Anakin and Padmé's granddaughter

yes, childbirth can kill you, no matter how advanced medicine is

But do people realise that childbirth places *significant* pressure on the heart even during a 'normal' birth? I.e, when the parent hasn't pretty much lost everything in the hours leading up to the labour?

For example, the blood volume in the body increases by approx. 30% during labour which means that the heart is having to work harder to pump it around.

And that the valsalva maneuver (aka 'bearing down') causes sudden and rapid shifts in blood pressure?

Not to mention that post-birth, (after delivering the placenta) when all that blood that was directed to the uterus is no longer needed, it will rejoin the general circulatory system.

Which means… you guessed it! The heart again has immense pressure on it!

one’s character has no impact on whether they were/are a victim or not, victim status is not something that is only afforded to the palatable.

this starts in TPM, where we have amidala - the queen, the fierce leader - and then we have padme, the handmaiden, the girl that anakin meets and calls angel, who is kind to anakin and shmi and acts like a kid - then we have amidala, polished and acting older, her voice deeper. the divide between padme the human and padme the politician.

it continues in AOTC. throughout the movie, anakin breaks through the amidala mask to get to padme: by ROTS, padme is padme with anakin, her mask fully shed (and, indeed, by the end of AOTC).

I am once again begging people to realize that AI checker doesn’t work. it’s never worked. it’s notoriously known to have flagged human-made works as AI and AI-generated works as human-made. and by feeding it people’s works, you are feeding more works to AI, because apparently the machine itself is AI.

Of course, the only explanation given for the clones doing what they did is the fact that they had chips in their brains, rather than the reality that they were the armed arm of the state. As the armed arm of the state, they exist solely to defend the state's interests; if the state ordered them to do something, they would do it without needing a damn chip in their heads.

I much prefer the version where the clones didn't have chips—the original concept. It created a far more terrifying and chilling atmosphere: the idea of ​​them carrying out those orders simply because they were soldiers following commands, rather than because of a chip in their brains. After all, human history is full of soldiers—whether in wars, peacekeeping missions, or regions undergoing colonization or "pacification"—carrying out horrific orders.

When Anakin has a trauma reation or signs of being mentally ill, he's whiney and unlikeable, but when Maul has those things, he's sad and sympathetic. When Anakin does bad things, he's inherently evil and doesn't deserve redemption, but when Maul does the same and doesn't even try to improve, he's innocent because he was raised to be evil from childhood, and therefore can't be blamed for anything. I fucking hate this fandom.

Oh my God, YES! Thank you so much for this comment; I thought I was the only one losing my mind in this sea of fandom hypocrisy!

What irritates me most is Maul's constant, exhausting justification along the lines of: "Anakin had a chance to be good, and Maul didn't, so Maul deserves pity, and Anakin doesn't."

People completely forget that Anakin spent his formative years as a slave on a desert planet, carrying profound psychological trauma and severe attachment disorder. He was never "normal" to begin with. Maul doesn't have a childhood of slavery, and, as you so perfectly noted, he had more than enough time and freedom after leaving Sidious to do whatever he wanted with his life. But he chose to build criminal empires.

And that's precisely why Filoni's double standards in his writing literally make me scratch my head. This is blatant hypocrisy

Look at how Obi-Wan treats them both. In the Ziggeria arc, when Anakin's PTSD is literally triggered by the experience of actual slavery, Obi-Wan has nothing but cold, unsympathetic lectures for him (even though, as the script dictates, Anakin himself gives up on his slavery in this very arc, even starting to joke about it). But when Maul strangles Satine, Obi-Wan blames the Nightsisters with a straight face, saying something like, "Oh, well, it's not you who's bad, you're just made that way." What kind of prejudiced nonsense is this?!

And their ending in Rebels is simply the apotheosis. Obi-Wan cradles the dying Maul in his arms, offering him transcendental comfort and coddling him like a victim. And on Mustafar? He leaves his "brother," a deeply traumatized, broken boy (and if we're going by the Filoverse canon, Obi-Wan is to blame for much of his trauma), to burn alive in agony, screaming words of dry condemnation after him. So Anakin didn't deserve a shred of empathy, while galactic mafia boss Maul did?And even after the story of Maul's death in Rebels, Vader somehow doesn't deserve pity or even a simple understanding from Yoda and Obi-Wan (because of the Filoverse, the original trilogy now looks like this, yes)