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Post by samantha on Oct 27, 2006 5:18:38 GMT -5
I was wondering wat Anakin and Padmé brought into your lives, what changed, and why.
Having better expressed it on my blog that I would here, I'd like to know your version, guys. But I'll try to elaborate it a bit more if you're interested, of course.
Kisses,
Sam.
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Post by arie on Nov 12, 2006 22:33:44 GMT -5
What an interesting question.
I'd have to say that Anakin and Padme were my first movie couple that I truly and deeply was enchanted by. Sure, there were those little romantic Cinderella-story type couples I adored when I was younger, but this one... caught my eye (and heart) from the very beginning.
I remember seeing AOTC for the first time... it's kind of strange but I saw AOTC before TPM... And I remember watching Anakin and Padme in the beginning before they set off to Naboo, even... just the scene in 500 Republica where they meet up again. I distinctly remember turning to face my brother and declaring, That must be Luke and Leia's mother!
Thinking back on that, I laugh now, remembering the silly outbursts I would shout out as I watched the love story unfold... I wouldn't have guessed that in a short amount of time, I'd be writing fanfics about Ani and Padme and discussing their love with other fans! I'll admit it, I'm smitten with their relationship. It's addicting!
On a humorous note, Anakin and Padme's romance story and Star Wars in general has become such a huge part of me... not trying to sound uber geeky, even though I know it will.... my parents and family tease me...
Everything has to be about Anakin! That's a quote I often hear from my dad. Or But what does this have to do with Senator Amidala?
Speaking of Senator Amidala, evidence of the great impact Anakin and Padme have had on me are two of my cats... named Leia and Padme. ;D
I'm curious about what others may think....
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Post by Annie on Nov 12, 2006 23:50:17 GMT -5
Most of all it's gotten me interested in fanfic, and I've met a lot of nice people and read a lot of cool stories on these sites! They've made me feel happy and sad, and a lot of other deep feelings. There is much more, but I will post again later!
Cats named after them? Awww!
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Post by PadmeSkywalker on Nov 13, 2006 12:08:49 GMT -5
AWWWW the cats are Padme and Leia! Awesome.
Anakin and Padme has brought me alot of sadness.... to be honest...... I still get very upset over their tragic ending..... hence I came to fanfic and write of their survival and staying together, etc., it is a romace, a love so pure....... it upsets me to no end that he turned to save her and she dies anyways, etc...... I know it had to be for the OT..... but its heart breaking.....
I adore Anakin, he was so good, so honest........ he truly was twisted to believe the Jedi were evil, that he was doing what was good..... I believe he thought the dark side not to be evil, just more powerful of the force, hence why Yoda, et al... were afraid of it.... he wasn't afraid, he was very very brave...... daring if you will...... I love him....... and my faith in him, is proven, when he realizes he has a son in ESB to me he is not as evil....... then in ROTJ he saves his son.............
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Post by samantha on Nov 14, 2006 11:35:13 GMT -5
I'm facing no teasing, really. Rather a certain form of respect from my family's members. It seems than when the evidence of how my emotional nature was akind to Anakin (sorry, I truly can't call him Ani!!) shown up to them, they've at last seen me as I truly was, human by my own right, so to speak. Which hasn't been the case before, of course.
To be true, I've sensed it even before I joined, PadméSkywalker, how much this fact has affected you, when I'm now reading you here and there, and I respect it. But it seems than mankind has to be put face to face with life's tragic side, to be reminded than nothing lasts forever, if one of us makes the wrong choice. That's what I learnt from them both.
I understand and respect fully your point of view, here. Although I figured out that sometimes the purest, true loving hearts are tested, and find their reward, in a way or another. Anakin's has been to see the rest of his family restored to him, when his Goodnesss witnessed the fact that his love has never died, no matter the hardships the Dark Side made him endure. Another valuable lesson I learnt: if he made it back to the Good Side, so could I. And that's exactly what checked out.
Kisses,
Sam.
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Post by crystalcat on Nov 14, 2006 17:01:47 GMT -5
I've always liked stories like this - good in fiction - WONDERFUL in real life. So glad you had the experience. But since you seem to mean "what did those particular characters in the movie do to give me a life-changing experience?" - I'm afraid I didn't really have one (a life-changing experience), although I'm glad others, including yourself, were able to find something of value in them. What they DID do was to get me back into writing fanfiction in a big way. I absolutely can't let a story alone if it ends with sympathetic characters making a single wrong decision that damns them or kills them, or whatever. I have to "fix" it. And, in the process, it's also gotten me to think about how the story was put together, and what Lucas had to do to join it up with the OT. And I've thought of this a lot and still think of it. Even just last night, I came to the conclusion that the major theme that so many people on the SW boards like to talk about - that Anakin "deserved" his life of darkness because he "didn't really love Padme, just thought of her as a possession," is ridiculous. Anakin was unfairly damned for loving someone, whereas in the OT, Luke had to love Anakin in order to save him. One could argue that Luke was being possessive, because he'd always wanted to know his dad, and that he was being reckless in not killing him immediately, because if Anakin hadn't still been "in there" the rebel alliance and the galaxy would have been doomed by Luke's caring more about a single individual than he did for society at large. And even writing about this here can make me mad about it - even though I think it was in large part brought about by Lucas being backed into a corner to match the two trilogies up to each other and not thinking the whole thing through well enough. But that is what the story did for me - give me a new obsession.  |
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Post by Annie on Nov 14, 2006 17:33:41 GMT -5
Sounds like they've been reading, and believing, Stover. You all know how much I hate his portrayal of Anakin, how he put his own ideas into it that were so different from what we see and feel in the movie. What a shame anyone would be influenced by it, it's not even canon. Our stories are much better and that's why I got so into the fanfic, to see the real Anakin portrayed by fans who can see what I saw, and show his real feelings.
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Post by crystalcat on Nov 14, 2006 19:03:04 GMT -5
Sounds like they've been reading, and believing, Stover. I didn't like his novelization either, but in all fairness, I suppose he did have to try to concoct some logical reason why Anakin would be punished for loving someone. That just happens to be what he came up with. I guess if the people on the SW board that are holding his reason to their breasts need to believe that in order to enjoy the story, they should have it. I just can't buy into it - but it makes me doubly glad that I didn't have to write the novelization, because I wouldn't have thought to give it that spin. And without it, it just boils down to Anakin's bad luck. The whole story ends up being the opposite of what we're all used to insofar as story endings go - even insofar as SW story endings go.  |
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Post by Annie on Nov 14, 2006 19:42:24 GMT -5
I just can't buy into it - but it makes me doubly glad that I didn't have to write the novelization, because I wouldn't have thought to give it that spin. I wouldn't either, and I think it would have been better not to have it. Why would it work without ruining his character? See below: It was a tragic irony, a strain that runs through stories from new movies, classic novels, all the way back to Greek plays. I really do believe looking at it that way, we can save Anakin's rep and still have it end the way it does. In fact, that's what made it so much sadder and more powerful to me. Besides that, I really feel that the book portrayal was way off from the way he was portrayed in the movie. |
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Post by PadmeSkywalker on Nov 14, 2006 21:37:59 GMT -5
To be true, I've sensed it even before I joined, PadméSkywalker, how much this fact has affected you, when I'm now reading you here and there, and I respect it. But it seems than mankind has to be put face to face with life's tragic side, to be reminded than nothing lasts forever, if one of us makes the wrong choice. You are SOOOO very right..... I know this is how life is, etc., I guess I just like to be a romantic and keep in my own little world, where there should only be happy endings! |
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Post by samantha on Nov 15, 2006 8:31:27 GMT -5
Thank you very much, crystalcat!
Again, this sounds very familiar and relevant to me, for you may say that's also what I'm doing with the story connected to the theme of my web-site. I'm also fixing things up through my writing, when I'm allowed, of course, via the facts I've been given elsewhere. So, I've a fair idea of what you mean, here.
Not only on the message boards, but as well unfortunately across the SW Blogs. I've fallen across a few of those reasoning like that during my collecting of Anakin/Padmé themed entries, and I've pushed them aside right away, precisely due to that, because it couldn't go with what I knew, what I'd understood and been through from my own experience. Now, it's simple: I collect those matching what we all have seen, and as I may express it that way, I'm getting the hell out of there!
I'm quite agreeing on this with you, Annie, that's certainly why I've not read the novelization just yet (although that's my Mum whom got it for me, the Deluxe edition, atop of that!) after flipping through it. Not to mention that the pocket edition meant for teenagers was very much closer to the movie to me, for Anakin's very thoughts echoed very much to the ones I used to have when I've been into similar situations.
Kisses,
Sam.
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Post by Astrid on Nov 15, 2006 11:07:07 GMT -5
I cannot imagine anybody thinking Anakin didn't love Padme If he deserved to suffer it should be for killing the younglings, not that he didn't really love Padme, because he did. |
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Post by acrossthestars87 on Aug 18, 2008 11:47:13 GMT -5
I always knew Anakin and Padme would fall in love. It was the continued saga of their love that drew me to them. I can relate to them and they truely are the only screen couple that seemed real to me. They also make great fics lol.
Anakin loved Padme with all his heart. When she died, part of him died as well. I hope they were united after his death.
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