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Padmes_love_slave24 Registered: Mar '03	Date Posted: 8/21/05 6:17pm Subject: RE: All for Padme Amidala!!!!!
	darth_bood posted: I think Padme is the personification of love and hope Couldn't have said it better myself, I get all sad every time I watch ROTS and I have to see Padme die -----signature----- The internet you'll never find a more wretched hive of scum and villainy People who follow consensus opinions are mindless sheep! South Park SUCKS! Go Bears! LOTR=Cure for Insomnia!
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lord_S Registered: Apr '05	Date Posted: 8/22/05 7:47am Subject: RE: All for Padme Amidala!!!!!
	yes me too -----signature----- do what must be done Lord Vader, do not hesitate, show no mercy love Padmé love Maria Sharapova
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lord_S Registered: Apr '05	Date Posted: 8/22/05 7:52am Subject: RE: All for Padme Amidala!!!!!
	my favorite scenes with padmé are: at the lake on naboo in ep2, the wedding, the first scene with padme in ep3 when she tells she's pregnant, the scene with nakin and padme before anakin went to palpatine's office and strikes against windu -----signature----- do what must be done Lord Vader, do not hesitate, show no mercy love Padmé love Maria Sharapova
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MissPadme Registered: Jul '98	Date Posted: 8/23/05 7:04pm Subject: RE: All for Padme Amidala!!!!!
	My favorite Padmé/Amidala moments... TPM: The Senate speech, her attempt to get Boss Nass to become her ally, and the whole sequence where she literally re-takes her castle. AOTC: Any moment when she's with Anakin, heh heh. Actually, I think that for pure emotion, her love pledge is my favorite and for pure action, when she fought the nexu. ROTS: Telling Anakin she's preggers, her conversation with Obi-Wan, and (sob) when she tries to get Anakin to turn back to the light. Beyond that is too damn sad . --MissPadme -----signature----- http://lazypadawan.livejournal.com The Star Wars Prequel Appreciation Society http://starwarsprequelappreciationsociety.wordpress.com/ I spent too much on collectibles! Where's my bailout?
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Anapad_Nabooine Registered: Jun '05	Date Posted: 8/26/05 7:07pm Subject: RE: All for Padme Amidala!!!!!
	Hiya! It's been a little while, but Pad is never far from my thoughts when I'm thinking of SW. It's just that I'm kinda obsessed with another character ...but I still love Padme! My favorite Amidalan scenes. Hmmm? I like just about all of them! My memory needs refreshing - which means I need to watch the saga again in it's entirety. And soon! But let's see... TPM...each time Padme spoke as Queen of Naboo in that commanding tone. Just loved it in light of the fact that she was so young and yet so mature and dedicated to her people. AOTC...the deleted scene included on the dvd when she's home visiting her family and talking about Anakin briefly with her sister. And when she and Ani are sitting in the grass talking. ROTC...when she's having this dark sense of foreboding at the same time that Anakin is wrestling intensely with his dilemma at the Temple just before he decides to follow Mace after all. She seems to 'catch' his torment and realizes that something is very wrong with her husband. And in the Senate meeting hall, her comment about the end of democracy. -----signature----- "There is no other way....He was meant to help you. " ~ Shmi "Do not be disturbed by the clamor of the world that passes like a shadow. " ~ Saint Claire Padmé Amidala http://boards.theforce.net/star_wars_community/b10012/20635672/p1
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Qui-Dawn Registered: Jul '00	Date Posted: 8/26/05 7:54pm Subject: RE: All for Padme Amidala!!!!!
	Oh, aye - and her bitterness, regret and genuine grief are so clear to see at that moment, too....that singular comment of "So this is how liberty dies...with thunderous applause!" just seems to ring with such pain and regret....and small wonder why, too; I mean, here Padme has been working and fighting, really her entire life, for freedom....to uphold the noble, ideal principles of the Republic....always, to do what was right, and to act with caring and compassion. First, she fought for the freedom of her people as a daring guerilla partisan - taking matters into her own hands when the Senate failed her - then later, yes, as a Senator....she did take the fight into rather a completely different arena, a different method of battle - but she was as fervent and stubborn there as ever before, and was always unfailingly working hard to uphold those ideals she lived by....and, it's quite clear, also believed in completely. Even during the war, after all, if she had become all cynical and grown to feel that the Republic wasn't even worth saving anymore, then she'd not have been trying every single tack possible, exploring every avenue, in order to end the fighting....stop the killing on both sides....and to see peace, real and genuine peace, brought back to the Republic she has long so loved and devoted herself to. She cared enough to keep fighting, even against those increasingly insurmountable odds....even when she knew that the Senate itself was rife with corruption, and it must've seemed as though nothing of value could ever get done there.....even as she was watching other politicians drag the Republic through the muck and mire....still, she kept with it, kept fighting and upholding her noble ideals and beliefs - because it was the right thing to do, and for her, even to the end - the only thing to do. And that takes courage and resolve and pure strength beyond all measure....and it is amazing to see in her! So of course, yeah, when she's sitting there in the Senate in "Sith" and helplessly watching as Palpatine essentially declares real democracy to be at an end....the democracy and freedom that Padme herself hsa been fighting for, all these years, just - gone, in an instant, thanks to Palpy's formation of the Empire....from the ashes of the Republic, to boot....she's watching freedom, real peace and prosperity being stripped away, all the noble principles and ideals of the Republic - and her own, too - eroded, and crushed beneath the bootjack heel of Palpatine, his newly-formed Empire and his lust for power and domination....and that's just got to be a terrible, dispiriting blow for Padme to cope with, right then and there. All her life's beloved work seems almost to not matter then, as she witnesses the formation of a cruel, tyrannical Empire....and worse still, everyone else is applauding it! They're glad about it, willingly accepting slavery and tyranny....but only Padme knows better. She's the one seeing clearly enough, after all, to recognize the death of true, actual freedom....she knows peace and prosperity when she sees it, and she also knows what the lack of it is like....and that's what she's forced to witness right there, and everyone else is cheering it....and that, too, Padme has just got to find completely disheartening - a real tragedy, too, that everyone else seems so happy and eager to forget the noble, good principles and ideals of the Republic that once was....the Republic that Padme herself had struggled to save, almost singlehandedly. Perhaps there's no more cruelly mocking, brutally ironic way for her efforts to be "rewarded"....all she's long cared about is freedom, and prosperity, and genuine peace - and now all that is gone, all her efforts as though for nothing....and that's got to break her brave, caring, compassionate and noble heart in just so many ways. No one, after all, deserves to see the terrible end of everything they've worked so long, so hard to save....everything they've fought for so passionately and bravely, simply because they do care so much about it.... Poor Padme.... Dawn. -----signature----- Anakin Skywalker is shagadelic! "Oh, the things you do to get me alone." - Anakin "Stop talking." - Padme The Rambling Court Bard of the A&P Defenders Royal Court Hayden is MY Love Muffin
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MissPadme Registered: Jul '98	Date Posted: 8/26/05 8:04pm Subject: RE: All for Padme Amidala!!!!!
	Oh yeah, her line "this is how liberty dies" is a classic. Speaking of liberty dying, here's something to poke your brain. One of the major themes of the prequel trilogy is the use and misuse of power, both political and spiritual/supernatural (the Force). Padmé is interesting because she is one of the few characters who did have power but voluntarily relinquished it as queen and was ready to do the same again when she planned to give birth on Naboo. She personifies the just and proper use of power, only when it is necessary and not for self-aggrandizing purposes. --MissPadme -----signature----- http://lazypadawan.livejournal.com The Star Wars Prequel Appreciation Society http://starwarsprequelappreciationsociety.wordpress.com/ I spent too much on collectibles! Where's my bailout?
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ChellyD77 Registered: Jul '05	Date Posted: 8/28/05 8:04pm Subject: RE: All for Padme Amidala!!!!!
	Right, but i thought it was a tradition for the young queens of naboo to get married and have children right after they served? I heard that somewhere. Padme was actually breaking tradition by not settling down right away. also, question: in the scene where she and anakin are standing at the window in ROTS and anakin makes the decision to follow mace, I was wondering, are padme and anakin connecting through the force? I was thinking maybe this was possible because the twins are inside her body, and she might, while pregnant, be able to make a weak force connection with him. is this whats happening? -----signature----- "I love how we at acting school call our edcation 'training'... because it makes me feel so much more like a Jedi" -Me
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Qui-Dawn Registered: Jul '00	Date Posted: 8/29/05 12:22am Subject: RE: All for Padme Amidala!!!!!
	Mmmmmmm....I'm not sure that I've ever heard such a thing about the past queens of Naboo....don't recall seeing it in any of the literature I've got, for instance. And I'd highly doubt that such a thing would be "tradition" in any case.... I mean, yeah, it's something that past rulers, once they've retired from that position, have done....feeling the need for that sort of life after ruling, and even after politics, and what have you....but it'd just be something that they chose to do, not necessarily a "tradition" in any sense of the word. And it was Padme's choice as well, up until she met an all-grown-up and very appealingly desirable Anakin in "Clones", to devote her life to public service, as a Senator, even after she had served her two terms as queen. She'd thought that would satisfy her needs in life, and be enough for her....but deep down, all along, I think she knew it really wasn't - it's just that she needed someone to confront her head-on with that singular realization. And fortunately, Anakin did just that. Up until then, yes, she'd probably felt that her life in the public service would suffice....even though her family, or her sister Sola at any rate, were probably worrying about her in that regard, wonderin gif what she said, on the surface she wanted....was what she truly desired after all. They knew her well enough to suspect something of what her heart truly wanted, or at least, what it was trying to tell her but her head kept denying it. Maybe they were just waiting for her to realize it too.... And what you were wondering, about the scene where Padme and Anakin do seem to sense each other's presence, however physically distant they are, and they have that moment of intimate, almost desperate, yearning connection....well, yes, certainly there's something to be said for the consideration that carrying the child(ren) of the Chosen One did rack up her Force sensitivity, on even the most rudimentary, instinctual or subconscious of levels....making her more receptive to such sensations, that much more sensitive to it....quite possible, yes. Of course, when you get right down to the heart o' the matter, though....what really allowed them to connect like that, what truly bound them together, heart and soul....and allowed each to seek out the other, no matter the distance that separated them....was, quite simply, love. The love that they shared, and which inextricably intertwined their souls and fates, was truly a force unto itself....and bonded them together in the deepest, most profound of ways. After all....love itself can bridge such distances of time and space as nothing else could ever do....love can allow these things, make possible that which might otherwise seem unfathomable....but when two souls are joined as one, when each completes the other, makes them both whole - when love binds two people together so closely that each can feel what the other does, all their joy and sadness, sorrow and exaltation....love, ultimately, is what makes it possible. That's what Padme and Anakin have, no matter what else....that is what makes the impossible possible, and allows them to do and to have these things. It....well, it just is, really. brain is being noodled in right good fashion Dawn. -----signature----- Anakin Skywalker is shagadelic! "Oh, the things you do to get me alone." - Anakin "Stop talking." - Padme The Rambling Court Bard of the A&P Defenders Royal Court Hayden is MY Love Muffin
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MissPadme Registered: Jul '98	Date Posted: 8/29/05 7:54pm Subject: RE: All for Padme Amidala!!!!!
	Lucas said in an interview sometime around when AOTC came out that generally people on Naboo settle down young, so by Naboo standards, Padmé is a bit of an old maid. However, that is not the reason why Padmé rejected an attempt to extend her reign beyond the constitutionally-mandated term limit. She could have stayed in power longer, even with her people's approval, but still had enough respect for the use of power to turn it down. It's not everything to her. --MissPadme -----signature----- http://lazypadawan.livejournal.com The Star Wars Prequel Appreciation Society http://starwarsprequelappreciationsociety.wordpress.com/ I spent too much on collectibles! Where's my bailout?
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lord_S Registered: Apr '05	Date Posted: 9/1/05 12:11pm Subject: RE: All for Padme Amidala!!!!!
	-----signature----- do what must be done Lord Vader, do not hesitate, show no mercy love Padmé love Maria Sharapova
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anakin_skywalker_02 Registered: Jun '05	Date Posted: 9/1/05 9:37pm Subject: RE: All for Padme Amidala!!!!!
	I love Padme too!! It's such a pity that most fans don't care for her much. Come on, she's the wife of Anakin Shywalker and the mother of Luke and Leia. If she's not important to the Saga, then who is??? Many people have said that her character is weak in ROTS compared to TPM and AOTC. I blame that on her lack of screen time. I don't think her character has changed. Rather, her priorities have changed. Instead of her work, her personal life is now what occupies her mind. It's so tragic that Anakin let her down in the worst possible way. When you guys first heard of the Luke and Leia's mum, did you guys imagine her to be someone like Padme?? I totally did. She is indeed beautiful but sad. And the idea of something being beautiful but sad is so tragic, just like how ROTS and the PT are. -----signature----- "I've been dying a little bit each day since you came back into my life." "You're breaking my heart!" -Padme to Anakin
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lord_S Registered: Apr '05	Date Posted: 9/2/05 8:28am Subject: RE: All for Padme Amidala!!!!!
	yes I imagined that it would be her, she's very beautiful and also sad, I really love this character!! -----signature----- do what must be done Lord Vader, do not hesitate, show no mercy love Padmé love Maria Sharapova
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MissPadme Registered: Jul '98	Date Posted: 9/5/05 7:08pm Subject: RE: All for Padme Amidala!!!!!
	Now it's hard for me to imagine anyone else being Luke and Leia's mommy . --MissPadme -----signature----- http://lazypadawan.livejournal.com The Star Wars Prequel Appreciation Society http://starwarsprequelappreciationsociety.wordpress.com/ I spent too much on collectibles! Where's my bailout?
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Shelley Registered: Sep '01	Date Posted: 9/5/05 9:29pm Subject: RE: All for Padme Amidala!!!!!
	Anapad_Nabooine posted: ROTC...when she's having this dark sense of foreboding at the same time that Anakin is wrestling intensely with his dilemma at the Temple just before he decides to follow Mace after all. She seems to 'catch' his torment and realizes that something is very wrong with her husband. Especially with that dark, creepy music playing on the soundtrack. -----signature----- A bona fide conservative exposes Ann Coulter as the liar, bigot, extremist, and hatemonger that she is: http://www.bradblog.com/archives/00001939.htm Protect America...impeach Bush.
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