“PT is ultimately about the relationship between Anakin and Padmé” — GL.

PT is about the rise and fall of Anakin Skywalker, and how democracy (symbolized by Padmé) dies. It is one half of the saga. It is the tragedy that precedes the triumph in OT. But I guess it’s too much for people who don’t like what PT shows, especially Padmé’s importance in the entire narrative of the skywalker saga. They think it is a stretch to say that had Padmé survived, Vader and consequently OT as it was made wouldn’t exist when the ending of PT (plus the RotS novelization) directly tells us that.

Paraphrased from RotS novel: when Anakin is told he killed Padmé, he thinks how this burns hotter than the lava. Then he thinks about how, on Mustafar, when he should have been thinking about her, when he could have run away with her, he was thinking about himself—telling us how if Padmé was alive, suited Vader would choose her at the drop of a hat. Vader exists because Padmé died; why Sidious was able to mould him into OT Vader because of how much he loathes himself.

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DAY ONE - APRIL 15TH | raised as a sith au ▪︎ starship voyage

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DAY FOUR - APRIL 18TH | hurt ▪︎ inappropriate use of the force

DAY FIVE - APRIL 19TH | haunted ▪︎ classical literature

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DAY SEVEN - APRIL 21ST | free day ▪︎ mafia au

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Yes, I know many woman die because a woman’s death was the best idea one could have ever had.

Yet, yet, oh hear me out!

This woman—this woman did not die that purposeless death. With her last breath, the democracy fell. Her death binds the narrative, haunts it like no other has. She took with her the living breath of the man in hell. This woman died a tragic death but her words echoed across time itself! This woman uttered her legacy with her dying breath, inherited by her son who then redeemed the man in hell.

So, no. No! This woman did not die because her death was the best idea one could have ever had.

From Vader's PoV, by that point in the timeline, he has hammered the 'Anakin is dead, the past doesn't matter' so deep inside him , has been reinforcing it for years. Here too, he started with that in mind, like 'I can do it, I don't care about the past'. His will to have his answers, answers he deserves to know about his son, was strong, the strongest will he had in forever as Vader.

But then swiftly devolved to 'everything is in the past, everything..is..in..the..past, every..thing..is..in..the..past..' as memories stream in. And he stops.

Ultimately, he couldn't do it. It was one of those moments where he realises once again that, no matter how much he tries, Padme will forever haunt him.

Like she did in this scene. Memories of her laughing with him which blacken over to her choking, gasping, and pleading on Mustafar as he held her in his forcehold. Memories of Padmé, which he had suppressed for so long, were now flooding through the cracks that had been developing since the moment he learned of Luke, overpowering his will with just one slip of his. The sudden outpouring of memories and the accompanying distant but terrifying pain and guilt and regret, which he had been keeping at bay for years, froze him.

And such a strong realisation after a long, long time too, combined with where he is now grappling with the idea that their love did bear fruits. Their son was alive and well. I saw it as a moment of his darkside will being challenged and defeated. It was one of those early deepening of cracks as Anakin begins to surface little by little as he confronts the past, his actions in the past he had refused to face properly before.

Personally, just to point out that Padmé's memories are buried in the deepest crevices of his mind. For them to pour out so readily when confronted with just her tomb, Vader had been denying, suppressing both Anakin's and his love and grief.

Their love did not have and did not need to have (toxic) flaws, rather the idea itself runs contrary to the tragedy. I have repeated this before but toxic love does not inspire the actions that their love did.

A deep, intense love triggered Anakin's fear of loss and led him to losing himself and his beloved. His inability to accept the impermanence of life took everything away from him in a matter of days. A deep, intense love broke Padmé's heart yet kept her faith in her beloved till the very end, to the point that their son echoed it. Mustafar was the device meant to establish how powerful the darkside is that it twisted even this deep love.

Lucas was crystal clear on all of the above themes. The tragedy is true love getting twisted by the darkside. The tragedy is that Anakin executed the very fate he wanted to prevent.

The tragedy is that happiness was always just a hand away had Anakin taken it.

“Meeting on the Naboo Stairs // Final Goodbyes”

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And remember! Live, Laugh…

Pais e filhos

what prequels fans think Andala is like:

What Anidala actually is like:

And my personal favorite:

bro is just a simp for his wife.

bonus panels:

You are an annoying, selfish bureaucrat and I hate you and everyone else at this stupid party.

(2 panels later)

Bonus #2: you know from just these 3 panels who's on top.

RARE IMAGES OF A GIRLBOSS AND HER MALEWIFE

Bonus #3: I'm putting these ones in here because they did things to me. How can a man go from submissive to hot in just one panel?

Shout out to Katie Cook and Cara McGee. THEY UNDERSTOOD THE ASSIGNMENT.

Her

Maybe because Obi-wan is 11 years older than her (he was 25 in TPM and Padmé was 14) and also Obi-wan is so rigid in his worldview whereas Padmé isn’t. She sees light in the dark, and dark in the light, and Obi-wan cannot comprehend this. Anakin embraces both sides of himself.

I also think Padmé choosing Anakin says a lot about Padmé as a person, but I think it also says a lot more about who Anakin was. He’s got cringy ass pickup lines but he is raw, he is passionate, and he does not shy away from what he feels even when it’s possibly wrong. Even when it’s definitely wrong. And Padmé always has to hide what she’s feeling in her line of work, so being with someone like Anakin allows her to embrace the full experience of being alive, the full range of emotion, and she isn’t judged for it by him, because he feels it all too.

They are both extremely passionate people.

Anakin’s love burns brighter than anything in the universe, and while it is his downfall, it is also his saving grace. That light never truly is extinguished within him.