TheBoost said:

I'll agree Padme and Annie talking about dictatorship in the grass is one of my favorite scenes in the whole PT. But it doesn't make up for "I hate sand" "Yoousa in bad doo doo" "Dont do it Anakin, I have the high ground" "Nooooooooooooooooo" or a slew of other cringe worthy scenes.

sadly this scene is tainted by that stupid cow thingy that anakin 'surfed'. one of 2 things that likely cost ILM the oscar.

the other problem I had with this scene is that it starts off sounding like 2 4th graders talking civics. and its too 'wink' 'wink' 'nudge' 'nudge' (like when queen jamilla says "the day we believe democracy doesn;t work is the day we lose it").

I remember one fan had a great idea for a rewrite of this scene. Was 10 years ago and never able to find it again, but it was something like this:

padme - sounds awful lot like a dictatorship

anakin - well if it works

anakin - we need someone like Qui-Gon

padme - qui-gon!?

anakin - yeah

padme is laughing - ok, i know you loved qui-gon, but you were just a kid back then- he was controversial and did a lot of things that weren't by the book.

anakin - doesn't matter, he got things done. thats all that counts.

it would have given us some insight how anakin and padme view things and how they feel about qui-gon. we all thought it was a good idea - sure beats 'annie, annie, are you ok?'

of course this would have kinda contradicted the scene in ROTS were padme asks anakin to use his unsual friendship to influence palpatine and anakin yells at her saying she needs to make a senate motion like everyone else ;P

ROTS did have some clever political bits that were perfectly timed, despite all the idiocy of the PT. and padme, of all people - a character that was nothing more than a uterus, had ironically the most clever line in the PT when she fretted "so this is how liberty dies...with thunderous applause"

OT was abundant with wit. PT...not hardly :(