Hey all,

Long time no blog. Haven't had much opportunity to be able to in a while and most likely it will continue to be erratic. Anyway, if you are reading this then it means I was able to squeeze this one out instead of having it sit on my hard drive unfinished. The weekend before last was my little ones 5th birthday. She got a bicycle from us and a bunch of Barbies from various people. I can't believe it has been 5 years since I first held her and brought her home. **sigh** Tomorrow (the 29th) is my Wife's and I 14th wedding anniversary which gets into some completely different thoughts. Where did the time go?

My supervisor at work brought in a book today for me to peruse that he had recently bought on the art of Iain McCaig. Very cool book. Out of all the CGI renderings and pencil sketches etc. I love his watercolors in the book the most. They have a Brian Froud look about them. Several projects he has worked on will never be. Which is too bad since they were such great movie ideas. Others may still see the light of day sometime in the future.

A quote in the footnotes along side some Padme images was interesting while I doubt it new news. In speaking of how he usually uses real people to create his imaginary characters, He says "I was so amazed at Natalie Portman's performance in The Professional that I kept using her as a model for the young Queen. After many hundreds of drawings George finally asked "Do you know this girl?" He eventually cast Natalie on her own merits of course, but I like to think my Jedi mind tricks paved the way." To think if he hadn't been using her in his sketches maybe we would have had a completely different person in the part of Padme. The course of rivers are started as seemingly small and insignificant trickles.

In the book also there were some sketches of some plot point ideas for Padme in Revenge of the Sith that led me back to some thoughts myself and others have waged on the past blogs. The three storyboard sketches deal with issues she might have had with carrying twin Jedi's full of Midi-Chlorians within her womb. All of the ones shown were dropped and never made it to the movie. However they had some interesting possibilities that could still have a place in the Star Wars story.

One panel showed Padme doubled over in pain caused by her body being overwhelmed by the force beings within her. Yoda is in this case trying to alleviate the pain through the force which would not in itself work since He would not have known about the pregnancy during the gestation but it is as an issue something to look at. Could the complications of the birth have been exacerbated by the twins themselves enough to cause her death. I don't mean it is their fault. No child is to blame for what happens to the mother in child birth. The medical droids could not explain what was going on is all. The injuries were not enough by themselves to cause the death by their estimate. She was without oxygen for a short time and thrown to the ground rendering her unconscious so there was trauma to be sure, but there may have been more danger for the twins than the mother. (Not to diminish the dangers of childbirth even under normal circumstances.) Let's just say though that she did not suffer life threatening injuries just as the droids espoused to the masters.
A broken heart did it? Too weak an argument as I have said in the past. This unused story plot could then create an element of plausibility when added to what we already know. Take the injuries and Padme's emotional state then add the stress of a non-Force user giving birth to twins with very strong and concentrated force abilities who were no doubt connected to their mother and the events of those moments beyond the physical biological connection of mother and child. It would have been too much for her body to handle.

There is something else in all of this that was illustrated by another unused story plot. In this one she is sleep walking. Surrounding her are floating objects. The twins using the force or through again a non-Force user's body reacting to suddenly having midichlorians pumping through their blood? Through the umbilical chord a mother and child share quite a bit. Since organs within the child have not developed completely the fetus uses the body of the mother to sustain it. They are in theory one organism for nine months or until the mother and child(ren) are separated whatever the circumstance.
Wouldn't it be plausible that the midichlorians of the twins then be leaking out into the body of the mother as they share their connection. This would be most likely be temporary as the body would return to it's normal state sometime after the birth.
Though I do not assume to know the physiology of the midichlorians so maybe once introduced they will never leave the body but I digress.
Could Padme have experienced moments of Force ability throughout the pregnancy? It would be a great story to hear. Could she have even had some Force visions of her own that were not shared with us. Maybe through this connection she saw Anakin's redemption and this prompted her to tell Obi-Wan. All speculation really but not impossible. I have in separate past blogs as well as in comments spoken of my belief that both Padme and Han could have had latent but weak Force ability through some of their individual traits. This new theory could be a pro argument for those who have thought in their blogs that Padme should have had a possible place as a force ghost at the end of ROTJ.

Gotta get back to work. If I think of anything to add to this I have forgotten I'll try to make an update. Your thoughts are always welcome of course.

Later & MTFBWY
-Gold5