TripHammer Posted October 8, 2007 Posted October 8, 2007 Do you think Padme died of a broken heart.. or from giving childbirth? Personally I think it was a combination of both. If indeed she died of a broken heart.. Anakin would have foreseen fate of his own doing when he was having his nightmares of her death.
Rogue Warrior Posted October 8, 2007 Posted October 8, 2007 Broken heart, perse. Losing Anakin to the Dark Side made Padme lose the will to live. Odds are she could have survived but chose instead not to.
PoiuyWired Posted October 9, 2007 Posted October 9, 2007 Though RL odds are she would have survived, become an alcoholic or something...lose custody over the twins.
Jae Onasi Posted October 9, 2007 Posted October 9, 2007 Broken heart and resultant loss of will to live. The childbirth scene was so unrealistic. They can travel in hyperspace throughout the galaxy, replace limbs and give Vader his own portable respirator, and they haven't figured out the technology to give a woman an epidural or other pain relievers? Ugh.
Titanius Anglesmith Posted October 9, 2007 Posted October 9, 2007 She died of a broken heart, but that's a pretty awful excuse for getting rid of a character. People don't fall over dead just because they don't feel like living anymore.
Lord XZantor Posted October 9, 2007 Posted October 9, 2007 Broken heart, perse. Losing Anakin to the Dark Side made Padme lose the will to live. Odds are she could have survived but chose instead not to. This is what I agree with. She told Aniken he was killing her on Mustifar
TripHammer Posted October 10, 2007 Author Posted October 10, 2007 If she did die of a broken heart... Then Anakin already had the power to save her.
Lord XZantor Posted October 10, 2007 Posted October 10, 2007 I don't think so, only a few Sith mastered that powered, if more than Palpy's master. Sidious nor Vader ever accevied that power.
adamqd Posted October 10, 2007 Posted October 10, 2007 ^^^ I think trip mean't it metaphorically, he did have the power to save her, by not going to the darkside, by not killing younglings
TripHammer Posted October 10, 2007 Author Posted October 10, 2007 Exactly. But to further the point somewhat.. I don't think the power to save Padme existed. I think the mention of such a power was just a tool the emperor used to manipulate Anakin. Is there any proof that such a power existed other than Palpatine's mention of it with some tall tale of Darth Plagueis attached to it?
adamqd Posted October 10, 2007 Posted October 10, 2007 ^^^ In the Legacy comics Cade Skywalker can do it...
jawathehutt Posted October 23, 2007 Posted October 23, 2007 She died of the number 1 killer of movie characters, plot developement.
PoiuyWired Posted October 23, 2007 Posted October 23, 2007 Then technically the sith power of "fan request" can bring him back, even if one is swallowed up by a giant bung hole filled with teeth.
PoiuyWired Posted December 1, 2007 Posted December 1, 2007 Makes me think of old D&D sections. "I don't want to be a wizard anymore, I refuse to eat and poo, and jump down the cliff" "I get saved by a tree branch, but I am going to jump down again while cutting my throat midair" Seriously, that happened. Maybe Padme wants to be someone else... like a blood elf mohawk.
Nancy Allen`` Posted December 1, 2007 Posted December 1, 2007 Then technically the sith power of "fan request" can bring him back, even if one is swallowed up by a giant bung hole filled with teeth. MARA JADE! Padme to be in Star Wars again? Maybe, but I'm thinking the faves for this would be either Jade or Aayla Secura. Just on Padme for a moment, it bugged me quite a bit that she did die of a broken heart. She gave up the will to live, that gives the film even more of a sour note IMO, with the good guys lose and the bad guys win. GL was most wise to make the last films first otherwise Star Wars would have tanked, and this scene would have contributed.
Rev7 Posted December 2, 2007 Posted December 2, 2007 Don't the 'bad-guys' win in ESB? The 'good-guys' won in in both ANH and ROTJ. The 'good-guys' also won in TPM and AOTC, but the 'bad-guys' won in ROTS. It all evens out.
Ctrl Alt Del Posted December 2, 2007 Posted December 2, 2007 Broken heart for sure. Don't the 'bad-guys' win in ESB? The 'good-guys' won in in both ANH and ROTJ. The 'good-guys' also won in TPM and AOTC, but the 'bad-guys' won in ROTS. It all evens out. But what if the first trilogy was made before and in the end of it, the evil won? Thirty years later comes a sequel to tell that it didn't ended this way...
Nancy Allen`` Posted December 2, 2007 Posted December 2, 2007 Don't the 'bad-guys' win in ESB? The 'good-guys' won in in both ANH and ROTJ. The 'good-guys' also won in TPM and AOTC, but the 'bad-guys' won in ROTS. It all evens out. True, it was almost the bad guys winning in ESB. They didn't have the good guys killed off left right and centre though. Still the darkness when I first saw it all those years ago, I remember it got to me. For me RotS seems to be aimed at a more mature audiance, doubly so with the rating and there being an absence of kiddy fare (no Ewoks, Gungans or fanboy type stuff).
Mr. Kennedy Posted December 2, 2007 Posted December 2, 2007 I see wh at the ma n, Ge org e Luc as, wa s doi ng. Kid s wh o sa w The Ph ant om Me nac e hav e gro wn up and tho se adu lts wh o sa w the firs t film s will app reci ate not bei ng talk ed do wn to wit h Ew oks and Jar Jar s and all tha t kid s stu ff.
Nancy Allen`` Posted December 2, 2007 Posted December 2, 2007 Um, true, the films were made more mature for an older audiance. Still Die Hard ending with John McClane alive. Guess I'm a sucker for happy endings.
hellhawk Posted March 19, 2008 Posted March 19, 2008 hmmm... they said something in star wars mag recently... ill look it up n post... k found it... says: How exactely did Padme die? We no she lost the will to live, but someone can't "will" themselves to death. Was the force at work here? Responce:In the end, the despondency over the terrible person ankin became breaks padme's heart. She is unable to come to grips with her husband as power hungery, and a mass murderer has has destroyed everything she holds dear. There might even b a small part of her that blames herself for inadveratly bringing obi wan to mustafar, though Anakin's Grusome fate remaind hidden from her at her final moments. there is nothing to suggest that padmes death is the will of the force, other then anakin';s visions. dosent help much... ps i just tried to will myself to death, dosent work
Henz Posted April 6, 2008 Posted April 6, 2008 Padme's death/The kids birth was the single worst thing in the Prequel trilogy. George rushed to wrap the film up after the climatic fight and this scene paid for it. Shame.
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