Star Wars prequel questions

[MoonSong]

This tangent about elections is relevant here because, whereas I could accept that her first name might actually be some sort of mystery or at least a very obscure fact if she was a royal with fourteen first names, raised in some sort of forbidden city and only revealed to the world when she adopted the regnal name Amidala, having her just be an elected politician named Padme Amidala who ran for the office of Queen a year or two earlier makes it feel like Qui-Gon and Obiwan did not actually read their mission brief at all.

Most likely she was elected not by universal suffrage, but by a council of nobles. Like in most elective monarchies.

As for the name thing, i think it is refuge in audacity. If you suspect the Queen is using a body double, you would probably suspect the handmaiden with the same name first, but you would also easily dismiss it because, it is too obvious for anybody to attempt.

 

[jian]

The "Padme" ploy worked fine though, because she was seemingly known to everyone else as just "Queen Amidala".

Where the logic sort of breaks down for me has always been when they reveal in episode 2 that she was elected to a term as teenage queen of her planet. Which by the way, what sort of political system is that?

This tangent about elections is relevant here because, whereas I could accept that her first name might actually be some sort of mystery or at least a very obscure fact if she was a royal with fourteen first names, raised in some sort of forbidden city and only revealed to the world when she adopted the regnal name Amidala, having her just be an elected politician named Padme Amidala who ran for the office of Queen a year or two earlier makes it feel like Qui-Gon and Obiwan did not actually read their mission brief at all.

But, maybe Padme is just an insanely common name on Naboo. A quick google search finds that Queen Elizabeth I had at least two different ladies in waiting who's given names were Elizabeth. I chose that search because I happened to know that in Tudor England in particular like 80% of women had the same half dozen names, but similar phenomena have occurred elsewhere in history. Evidently at one point half the male population of parts of medieval Spain was named some variation of "John".

So, in conclusion, either we have some lazy Jedi who didn't do their homework, or we have a Naboo that's lousy with Padmes.

Sadly Qui-Gon did not strike me as someone who reads his mission brief closely, but Obi-Wan probably did, so I’m just going with “there are a million Padmes on Naboo*.”

*That’s a fact, it’s a thing we can’t deny.

 

[Gradine]

Here's an actual hot take: Return of the Jedi is the best of the original films

 

[Dioltach]

RotJ with Wookiees instead of Ewoks is the movie we should have had.

 

[payn]

Here's an actual hot take: Return of the Jedi is the best of the original films

You could say sizzling.

 

[Gradine]

You could say sizzling.

As hot as the sands of the Dune Sea by the Great Pit of Carkoon

 

[Basic Expert]

Am I the only one scared of the Ewoks?

You think they're cute, but what do they do when they first meet the main characters? That's right--they try to put them over a cook fire!

And what are they going to do with all those dead stormtroopers laying at the end of the movie? That's right--DO NOT try the "celebratory stew"!