Why did Anakin & Padme Marry????

I have searched and searched to see if this topic had been discussed before but could'nt find it. If it has please redirect. If not, when watching EP II & EP III the other day I started really asking myself this question, "Why did Anakin & Padme get married?" Now aside from the reason of love and commitment, being with each other for the rest of their lives, etc. Answer me why?? We all know for a jedi it is forbidden to have an emotional attatchment to someone, like Padme(as in being in love), so he and Padme finally confess their love to each other right before they are wheeled out into the Geonosian arena. They survived that battle and the clone wars began. I know Padme probably thought she could easily lose Anakin in battle, so maybe she should get married and keep it a secret. I know like in a present day war, couples get married right before one ships out, for various reasons(love, financial security, etc.) but it was forbidden for them. Anakin could have still got Padme pregnant without that sacred piece of paper saying they are married. So without the "LOVE" factor, why did they marry. Was it a family thing for Padme or did George just think they should be married if they are going to have children one day? Don't get me wrong, I am all for love, marriage, family, etc. I am just trying to analyze this from another point of view.

Your Thoughts.......

 

LOL you are analyzing this situation WAYYYYYYYYY too much....even for a StarWars fan....they got married simply because they were in love....there is nothing more to it....Anakin could careless about what the council thought....in his mind he was in love....he was being selfish...he would sacrifice everything for her....which he eventually did

 

Star Wars is a 'classic' tale. In classic tales, people who fall in love get merried. Plain & simple. Then they have babies.

 

It makes the breakup of them more tragic. Anakin and Padme get married because they confess their love for eachother and in a way Padme was giving herself to him in the arena and Anakin to her. Just like JB said too, it's a classic tale, a dark spin on a fairy tale even. Here comes Anakin, the charismatic strong hero who falls inlove with the one time queen now Senator.They fall inlove and marry because having an affair in star wars...is just tacky.

They get married because he's being shipped off, they love eachother, they want to spend their lives together. Anakin's main plan is to keep it a secret from the council and Padme's is to run away when she has the baby.

 

Furthermore, Anakin did not agree with the Jedi about not forming attachment. He was compassionate while the Jedi were a bunch of stone cold pricks.

 

Padme agreed to marry him and then intended to divorce him, so that she could take half of everything he owns.

But Anakin doesn't own anything. He's a Jedi!

Ah, but everything in the Jedi Temple, including the temple itself, is collective Jedi property, and with the help of a team of really good lawyers, Padme hoped to take ownership of a good portion of the Jedi Temple and its surrounding district and convert her half into an overpriced amusement park.

Unfortunately, the case was tied up in the courts because, as you know, the courts take a long time to decide anything. Before any real progress could be made, a Jedi rebellion happened, forcing clone troopers to go into the temple and cause tons of property damage, much to Padme's dismay (you can see her crying in the film). Worse, because of the rebellion, the temple and its surrounding district were seized by the government. Following Palpatine's coronation, Padme lost hope that she would ever win that property.

She dismissed her lawyers and flew to Mustafar with the intention of making a deal with Anakin, who she knew was still on Palpatine's good side. Things went rather awry thanks to that damned Obi-Wan, and now Anakin was even less likely to negotiate.

Padme saw her dreams of an overpriced amusement park die. She lost all hope, and the will to live.

 

ROFL

 

Yep..

Pretty much..

 

I'd like to say its because they are both selfish....

But, myabe it was something like... George Lucas hates the idea of kids out of wedlock so it was important to him, for them to be married??
Or maybe its just not nice for the kiddies to see unmarried people having babies on the screen. Who knows!

 

Anakin and Padme got married, because they were in love. What other answer is there? There is no logical explanation to their actions, because there is no logic when it comes to logic.

As for their selfishness - so what? Who isn't selfish? The Jedi certainly were in their attempts to maintain the Order. Maybe they were thinking of the Republic, but I suspect that many of their actions centered around the continuation of the Jedi Order and their status quo with the Republic.

 

No, he was possessive. The Jedi were compassionate. They just didn't give in to their emotions, which is the smart thing to do.

 

But they're shutting people away in the process and that's not a very smart thing to do. Anakin really needed some emotional support after he left his mom but the Jedi aren't giving it to him due to their no-attachment rules and its hurting Anakin instead of helping him.

That's why he and Padme got married and Anakin didn't become possessive until he gave in to the Dark Side.

 

YEah, but the no attatchment rules are there for a reason. See what happened when Anakin had a strong emotional attatchment to someone?? Can I say Global (or on this case) Galaxy Domination? Massacre? Turning to the Dark Side??

 

But the lack of attachments is what led Anakin to go to Palpatine for guidance and support so your Global Galaxy Domination, Massacre, and Anakin's turn to the Dark Side would've happened anyway.

Of course, Anakin's strong emotional attachment to someone also gave him the strength to give up the Dark Side and destroy PalpSidious in the end.

 

YEah I suppose.

And I completely ignored the fact that in the EU (am i allowed to talk about this stuff here?), Leia becomes a Jedi and has a whole family. ANd Luke has a family too and he turned out fine.

 

Yeah but they're allowed to. After the OT, Luke started the P.J.M. (Progressive Jedi Movement). The Jedi were allowed to do more Liberal things (ie. marry, have kids, and dump them off at Winter's Galactic Nanny State Daycare).

 

Yep..

I remember in one of the novels, Han was joking around with Luke and he said " Jedi babies gotta come from somewhere" or something to that effect..

 

They were young and in love and Anakin was super impulsive anyway.
Whether married or not, Anakin still loved Padme and still would have done what he did to try to *cough* save her.

Winter's daycare lol.

 

Right, that's what I was going to say. When I saw that the Jedi aren't compassionate, I'm refering to things like Anakin not being able to see his mom after he left. If he had, then he probably wouldn't have felt so terrible when he finally did return and found her dying.

 

Yeah, as we see, having families did a lot of good in the books. Too many of Luke's students and his own nephew turned to the dark side. Why, attachments. Fear of loss regarding those that you love. Anakin needed to stay on Tatooine until he could detach himself from his mother. At this point, Shmi is the only one who can teach him to love compassionately. Not possessively.

 

Eh... turning to the dark side in the EU is more often plot point than character development. It happens so often, I'm surprised Luke isn't completely jaded by it.

 

I don't think Anakin and Padme marrying was the only thing that had to do with why he turned. Its partly responsible. BUt its mostly because he had control issues. He needed a therapist not compassion.

 

Besides the "love" thing, I think it shows some strong characteristics of Anakin's personality (his strong desire for Padme, his committment to Jedi life, his wanting of more knowledge/power). IMHO~ Much like Qui-Gon, Anakin was an unconventional Jedi to say the least...a "not so by the book" kind of guy.

 

An act of defiance. He was weak enough to get caught up with his obsession with Padme, and so he thought that he would prove his obession by marrying her.

There would be no ther point.

 

Besides the "love" thing, I think it shows some strong characteristics of Anakin's personality (his strong desire for Padme, his committment to Jedi life, his wanting of more knowledge/power). IMHO~ Much like Qui-Gon, Anakin was an unconventional Jedi to say the least...a "not so by the book" kind of guy.

Does that mean that if Qui-Gon had, had a secret wife, he would have become the Sith apprentice instead?