Maybe to those who care to think about who those people were or remembered the deleted scene. The whole love story was a mixed bag, but this scene I thought was somewhat better than the rest. It's not the best scene thanks to portman phoning it in (I hate her), granted. But it shows us who this Padme chick is and whether she has conflicted feelings for anakin, or atleast hints at it more than that fire-side shakespear-lite... uh... thing (I also can't believe this part falls under the '30s and 40s cliche' excuse but I'm no expert on that sort of thing, or anything really). I'll say it. I truly, deeply, love this scene compared to the rest, whether it's essential to the story or not. Come on... First they're rolling all over the windows xp wallpaper fields and then Padme just invites Annie to dinner and a warm conversation by a romantic fire while wearing a sexy dominatrix outfit? Friends my ass. This woman's practically begging for him to go against his jedi teachings. Obi-wan was wrong. Anakin was seduced by the force of the Padme, not the dark side.