TheBoost said:

Vaderisnothayden said:

Oh what the heck... Qui Gon is wise, underhanded, compassionate but a little ruthless, independent-minded, determined, a little arrogant maybe at times, something of a chancer.

TPM Padme is passionate, strong, crafty and prone to subterfuge, determined, commanding when she chooses to be, gentle when she chooses to be, an odd mixture of maturity with girlishness, devoted to her people, and is into guys two-thirds her age.

My favorite moment in TPM is when QuiGon and Padme are walking in the desert.

PADME: The queen would not approve

QUI: The queen trusts my judgement

(sneaky bastard knows she's the queen and is practically ribbing her)

PADME: (Little pout): Well I don't approve.

(She's stuck and doesn't like it)

Good actors playing a nuanced little moment. I totally get both characters.

Thanks for bringing those up. I felt those two interactions between the two characters were among the very few actually cool character moments in the whole film.

Most of the dialog in TPM is just hollow, boring exposition (save for Palpatine, of course), and that whole thing with Qui-Gon apparently seeing through Amidalun's whole decoy plot and teasing her about it has a nice touch of ambiguity and subtlety.