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snooker said:
Padme’s just boring. I don’t care about negotiating support in the senate. I don’t care about “fixing up the baby’s room on Naboo”. Nothing that character does ever matters, especially in ROTS. She just sits and talks and dies. The only reason George had her in the movies is because Luke and Leia had to have a mommy.
In his book, Kaminski argues about this: basically, according to Lucas himself, he never had a story for Leia and Luke’s mother, so Padme was meant to be an action woman character in the first two movies and was reduced to her reproductive capabilities in RotS. Leia has never been better (in the movies, I don’t know all about the oEU), but she always had some strong personality that is missing in Padme and she was in a trilogy that gave more emphasis to the characters and their interactions between each other than to a grand story about something something.