So, I watched vol 1 of “Clone Wars” the other day, and vol 2 today. Mostly, I think I liked volume one better, although there were some very nice things about vol 2. Like a Jedi female getting her own fair share of screen time (Shaak Ti kicks ass, y’all), and Anakin managing not to whine. And he spent most of it very far away from Padme, which always leaves him so much more likable, regardless of whether he’s animated or live-action at the time.

Honestly, their relationship is just vomit. Mostly I just bitch about them from a Padme standpoint, because…well, honestly, its the most idiotic thing ever. She spends the whole movie responding to his “I love you, we should be together, you’re killing me, just give me a small hope!” with “No, never happen, stop talking about it, you’re a Jedi, STOP HARASSING ME ABOUT IT.” And then he whips out his “I just went batshit crazy and committed low-scale genocide, and my relationship with my Master is so strained that he can’t even tell I took a sharp nosedive towards the Dark Side, and oh hey I WOULD DO IT AGAIN IN A HEARTBEAT BECAUSE OMGMOMMY” meltdown, and suddenly its, “I love you, let’s be together always.” Weh? The. Who are you and what did you do with Padme?

And really, its no wonder he thought she’d be okay with him murdering the Jedi — last time he slaughtered in the name of love, she gave him her heart. I’d pretty much think nothing would make her leave me, too.

But I’ve developed a new respect for whiny teenage-angst Anakin, due largely to the premium channels airing the prequels incessantly lately. For some reason, I had always either forgotten or ignored the bit in Ep 2 where Padme tells a group of people that his opinion doesn’t count, because he’s “not a Jedi, he’s just in training.” Let me tell you, that boy is really, truly hardcore in love with her ass, because anything less would’ve broken right then. Had it been me, that schmuckitude would’ve been answered with a lit saber and a bellowed, “ACTUALLY, BITCH.”

I know, that’s not very Jedi-like. But really, neither is Anakin.