Given the fact that Anakin was 9 and Padme was 14 when they met? Would you find that... very awkward and weird?
This plot point always bothered me... I don't know if I could fall in love with someone under these circumstances...
It’s only weird to you because you were raised as a child. Children used to have to grow up fast. They worked fields, were sold as slaves, and we’re held to a standard that frankly we don’t allow these days.
Furthermore having children and being in love are a new concept. Most didn’t really have such concepts as it was common to die early to war, famine, plague, etc… With a life expectancy well below what we have today and a much harder life it’s easy to think of a time where children were forced to mature earlier and bare children sooner.
We live a comfortable life today where women and children have value simply by being but in a time when the common cold can kill and a strong man is necessary to work the fields and protect the family immaturity and weakness is a liability.
People seem unable to accept if we didn’t have this society and it’s achievements… we’d be living very different lives. For instance how many women do you know that can provide for themselves outside of buying it from the marketplace? Hell even most men fail at this these days. They can’t hunt or butcher game, they can’t fish, they can’t even garden. When times get tough it’s expected of everyone to step up and pull their weight whatever it may be. In a time like this it’s easy to see where the real value is. It’s in the men and their ability to use force. Force protects, it works fields, it demands respect… without society power is how you survive and women and children lack physical power…
I mention all this because… one adult man supporting a family is hard. It’s easier to get rid of those you have an abundance of. A man works the field and a wife works the house. Children have to grow up fast to help the home and get out of the home faster to relieve the burden on the head of household. And two adult men is a waste because the second man will never accomplish anything on his own under another man. He needs to set out and make a new family.
Thus, no I don’t see much issue. It’s a 5 year gap and Anakin had power and was kind… until he went psycho. Between the difficult life enforcing gender roles and the adults allowing it I don’t find it strange. We find it strange for 15 to get married but some places see 15 as an adult.
Not really, no; pre-sexual crushes are actually quite common. It's not like a switch suddenly gets flipped overnight and BOOM! there's full adult sexuality where there was nothing before. They rarely amount to anything, and it's probably rare for people to hold on to them in the face of aging and budding sexuality, though. Anakin has something of an excuse, in that his life was hideously disrupted when he went off to join the Jedi Order; I can easily see him clinging to his idealized vision of Padme from a simpler time in his life, especially when he faced objection and dislike (or what he would have perceived as such) from members of the Order who thought his presence inappropriate.
Padme's a bit of a different story, though; her life, while complex and difficult, wasn't so warped- the Naboo... ites? -ians? Whatever the people of Naboo were called, their attitudes toward sexuality and personal attachment were much healthier than those of the Jedi, and she'd've had better outlets than Anakin did.
If you are assuming it was some sort of weird sexual attraction, then yeah it would be disturbing. But given that we have no reason to assume that, then no.
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As a Star Wars lover I have to say, yes, I always found that really, really weird. But I thought Padme was supposed to be 16 in Episode I. Either way, it was pretty weird. Even weirder when you think about how Anakin seemed like he was the older one in Episode III. I wonder if George maybe forgot that he made her older than him in Phantom Menace.
I always thought it was weird too, but I never focused too much on it. I'm very much the kind of person who can accept weird plot points like that, provided they make sense in the greater story.
It's not a huge are gap, and they're both adults when they get together. Not seeing the issue here.
I met my wife when she was 6 and I was 20. I dont find it disturbing.
Padne was only 14? I thought she was 18 like her actress
Nah. Episode 1 sucked anyway.
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