a woman like that; plus of course Anakin's literally known he was going to marry her one day since he was 10.

 

But he had loads of Jedi females that must have crossed his path. What makes padme special?

 

I'm sure all the Jedi females were equally uninterested.

 

That's one of the things that could have worked better if Lucas had stuck to his original plan of having a 12 year old Anakin. A boy who's just going through puberty meets a slightly older, beautiful girl, unlike anyone he'd seen before... It's natural he has on crush on her that continues through his teenage years in the restrictive environment of the Jedi Order.

 

yeah the whole "I've been a bit besotted with for 10 years thing" is odd in a way.

Especially since Jdi can apparently sleep with anyone

I look at it in a "will of the force kind of way"

it was a force bond between them in order for Leia and Luke to be born.

 

Sex isn't love, Sistros. Come on now.

 

eh i still go by the force bond thing

 

I don't mind that. ROTS bears it out to some degree with their seeming telepathic contact when Anakin is ordered to stay in the temple.

 

Her feelings are empathy, kindness, sympathy for his difficult path, gratitude for what he did for her planet and her personally. he was selfless and brave and she admired him, he was a special child.