See I always felt like all of a sudden Luke and Leia have already known that she was adopted and her real mother lived with her for the first few years of her life. Which seems weird and awkward and confusing to me. Sure there are explanations that one could come up with for why they knew, but I just don't feel like it jives with the OT story telling.

Also, I get that Obi and co. would want to split up the two babies, but why would their mother?

Additionally, if these films are meant to be watched in chronological order, wouldn't it be weird to see Padme alive at the end of III and then never see or hear about her again until VI when we learn she died offscreen?

And the final reason: I get that people don't want to make the PT match the OT rather than vice versa. The OT's better, I get that, I agree. But if ROTJ is so much better than ROTS, why would you take out one of the most well executed plot elements ("will to live" notwithstanding) from the lesser film rather than take out a throwaway line from the better film? Wouldn't that be quite detrimental to a movie that you're supposed to be making better? If it ain't broke, don't fix it. Well the only problem with Padme dying is two lines of dialogue in ROTJ.

I'm just saying, ROTJ is no untouchable perfect piece of cinema. There's a choice to make here and one of them honestly is a lot easier and makes a lot more sense.