Even George knew, deep down, that he screwed up. There is this very interesting quote in The Making of Revenge of the Sith book:
>"Showing how much Anakin and Padmé care for each other is one of my weak points," Lucas admits. "Expressing that is hard to do. It's really hard in the end to express the idea, I'm so in love with you that I would do anything to save you; I'd give up everything—friends, my whole life—for you, and make that real—make that stick—and say it in two minutes, which is all the time this film has for it. If I had a whole movie, I could probably manage it. But I can't go deep into the psyche of these people beyond a certain stylistic reality I've created for myself. It wouldn't work. It's also a very difficult structural issue," he adds. "And when I created it, I knew I wanted two hard right turns—it's designed to be that way—and I knew I was taking a real chance that it wasn't going to work. But you have to see if you can make it work. If it doesn't, well, then I'm going to get skewered for it. But if I can make it work, it'll be neat; it'll be good."

How are we supposed to buy into that? Through excellent scenes, such as "I AM SO IN LOVE WITH YOU! NO, IT IS ME, WHO IS SO IN LOVE WITH YOU! SO LOVE HAS BLINDED YOU? HEHEHEHEHE!"