A Thousand Stars: Episode III, Part 34

[matril]

It's a very brief, quiet moment. Just long enough for a few bars of the love theme from Episode II. But it tells us all we need to know.

For all her words of protest to Obi-Wan, her avowed refusal to believe that Anakin has turned, she knows something is very wrong. Probably already suspected it, from Anakin's behavior at their last meeting. And even though she's traveled all the way to Mustafar on the strength of her faith in her husband's goodness, that fervent hope that she can still pull him back from the fire, she has to give herself this moment. To grieve what may already be lost; to brace herself for the very worst.

Next time, a dance of loyalties...

Comments

[krpalmer]

I've wanted to see this moment as reflecting Leia's words about her mother as "very beautiful; kind but sad." Quite ready to insist "of course she can 'still' remember her mother; she just does it in a surprising way, a way that perhaps she's not quite aware of," this moment doesn't seem that much more of a "stretch" to have experienced through the Force than "just after birth." I suppose that when you talk about having to face the worst, though, that begins to bump against the certainty that Luke shares with his mother about there still being good in Vader, even if that then leads to my next bit of expansive theorizing that Anakin and Padme were somehow linked in their mutual agonies.

[matril]

I think she could hold both thoughts at the same time -- hope that it isn't too late for Anakin, but also anguish that he could have fallen so far. As for the link between them, the visual choices certainly indicate that, so it's going to come up quite prominently in this series.