About Padme losing the will to live: When I saw the movie I thought maybe there was more to it than that. I thought that the sunset "ruminations" scene was trying to imply that Anakin and Padme were mystically linked or something, ala E.T. and Elliot, and when Anakin was physically dying, he was pulling Padme down with her. Then the Emperor snatches Anakin back from death, but it's over for Padme. In many ways I saw Revenge as a do-over of Clones. The Clones love story flopped so he came at it from another, cosmic-y angle. The Anakin/Kenobi "friendship" was weak, so much of the first half of Sith is devoted to doing it better.