It’s strange that you think that TFA was telling audiences how to feel, when that’s a major, almost universal complaint of the PT. That George Lucas had no idea how to show the audience things and let them use their brains, and had to beat them over the head with incredibly unsubtle dialogue.
Lucas is a visual poet, he has never claimed to be a good writer. Having Padme’s death segue into this
just hit me so hard. options are opinions, and this is mine.