Strong Female characters in the Star Wars universe — Page 3

Oh sure Yoda, not like you ever started any wars…

Leia is best shooting stormtroopers right in the face. Blam.

I actually liked Padme in Phantom Menace. And other than excusing Anakin killing the Tusken’s she was alright in the second, she is basically just barefoot and pregnant in the third, because they cut out all the scenes where she was a leader. The founding of the rebellion scenes should have stayed in the movie. I also think the scenes with her family humanized Anakin and Padme and should have stayed as well in Attack of the Clones.

Lucas wants the movies to be super fast paced and to never lag. I like the Tatooine scenes with Beru and Owen in II and Anakin’s family. Way too short. Its like he extends the really bad cgi scenes in the prequel and the over the top action and avoids human scenes because he is bad at writing them.

One problem with Padme is that she doesn’t really do much in ROTS. Most of the scenes where she does anything significant (negotiating with other Senators to form a proto-Rebel alliance) were cut from the movie. And even if those scenes remained, they really have no impact on the plot of RoTS itself.

I think Lucas just didn’t know what to do with her. The main problem from a writing standpoint is that all the main characters in the Prequels - except Padme - are super-human Jedi. It’s hard to write her into the story and have her do anything to drive the plot, except in the political arena. Even in AoTC she mostly just follows Anakin around after Act I. They integrated her into the action scenes at the end, but it was kind of clumsy because she’s not too helpful in an action scene when everyone else is a super-human Force user. Her character was best utilized in Phantom Menace, where her decisions and actions largely drive the plot. But in AoTC and ROTS, there was very little for her to do in the Jedi-centric narrative.

And of course, she doesn’t even have 1% of the personality and chemistry of Leia.

Anyway, the best female characters are in Andor. Mon Mothma and Dedra Meero steal the whole show in my opinion.

Channel72 said:

One problem with Padme is that she doesn’t really do much in ROTS. Most of the scenes where she does anything significant (negotiating with other Senators to form a proto-Rebel alliance) were cut from the movie. And even if those scenes remained, they really have no impact on the plot of RoTS itself.

I think Lucas just didn’t know what to do with her. The main problem from a writing standpoint is that all the main characters in the Prequels - except Padme - are super-human Jedi. It’s hard to write her into the story and have her do anything to drive the plot, except in the political arena. Even in AoTC she mostly just follows Anakin around after Act I. They integrated her into the action scenes at the end, but it was kind of clumsy because she’s not too helpful in an action scene when everyone else is a super-human Force user. Her character was best utilized in Phantom Menace, where her decisions and actions largely drive the plot. But in AoTC and ROTS, there was very little for her to do in the Jedi-centric narrative.

And of course, she doesn’t even have 1% of the personality and chemistry of Leia.

Anyway, the best female characters are in Andor. Mon Mothma and Dedra Meero steal the whole show in my opinion.

One thing I recently took notice of about Padmé is that for two movies in a row she’s knocked unconscious just before the climax so that the guys can have their swordfights. Not the most subtle writing.