31st August 2011, 12:23 AM
When it comes to Phantom Menace, I actually felt it was a fairly solid kid's movie. It had issues, but I think it did well when taken like that, ignoring the entire rest of the series. Padme... She's creepy. I don't see this brought up very often, but it has to be said. In Phantom Menace, the relationship there seems entirely what a kid and someone her age would have, sort of a surrogate older sister, little brother relationship (aside from that entirely weird "Are you an angel?" line that so many writers seem to shoe horn in when they want some kid to have a "crush" on someone). The very next movie, apparently all that was supposed to be them deeply in LOVE in Phantom Menace, not just caring about each other.
That's creepy! Lucas, you just wrote Padme as a pedophile, and that's no good. It makes her "explaining" things like love and so on to Anakin come off very disturbing, not unlike "coaching" a victim.
Heck if Lucas had run with that angle, we could have had a much darker trilogy about the horrible mind warping effects a sexual predator can have on a kid.
That's creepy! Lucas, you just wrote Padme as a pedophile, and that's no good. It makes her "explaining" things like love and so on to Anakin come off very disturbing, not unlike "coaching" a victim.
Heck if Lucas had run with that angle, we could have had a much darker trilogy about the horrible mind warping effects a sexual predator can have on a kid.
"On two occasions, I have been asked [by members of Parliament], 'Pray, Mr. Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?' I am not able to rightly apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question." ~ Charles Babbage (1791-1871)