I haven't seen Twilight, I have seen the Star Wars Prequels
and I can't imagine Twilight having a worse love story
I haven't seen Twilight, I have seen the Star Wars PrequelsThis.
and I can't imagine Twilight having a worse love story
This.
The prequels are a story about a space-princess falling in love with a mass murderer who she used to babysit as a child and who openly espouses fascist dictatorial views, then is shocked and horrified when he commits a second mass-killing and joins a budding fascist dictatorship.
You have to be trying pretty hard to top that.
They were only like 4 years apart. It wasn't like she was 20 and she knew him when he was a baby.Five, actually. Which is still, like, the least-weird thing about their relationship.
They were only like 4 years apart. It wasn't like she was 20 and she knew him when he was a baby.
even though it necessitates that the audience believe an entire planet voluntarily elected a 14-year-old as their head-of-state.
It's been a while since I watched the PT, was she actually elected? As queen/princess I figured it was more of a monarchy situation and they didn't really have a choice but to accept her.Yep, she is elected.
A 5-year age gap between people that met as adults is nothing of note (heck, I'm 6 years older than my girlfriend). A 5-year age gap between people who met when one was 14 and the other was 9 years old is another story entirely. It's somewhat mitigated by the fact that they reconnected as adults later and she didn't watch him grow up, but there's still some heckin' creepo going on there.
It's been a while since I watched the PT, was she actually elected? As queen/princess I figured it was more of a monarchy situation and they didn't really have a choice but to accept her.
A 5-year age gap between people that met as adults is nothing of note (heck, I'm 6 years older than my girlfriend). A 5-year age gap between people who met when one was 14 and the other was 9 years old is another story entirely. It's somewhat mitigated by the fact that they reconnected as adults later and she didn't watch him grow up, but there's still some heckin' creepo going on there.
It's been a while since I watched the PT, was she actually elected? As queen/princess I figured it was more of a monarchy situation and they didn't really have a choice but to accept her.
Yeah it's definitely weird that kids that met each other as kids have kids later in life.Again, Padme was a teenager doing an adult's job while Anakin was a prepubescent that she did her best to mother while she was with him.
Also, I swear that Lucas only made Padme (played by a then-18-year-old Natalie Portman) 14-years-old after filming wrapped up in order to make the eventual romance between her and Anakin mildly less creepy, even though it necessitates that the audience believe an entire planet voluntarily elected a 14-year-old as their head-of-state.
Yeah it's definitely weird that kids that met each other as kids have kids later in life.
Again, Padme was a teenager doing an adult's job while Anakin was a prepubescent that she did her best to mother while she was with him.
Yes, it is absolutely creepy for that to turn romantic.
Yeah it's definitely weird that kids that met each other as kids have kids later in life.
When it comes to questions of romance between them, teenagers and kids are not the same thing. Padme met Anakin at a time when she would have been considering romance (at least generally, if not specifically with him), while he would not have been. He then spent the next 10 years being forbidden from developing romantic attachments to anyone else, after which he reconnected with the pretty girl that was so nice to him when he was a kid and so few other people cared, so of course he developed a crush on her. She, on the other hand, had 5-6 years of normal(ish) adulthood and the emotional maturity that comes with that, and her last interaction with him had amounted to "he seems like a nice kid."
A 24-year-old dating a 19-year-old is already a bit questionable (at least in our world), given the substantial difference in life experience between a fresh adult and somebody who's been adulting for several years and the gap in emotional maturity that often entails. Toss in how impaired Anakin's emotional maturity was and the fact that Padme knew this, and it's more than a little creepy.
Yeah it's definitely weird that kids that met each other as kids have kids later in life.
You all know Anakin used the force on Padme to influence her, right?
The relationship was weird cause it is weird. It's a teenage/young-adult boy convincing his crush to love him.
You notice how she just kinda flips? There's the awkward ass scene of rejection, and then she just all of a sudden loves him??? There's some force persuasion going on there.
Yeah it's definitely weird that kids that met each other as kids have kids later in life.
Again, Padme was a teenager doing an adult's job while Anakin was a prepubescent that she did her best to mother while she was with him.
Yes, it is absolutely creepy for that to turn romantic.
the ironic thing about this meme is that Twilight is actually a good love story.
the ironic thing about this meme is that Twilight is actually a good love story.