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Message: <blockquote data-quote="OB1" data-source="post: 9642518" data-attributes="member: 6796241">I mean, the good girl falling for the bad boy is a cliche in stories, song and in life.  She's attracted to the forbidden nature of the relationship (having a secret when you live a very public life is intoxicating), the fact that he is basically a super hero (or a sports mega star in our world), and by his pain, which she thinks she can help soothe (because she is a champion of those in need).In a comedy, the good girl turns the bad boy good, in a tragedy, the good girl is destroyed by the bad boy (Han and Leia in the OT, Anakin and Padme in the PT).  Again, this not being crystal clear to audiences is Lucas's problem with texture in his script writing (and why if he'd written ESB the Han/Leia romance wouldn't have been good) even though the story itself is strong.See also the Taylor Swift and I Prevail versions of the song Blank Space.Swift - I can turn the bad boys good for a weekendI Prevail - I can turn the good girls bad for a weekendYou should be horrified by the wedding at the end of AotC (I'd argue that John Williams understood Lucas's intention, and the score actually works towards the tragedy and sense of doom in that moment).  She feels like she's trapped herself after saying what she did on the verge of their execution, and is perhaps scared what would happen to his mental state if she rejected him after, so she goes all in with the hope that she can keep him away from his worst impulses, but it just makes things worse.The prequel trilogy as a whole is a tragedy of epic proportions, from the Republic to the Jedi to the 'romance' of Anakin and Padme.  Republics fall as much from their own failures as from external forces.</blockquote>

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