Saga Leia remembering Padme?

The point is that what Anakin saw came true, he just had no clue that he was the cause of it. That's why he flips his **** when Palpatine tells him that she died and it was his fault.

 

In other words...
Anakin being dumb.

 

Exactly. That's the entire point. Someone trying too much to evade the devil leads them directly into the devil's arms. Some peope just won't accept that, even though their own argumentation is totally inconsistent, randomly jumping from one point to another.

At first they always whine about Anakin believing in his visions, although the accuracy of Force visions is excessively made clear in the Star Wars films. Anakin's first vision comes true, Luke believes in his vision, not even the Jedi questioned Force visions at the time. Anakin's second visions also came true, completely blewing their argumentions ("how could he believe in his vision ?!?!?!?!").

If you point that out, though, their argumentations suddenly changes, out of the blue sky whining about Anakin's misguided decisions following these visions (which is a whole nother story). As if bad guys have never acted stupidly...Tarkin not leaving the DS, Vader constantly undererstimating Luke, the Emperor idioticly allowing himself to be thrown into the reactor shaft...the pinnacle of intelligence, right?

Evil people acting stupidly is the key to almost every story told on film. Becaus being bad (evil) is bad. And you know what?
People are not "born" or "created" as bad or evil, they start becoming evil by making their first evil decisions. That's what Anakin did in ROTS.

We are supposed to talk about Leia's memories, by the way.

 

That's the point. He couldn't know for certain what was what, which is what Yoda tried to warn him about. But because of what happened and because of his own feelings, he did what he did. The same way that Luke did what he did. He didn't know what was going on, because he could see was what was in his head and reacted based on his emotions. That's why the Jedi forbade attachments and emotional connections. Anakin was not the first and certainly not the last to do what he did.

 

Tarkin and the Emperor were more over-confident than out-and-out stupid.

In the OT we're told that the future is always in motion, are we not? A vision is a possible scenario, not a certainty. Anakin has had previous visions come to fruition, so it's understandable that he would be terrified by further visions involving Padme.

Anakin is led to believe that he can save Padme from the fate portrayed in the visions by some mysterious power offered by the dark side. However, when push comes to shove, he's told straight up that this power isn't actually available, but that at some point, ya know, maybe together we can identify it. It's at that point that he moves from understandable anxiety to utter stupidity.

 

Are you one of those who want the leading characters to always make the right choice and who always know the right answer or who always find the right answer? Is that your idea of well written characterization?

 

This is not fundamentally different from Vader's belief that working in concert with a turned Luke would help him achieve the ability to heal himself. We've seen another example of this kind of thing, in the form of a Force ritual requiring the participation of two Sith, in the recently-released episodes of TCW.

 

Perhaps. I don't recall that taking place in the films. Can you enlighten me?

 

According to Pablo, TCW is canon.

 

That's cool. Who's Pablo?

I'm not being facetious by the way. These things are just unfamiliar to me.

 

Probably through the force, and who says he didn't remember anything about his mother, at least subconsciously, remember how he was adamant Vader still had good inside him? Remember what Padme said right at the end

 

Oh, I see. You want the leading characters to be ideal. Don't become a writer.

 

http://starwars.wikia.com/wiki/Pablo_Hidalgo

 

Eh…different strokes for different folks.

I love Luke and Obi-Wan but don't care much at all for Han. Anakin and Padmé are among my favorite characters though.

They're great, in my opinion, because Lucas does a lot more to build up their backstories and we see the people and events that shaped them, which helps put their actions in a broader and more interesting context.

 

I wouldn't say that Anakin was stupid though -- he knew the consequences of his actions, he just tried to rationalize them. It wasn't a lack of intelligence that made him make the decisions he made, but a lack of emotional strength and moral toughness. He's not willing to sacrifice to do the right thing, so he tells himself that he's ending the war and will create a peaceful empire as justification for his lust for power and control.

Padmé, meanwhile, doesn't have as big of a role in this film, but the choices she does make are the result of human frailty and trying to protect the people she loves. Honestly, though, the sad truth is that she has little power left in the film, with Palpatine rendering her position of Senator basically obsolete and Anakin refusing to listen to her.

 

And once again, a thread about Princess Leia's memories heads off-topic into the same PT specific material, just like this thread from a month ago:

http://boards.theforce.net/threads/details-on-leia-remembering-her-mother.50017875/page-7

Locking.