Hello everyone!

I was looking through an old list of potential blog topics (from my SW marathon all that time ago), and I came across this one, and decided to write about it now!

Here's the section in which I discussed this in the previously mentioned marathon blog:
Luke is born, then Leia. They're so cute! Considering that she had just delivered her two babies, I find it incredibly hard to believe that Padmé "lost the will to live". Yes, she had lost her husband and love, but she wouldn't willingly die knowing that she had two children out there. Also, she truly believed there was good in him, so why would she give all that up?

As I said 4 months ago, I find it really hard to believe that Padmé would have let herself die, as the medical droid suggested. Any mother - especially one like Padmé - would do anything possible to stay alive, if only to care for and be with her children. Considering Padmé's character, I can't see her "losing the will to live".

Also, the last thing she said before she died was that she still believed there was still good in Anakin (then Darth Vader). Despite the fact that Anakin was "dead" - that his good self didn't really exist anymore - I think Padmé would have looked past that and held on to the hope that he would have turned back to the light side of the Force, as he eventually did when he eradicated the galaxy of the Sith, as the Prophecy said he would.

[As an aside, wouldn't it have been helpful if when the Jedi Prophet from who knows how long ago wrote that a Jedi would bring balance to the Force, he/she had also given the future Jedi the little tidbit of information that that meant they would also all have to be killed as well?]

Considering all this, I can't see why GL would have written this particular part of Ep. III this way. He must have seen the inconsistencies that so many of us (if not all of us... it wouldn't surprise me) have. I think he must just have known that she had to die, and that her "losing the will to live" was an easy way to facilitate that end without having to use technical and potentially confusing medical/technical jargon. Still, the MD could have said that "Her strangulation nearly killed her, and along with the strain being put on her body with double-birth, stress, and shock, we're losing her." (Or something to that effect... keep in mind that I'm not a writer - it would have sounded much better coming out of GL!!)

Having seen Padmé's character progress from Ep. I to Ep. III (from Queen to Senator to loving wife and mother), and seeing how compassionate, caring, and optimistic she was, it kind of seems like a sudden character change when we hear the explanation of her death. It's kind of like, "Huh? Where'd that come from?!"

Maybe it's just me, but I think that this could have been done better. However, as I've said many times in the past, who am I to judge the cinematic genius who brought us the best Saga in the history of time?

May the Force be with you!