PT Isnt Anakin a bit too young for Padme?

All I'm saying is that Anakin met tons of hot politicians and damsels-in-distress while training under Obi-Wan. Toss in Aayla Secura and Barriss Offee and I don't see why
Padme isn't long forgotten.

 

Anakin had dreams about her. He can see the future, after all.

 

Barriss Offee?

you mean the one dressed as a nun?

yup I can totally see why Anakin would think woah..




edit: nevermind I was thinking Luminara

 

This is just my speculation, but I think it always meant a great deal to Anakin that Padmé noticed him and cared about him when he was just a slave boy. When they first meet, even Qui-Gon and Jar Jar essentially ignore Anakin and yet Padmé stops and speaks to him just as she would anyone else. For Anakin who desperately wants to be seen as a person ("I'm a person and my name is Anakin!"), this would have really impacted him I imagine.

When he later meets politicians, damsels in distress, and other female Jedi, though, they would have seen him as another Jedi (and one with a great deal of potential at that) or maybe even the "Chosen One". But Padmé saw him when he was still a nobody and she still cared regardless.

 

You're trying to apply logic to love?

 

Yes they can, according to Lucas. They just can't have like, steady relationships like marriage. So it's like a friends with bennies thing.

 

The force or something others will say.

I don't know, and to be honesty Han was 10 or so years older than Leia and that creeper me out the first time I learned that. Anyway she is only five years it is not like she is 40 something. Then we can discuss how weird things are.

 

The love story was awful anyway. He kills children! Let's marry him. Anyone ever notice that Hayden Chrsitensen looks nothing like Jake Lloyd.

 

anakinfansince1983 - Report it - just like the RLM-revisited threads.

 

American Reunion.

 

Have you ever read The Approaching Storm?

 

There's likely a wee bit of misogyny at work, too, unfortunately. Ya know...

Older women shouldn't "hit" on younger guys; but older guys can hit on younger women just fine.

(Even more bizarre since Padme never really pursued Anakin in a sexual or romantic way).

Though I'd say that lack of familiarity, which you ascribe to the discomfort, is also part-and-parcel of the issue, yes.

That's a neat observation and sorta true. I should just point out, however, that Padme is looking vacantly around the shop initially. It's actually Anakin who takes Padme by surprise by piping up with a question: "Are you an angel?" This elicits a monosyllabic "what?" from Padme (significant given her high speech as monarch/diplomat/tactician/planner), which is the same sound Obi-Wan makes when Anakin challenges his authority in his first scene with Padme in the next movie, and which Anakin himself makes, as Vader, after his wingmen go kaput -- courtesy of a returning smuggler and his Wookiee co-pilot -- in the Battle of Yavin. All these characters have the capacity to be caught off-guard. And don't overlook the reverse: Anakin innocently inquiring after Padme, unconcerned (and unaware) of her royal deportment and duties, guilelessly associating her with "the most beautiful creatures in the universe", which must surely have left its mark in her heart also.

 

Force tickling some fancies, I would.

 

Padme flat out dismisses him after seeing him again for the first time in 10 years with "Annie, you'll always be that little boy I knew on Tatooine". She is not attracted to him at all when she sees him again. It's basically him showing off by floating pears and little floaty decorative orbs that she starts to look at him differently.

 

Corny as that angel-line sounded at first, it was deft nonetheless.

***

anakinfansince1983 I am a graduate. She made me a playboy before I even knew what one was.

 

Except for the fact that he was calling her an alien.

 

Nah, I have no problem with the age gap.
I have more of a problem with the angel thing. It reminds me of the angel or whore dilemma: In the mind of certain men or women the partner is either angel or whore, pure and serene or dirty and wild, not a real person, an ideal, a fantasy creature. I'm afraid Anakin might have perceived his spouse as such a fantasy creature.

 

Calling her an angel (creatures from the moons of Iego) was just a bit flirting. Anakin didn't really believe Padme was one. Angels (Diathims) look very different compared to Humans.
http://starwars.wikia.com/wiki/Human
http://starwars.wikia.com/wiki/Diathim

 

Some of y'all are over analyzing Anakin's comment. He was just paying her a compliment by calling her beautiful.

 

He said he did think about her every day for ten years and we must keep in mind he barely knew her after TPM. IMO that points more to obsession than to love.

 

In the real world brief relationships (even of the platonic variety) can stick with people for years without the thoughts of times gone by becoming a life-crippling obsession. I see no reason the same shouldn't go for a, you know, wistful space fantasy where a young slave turned knight can't help but hold on to thoughts of a strong, beautiful queen who showed him kindness above and beyond what others of that time did.