As for Padme, i think there are three possibilites.
1) Killed off by dark forces, or some other cause, turning Anakin to the dark side.
2) A fired up Anakin who has already crossed over would kill her.
3) Suicide perhaps!? Cant handle the stresses of being senator, of Anakin going haywire.
One of those three look probable.
i've actually heard people say they thought that Palpatine had the Tuskens kill Shmi to set off Anakin. I almost smacked the crap outta them. I'm not sure he wouldn't kill Padme though. I just hope its not Nute Gunray (I know GL wouldn't do THAT to us). That would be the weakest death since Boba got dropped by a blind smuggler with hibernation sickness. But I can see Palp killing her. Not at his own hand though, he'd want Anakin to trust him. He's gotta be devoted to turning Anakin. I'm sure he knows what Anakin is and put 2 and 2 together that he'd make one hell of a Sith.
I'd much rather see what queeq said. Its what most of us have been thinking for decades anyway.
Indeed. Besides, with his flattering Anakin and with Anakin's ideas about being the greatest Jedi ever being held back, he has plenty of tools to turn him to the Dark Side. Let's face it, Anakin has a flawed personality and he makes a few bad decisions.
Let Padme die outside of the movies! Best solution IMHO.
in my opinion i hope she doesn't die in ep.3 and that she dies in between ep.3 and anh. and as for anakin turning to the darkside
i think it was apart of his destiny because if he was in the good side palptine would let anakin get close to him and with him turning to the darkside gives him the chance. maybe i'm wrong but that is what i think
thats an extremely good point! interesting concept, if he hadn't gone bad, the twins would have not been hidden, with his arrogance, he would have tried to protect them from the purge himself. They'd have been killed too, or in the hands of the Empire. And Anakin would have probably been killed during the purge. Perhaps even brash enough to face the Emperor alone, certain death at this stage of the game. Wow, thats kind of along the lines of if Luke hadn't been out with Kenobi while the Stormtroopers searched for the droids, he'd have been killed along with Owen and Beru, and the plans would be back in Imperial custody, crushing any hopes the rebellion had of stopping them.
On a side note, but involving the Lars killing, does anyone else ever wonder if maybe Anakin/Vader didn't order that little use of excessive force? Like maybe out of 'you got to spend time with my mother in her last years and I didn't'...just a thought...
Don't go start making Vader out as a nice man. Let's face it people: he did some terrible things, he IS the biggest villain of them all. I am sure he had no problems at all with wiping out the Lars family, after all his own mother was killed because she married his dad.
Anakin becomes a baddie, a BIG baddie, pure evil. Getting close to Palpy is NOT a plan, it may be part of a destiny but not a well conceived plan. Anakin falls because he makes a choice, not a choice for good, not a choice for bringing the balance, he makes a choice for evil. That it all comes out the way it does in ROTJ is part of destiny, not because it was always Anakin's plan or will.
"You don't understand the power of the Dark Side."