padmé. 🪽

HAYDEN CHRISTENSEN Behind the scenes of Star Wars: Episode II - Attack of the Clones | Light & Magic - 2x02: There Must Be a Better Way (2025)

“—the message from the younglings is the same: Don’t worry. It’ll be all right. Anakin and Obi-Wan will be there any minute. They say this as though these names can conjure miracles. Anakin and Obi-Wan. Kenobi and Skywalker. From the beginning of the Clone Wars, the phrase Kenobi and Skywalker has become a single word. [...] A pair of starfighters. Jedi starfighters. Only two. Two is enough. Two is enough because the adults are wrong, and their younglings are right. Though this is the end of the age of heroes, it has saved its best for last.” - Star Wars Episode III - Revenge of the Sith Novelization written by Matthew Stover

I've rarely seen a more validating sentence in my entire life.

REVENGE OF THE SITH (2005), dir. GEORGE LUCAS

me as an adult: teenagers are an oppressed class, their abuse is normalised and systemic and they need to start killing people

— MARK HAMILL as LUKE SKYWALKER in A NEW HOPE, dir. GEORGE LUCAS (1977)

— Padmé Amidala in The Phantom Menace (1999)