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[QUOTE]Originally posted by Lee: [QB] The whole timeline of the Origin Story was rushed when it was seen onscreen. If they hadn't felt the need to have Padme's gestation period last about, ooh, at least three weeks, then it'd have been possible for a) her to be pregnant without Anakin realising; b) to give Kenobi a sufficient period in hiding to have "not gone by the name ObiWan" prior to the birth of the twins. The confrontation between Anakin & Padme solves some problems with the Origin Story, but creates others. It provides a healthy dose of guilt to help complete Anakin's transition to Darth Vader; it explains why he never tried to find his wife and/or child(ren), because he thought they were dead. But the Emperor's lie that Anakin had killed her was stupid; he didn't know it for certain, no body at the scene after all, and if he knew she died in/after childbirth then surely he'd know that the children survived and there were two of them! It's only later on he could have known about her death for real when he'd receive reports of her funeral on Naboo. And to ignore the RotJ revelation that Leia remembered her mother. . . That's just downright sloppy. The only reason I could imagine for it would be to avoid having to explain a mother willingly giving up one of her children to an uncertain fate (and a bloody stupid one at that, giving him to the step-brother of the person you're trying to hide him from). I suppose it's kind of sad that future generations will likely watch the films in their own internal chronological order, and as a result lose the visceral impact that Vader's single line "I am your father!" had. They may even come to bview the original trilogy as inferior (due to not-as-good special effects, even in the Spec Eds) and pointless (though I hope not, but who can tell with ver kids today?). [/QB][/QUOTE]
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