You have probably gotten this question before but do you have a favorite Anidala moment?? Or like a handful of scenes you would consider your favorites?? Could be from any piece of SW media ofc :)
Oh God, I actually don’t think I’ve gotten an ask like this before so you’re in fact the first 👀
I pretty much love all their scenes (lol) but a lot of my fave Anidala scenes scale from across the 3 films and a lot of the novels too! I’ll go with the movie scenes that I also equally love in the novelizations.
1. Anidala picnic/meadow scene!
Adorable moment of two people falling in love and getting to know one another again after reuniting 10 years later. I love how down bad Anakin is and how he doesn’t hide his jealousy and obvious affection and attraction to her. And Padmé slowly coming to acceptance of her feelings as well, and learning not to shy away from them. Anakin really is irresistible. The novel makes it all the more clear what Padmé’s feelings are and how badly she’s falling for Anakin too.
2. ROTS reunion scene
The clear adoration and love in both their faces, words to each other, and actions is well emulated the most in this scene imho. Anakin kissing Padmé on the lips in open space, moving down to kiss her neck, declaring that he doesn’t care if anyone finds out they’re married now and the “yes, here.” 😆 (the novel and script version of this is super sweet, and elaborates more on how pained and suffered they were being apart and how happy they were to finally be together again.
3. Anakin & Padmé Force bond/connection scene (Padmé’s Ruminations)
Can anyone blame me?? We all know it’s well established through the novelizations and other EU material how Anakin & Padmé have a Force connection and bond with one another and this scene in both the movie and novel don’t disappoint to showcase that to us. The desperate longing, love, desire, and passion these two hold for one another is nothing short of soulmates. And I can’t go without posting the novelization version to this scene because it’s just too good.
“His agony somehow became an invisible hand, stretching out through the Force, a hand that found her, far away, alone in her apartment in the dark, a hand that felt the silken softness of her skin and the sleek” “coils of her hair, a hand that dissolved into a field of pure energy, of pure feeling that reached inside her—
And now he felt her, really felt her in the Force, as though she could have been some kind of Jedi, too, but more than that: he felt a bond, a connection, deeper and more intimate than he’d ever had before with anyone, even Obi-Wan; for a precious eternal instant he was her … he was the beat of her heart and he was the motion of her lips and he was her soft words as though she spoke a prayer to the stars—
I love you, Anakin. I am yours, in life, and in death, wherever you go, whatever you do, we will always be one. Never doubt me, my love. I am yours.
—and her purity and her passion and the truth of her love flowed into him and through him and every atom of him screamed to the Force how can I let her die?”
Everything about this makes me scream and sob into a pillow. If true love and soulmatism had a face it’d be them. This scene is one of the best moments to show us why Anakin & Padmé we’re meant to be, fated lovers, and are the very beat of each others hearts and their souls intertwined. This moment perfectly captures how inseparable they are from one another even as things fall apart around them.
