PT Isnt Anakin a bit too young for Padme?

I'm only talking about their relationship in TPM when Anakin is a child and Padme is a teenager.

 

Their relationship did not start until AOTC.

 

Dude read my post that started this. I was never talking about Anakin and Padme's adult romantic relationship nor did I bring up Leia and Han at all. I was talking only about their relationship as friends in TPM.

 

People are actually complaining about a 5-year age difference between Anakin and Padme within the context of the friendship they form in The Phantom Menace... [Miz Voice]Really? Really? Really?[/Miz Voice]

There's absolutely nothing wrong with there being a 5-year age gap between Anakin and Padme in ANY context whatsoever.

 

Well then I guess it's settled because you said so.

 

I never had a problem with the age difference.

One thing I really appreciated about it was that it allowed Padmé to be introduced without immediately shoving her into the love interest slot. Anakin has a crush on her (with the most glaring evidence being him asking her if she's an angel), but she's not at all defined in TPM in a romantic light. If anything, Padmé behaves rather motherly towards Anakin such as when she tucks him in aboard the ship.

This has another advantage as well in that Lucas can establish that Anakin's love for Padmé really had an innocent beginning -- that he was smitten with her as a little boy and carried that image with him. I know some people have expressed a preference for Anakin and Padmé to have stayed in contact for those ten years between TPM and AOTC but I think the separation is good in the sense that it allows Padmé to more readily see Anakin in a light she had not considered him before.

Just my two cents.

 

"Isn't Anakin a bit too young for Padme?"

No. Padme is a bit too old for Anakin. Really, PiettsHat is right in the previous post. Ani's attachment issues and innocence works against him in their relationship whereas Padme sees the writing on the wall- even if she doesn't want to admit it. She wasn't surprised when Obi-Wan told her what happened after Order 66, she was afraid something like this would happen and it did. I don't think she expected him to murder Jedi Younglings, that did shock her, but she knew he was a loose cannon- a ticking timebomb set to go off in some awful capacity. She knew this after the conversation in the Lars' garage about the Tusken massacre. Like the Jedi, like Palps, like everyone- she thought she could keep him reeled in.

 

I think the whole Skywalker clan is dysfuntional!

-Little Ani falls for older Padme, when the kid probably didn't reach puberty yet?

-Padme eventually falls for Anakin despite the fact that he cleaned out a bunch of tuskens...and the women and the children....

-Anakin turns to the darkside and becomes a mass murderer

-Padme gets choked by Anakin, and then loses the will to live even though she just gave birth to twins

-Luke and Leia smooch on Hoth not knowing they are siblings

-Luke's dad chops off his hand, while Leia was captured and almost terminated by their dad too.

This sounds like a reality show on E! Channel

 

I don't think so as others have said she was 12 and he was 9 then she was 22 and he was 19 she always cares about him it was oh when she saw him grown that it became sexual and she of course later on realised that she loves him.

 

Anakin has always been five years younger than Padme. In TPM, he was nine and she was fourteen. In AOTC, he was 19 and she was 24. In ROTS, he was 22 and she was 27.

 

I have always thought that the age of Anakin in Ep I was too young because it made the love story part of things too unbelievable. Had Anakin been closer to Luke's age in Ep IV, we would have been in better shape there, as well as having that added "mirroring" effect in the trilogies.

 

They weren't in love in TPM and Anakin merely had a crush on Padme. What difference does it make?

I have the awful feeling that this opposition to Anakin and Padme's age difference has a lot to do with sexism. It's okay for the guy to be older . . . even a decade older, but it's not okay for the female to be older. Good grief!

 

I had responded to the following:


I have always thought that the age of Anakin in Ep I was too young because it made the love story part of things too unbelievable. Had Anakin been closer to Luke's age in Ep IV, we would have been in better shape there, as well as having that added "mirroring" effect in the trilogies.


I was talking about Episode I. Apparently, so was LunarMoth.

 

Han Solo and Leia were 10 years apart from each other. That's something most don't notice, so I guess it doesn't really matter.

 

Agreed.

 

The short answer to this question is "No, I don't think Anakin is too young for Padme."

I personally find that their relationship doesn't work for an assortment of reasons. But the age gap is not one of them.

 

You guys act as if you can analyze or categorize love as if it was a science experiment. Of course infatuation can last that long. Just because it might not last that long for you, doesn't mean it won't last that long for others.

I'm still wondering what Leia saw in Han in ESB, considering his immature personality.

 

That's easy. The woman had two eyes and a healthy libido. Han Solo was *hot*. She saw sex on a stick. My real question for Leia is not "what she saw in him", but rather, how she held out for so long.

I kinda like Han. Can you tell?

 

I don't object to the age difference Anakin and Padmé but I feel that having the first film in the trilogy start with both of them still children at age 9 and 14 was a mistake.

It's not that Anakin is too young for Padmé, I think the problem is that they're both too young for any significant headway in their relationship to be made in the first movie. Then they go their separate ways and don't see each other for ten years, so they might as well have started at that point.

I think that having them at the ages of 19 and 24 at the beginning of the trilogy would have made for a better beginning to their relationship and better pacing throughout the trilogy. You could have then gotten a start on the romance in Episode I instead of having Episode II pick up the slack by fast-forwarding ten years, rushing to make up for lost time and trying to include the marriage all in one movie.

 

If that's all she saw in Han, then their romance was a waste of time.

There was no "headway" in their relationship in TPM. Anakin developed a crush on Padme, which was plausible. And Padme became friendly with him. That's it. You're making a big deal out of nothing.

 

That's not *all* she saw. Of course not. But it's certainly enough to override any "immaturity" you claim to see in him. I don't know about you, but even the rushing back into the command center to save my life at great risk to his own, would be enough to melt *my* heart. Not to mention him then jumping on her to shield her from the hallway cave in....or coming back to help Luke blow up the death star.....he's shown a considerable amount of bravery, and much of it on her behalf. And he obviously digs her, in a non-stalkerish ohmgodyourso*intoxicating* kinda way.


Han, facing almost certain death: "The princess, you have to take care of her."

Anakin in the middle of his courtship of Padme *paraphrasing*: I killed them all. Not just the men, but the women and children, too!!!!


Hmmm......who would you rather date?

 

Well isn't it obvious? George Lucas wrote those, thus making sense as it was his movies.