Disappointed

Rating: 7/10 (21 October 2009)

Lucas had several different ways he could have gone with this story. What he chose, for me, was extremely disappointing and contradicting to his characters. For instance; Padme a very strong, independent, self reliant women from the moment we first met her in Episode 1. She was the leader of her planet and she was only a teenager for starters. In Attack of the Clones she fought along side all the Jedi's in the "Arena" and not only survived when some Jedi did not, but she was the one who freed herself, Obi-Wan and Anakin from the chains in the beginning of the "Arena" scene. Yet in Return of the Sith she dies but NOT due to medical problems during the birth of the twins, but as the medical bot states "We are losing her, we don't know why. She has lost the will to live." What?!? So basically she gives birth to 2 children and because her heart is broken she loses the will to live?!? Doesn't make any sense. Seems to me that the Padme we became to know and love would never abandon her children nor give up so easily in regards to Anakin. She would have had to be murdered/killed to tear her away from fighting for both her children and for Anakin. A better choice for Lucas as well as being much more believable is if she died either by accident and then Anakin blames Obi-Wan OR Sidious kills her and tells Anakin that it was Obi-Wan. It would have also given Anakin's fall to the Dark Side more credence.