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Episodes 7-9, what do you think? [warning: thread has devolved into spoilers]
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[QUOTE]Originally posted by Timo: [QB] I also tend to think that Padm�'s death was a Dark Side thing, either something that went hand in hand with Anakin's chokehold, or then something done by Palpatine directly. Or then Palpatine arranged so that Anakin's anger would hurt Padm� more than he intended, thereby sending the apprentice to a nice little guilt trip and securing his conversion to Darkness. Either way, she got "poisoned" with this lack of will to live, but fought it until she could give birth. Actually, I like it that way. The asteroid outpost ought to have had top-notch Republic/Jedi medical care available, and should have been able to do a life-saving Vaderizing on poor Padm� in case her bodily damage was too severe to be otherwise mended. But no technology could help against the Dark Side. What she said after the delivery of the twins was a counterproductive rant about how Anakin must have SOME good left in him. If Padm� really thinks so, why is she dying of despair? She dies immediately after formulating the grammatically correct sentence, which is the pinnacle of operaic silliness. Until then, Portman was the [i]least[/i] cringeworthy of the main human actors... I guess even she had to do as told. It's not an actor thing, clearly, but a writer and director thing. I even suspect something of a rewrite. The second of Anakin's premonitions has Obi-Wan bending over Padm� and saying something like "Fight it! Don't let go!", whilst she is unable to speak coherently and eventually keels over; this does not happen in the actual death scene, but would have been a definite improvement. All said, the movie would have benefited MASSIVELY from minor twiddling with the main character lines. Tone down the perfect grammar ever so slightly, allow the characters to speak in halting, overlapping sentences when they are emotionally torn - and even the wooden faces could be forgiven. Timo Saloniemi [/QB][/QUOTE]
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