so evidently normal guns exist in star wars (called “slugthrowers” because of course) and they’re apparently super broken and extremely useful because they go right through shields designed to deflect energy weapons and if a jedi tries to deflect them with a lightsaber the bullet just melts and turns in to an equally lethal spray of molten metal
imagine you’re the most badass sith in the universe and Some Dude With A Handgun challenges you and you’re just like “heh… primitive weapons… bring it on” and he shoots you and you suddenly get splattered with a shower of molten metal and you fucking Die
Ahahaha saw it coming a mile off, but it still cracks me up so bad
i mean, molten metal may not totally kill, but it’ll still give you a serious enough burn to give the other guy another shot or just give you another Dramatic Scar
still can’t believe that someone would write Padme dying from “loosing her will to live” after just having two beautiful babies and meanwhile that burned circus peanut has enough will to survive 100% burning and tripple amputation. only a man could write that bullshit.
NO NO NO THATS NOT WHAT HAPPENED. GEORGE LUCAS MAY BE DUMB SOMETIMES BUT HES ALSO CLEVER. JUST LISTEN.
What scene is shown simultaneously with Padme giving birth? Anakin being put into the suit. And going by this, Padme dies at practically the same moment Anakin’s transformation is complete. And here’s why that’s significant: Palpatine’s master was said to have been working on (never says if he figured it out) a way to lengthen life/bring someone back. By using the Force, the very thing that flows in everyone. Therefore, it is safe to assume that Palpatine either finished what his master started or just learned the knowledge. Palpatine literally drained Padme’s lifeforce and gave it to Anakin. There is literally no way he would’ve survived otherwise. And there’s definitely no way Padme would’ve just keeled over. No. Palpatine was the reason she died and the reason Anakin didn’t. It also explains why the droids couldn’t find anything wrong with her. They can’t sense the Force.
And in case you need further proof: When Anakin comes to, he immediately and expectantly asks where Padme is because he felt her presence. And Palpatine responds that “it would seem that in your rage, you killed her.” Now why would he say that, when we all know full well that Anakin left her alive and well?? It’s because in a way, Anakin was the reason for her death. This also explains why Palpatine looks so utterly gleeful in this scene. Because he knows that a) he’s got a new puppet of course, but b) he just gave Anakin his final, fatal push to the Dark Side. Had Padme been left alive, Anakin never would’ve truly succumbed to the Dark. And even if they were to lie and say she died, chances are Anakin would’ve felt that she was alive, somehow. No, Padme had to die. And by killing her this way, it kept Anakin alive, and gave Palpatine a legitimate excuse to tell Anakin that he himself was the one who killed her. That alone was the only way Anakin was going to completely relinquish the Light: if he believed that in his attempts to use the Dark to save his wife he had instead killed her, he would believe he was too far gone, that there was nothing left for him but this dark path he had set himself on. (This is further proved by what he says to Luke in VI, and by how simply finding out he had children, something to actually live for, was enough to make him come back to the Light.)
So, in short: No, Padme did not give up the will to live, and no, it wasn’t written that way either. Unfortunately, George Lucas was always a bit too subtle with his cleverness and it often went unnoticed. But it was there, and it’s quite genius.
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