The Thing Is We Are Introduced To Padme As The Ultimate Cog In The Republic (soon To Be Imperial) Machine

the thing is ☝️ we are introduced to padme as the ultimate cog in the republic (soon to be imperial) machine . she is 14, queen of a whole planet, and easily manipulated. she is used as a weapon by palpatine blatantly and no one cares. padme has to be stoic, monotone and come up with a winning battle plan at 14 or everyone she knows dies. she does the impossible and it doesn’t even matter because that was what palpatine wanted!!

is it not that classic star wars “poetry” then, for her to die resisting the help of machines, for once allowing herself to fully feel? does it not rock that the first time we hear padme truly scream is on her deathbed, refusing to live in a galaxy so cruel it’s denied her this right?? fuck “died of sadness” jokes. fuck “palpatine sapped her life force” theories . padme could only find catharsis in death & that’s her whole character !!!

Palpatine: We’re going to leak that an assassination attempt on me is planned. The Jedi will try to infiltrate the bounty hunters, and we’ll trap them by hosting a bounty hunter contest to determine the assassination team and THEN if the Jedi is still alive, we’ll frame them for the whole thing

Dooku pouring his 3rd glass of wine at 9am: Please for the love of the force can we just reveal ourselves already

Star Wars: Episode II - Attack of the Clones Ahsoka - Part Seven: Dreams and Madness

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bloopers of star wars: the clone wars the animated series like pixar movies

Remember when that guy in The Clone Wars was like “Checkmate! Everyone here is A Good Person and only A Bad Person would kill me!” and then Anakin ‘Stabs-a-lot’ Skywalker stabbed him and the imperial march played?

Lordy goats alive, that scene alone should have ensured that show get renewed for 34 seasons right then and there no questions asked