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StarWarsfan80
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2/2/06 8:07am
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No Padme didn't know that she was carrying twins
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TomPiltoff
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2/2/06 8:10am
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Padme didn't go for checkups because, being a Senator in the Galactic Republic, word would get out that she was pregnant. Everybody would be wondering about the father, and they'd be watching every time Anakin showed up at her apartment.
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Golwen
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2/5/06 2:25pm
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I heard (take this with a grain of salt) that she had her prenatal check-ups with a droid medic and requested only to know if the baby was healthy and nothing else. Therefore,the droid, doing precisely as she had asked didn't inform her that there were two kids. I know that sounds very lame (and it is) considering as a doctor just had to check the fetus' heartbeat to determine if there are twins (two babies means two heartbeats).
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The_Chibi_Kiriyama
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2/5/06 2:39pm
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Yanksfan posted:
Yeah, force-keeper, but there's more to prenatal care than finding out the sex of your baby. You still go in for doctor's exams, etc. even if you don't want to know. And in the course of these exams a twin would eventually have been discovered. And that's something a medical expert *would* pass on, regardless. You never hear prospective parents say, "And don't tell us if we're having a multibirth--we want it to be a surprise!" You know?
And please, I'm not trying to get all critical on ROTS. The truth is, I loved this movie. It's just somthing I wondered about while watching it.
This is the same technology that requires a women to be awoken from an unconcious state to deliver a baby. Lucas makes a lot of streches in common sense for the sake of drama. Like you said, there's no register of shock on her face when a second one is coming on the way, but then again she's sprinting around like nothing on Mustafar so maybe we should let more leeway for the less realistic sense of her state of being George employs. She was dying anyways, so it could have been triplets and she probably wouldn't have had the slightst concern.
But I for once dont' agree with Duggy- there are much worse threads like that horrid 'Racism in ROTS' insinuation than this one. Healthy discussion of the tidbits in good nature should be fine with moderation and temerity.
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Tiershon_Fett
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Oh come on! Of course she knew. They can clone a whole person and go through hyperspace. I'm sure they have sonograms. You can tell there's two heartbeats after the third month.
She didn't tell Anakin because it was enough of a bombshell for the boy to find that his wife was seven months pregnant and she only bothered to tell him then. She knows Anakin hates life changing surprises.
Anakin: We're not going to worry about anything right now. *kissy kissy* This is a happy moment. The happiest of my life.
Padme: Good, I am doubling the joy. I'm carrying twins!
Anakin: um, er, uhn.... HOW COULD DO THIS TO ME!!!!!!! Are you NUTS?!?!? I'm only 23! Other guys my age just got out of college! I can't have BABIES!!! YOU'VE RUINED MY LIFE!
*the entire senate floor starts looking around, Palps smiles contentedly*
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darth-sinister
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2/5/06 11:21pm
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Padme didn't know, because she didn't want to know the sex of the baby. And thus the revelation of twins is preserved for the first timers and for the characters.
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brook_33
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2/6/06 12:22am
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In a cut scene Padme and Anakin refer to the sex of THE BABY, not THE BABIES.
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darthvaderv
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I dont think Padme knew. I did think the names were almost random mainly because of the really bad acting in that scene. Perhaps she did prepare for the names afterall that's what most parents do. It was just so, well.. Badly done. I think if Padme knew Anakin would be the first to be told.
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DINVADER_RETURNS
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2/6/06 8:30am
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I did think the names were almost random mainly because of the really bad acting in that scene.
Explain how and why u thought the acting was bad there?
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darthvaderv
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2/6/06 8:31am
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DINVADER_RETURNS posted:
I did think the names were almost random mainly because of the really bad acting in that scene.
Explain how and why u thought the acting was bad there?
 Do you think the acting is good there?
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DINVADER_RETURNS
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2/6/06 10:00am
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I had no problem with it.
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darthvaderv
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DINVADER_RETURNS posted:
I had no problem with it.
Good for you. I didn't like it. 
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darth-sinister
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2/6/06 10:42am
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All of the acting in Star Wars is bad. Even the holy OT.
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