I was unsure if this actually was a real dress she wore, given the AI enhancements to the image, but it actually seems to be real:
Disturbing image
You can tell based on her ears this was AI overkill airbrushing.
I was wondering why she looked so messed up
Sad that every image has to go through the slopmachine nowadays. There’s almost nostalgia for jpeg artifacts…
Why did they have to use an image that’s not actually padme?
Fuck AI
Even with the wardrobe, they couldn’t pull off sexual connection. There is more chemistry in this scene than anything with Anikin and Padme.
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
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.
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.
Soap operas
Telenovelas
YES! Thank you!
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!
And who directed, edited, and so on
The line between the boobs is to symbolize the separation
And the opening of the path Anakin would walk down to the dark side.
Y: Give in to temptation, you must not.
A: But have you seen that rack?
mischevious Yoda noises
Fuck her and forget her you must.
Why has her face been airbrushed to oblivion
This has got to be AI, right?
It’s like someone described how Natalie Portman, Selena Gomez, and Kate Austen from memory and the artist said “let me see what I can do”.
I hate your use of the word “artist.”
upscaling means more pixels which means more quality. why did this person start out with 320x240 jpeg in the first place? because hehe
I ended up checking “albino” on the form
uh, that box doesn’t say “albino”, it says “capuchin”. when’s the last time you drank coffee or had your prescription checked?
I think my depression started when I realized a space princess in a smokin’ hot dress would never tell me our love is taboo and forbidden.
*space royalty actually
Not “taboo and forbidden”, “naboo and tatooine”
Nah, that was after she was retconned to no longer be space royalty. She was at that time a space politician that started her career when she was elected to be the leader of a planet when she was 15 years old.
Because that’s how you do great world building!
she was elected queen. because in space you vote for queen.
Plenty of people on Earth have voted for their kings and queens.
be quiet! i order you to be quiet!
Will it help if I tell you our love is taboo and forbidden?
Doesnt hurt tbh
my dude, our love is forbidden and taboo six days a week. tuesdays, no holds are barred.
Fucking goosebumps bro!
listen. padme amidala is a freak, okay.
ever since aotc i’ve had to listen to bullshit arguments about how awful the prequel romance is, how anakin’s a red flag, blah blah blah. that’s a smooth brain take. first of all, of course he’s a red flag. that’s the point. you think padme doesn’t know anakin is ten pounds of mommy issues in a five pound bag? you think she looked at soggy weeping anakin begging her to love him and didn’t immediately think “yes i definitely will peg him” ?? you think just because she’s a queen turned senator that she isn’t just as horny and feral as he is?
anakin wasn’t even pushy about it. he was just “oh btw i’ve been obsessed with you for a decade and live in a perpetual state of emotional agony but thats okay whatever you want is fine with me haha” and padme goes “yea okay i’m into that.” two minutes after he’s assigned to be her bodyguard she gives an obligatory little “i have a bad feeling about this” and then just fucking marries him. this is a woman who wore white to a blood bath. come on.
I like the prequels more now that I’ve decided to stop trying to shoehorn any character’s behaviors into normal boxes. and instead just asked myself ‘what kind of person would make these choices’ and see the characters as that. Padme seriously wore a black corset to tell him she was very into him but they would not be fucking. instead of saying oh my god who DOES that. I just instead ask myself ‘who does that’ and realize that explains a lot more.
here is this wealthy educated and perhaps a little vain woman who sees her childhood hick charitycase friend grew up as a hot goth jock. and oh no he’s still space racist and awkward and yet she goes harder for him after finding that out. she’s absolutely a freak. her being a freak is actually the most polite way to interpret her character. because it intersects so interestingly with this virgin child queen who crowned the emperor shit that’s her actual legacy.
to be honest I still have no clue what Lucas intended to say with these characters but they’re a lot more fun once you turn off preconceptions. the OT trilogy are adorable and iconic but the PT trio are great because theres something fucking wrong with all of them. just comically tragically the dumbest combination of disordered behavior from a group of protagonists. the OT trio are unlikely but largely successful heroes! The PT trilogy are hyper-competent child geniuses who grew up to be heavily decorated and famous heroes who break the entire setting forever and I love that for them!
