easily the most beautiful and absolutely soul destroying scenes in star wars. their connection displayed so strongly but without any words. you can almost hear their hearts shatter, and the realisation hit them. honestly never fails to make me cry 😭😭 especially when anakin starts crying, as he knows what he will do is wrong, but is so blinded by love for Padmé that he cannot and will not back down. this feels like a silent apology, a begging for forgiveness.
me explaining the sequel trilogy & slug, & the subsequent live slug reaction, & cross-referencing it to gay ships she would know, in order to make my mother realize why the gay human & slug couple on jedi survivor is Funny, Actually
I’ve been thinking about how R2 and C3PO have been friends for literal decades but 3PO doesn’t remember the first few years of it.
He doesn’t remember R2 pulling his pieces back together after he got reassembled at the droid factory on Geonosis.
He doesn’t remember standing by R2’s side while they watched their humans get married and the two of them were basically the only ones who were trusted to keep the secret. until Rex of course
He doesn’t remember going through an ENTIRE WAR with R2 saving his ass time and time again even when it wasn’t strategically beneficial.
And then he got his memory wiped.
R2 had to reintroduce himself to his amnesiac best friend after getting his little astromech life turned upside down and losing everyone else in their circle and 3PO has no idea.
Maybe R2 told him stories of their adventures and their old friends, but it’s not the same.
He hardly ever left 3PO’s side after the memory wipe, probably taking every possible moment to make new memories and go on new adventures together, and they do.
Maybe that’s why R2 had a backup of 3PO’s memory on file in TROS. All those early memories of their friendship were completely gone, never to be recovered, and R2 was not going to let that happen again.
Some reylo I did a while back… this scene always breaks my heart. Bens “please” is just unbearable. I just want to hug him.
I saw some parallels with this scene and a scene from The rings of power so I drew them next to each other and I’m going to post that drawing soon so stay tuned✨