all who gain power are afraid to lose it
These are random ramblings. Pay them no mind. (Then again, people don't seem to have been paying my entries mind lately.)
I was just browsing through fantasy stories on Fictionpress (at which I like to point and laugh most of the time because they're ameteurish/not my style) and came across a story with a character named Raen. I almost burst out laughing. Perhaps my old Raen whom I kicked out of The Power of Light has migrated over to that story. Let's hope he's not a girl trapped in a boy's body, as I began to conclude after reading one of my drafts when he's a "dead spirit." (By the way, that was the lamest plot point ever. Actually, not really. I've done far worse things than that, such as Kloud burning a village when he was 2 years old, Talia and Hayden dying through a deus ex machina, Ashlin turning into a lioness, Kloud having feelings for Talia... yes, the list goes on and on.)
I've been reading far too many fantasy rants lately so I'm just going to begin ranting on my own accord about Padme's death in Star Wars: Revenge of the Sith, which has been annoying me very much lately.
Okay. First of all, that could have been handled a hell of a lot better. I would have been fine with it if she simply died giving birth to Luke and Leia, like Anakin's visions suggested. But when the medical droid is all "Medically, she's completely healthy. For reasons we can't explain, we're losing her" and then goes on to say "It appears she has lost the will to live," I am about ready to rip off that stupid droid's arms and legs and use them as boomerangs. Why, WHY, WHY does it have to be that way? She could have been injured from Anakin's little Force-choke escapade, or maybe that caused her to have an early labor (after all, according to the timeline of the movie, she should be only around six months pregnant at this point). But dying just because Anakin broke her heart? Lazy, lazy plot convenience.
Of course, Padme didn't really have to die in childbirth at all. In Episode VI, it's implied that Padme didn't die in childbirth and that she maybe fled to Alderaan with Leia, which explains why in Episode VI Leia can say that she has faint memories of her mother, while Luke says that he has none. Of course, it would be hard to show that Padme remained with Leia for however many years, so that was probably why she had to die in childbirth. But still. Anakin still can't save Padme's life either way. She didn't have to die because she "lost the will to live."
And don't even get me started on how all Padme seems to do in Episode III is sit around being afraid. I understand that she's pregnant, but why can't she still kick a little bit of ass like she did in Episodes I and II? That's part of the reason why I prefer the Episode III novelization to the movie; the novelization includes a Padme subplot that was cut out of the movie, and this subplot shows that Anakin isn't the only conflicted person in Episode III.
Wow, I really need a life.
I've got inspiration to write conflicted Talia now. I love my new version of Talia, who is no longer an evil overlord. New Talia actually wants to seek redemption and ends up being more of a victim than a villain.
Quote of the Day:
"Impact velocity... physics, my ass."
--Sawyer, from a first-season episode of Lost