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Message: <blockquote data-quote="OB1" data-source="post: 9642273" data-attributes="member: 6796241">People dying of grief is a real thing (see Carrie Fisher's mom dying a few days after she passed, and there are countless stories of spouses dying within weeks of each other).  Padme isn't sad about a boy, she realizes that she made a terrible mistake in believing that if she loved Anakin enough, he wouldn't turn out bad.  Her feelings for Anakin changed in the aftermath of him telling her about slaughtering the sandpeople (even the women, and the children).  That's when she decided to engage in a relationship with him and keeping both the relationship and what he had done secret from the Jedi Order.  When he fell to the dark side and slaughtered everyone (including the younglings) at the Jedi temple, she blamed herself.  She consequently blamed herself for the rise of the Emperor and the fall of the Republic.  Even then, she still was trying to fix him on Mustafar, even lying to Obi-wan about where he was.  And honestly, she does carry a lot of blame for her decisions.Anakin and Padme isn't the love story people think it is.  People bounce off the story of their relationship because they are looking at it wrong.  Anakin was unhealthily obsessed with Padme and she was unhealthily obsessed with fixing him on her own.  It's a toxic love affair that was doomed from the start.  When she finally realized that after he force choked her nearly to death, her grief killed her.As for TLJ, while the plot is a bit of a mess, the character work is outstanding, and had Trevarro's script been greenlighted for E9, I think the sequel trilogy would have been saved from the mess that JJ created with Force Awakens.</blockquote>

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