The scene where Anakin’s making Padmé feel uncomfortable, and when she tells him to stop he has a weird smirk into a grimace, is pretty creepy. There are multiple scenes at the beginning of Attack of the Clones too where Anakin’s behavior toward and talking about Padmé piss off Padmé, Obi-Wan, and even Jar Jar, even if they all let him off easy. None of this is unintentional. This is how Anakin is meant to come off in Attack of the Clones, and some of it might make some sense given that he’s a hormonal, emotionally unintelligent teenager. But it’s so constant and so extreme, and he has so few redeeming qualities that it’s really baffling why George Lucas wanted to dedicate an entire movie where Anakin is just unbearable. He only barely shows some maturing during the fight with Count Dooku at the end, but he still has to get his ass bailed out by Yoda.
Like I said, facial feature thing to me. Only Obi-Wan does he make Obi annoyed that much, I think.
In the movie, there’s only 2 moments do they have any conflict (the look makes me uncomfortable moment, and when he gets uppity about her calling him not a Jedi but a padawan) about it, the rest are either amicable or romance based, barring the scene where they butt heads about whether or not they rescue Obi.
I have little issue with Anakin’s conflicting emotional state in this movie, as I prefer him to be someone in turmoil moreso, based on his story in the movie and the trajectory of his character.
Han and Leia’s romance isn’t great either but it’s playing into older Hollywood romance tropes, whereas Anakin being kind of a creep is the intentional read at least at the beginning of the movie.
How is it being hollywood romance tropes make it better, writing wise?