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This fan principle casts doubt on a traditional Star Wars love story

With the overall dearth of movies on the market, it is no marvel that persons are returning to previous favourites to choose aside. Twitter-based film watch-alongs and the Netflix social gathering extension have meant that simply because we’re far aside does not imply we will not get pleasure from movies collectively.

Some movies encourage heated discourse amongst followers. Chiefly amongst them is Star Wars, and given how expansive the franchise is, there’s lots to argue about.

Reddit has at all times been a hotbed of fan theories, from the wildly weird to the genuinely believable. Even although the Star Wars prequels have been round for twenty years, it does not imply there is not nonetheless speculating to be achieved.

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A current principle posted had us definitely elevate our eyebrows, and whereas we’re not 100% certain that it is relevant, it is positively one which places the occasions of the prequels into a complete new gentle. The quick model is: Padmé by no means actually cherished Anakin (ouch).

In reality, the Redditor posits that the one real love Padmé ever had was for democracy. Not solely this, however she pretended to like Anakin within the hopes that it might forestall the galaxy from sliding right into a fascist state (everyone knows how effectively that turned out).

The principle rests on the concept that, given her place within the authorities in addition to her normal, all-around smarts, Padmé would have, sooner or later, discovered concerning the Chosen One prophecy. This would additionally imply she is aware of Anakin is the ‘chosen one’ (although whether or not it exists any extra or not is a subject of debate in itself).

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As such, she’s decided to keep watch over him, and hopefully align him together with her personal wishes: to protect democracy within the galaxy. At first, she takes up a maternal or big-sister-like place, one in all a mentor and buddy.

During Attack of the Clones, she realises Anakin is being tempted to the darkish aspect, and makes an attempt to reinstate her function as a mentor, saying: “You’ll always be that little boy I knew on Tatooine.” But later, when the 2 are within the area and Anakin successfully says he thinks a dictatorship is the very best type of authorities (and even when it was a joke, it probably lined up a modicum of fact), she realised being a buddy wasn’t sufficient to maintain Anakin from participating in his darker philosophical whims.

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And so she feigned falling in love with him. The principle additionally debunks a well-liked speculation: that Palpatine drew Padmé’s life power to maintain the infants Luke and Leia alive whereas letting her die.

Instead, this principle claims that Padmé misplaced the need to stay (which is canon) as a result of she realised she had failed in her one aim: to maintain democracy alive within the galaxy. Anakin had turned wholly to the darkish aspect and the galaxy fell to fascism.

The theorist goes on to say that whereas Padmé could not have cherished Anakin, she did look after him; a sense extra akin to pity and sympathy than romantic love. And whereas we will not say that we wholly endorse the idea, it’s positively an intriguing one to consider.

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