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i know the end - phoebe bridgers
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personally do not read padme’s delivery of “there’s good in him” as uncomplicatedly hopeful. the line is the light at the end of the dark tunnel of that sequence, absolutely, but god, the tunnel’s dark. and padme’s not incorrect, she’s not stupid or delusional. but this is a woman just swimming in grief and confusion, and she’s reaching back to what used to ground her: faith in her husband, faith in the future. she can’t commit to these anymore, not after all that’s happened (that’s why she dies). but she can still remember, and tell obi-wan. she can chose the words she wants to go out with. it’s luke that becomes the torch for padme’s devastation and who proves her right—but we have to watch that hope die first, it’s part of the overall arc
To affirm what I think @padmestrilogyis saying: the light at the end of the tunnel is the only thing left to Padmé.
This isn't a "feel good" moment. This is, in many ways, the absolute peak of the confusion and horror.
"There's good in him" cuts both ways - yes, hope for the future, but even more devastation over what he did DESPITE the good that remains.
personally do not read padme’s delivery of “there’s good in him” as uncomplicatedly hopeful. the line is the light at the end of the dark tunnel of that sequence, absolutely, but god, the tunnel’s dark. and padme’s not incorrect, she’s not stupid or delusional. but this is a woman just swimming in grief and confusion, and she’s reaching back to what used to ground her: faith in her husband, faith in the future. she can’t commit to these anymore, not after all that’s happened (that’s why she dies). but she can still remember, and tell obi-wan. she can chose the words she wants to go out with. it’s luke that becomes the torch for padme’s devastation and who proves her right—but we have to watch that hope die first, it’s part of the overall arc
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padme’s core character trait #ToMe is extreme idealism. she will fight to the bitter end for goodness and justice and hope in the galaxy and will fight tooth and nail for her loved ones and their safety and security and well being. she represents hope and optimism!! and the prequels are consistently putting that idealism to the test until it inevitably breaks!
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Darth Vader by Chun Lo
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Grown adults will log onto the internet and start beefing with how a child character in a *movie* behaved in a high-stress situation because they, as an adult, would not have done that. And I’m supposed to take their criticisms seriously.
“Why did she do that??” She’s like 12 dawg
I think this falls under the desire people have for characters to all speak and act like 35+ year olds who have been in rigorous cognitive behavioral therapy for at least a decade when not only is that boring for story purposes but the vast majority of people don’t talk or act that way so why should characters in fictional stories let alone characters who are children
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my headcanon as to why luke idolized anakin more than padme is two fold
1. luke and owen canonically had a more contentious relationship and he was closer with his aunt, so he felt more secure with his mother figure as opposed to his father figure
2. padme died in childbirth which is just. a very complex thing for a kid to deal with. there’s probably a lot of guilt there and confusion, which the larses wouldn’t have easy answers. and tbqh given the family history of…everything to do with shmi (who beru and owen knew well)…yeah idk the fate of skywalker women, particularly mothers is thorny as all hell
so it makes sense that he would shift into idolizing his father and avoiding the topic of his mother (at least until adulthood/he was more mature)
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Natalie Portman as PADME AMIDALA [8/?] Star Wars: Revenge of the Sith (2005)
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wire/cloth mother experiment // star wars return of the jedi
thank you @helsingvania for the idea!!
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LUKE SKYWALKER in The Empire Strikes Back
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^ one of the most layered scenes in all of star wars, actually. like on top of everything else, there’s luke reaching out to his sister to see if she has a memory of their mother, because he has none, and he’s spent his whole life idealizing his dad, but now he’s going to head off and (if all goes as planned) die alongside his dad, so maybe he would like to die with a memory of mom as well. just one even
i don’t even think it’s a plothole that he fixated on mother & father unequally, btw. it happens. luke seems to have grown up with a bunch of vague cagey answers about his dad, and probably just blank stares about his mom, because owen and beru didn’t know her (granted they didn’t really get to know anakin either but…they knew what he did). and then of course when obi-wan tells him about his father’s legacy, he wants to step into that. i think it’s very human and bittersweet of luke to try and balance his longing out a little, on his (potential) deathbed. again, it happens
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24 days until Andor season 2!
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Padmé’s death lands as a major societal taboo while embracing Star Wars' oldest influences. This reaches across aisles and gives everyone a reason to be pissed off. Padmé is a mother character who loves her kids but finds herself unable to go on: she is a woman who rejects motherhood in the most basic sense. She is also a classic Ophelia-lite character, a tragic heroine who dies when betrayed by her love. Moreover, Padmé operates as a withering personification of democracy, of peace, of hope for unconditional love in the face of brutality. The trilogy loses her as it plunges fully into darkness. All of this is blunt and operatic and not easy to fit into some pre-approved Good Female Character mold. So it is blanket-dismissed as degradation, an insult to Padmé's previous triumphs and unworthy of analysis. And so it goes that most call Padmé's death inexplicable, and shy away from the big word: suicide. This essay aims to bridge that gap, taking Padmé's death seriously and arguing against commonly pitched fix-its. It also serves to set up my following essay, “The Skywalker Suicides Part II”, and establish a thematic connection to Luke. In short, this is a good faith, overwrought close reading of the one thing no Star Wars fan will stop laughing about. (x)
the first part of my "Skywalker Suicides" essay is up on my site! 7k words of padme suicide truthing! leave me a comment! :)
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