PT How much time passes between the beginning of the events in Revenge of the Sith to the end of it?

How much time in the lives of the characters in the movie passes from the beginning to the end of the movie?

 

Probably not a lot

 

But wasn't Padme like 6 months pregnant at the beginning of the movie?

 

Do we know anything about the duration of pregnancy in AGFFA?

 

I've always harbored the suspicion that the "humans" in AGFFA might not have the exact same characteristics as we do IRL, but it's just a suspicion.

 

I always thought it was a given that Luke and Leia were born premature.
The doctors did say they had to "operate" to save the babies.

 

Roughly about 6 days.

Day 1
-Anakin and Obi-Wan rescue Palpatine
-Anakin kills Dooku
-Anakin finds out Padme is pregnant
-Anakin has his nightmare

Day 2
-Anakin consults with Yoda
-Palpatine recommends Anakin as his personal representative
-Obi-Wan tells Anakin about his mission to spy on Palpatine
-Yoda leaves for Kashyyyk
-Anakin goes to Opera House to talk to Palpatine

Day 3
- Obi-Wan and Anakin say goodbye while Obi-Wan heads to Utapau.
- Anakin tells Padme that "He's not the Jedi he should be."
-Obi-Wan roughly makes it to Utapau around this time.
-The transition between Day 3 and 4 is cut from the film, but Day 3 ends with Padme and the Delegation of 2000 confronting Palpatine while Anakin serves as his bodyguard.

Day 4
-Obi-Wan and Grievous engage in combat as the Battle of Utapau begins.
-Palpatine reveals to Anakin he is a Sith.
-Mace confronts Palpatine
-Anakin falls to the dark side and attacks the Temple
-Order 66 is initiated

Day 5
-Vader heads to Mustafar.
-Obi-Wan and Yoda go to Coruscant to stop the beacon from luring other Jedi.
-Palpatine declares the Empire
-Obi-Wan reveals the truth about Anakin to Padme
-Padme leaves for Mustafar during Coruscant twilight.
-Anakin/Vader and Obi-Wan duel on Mustafar
-Palpatine vs Yoda

Day 6
-Padme gives birth to Luke and Leia, then dies.
-Vader is being reconstructed on Coruscant
-At this point, possibly a bigger timejump between Vader and Palpatine watching the Death Star construction and Bail returning to Alderaan with Leia, while Obi-Wan goes to Tatooine.

 

But wasn't Padme's pregnant belly much smaller when she told Anakin she was pregnant than it was when she was giving birth?

 

She had a big lunch.

 

Not really. She was just wearing more figure-concealing clothing than the outfits she wore in her apartment or on Mustafar. The ROTS Visual Dictionary, released in 2005, said she would wear dresses and cloaks that would hide her stomach in public.

 

I remember that, actually. How ironic that even before being born, Luke and Leia were already in hiding!

 

it sure seems like it. I always thought that ROTS took place over several months, but then the final Clone Wars episodes came out and confirmed it’s just a few days. I read somewhere that GL has stated it’s just a few days as well. I guess we’re supposed to assume padme hid her pregnancy with baggy gowns? I dunno

 

Anakin has been away fighting a lot so hasn't noticed her body change I guess

 

Plus, she’s trying to keep it a secret, so she’s gonna wear clothes that’ll conceal the ‘obviously pregnant belly’.

And sheesh, barely a week!? Good lord.Guess they’re not kidding with the phrase ‘a lot can happen in a week’.

 

According to Pablo Hidalgo, it’s 10 days.

 

I miss the old days of the original clone wars eu novels where we the fans came up with things like Corellia having a orbit longer than the galactic standard year and being such a contray people anyway so they did not synchronize to galatic standard

just to make Corran Horn's age in the X-wing novels work(he is supposed to be around Luke and Leia's age) with the fact that his father was stated to only be a padawan in Jedi trial which originally took place like 6 months before ROTS, otherwise Corran would have been the product of very young teenage parents one of whom was a few months into hiding from the Empires jedi hunters.

I think the consensus was Corellia had a orbit twice as long a galatic standard making Hal Horn an older padawan closer to Anakin's age.

 

I feel like when the film came out it was around 2 weeks so that would fit fairly closely to what Pablo has said that it was 10 days. That seems to make the most amount of sense because you'd have some travel to various systems like Utapau and Mustafar. Those places were pretty remote and I don't think Obi-Wan and Vader went there within just a matter of hours.

 

There's no way it could be months. If Anakin was stationed on Coruscant for months, since there's no hint hes been in any Clone Wars battles since Coruscant, that wouldn't make much sense to keep the Jedi and Republic's war hero away from the Outer Rim Sieges.

 

I don't think real time matters much when in hyperspace. Tatooine was supposedly "remote" as well, while Alderaan seemed to have been closer to the galaxy's center. But in ANH the "Falcon" couldn't have taken more than a few hours, a day at the most. It's never really explained in the movies, so time in SW is really pretty confusing and up to interpretation.
Vader going to Mustafar? I find it hard to imagine he spent weeks or months in a one-man fighter. I mean, even Jedi have human needs. Sure, bigger ships were well-equipped, but not ships like Jedi starfighters, X-Wings, TIEs etc. No, I think it was just a few hours as well. We should not confuse being in hyperspace with actual travel at the speed of light in real space. If simply going at lightspeed you really couldn't go anywhere at all in a galaxy. This has been discussed before. The "jump to lightspeed" MAY have been "bad writing", a "plot hole" or just a phrase commonly used in SW. It doesn't mean you keep traveling at the speed of light in real space. Like I said, that would not get you ANYWHERE. That "jump" means at a certain speed you can enter hyperspace, a higher dimension, alternate space or whatever you want to call it. Once there you can pretty much reach any point in the galaxy within a reasonable time.

 

You make some good points... my initial thinking was that traveling to Utapau and Mustafar took about a day max. I believe the film picks up quickly once Obi-Wan gets to Utapau but before that I just got the feeling that Anakin being back at the Temple and the spying on Palpatine was more than just a day or two. So maybe the last half of the film was over a couple days but the first half of the film was over about a week.

The time spent in a single man fighter didn't ever seem like a problem to me provided that the pilot was a Jedi or Sith that could put themselves into a low energy state to survive for an extended period.

 

I always imagined no more than a week. Probably a few days between the battle over Coruscant and Obi being sent away at least.

 

I think three weeks or month is the possible answer as they didn't show all the actions that the protagonists should do, just the essence. Of course, there are some ordinary days in which anything particularly interesting happened. It should be larger period however because the battle of Kashyyk and some other significant battles happened in this period (while some of them were only mentioned).
My speculation is that Luke and Leia were born in the first days of the ninth month. Why? The real pregnancy is generally confirmed without special "instruments" but in the traditional way in the third month. I think it is implied that Padme obviously while trying to hide her pregnancy didn't go to the doctor (metaphorically speaking) every day and decided to make it in more traditional way (obviously knowing that she is healthy). Otherwise she would know about the twins but maybe she used some anonymous service of standard medical droids with limited diagnosis: the mother is fine, the fruit is healthy. This is the only explanation. Perhaps in the time that she can confirm for sure that she is pregnant she would be alone in Coruscant (Anakin mentioned that he was like stranded in the Outer Rim for months and is not something she can tell him 'on the phone). So if she is like in 7th month during the events and if Luke and Leia were born in the beginning of the 9th month it works. This is the second proof to me that is approximately a month.

 

that timeline only works if you disregard the Clone Wars series. The final season confirms ROTS happens over several days.

 

As ROTS was made long before the last season of TCW, for me its internal logic works better. No because I disregard TCW in general, but I think that its creators should adapt to what it is done already. ROTS obviously presents period larger than few days.