It’s been almost 17 years and I still don’t know why Padme Amidala develops a crush on 11 year old Anakin Skywalker when she’s been traveling with a young and hot Ewan McGregor
Dudes wrote it.
She doesn’t. 11yo Anakin develops a crush on Padme, obsesses over it throughout his entire adolescence, and then creepily hits on her until she realizes that pretending to return his affection is the only way to try to reign in him
?!?! How have I not heard the Padme Theory before?! This makes the prequels 1) so much better and 2) WAY more disturbing!
My favorite quote from the linked article (which also functions as a TL;DR):







