Amidala tempts Anakin by her lack of clothing then meanly pushes him away. Amidala gives this kiss and pulls back so quickly that it is just like getting only one potato chip. It is cruel to the guy. This kiss I would gladly give to Anakin and continue kissing until Anakin pulls away. I would follow Anakin's lead here. If things went further, well, I would not complain.

All the time, Amidala pokes and jabs at Anakin, constantly hurting his feelings. Anakin, on the other hand, was praising her and was very nice. Amidala constantly belittles Anakin's manhood by calling him "Ani" which sounds like a girl's name. He would always be called Anakin to me. If a woman puts down a person's manhood, she does not love him. In the scene where Obi-Wan and Anakin are about to separate, Amidala dares and pokes Anakin as a man by saying, "My Jedi protector has to prove how good he is." Then later, she says, "He's just a padawan learner;" embarrassing Anakin in public. No man likes to be put down in front of people. At the picnic scene, Amidala talks about how handsome her former boyfriend is, not even noticing or mentioning how handsome Anakin is. Amidala suddenly pretends that she deeply loves Anakin when they are about to be eaten in the Geonosis stadium. She is obviously a real South Carolina woman.

You wish you can be right there with Anakin when he loses his mother, to help him slice sand people and then comfort Anakin after the battle. Here is where Anakin is like a Viet Nam vet. Finally a sympathetic civilian view of the Viet Nam vet is put on screen. I wanted to shoot Amidala for looking down her dippy-hippy stuck-up nose when Anakin tells her he killed all the sand people. If Amidala really loved Anakin, she would have said they deserved it for killing Anakin's mother. When Anakin cries upon telling Amidala what he had done, this was the expression of normal human emotions. I know hardened Viet Nam vets who cried at the killing of the whole village in Vietnam. If Anakin did not cry at so young an age, you would think him non-human and cold-hearted like people of today who act like insects rather than humans.

Because Padme betrays Anakin, and unfortunately Lucas did not provide Anakin with a secret lover provided by Palpatine, we never get to see Palpatine use this spectacular Sith magic that Palpatine himself referred to at the opera. Too bad, that would have been so cool. Ian McDiarmid would have performed that well. It would have been nice to see a secret of Palpatine on screen.

Also one can wonder why Padme when dead still looks pregnant. According to this book on the making of Episode III, Lucas wanted Padme to still look pregnant. Was Lucas saying that was Obi-Wan's child that did not come out due to the fact the mother was dead? In esoteric symbolism, babies have to due with your merger with the Force. In earth symbolism, Obi-Wan is denied an offspring. If it was Obi-Wan's child, then Padme was cheating on Anakin. This would certainly make Anakin angry. In America, if girl is caught cheating, someone gets a double-barrel shotgun in the face. The one who is cheated gets revenge.

Padme in Episode III is still a South Carolina woman because she uses her love to control Anakin and tries to get Anakin to manipulate Palpatine for her. Luckily Anakin says no and tells her to go through proper channels. Padme's manipulation skills are perfected because she can seem as loving and smooth as anyone who grew up in the 1930's and 1940's. America in those days had such thick facades, you would believe this is some sort of paradise until you dig beneath the surface of the society and find hidden abuses and rot. Today people wear their dog-eat-dog ways on their sleeve. Then, they used all the right words and perfume but were just as competitive. Smooth as silk, so to speak, so it is with Padme in Episode III.

Palpatine did not double-cross Anakin when he promised to keep the lovers together because Padme herself refused to follow Vader. Padme chose to side with Obi-Wan, thus being in fact an enemy and not a friend. Padme and Anakin were too different from each other. Their relationship only lasted as long as it did because during most of it, they are separated due to their busy schedules. If Padme and Anakin slowed down and lived in the same quarters, their differences would come out and end in divorce.

Padme was a pacifist hippy type who loved the anarchic republic. Anakin was a warrior patriot type who felt tortured by the feeble republic. Anakin dreamed of peace through law and order and a big powerful government with the might to enforce the peace. When Anakin touts the republic line in episode III, it is because of the strong mind-control and brainwash the Jedi have over him. Remember in Episode II, at the picnic scene, Anakin clearly stated ("If it works") meaning he preferred dictatorship. These feelings are merely stuffed.