This. The only thing that has helped me digest the awful writing for anything romantic is that ol Lucus saw it as, and wrote it as, those sappy romantic drama daytime shows…I forget what the genre is called exactly…either way. Makes much more sense in my head now.
i mean if you’ve never had these stupid conversations with your lover you just don’t get it. but they are stupid conversations, not romantic ones. i feel like portman and christensen may have been a bit young for the roles as written.
as an example, my wife and i discussed flour for an hour the other day.
Thats not Portman’s fault.
It’s probably more of a fault of the person that wrote those dialogs than anybody’s else.
I hate sand
But you, you are not sandy and that is why I love you.
Fucking poetry.
it rhymes
That’s how I could tell.
This. The only thing that has helped me digest the awful writing for anything romantic is that ol Lucus saw it as, and wrote it as, those sappy romantic drama daytime shows…I forget what the genre is called exactly…either way. Makes much more sense in my head now.
Edit: Soap operas. Overacting…terribly written…soap operas.
Soap operas
Telenovelas
film serials?
YES! Thank you!
i mean if you’ve never had these stupid conversations with your lover you just don’t get it. but they are stupid conversations, not romantic ones. i feel like portman and christensen may have been a bit young for the roles as written.
as an example, my wife and i discussed flour for an hour the other day.
Flour for an hour? See that’s what true love looks like
And who directed, edited, and so on
fair.
but also it leads to my headcanon that Anakin was actually using the force to dominate her mind. (maybe subconsciously, but maybe not.)
Hmm I find that an interesting theory!