"Fixing" Padme's Fate

Or bring her back in some capacity. If you stop and think about it, Padme was the key the whole saga: she was indirectly the reason Anakin fell (to protect her) and the indirect reason he was redeemed (he saw their child being roasted by the Emperor). So, in a stretch, I feel like Padme was one of the most important people in the saga, though she was long dead.
Bringing her back through cloning is, of course ridiculous and I wouldn’t put it past Disney to do that, but I did enjoy that Vader comic series where one of her handmaidens dresses up as Padme to lure Vader away. It was a total waste of potential when all the handmaidens were done away with in one issue.

 

I think Padme’s fate was perfect. Her impending death is Palpatine’s leverage over Anakin, and losing her is a source of tremendous sorrow and anger for Vader.

It’s actually kind of “meta,” because the audience knew that Padme had to die in Episode III - but it turns out Anakin knew it too.

The only problem with her fate is that it doesn’t directly explain why Leia remembers her and Luke doesn’t. I do have a head canon idea for why, but it would have been nice to have something more than speculation.

All they really needed to do was to add something to the birth/death scene that shows Padme paying extra attention to Leia. Maybe Padme could’ve just looked into her eyes and said something like, “Always remember your mother, Leia.”

 

Padme's name comes from the Lotus, an important spiritual symbol in the east. It's important that she died when she did, when Anakin turned into a monster, the temple fell, and the Jedi were destroyed. Then her kids, the sun and moon were divided. Another symbol in the myth. You see the lotus symbol again at the end of TROS-- Palpatine's throne.

In ROTJ, Leia says she remembers a little bit, that Padme died when she was very young, and that she remembers only images and feelings. She remembers her beauty, kindness and sadness. Leia could have connected to her in the Force as a young one, or she remembers seeing pictures or dreams as false memories. Maybe I would put a holographic photo or recording of her mother in Kenobi, with her saying she looks beautiful but sad. Simple fix.

http://symboldictionary.net/?p=1774

 

I have to be blunt. I find this scenario unrealistic. I just cannot see Padme giving up Luke to the Lars, while taking Leia with her to live on Alderaan. It's one thing to split up the twins. It's another to keep one twin and give up the other, considering this is no "THE PARENT TRAP" scenario. That's why it made sense to me that Padme had died after giving birth to the twins. Either she died in childbirth or kept both Luke and Leia until her death.

 

Padme was just as "obsessed" with Anakin as he was with her. In "Attack of the Clones", Anakin had given up the idea of being with her after his initial proposal. Once he did, Padme became a bit clingy toward him. And when Anakin had proposed that they inform the Jedi Council about their marriage, she quickly rejected the idea. I believe Padme had feared losing Anakin to the Jedi Order a lot more than losing him to the violence of war.

If Padme and Anakin had been more honest and open about their marriage, I believe they would have had a better chance of avoiding its tragic ending. People want to believe that Anakin was more in love with Padme to the obsession. They're trying to portray him as this young man who is incapable of having a healthy relationship. I find it difficult to accept this. Padme was just as in love with him as he was in love with her. And other Star Wars characters have proven that they have difficulty in dealing with the loss of loved ones, friends and organizations like the Jedi Order. Fear of loss was not something limited to Anakin.

As for "fixing" Padme's fate . . . I see no real reason to do so. I'm sorry, but I don't. Sure, one can write a fanfiction about her surviving the Clone Wars and the emergence of the Empire. But the idea that Anakin was obsessed with her and her feelings for him were not that strong just doesn't sit well with me.