Probably some Sith dark side sorcery. Might even be unintended by Darth Vader. They are codependent, or he might even have inadvertently done some kind of brainwashing on her that had this side effect. Like a psychic vampire.
Yeah it’s headcanon, but the scenes are intercut and as Anakin dies and she gives birth they both “die” at the same time and it’s visually linked. So something is going on they can’t explain, like a love/death curse, and the med droid just gives some kind of guess. That’s why it never bothered me and I don’t see it as a trope.
Probably some Sith dark side sorcery. Might even be unintended by Darth Vader. They are codependent, or he might even have inadvertently done some kind of brainwashing on her that had this side effect. Like a psychic vampire.
They don’t give any explanation of that in the actual movie, though, just like “she lost the will to live 🤷♂️”
Yeah it’s headcanon, but the scenes are intercut and as Anakin dies and she gives birth they both “die” at the same time and it’s visually linked. So something is going on they can’t explain, like a love/death curse, and the med droid just gives some kind of guess. That’s why it never bothered me and I don’t see it as a trope.
Thin and hand-wavey, but I guess that’s where we get the term from.