Hot Take: Padm Choosing Anakin Despite (and Maybe Even Because Of) His Red Flags Is The Entire Point

Hot take: Padmé choosing Anakin despite (and maybe even because of) his red flags is the entire point of their relationship, and the theory that he intentionally or accidentally mind-tricked her into it misses the point completely and robs Padmé of her agency in the relationship.

learning that people actually think Anakin Skywalker was a Mary Sue has to be the most brain-dead thing I've seen on this site.

I know that the whole reason that Disney created the First Order was to rip off the OT, but can you imagine if it was on purpose.

The First Order was the perfect chance to address Neo-Nazism. All they had to do was make them a fringe group. No fancy spaceships, no stupid space lasers, no stormtrooper armies, just a group of regular people with a dangerous ideology with backing in the New Republic Senate. They have one Dark Sider, but that's the limit. No kidnapping children and raising them to be soldiers, just good propaganda and terrifying brainwashing.

why does this make so much sense

han and leia are three times divorced and four times married. han and lando are twice divorced and once married, but both of the divorces happened before the marriage. han and chewie had a beautiful religious wookiee ceremony but never did the paperwork. han and luke have been fiancés since the party right after the destruction of the first death star.

There were, of course, innumerable things wrong with Sheev Palpatine BUT I want to know what specifically made him the only Sith Lord to not be completely obsessed with Obi Wan Kenobi. Literally all of the rest of them were wandering around like

But not Sheev!

Why was he immune? What was wrong with him specifically in this instance?

It's times like this that I have to remind myself that the Clone Wars timeline is set over three years. THREE FUCKING YEARS.

HOLD ON LEGENDS CANON SAYS THERE ARE THREE WEEKS BETWEEN ANAKIN BEING KNIGHTED AND TAKING AHSOKA AS A PADAWAN? AND A TOTAL OF SEVEN WEEKS BETWEEN AOTC AND THE CLONE WARS MOVIE?

This is hilarious. This is my favorite thing about the EU so far.

Like I’ve had sinus infections that lasted longer than Anakin’s solo Knighthood. I know heads of lettuce that lasted longer. THREE WEEKS??!?

Just imagine: Say Shmi dies, Anakin murders a village and loses his arm all on Halloween. By Thanksgiving, he’s gotten a new arm, gotten out of the hospital, gotten married, and been made a Jedi Knight. Then he fights in three major military engagements, takes on responsibility for a 14-year-old, and goes BACK to Tatooine where his mom died a month and a half ago and still has a full week to get his Christmas shopping done. He is a VERY BUSY GUY.

I’m not saying getting a full month to define himself as an individual would fix Anakin, both because that’s just the tip of the iceberg and because his brain fails to compute independence as a concept. What I’m saying is THREE WEEKS DFGJBJBJKCBAJKEKJWKJSD

[From the novel Clone Wars: Wild Space. Disclaimer: the book does also mention engagements on Anoth and Bakura after the seven week mark but before Christophsis, but Wookieepedia’s only reference to Anakin’s involvement in those is Wild Space itself, so I’m gonna assume they didn’t take super long?]