darth-sinister posted:Anakin: "I thought you said that we couldn't fall in love. That it would destroy us." Padme: "Our lives are already about to be destroyed." She wasn't whistling dixie.
thread starter posted:I always loved Leia in the OT because she was a strong female character. THen came along the PT, and there was another one - a queen at a young age, a fighter, putting her life at risk, all qualities that make for a strong leader. However, in RotS, she kinda goes *boom* when Anakin turns bad. Yes, it might have been the hormones. Having never been pregnant, I don't know what that can do to you. But still - was anyone else sorely dissapointed by the reactions that Padmé had and the way she dealt with what was going on?
darth-sinister posted:Yet another story of dying of a broken heart. "Giselle", the story of a nobleman who falls in love with a peasent girl, who is exposed as a liar by the gamekeeper, who is also in love with the girl. She dies of a broken heart at the end of the first act. Literature, plays, films, television are all rife with women dying of a broken heart. So Padme dying of a broken heart comes from such mediums. In a sense, yes. It does seem rather harsh, but Lucas wanted to get across that Padme was the bad mother. Something that we were told back when AOTC was being made, which was that there's a good mother and a bad mother. The good mother is Shmi and it seems the bad mother is Padme, in a sense. She sucumbs to her emotions, only it destroys her in a different way than it does Anakin. Hence Leia has to redeem Padme's memory, but showing that she can love and not fall apart. She comes close to losing it when Luke reveals everything to her. She starts to fall apart emotionally, but she doesn't go all the way. She pulls back and becomes detached enough to avoid her mother's fate.