the idea that the reason why Anakin chooses to go off and find his mother is because Padme closes off the possibility of a relationship.
That didn't occur to me until recently, either. It makes sense: we know the dreams have been plaguing him for a while. They apparently *don't* plague him when he's happy with Padme. When he gives up on being with her, that's no longer a source of light for him, so the nightmares return in full force. It's hardly a coincidence that the night she rejects him is the same night those dreams return.
Ugh. Not more "enabler" stuff. What was she supposed to do, slap him there in the garage and go 'snap out of it, dipwad!"? That would hardly have helped the situation then at all. (Yes, she does essentially do that later on, but not when he's an absolute wreck of a person.) If she hadn't accepted him and comforted him there, who knows what Anakin might have done in the anger he was feeling then?
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That didn't occur to me until recently, either. It makes sense: we know the dreams have been plaguing him for a while. They apparently *don't* plague him when he's happy with Padme. When he gives up on being with her, that's no longer a source of light for him, so the nightmares return in full force. It's hardly a coincidence that the night she rejects him is the same night those dreams return.
Ugh. Not more "enabler" stuff. What was she supposed to do, slap him there in the garage and go 'snap out of it, dipwad!"? That would hardly have helped the situation then at all. (Yes, she does essentially do that later on, but not when he's an absolute wreck of a person.) If she hadn't accepted him and comforted him there, who knows what Anakin might have done in the anger he was feeling then?