Crapity crap...
Oct. 20th, 2003 04:49 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
owlThis is a really terrible week, and it's only Monday yet. *roll eyes*
Everyone except me went over to the new house yesterday, and Naomi came back in a terrible tantrum. Surely it can't be that bad? It cannot be worse than Renwick, really. Then Christopher disappeared just in time to not give me a lift up last night. Reappeared at 10.30 with his phone clutched to one ear--Jenny, I diagnose. Come on, girl, you don't have to phone him twice a day! Although, to be fair, the long-distance relationship thing must be pretty tough. One more reason he should have stayed at QUB... He's applying for a job as a research assistant at Aberdeen University. Not very convenient for Jenny or for us.
Then I got hold of that accursed Ep 3 spoiler. It seems rather bogus, so early in the game, but... Padme's fate is the only thing that really worries me about this film. Other stuff like a 4-lightsaber-wielding droid general or whatever...yeah. Blah blah.
Anakin killing Padme would be a Dark-Side action, right?
BUT what prompted Anakin's last bout of Dark Side? His mother's death.
It's been set up that losing the people he loves is Anakin's trigger. Padme's death would be the perfect incentive to become Vader.
So, if Padme's death sends him over the edge, he can't be the cause of that death, because he would have to be over the edge anyway to intentionally hurt Padme. We would seem to have a chicken and egg situation here, folks.
A much more plausible senario is if Anakin somehow blames Obi-Wan (or the Jedi, as represented by Obi-Wan) for Padme's death. Provides the necessary motivation for him to go postal, AND alienates him totally from the Jedi, driving him straight to Palpatine.
But he won't be Vader BEFORE Padme dies, because it's been set up that Anakin loses it when things happen to his loved ones. What other POSSIBLE motivation could he have for turning into Vader that didn't involve losing Padme?
Besides, you don't kill someone by strangling them without at the least intending to cause GBH. Vader couldn't bring himself to kill an adult Luke who was making a determined attmpt to spit him on his own lightsaber. Do you think he could premeditatedly kill his wife and unborn child?
And unless this happens in an operating theatre with a surgical team standing by to do a Caesarian, the babies are going to die with her. Strangulation is not something you linger with!!!
And I suppose Leia was remembering her old nanny in RotJ,or Mrs Bail, or Padme's decoy...bleargh. It destroys the emotional resonance of the 'brother and sister' scene in RotJ. And GL needn't have put that scene in in the OT--apparently he was equivocal over it when he was writing the script way back when, so hopefully he had something in mind for Padme's backstory even then.
And we don't have any film-film contradictions yet (I'm not including EU-Prequel contradictions; George obviously knows little of the EU and cares less), so hopefully there's some way for this to pan out without creating a plot hole big enough to fly the Millennium Falcon through.
And, to top it off, my labs are going down the toilet. I simply cannot make everything join up right. and I keep being distracted be going to look at what people are saying about the spoiler, and worrying about it.
I think I need to get some perspective.
I may take a time-out from this fandom.
Everyone except me went over to the new house yesterday, and Naomi came back in a terrible tantrum. Surely it can't be that bad? It cannot be worse than Renwick, really. Then Christopher disappeared just in time to not give me a lift up last night. Reappeared at 10.30 with his phone clutched to one ear--Jenny, I diagnose. Come on, girl, you don't have to phone him twice a day! Although, to be fair, the long-distance relationship thing must be pretty tough. One more reason he should have stayed at QUB... He's applying for a job as a research assistant at Aberdeen University. Not very convenient for Jenny or for us.
Then I got hold of that accursed Ep 3 spoiler. It seems rather bogus, so early in the game, but... Padme's fate is the only thing that really worries me about this film. Other stuff like a 4-lightsaber-wielding droid general or whatever...yeah. Blah blah.
Anakin killing Padme would be a Dark-Side action, right?
BUT what prompted Anakin's last bout of Dark Side? His mother's death.
It's been set up that losing the people he loves is Anakin's trigger. Padme's death would be the perfect incentive to become Vader.
So, if Padme's death sends him over the edge, he can't be the cause of that death, because he would have to be over the edge anyway to intentionally hurt Padme. We would seem to have a chicken and egg situation here, folks.
A much more plausible senario is if Anakin somehow blames Obi-Wan (or the Jedi, as represented by Obi-Wan) for Padme's death. Provides the necessary motivation for him to go postal, AND alienates him totally from the Jedi, driving him straight to Palpatine.
But he won't be Vader BEFORE Padme dies, because it's been set up that Anakin loses it when things happen to his loved ones. What other POSSIBLE motivation could he have for turning into Vader that didn't involve losing Padme?
Besides, you don't kill someone by strangling them without at the least intending to cause GBH. Vader couldn't bring himself to kill an adult Luke who was making a determined attmpt to spit him on his own lightsaber. Do you think he could premeditatedly kill his wife and unborn child?
And unless this happens in an operating theatre with a surgical team standing by to do a Caesarian, the babies are going to die with her. Strangulation is not something you linger with!!!
And I suppose Leia was remembering her old nanny in RotJ,or Mrs Bail, or Padme's decoy...bleargh. It destroys the emotional resonance of the 'brother and sister' scene in RotJ. And GL needn't have put that scene in in the OT--apparently he was equivocal over it when he was writing the script way back when, so hopefully he had something in mind for Padme's backstory even then.
And we don't have any film-film contradictions yet (I'm not including EU-Prequel contradictions; George obviously knows little of the EU and cares less), so hopefully there's some way for this to pan out without creating a plot hole big enough to fly the Millennium Falcon through.
And, to top it off, my labs are going down the toilet. I simply cannot make everything join up right. and I keep being distracted be going to look at what people are saying about the spoiler, and worrying about it.
I think I need to get some perspective.
I may take a time-out from this fandom.
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Date: 2003-10-20 07:20 pm (UTC)Anakin killing Padme would be a Dark-Side action, right? BUT what prompted Anakin's last bout of Dark Side? His mother's death. It's been set up that losing the people he loves is Anakin's trigger.
That's it on the money. Which I pointed out in perfect clarity to some shithead on SotJ - who then proceeded to reiterate that that only his opinion, that Anakin's just going to be an obsessive psychotic monster, is right and anyone who thinks otherwise (me, anakin_girl, etc.) has built up a "fantasy" Anakin in their heads and is setting themselves for disappointment... and he asked if I was going to be one of those who claimed Lucas "raped my childhood" when that happened. :P As much as the death-by-childbirth idea irks me (gee, that whole meaningful L/L convo in RotJ wasn't so meaningful!), I'll take it over the character butchery of murderous!Anakin any day. It's so unbelievably inconsistent this has to be bogus... of course, remember there were some big loads of shite listed as "spoilers" before AOTC came out that didn't pan out at all, so I'm certain these so called "spoilers" are in that category.