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After breaking down and watching Revenge of the Sith this weekend, I've decided that I detest her character.
To be fair, I have a feeling that the reason I find her so amazingly repulsive is because I'm a mother myself. I simply cannot fathom how someone would just give up and die (of a broken heart - or whatever the hell it was – is that even possible?) when you have two children to take care of. I understand her being broken hearted because her husband went all dark side and everything (although considering how big of a whiny idiot he was - is this really a surprise?), and I even understand the desire to lay down and die. But dammit, woman, you have two kids that need you and you just give up and die? It's not about your pain anymore, you selfish cow! Your feelings come second to what has to be done for those kids. I know that some people find her dying of a broken heart sad and romantic... I just find it annoying, and I find it impossible to sympathize with someone this selfish and idiotic.
I eventually came to the conclusion that Luke and Leia were far better off adopted out, rather than being raised by such a weak willed and spineless milk sop of a woman. This explains how someone as feisty as Princess Leia could be her daughter, because clearly Jimmy Smits taught her about spunk.
WTF.
My husband suggested that a far cooler ending would have been for Padme to put her children in hiding, and for her to go and find Darth Vader, and try to talk some sense into him (similar to the Carth DSF ending). Of course, Darth Vader would have killed her, but at least she would have shown some spine - and that might have actually been tragic.
As it is... I'm glad the stupid bitch is dead.
*takes a deep breath*
Anyway, I enjoyed the move more than I thought I would. It was a hell of a lot better than Episode One, although I can’t speak for Episode Two since I never got around to seeing it (and honestly I’m really not inclined to watch it since it features a romance between two complete nitwits). The lightsaber battles and fight sequences were pretty cool, if a bit overblown (okay George, do we really need a lava waterfall, on top of everything else?), Ewan McGregor is hot, and all the details in the backgrounds were gorgeous. I kept ignoring the atrocious dialogue and focused on how pretty the movie (and Ewan) was.
I also liked how Anakin actually did some truly evil things (like kill some innocent kids) and that sequence, and the sequence where all the Jedi are betrayed actually had some emotional punch for me. But I think it is pretty telling of the quality of the writing that I cared more for the nameless Jedi in the background getting shot in the back, than when someone like Mace Windu bit it (god he was annoying…). I think the reason I liked the other Jedi better was because they really didn’t talk much…
Interestingly, Anakin’s amazing stupidity almost works as a motivation for him to fall to the dark side, because only someone that stupid would go evil that quickly, and for such a lame reason. I love how it never occurs to Anakin that maybe finding a good obstetrician would be a better solution to his problems than slaughtering little kids. Of course, Yoda’s advice of: you just have to accept what happens to her and let her die is equally as stupid, so maybe some of the Jedi get what is coming to him (but not those kids… *sob*).
Personally, I was rooting for Palpatine to win, because everyone else was too stupid to be even remotely sympathetic, and the fight between him and Yoda as they tear apart the Senate was pretty neat (and almost poetic – if it hadn’t been so ham handed).
All in all, I think Dark Helmet summed it up the best: “Evil will always triumph over good because good is dumb.” And if the Republic is this lame, maybe they need an Emperor to keep them in line.
To be fair, I have a feeling that the reason I find her so amazingly repulsive is because I'm a mother myself. I simply cannot fathom how someone would just give up and die (of a broken heart - or whatever the hell it was – is that even possible?) when you have two children to take care of. I understand her being broken hearted because her husband went all dark side and everything (although considering how big of a whiny idiot he was - is this really a surprise?), and I even understand the desire to lay down and die. But dammit, woman, you have two kids that need you and you just give up and die? It's not about your pain anymore, you selfish cow! Your feelings come second to what has to be done for those kids. I know that some people find her dying of a broken heart sad and romantic... I just find it annoying, and I find it impossible to sympathize with someone this selfish and idiotic.
I eventually came to the conclusion that Luke and Leia were far better off adopted out, rather than being raised by such a weak willed and spineless milk sop of a woman. This explains how someone as feisty as Princess Leia could be her daughter, because clearly Jimmy Smits taught her about spunk.
WTF.
My husband suggested that a far cooler ending would have been for Padme to put her children in hiding, and for her to go and find Darth Vader, and try to talk some sense into him (similar to the Carth DSF ending). Of course, Darth Vader would have killed her, but at least she would have shown some spine - and that might have actually been tragic.
As it is... I'm glad the stupid bitch is dead.
*takes a deep breath*
Anyway, I enjoyed the move more than I thought I would. It was a hell of a lot better than Episode One, although I can’t speak for Episode Two since I never got around to seeing it (and honestly I’m really not inclined to watch it since it features a romance between two complete nitwits). The lightsaber battles and fight sequences were pretty cool, if a bit overblown (okay George, do we really need a lava waterfall, on top of everything else?), Ewan McGregor is hot, and all the details in the backgrounds were gorgeous. I kept ignoring the atrocious dialogue and focused on how pretty the movie (and Ewan) was.
I also liked how Anakin actually did some truly evil things (like kill some innocent kids) and that sequence, and the sequence where all the Jedi are betrayed actually had some emotional punch for me. But I think it is pretty telling of the quality of the writing that I cared more for the nameless Jedi in the background getting shot in the back, than when someone like Mace Windu bit it (god he was annoying…). I think the reason I liked the other Jedi better was because they really didn’t talk much…
Interestingly, Anakin’s amazing stupidity almost works as a motivation for him to fall to the dark side, because only someone that stupid would go evil that quickly, and for such a lame reason. I love how it never occurs to Anakin that maybe finding a good obstetrician would be a better solution to his problems than slaughtering little kids. Of course, Yoda’s advice of: you just have to accept what happens to her and let her die is equally as stupid, so maybe some of the Jedi get what is coming to him (but not those kids… *sob*).
Personally, I was rooting for Palpatine to win, because everyone else was too stupid to be even remotely sympathetic, and the fight between him and Yoda as they tear apart the Senate was pretty neat (and almost poetic – if it hadn’t been so ham handed).
All in all, I think Dark Helmet summed it up the best: “Evil will always triumph over good because good is dumb.” And if the Republic is this lame, maybe they need an Emperor to keep them in line.
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EXACTLY. I don't even understand why Lucas didn't stick with his original implications in Ep. IV-VI and let her hide w/ Leia on Alderaan until dying of a LEGITIMATE disease when Leia was very young. Or he could have made up some crap about how a good Force choke/cracking her head on a rock finished her off. But none of this "She's perfectly healthy, but she's lost the will to live" bantha crap.
I kept ignoring the atrocious dialogue and focused on how pretty the movie (and Ewan) was.
*drool* yes. It's a shame, because Hayden Christiansen is a pretty good actor in all the non-Star Wars stuff I've seen him in. Pretty much all of them are good actors, and I feel bad watching them try to make the best of what Lucas gives them.
But man, if you don't like the dialogue in this one, never watching Episode II is probably a very good move. The romance is completely unbelievable and has poor build-up.
I also liked how Anakin actually did some truly evil things (like kill some innocent kids) and that sequence, and the sequence where all the Jedi are betrayed actually had some emotional punch for me.
That sequence killed me. My mom kept poking me cause my jaw was hanging open. It might have had a deal to do with being dressed in a Jedi costume too, he he.
The kids, gah...I was talking to
I definitely loved Palpatine. That man was genius. Did you catch the implication that he created Anakin after learning the whole manipulation of midichlorians from his master? Another idea which I think is complete crap- what, was Sidious just walking around on Tatooine, saw Shmi sweeping, stuck out his fingers and said "BOOM! You're pregnant! Hurry up and produce that little midichlorian-laced freak so I can turn him into my apprentice twentysome years from now."
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I'm going to watch it tonight.
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That costume rocked. I totally want one. I thought about trying to get my mother to make one, but since she can't sew, and I'm thirty I figured I was out of luck. LOL.
The kids, gah...I was talking to
You know, ever sense I had a kid, I can't bear to watch children get hurt in movies or on TV. It never used to bother me all that much, but now, it's far more painful to watch.
Heheh... I'm about to go read the Anakin getting his ass handed to him story... It sounds like a lot of fun...
Another idea which I think is complete crap- what, was Sidious just walking around on Tatooine, saw Shmi sweeping, stuck out his fingers and said "BOOM! You're pregnant! Hurry up and produce that little midichlorian-laced freak so I can turn him into my apprentice twentysome years from now."
Yeah, that didn't make any damn sense to me. I mean, if he could knock people up with super strong force sensitive babies at will, then why didn't he knock up someone closer to him and raise the kid as his own? That way instead of taking the chance of Anakin turning him down, he could indoctrinate a kid from birth with his sithy ways?
It also seems strange to me that creating life would be a dark side power. I mean, I always wondered if dark siders could even have kids. Given how they seem to physically fall apart on the outside, you'd think that the same thing would be going on inside their bodies...