RotS blues

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I'm feeling so un-psyched about RotS at the moment.

What all the spoilers I've heard are saying is that Anakin Force-chokes Padmé, she goes into labour and dies. But AotC sets up people die>>Anakin goes growly>>Imperial March plays, so the thing I would expect would be padme to appear to die in some way that obiwan/the jedi was responsible for and voila, instant Jedi purge. You have to use the gun on the table: if you set up a particular situation in an earlier part, then you have to use it later. What is the point in establishing that Anakin goes Tuskan when people he loves die, if he's just going to turn into Vader for some political reason?

I knew from the 'goodbye mommy' scene in TPM that Shmi was going to die. How come I guessed so wrong this time around? Anyway, it's stupid medically. People don't die of stragulation hours after the fact.

And the whole, you-kill-my-family-you-die thing? Was there in the OT too. The immediate catalyst for Vader turning back to the light side was Palpatine's attempt at killing Luke. It would make sense if he went to the dark side because he thought he had lost his wife and offspring, considering that in the OT he finds Luke again, and he turns back. And Luke loves him the way Padmé did: unconditionally. They are both his good angels.

So, if Luke is giving him back what he lost when he became Vader...it just makes so much more sense artistically for Padmé to die before he goes to the dark side. Lucas, whatever you might say about his dialogue, is usually good at pure story. Has he finally dropped the balls? Did all the complaints that Anakin 'wasn't evil enough' finally get to him?

I'm just hoping that when I go to the cinema on 19/05 that it was all slot into place.

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Actually, rather a point seems to be made that Padme doesn't die of the choke, which is backed up by a scan I saw from the RotS kids' book that says Palpatine is lying to Anakin when he says Anakin killed her. According to spoilers all damage to her body is repaired, but for reasons that baffle the med-droids she's still dying anyway. And a fellow A/P-er on TFN actually wrote LFL on the matter and got a response from Lynne Hale that says straight up that Padme dies of a broken heart.

That still doesn't make me much happier on the choke aspect, though.