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thinking too deeply about the scene where palpatine just goes, 'well, if you want to save your wife from dying, you have to go murder a bunch of kids. it's okay, i know this has nothing to do with prenatal care, but trust me on this one.' like, i know it's just shorthand for 'he's evil now', but what purpose does this serve? what is the reason for murdering children? is it just for palpatine's shits and giggles? does he want to check to see if anakin is really that desperate? why tamper with useful apprentices that could be used as an army, and could eventually serve as viable replacements for anakin lest something happen?
like, lucas went with child murder, and didn't do anything interesting with it. like, at least do something useful with the dead children, like, use their souls to keep luke and leia alive and that's why they make it through childbirth. make anakin drag them up to the top of the jedi temple to show dissenters to the new empire, this is how we deal with traitors. use the dead souls to purge the light of the temple and shroud it in darkness. do something creative!
or, at least, let the dead babies haunt people. every strike vader lands, he can hear a child's cry at the end of it. they sob loudly, and he rips his eardrums from his mangled ear to dull the pain. they whisper in luke's ear as a child, avenge us, and luke wonders if he's gone insane. everytime padme cries out in her birthing, she can hear fifty echoes of babies and children crying with her. and when she turns her head to her daughter and son, the voices that so fervently cried out for help were silenced in eerie quiet, and then she knows.
i don't know where i was going with this. anyway, uh, utilize the child murder properly!