Love Won't Save You Padme'--Only My New Powers Can Do That

Originally posted on June 20, 2006




All I want is your love. Padme' to Anakin, ROTS

Love won't save you Padme'. Only my new powers can do that. Anakin to Padme', ROTS


This entry is coming to to you live from the beaches of the Naboo Lake Country  It was a little too warm today for me to stay out on the beach, so I came up early. Anyway...this entry is a continuation of sorts from my previous entry looking at why Padme' wanted to have their baby back home on Naboo. This entry "mysteriously" made the front page over the weekend and is closed for comments...but I wanted to link it for anyone who may have missed it and became confused while reading this entry. Ok...I wanted to know why Padme' thought that Naboo would be safe for her to deliver and raise her child(ren). Many reasons were provided by both myself and those responding to my questions...many suggesting that she wanted to run from the war, that Naboo was the place where she and Anakin fell in love and were married, that Naboo was where her family was and that they would provide the necessary protection for her and her child(ren), and that Naboo was her home and she felt safest there. All of these were valid reasons, and I agree with them all. I recently finished reading the AOTC novelization, and realized the sense of safety she felt there...especially in the Lake Country--the place she suggested for having her child(ren). I also finished reading the fourth book in the Last of the Jedi series, and realized the respect for privacy all of the citizens of Naboo hold for others. It is only under direct threat that they reveal the location of any citizen...and even then they do not willingly give the information. A perfect place to have and raise a child one does not wish to have revealed to the galaxy.

Now on to this entry. The quotes above were said between Anakin and Padme' on Mustafar, when she was trying to convince him to run away with me...help me raise our child...leave everything else behind while we still can. She wanted to believe that Anakin was the same person she fell in love with, although she knew the truth about what he had become. She wanted to believe that only their love was needed to save him, to save her from his visions of her dying, from the "threat" of the new Empire, from his "delusions of grandeur." However, by this time Anakin was too far "gone"...becoming more and more consumed by the Dark Side, by Darth Vader, that he could not relinquish himself to the love Padme' was emanating at that moment. He could not see that it was he himself who was "killing" her...that her "self" was starting to crumble at the relaization of what he had done, what he had become. Even as she says to him Anakin, you're breaking my heart. You're going down a path I cannot follow...because of what you've done, what you plan to do, his mind was full of doubt, doubts placed there by good ol Palpatine. As Obi-Wan emerged from her ship, Anakin became so enraged that he called her a Liar, and allowed Vader to take over and incapacitate her, with the intention to kill. Obi-Wan was able to bring him back for a moment...long enough for him to realize what he had just done, and we all know what happened next.

As we have discussed before, their love had blinded them bloth to everything and everyone around them. Anakin was so determined to save the love of his life that he could not see that these visions, these nightmares were his worst fears appearing in his restless mind. Sure, he had visions of his mother suffering, and they, unfortunately, turned out to be true. However, with the stress of the war, of not wanting to hide their marriage, and of becoming a father, he could no longer make the distinction between reality and "fantasy." Padme' was torn between her duty to the galaxy through her position as Senator and her role as wife and first-time mother that she could not fully see how Anakin was suffering with the coming changes and believed that their love was what would save them both. Unfortunately, the love they both so blindly believed in was what "destroyed" them...with Padme' dying shortly after giving birth to the galaxy's "new hope" and Anakin dying to become Darth Vader. It took over twenty years for this love Padme' so believed in to save Anakin, to bring him back from the life he chose in the hope of saving her...but their love did save them in the end.

Thoughts...anyone  May the Force Be With You All