pedro45 posted...
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.
That wasn't "Force Persuasion", or subtle and clever storytelling. That was Lucas being bad at writing characters. And triply bad at trying to write romance.
Leia falling for Han wasn't much different. He was clearly interested from the start, she constantly rejects him, he molests her a bit, she kisses her brother just to spite him, and then he gets tortured for a while and she suddenly decides she loves him.
The main advantage Han has over Anakin is that Han doesn't get terrible lines like Anakin does (and Harrison Ford is Harrison Ford). But in-universe, Anakin and Padme's relationship actually grows much more organically off-camera because they spend a lot of time on Naboo we just don't see.
Plus, they're horny and dumb, like most young people.