PT Isnt Anakin a bit too young for Padme?

Why do people still even wonder about this? He didn't LOVE love her until AOTC, where he was 19. By that point in a person's life, 5 years makes very little difference.

 

Too young, no. Too immature, yeah. When in real life does a guy with a teenage mentality marrying someone with an adult mindset ever work out?

Well, okay. Most relationships like that don't end with the guy going on a genocidal rampage and throttling his wife while screaming at the top of his lungs, but still.

 

Yeah Padme was a pervert.

 

My ex wife was four years older than me. Was never an issue.

 

True. I was 10 in the fifth grade, and certainly by that time had plenty of puppy-dog crushes (which as you point out are quite different than love). I think as adults we have a tendency to forget that we had those kinds of crushes that early in life, but if we really think back, there is the realization that we did.

Padme doesn't have "adult" type of feelings for Anakin until the first time she sees him in AOTC (which by that age wouldn't be inappropriate).

 

Unless Padme's a pedophile and Anakin's a teleiophile xD

 

Attack of the Clones: A Story of "Adult-type Feelings"

 

Isn't the difference only five years? 19 and 24? Not such a big difference. That's totally normal in some cultures, and it used to be in America and many other countries. Not to mention we're talking about a long time ago in a galaxy far, far away. Anakin was also a Jedi warrior--so I imagine he was stronger, more mature, and and therefore more appealing (among other things) than your typical 19 year old pot smoking teenager who works at MacDonalds in real life.

 

Yes, the difference is only five years between them. I wholeheartedly agree Anakin was too immature for Padmé, so I'm still left wondering how she ever fell in love with him. Oh well, Anakin did grow up during the war... until he decided to go completely nuts and start killing everyone.

 

Exactly. Not only is he good looking, he has a lot of appeal that few in the whole universe have. Padme probably made all of the Jedi groupies that swoon over Anakin very jealous.

 

No, that is the porn satire version.

 

I thought the idea was the audience was supposed to be able to relate to the character in some way so we actually give a **** about what ends up happening to him?

 

You can relate to people that can fly, and throw things with their mind and flip backwards straight up 50 feet into a somersault, and that can read minds and so on? I can't. Or rulers of planets at 14 either.

I watch movies to be entertained, not to relate to the characters, rather, to watch them.

What the PT lacks is a true protagonist, but other than that, it's not that hard to understand. Two young people that are precocious that are surrounded by much older people and peers, and that had weird childhoods (and more responsibility than they should have had) and not a lot of time for socializing at bars and parties. The "fun" things ordinary people do are highly politicized functions to them, that both have to work and be on extreme alert on. Yet, they can be themselves with each other. They can be young and irreverent in a world of Palpatines, Mace Windus, and Sio Bibbles.

 

That's actually a really great reading -- especially the bold bit.

Anakin roaming the nightclub... ya. Maybe it was put in -- in part -- to emphasize just how different he is to not only most people *in* the story, but *outside* of it, too. The contemporary quality of the club heightens differences between *this* world and our own.

Yes, this is a nineteen-year-old guy with raging hormones. Yes, this is a guy with a bit of a complex who argues with his parent figure. But he's also an overgrown kid with superpowers who has pledged himself to stagnating warrior-monks tethered to a dying super state on a machine-city planet.

In other words, the guy is uniquely burdened, and his focus is both wider and narrower than the viewer watching it all take place. Think of that woman checking Anakin out as he strolls around looking for Zam. He doesn't give her a second glance. He's a guy with bigger problems on his mind, a guy with bigger fish to fry.

It would warp anyone's perspective, wouldn't it?

 

That quote is key in this conversation. There is no mention of feelings for Anakin in TPM, though little boy Anakin seems to go gaga for her in his little 5 minute conversation with her.

 

in a western culture yes he is too young, but there are many different cultures to where we don't know what is and isn't acceptable. on tatooine or naboo maybe this was very acceptable

 

If he's too young for a woman five years older than him, then what's 20-something Leia doing with 30-something Han? Practically cradle robbing at his advanced age.

 

What the title of this thread says: "Isn't Anakin a bit too young for Padmé?"

What the title of this thread really means: "Isn't Anakin a bit too immature for Padmé?"

Because honestly, his age wouldn't even be an issue if their genders were reversed.

 

Since when did five years become a huge age difference? When you're over twenty, five years is nothing.

 

Age matters not.





- He's too old.
- Hm. When nine hundred years old you reach, look as good you will not!
/LM

 

yep, aside from the cultural post i made, would anybody turn their hears at a couple that was 44 and 49?

 

It's not so much the age difference it's more Anakin's attitude. I defy somebody to watch the scene in TPM where Anakin starts talking about Angels in Watto's shop and tell me that's not creepy. It's equally creepy when Anakin meets Padme in AOTC for the first time in 10 years and he says that he's though about her every day since they last met or something like that. Does no one else find that unsettling?

 

Agreed. None of it is creepy - especially a nine year old honestly wondering if the pretty girl standing before him is an angel. I find that endearing, myself.
Ten years later, he tells her: "Not a day has gone by when I haven't thought of you". I take that as a slight exaggeration. He's probably been thinking about her often and might have obsessed over her a bit, but to me, that's not creepy. Considering the circumstances of their first meeting, I'd say it's natural.





- Are you an angel?
- I'm Luke Skywalker. I'm here to rescue you.
/LM