Anakin and Padmé's granddaughter

anakin: secretly breaks the jedi code (a la conservative PT jedi edition) and decides to keep serving the jedi despite his personal desires (leave and be with padmé) because he wants to help people by fighting in the war (which, imo, is flawed logic, because he could probably help people better by not fighting in the war - but also very typical of many young men who enlisted to help in wars, particularly wwi/wwii - anakin believes in the ideals of the jedi, and also anakin is a padawan, he is not calling the shots on the jedi going to war, he's just a foot soldier. also these are the pew pew movies and he has to fight in the clone wars for film continuity. anyway).

pro jedi: he's selfish because he broke the sacred jedi code

me: actually I think the jedi is more selfish by asking its people to dedicate everything to the order and eschew all else, without ever giving them a real choice otherwise

me: historically many people like the jedi have been married and done fine

me: also the jedi isn't a utopian found family

me: also. anakin broke the jedi code a little. the jedi council betrayed the fundamental principles of the jedi order as purportedly neutral peacekeepers to fight on the republic's side in a civil galactic war to leads slave soldiers into battle, to save face and power.

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.