Harmax, I understood PERFECTLY well what you said about freeig Shmi. I cannot beleive you remain so ignorant about how this works.
Paying money to a slave owner top fre a slave IS slave trafficking. It is so in the real world and it will be so in Star Wars. That IS how it works and your continual pointless denials of this get you nowhere.
And Mah is right. You are talking SUCH bullshit about saying that Shmi deserves to be freed more than the rest of the slaves. That is such an alarming comment that I seriously wonder about you. It does not matter a JOT what good deeds she has done. She is a slave and deserves to be freed and that is all there is to it.
When Europe was liberated in WWII, did people consider that only those people who had proven that they were good and just people deemed worthy to be freed? Of cvourse not! They ALL deserved to be freed because their domination was wrong. That cannot be broken down any fruther. They ALL desevred to be freed as soon as possible and nothing any of them did would make them a special case. So it remains with Shmi and to see it any other way is astonishingly unjust to all the other slaves who are equally deserving of freedom.
And what the hell makesd you think Padme is not trying to improve the Republic? It has been mase so ABUNDANTLY clear that she is. She was also clearly horrified when she was told there was slavery in the Republic at all. Honestly, your mentality is breathtaking!
I note you cannot be bothered to defend yourself on any of my points and merely turn the same ones back against me, which is pretty immature. But more to the point it is also wrong. I am simply taking obvious points from the script as presented to me. As just about everyone else agrees with me, are we to assume that you are some form of great saviour, the only one who has 'correctly; interpreted the Star Wars scripts in definaces of everyone else's idiotic opinions? No, I rather think not, and if you cannot see the self-evident points in the script about the way the relationship between Padme and Anakin works then you are completely blind.
And again, I repeat, your attempt to take two people madly in love and apply consistent rationals for their actions flies completely in the face of how love works. In case you hadn't noticed, people in love do funny things and they don't always do the same thing the same way twice. Your attempt to pigeonhole her so fails to even get off the ground.
I don't care how strong an exception you take to me saying that the only inconsistencies are there are those you deliberately create, and I don't care about your justifications in your defence either. If you were going to be so upset with it, you shouldn't have made it look so blatantly like you have created this problem simply in your own mind- a problem no-one else sees except Texas., and you can't even agree with the rationale of it all with him. If you can't see how obscure you are being withbthis criticism, then fine, but don't get shirty just because other people point this out. Because you might have to live with being VERY shirty if you do.
There ARE no inconistencies in this part of the plot. None at all. You are making them up.