So, I have to say something has been bothering me about Padme. I know, it seems like I'm bashing her mercilessly of late, but I'm really not. I love her and think she's great. I just don't see her in monolithic perfection. That, was Anakin's job. I think she was way multifaceted and just like all human beings, had some flaws and qualities, that maybe she could have improved upon. So here goes...

I don't know if it's bothered anyone else or even been noticed (though, I doubt that) but I'm having issues with Padme's problem with Ani having offed the younglings at the Temple during that whole scourging thing. Now, don't go all Sith on me, let me explain. (Hmm, maybe she should have said that when Ani saw Obi get off her ship ) I'm not even on the list of defenders of Anakin on that one, but it wasn't like he hadn't done this sort of thing before. We all know what went down on Tattoine in AOTC and so did Padme. No one in the Tusken camp was spared when Anakin rendered judgment. I don't remember her being all freaked about that. It didn't keep her from binding herself more permanently to him. I mean, what was up with that? He clearly had some conflict resolution and aggression issues before they were married. Which makes it all the more off to me that she was horrified about what he did later. If anyone understands it, please help me. I've mulled and pondered and all I can come up with was that my favorite Senator & style icon was a xenophobe at worst and a classist at best. This pains me because I want to believe that all children would have been equally important in her eyes, rendering what Ani did, undeniable murder, on both counts. I don't want to think she valued the younglings more because of their status and the Tusken children less because they were of a perceived savage & barbarous clan. On the other hand, if she did value them equally, how could she find it beyond forgiveness the second time? Or for that matter, forgivable the first?