an overflow side blog

Initiate Ahsoka running to her lessons

NATALIE PORTMAN as Padmé Amidala

Star Wars: Attack of the Clones (2002)

NEVER

Going to get over the fact that no matter what era or piece of media he shows up in, Anakin Skywalker will ALWAYS be the biggest drama queen the galaxy

kate's 365 days of female characters:

like...are you seriously telling me that freeing one (1) single enslaved woman that's owned by some random guy would really have affected the entire galaxy and caused widespread unrest or war. It's not like shmi was still owned by gardulla or that she was owned by jabba. Besides, the Jedi could've literally just bought shmi from watto and there would be no need for any problems.

Also...the Jedi are supposed to be peacekeepers of the Galaxy. You know what goes against peace in the Galaxy?? Slavery. And it's not like the Jedi have never freed slaves before. One of the things Anakin asks Qui-gon in tpm is if he's there to free the slaves, so the Jedi obviously had a reputation for freeing enslaved people. There's many examples of Jedi freeing slaves in other media including in TCW when they freed the colony of Togruta people from the Zygerrian government, which would've had a much bigger effect than freeing one single woman from a toydarian junk dealer, especially because that took place during an actual war.

MARK HAMILL as LUKE SKYWALKER

the issue is that no one wants to listen or help him aside from shmi and padmé

NATALIE PORTMAN as Padmé Amidala