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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Jeremy Ackerman-Yost" data-source="post: 2294546" data-attributes="member: 4720">Two nitpicks...Looks like a slightly furrowed brow on the younger one to me.  You're reaching. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f609.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=";)" title="Wink    ;)"  data-smilie="2"data-shortname=";)" />Two things about that: 1) the novelization makes mention of the fact that Padme's personal medical droid had checked her out, and she explicitly told the droid not to spoil any surprises like the gender of the child (and presumably, the number).  Really, this is not unprecedented.  I know at least one couple where the woman carrying the kid was the ONLY person who didn't know the gender.  That was my assumption, actually, that she had been to a doctor but asked not to know.  It actually makes more sense that she had kept it "in house" with her droid, what with trying to hide the pregnancy as long as possible and all.  2) How many people here can read an ultrasound, anyway? <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" />  It's not that easy.  The number of heartbeats typically is distinct enough to determine the number of children, but I've run into a number of situations where the gender could not be determined or was inaccurate.  In the case of my sister-in-law, at least 2 separate ultrasounds concluded with the belief that she was a boy.  It is not an exact science, let me tell you.Considering how often this gets brought up, I'm beginning to really wish Lucas had bothered to include a scene where Anakin asks about the gender and Padme tells him that she wants it to be a surprise, explaining the bit with the droid.  Of course, then an entirely different cadre of people would be complaining about the "pointless" scene where Padme talks about her robo-gynecologist.And people thought her dialogue was wooden in other scenes? <img src="http://www.enworld.org/forum/images/smilies/nervous.png"  class="smilie" loading="lazy" alt=":heh:" title="Nervous Laugh    :heh:" data-shortname=":heh:" /></blockquote>

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