Keisha Castle Hughes would have made such a great 'young Frodo'...

[mechtild]

The weekend before last, I took our daughter to go visit an old friend of mine. What would we do, we wondered, after my daughter had vanquished us at Crazy Eights and Monopoly

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[just_ann_now]

I noticed her name in the credits for "Revenge of the Sith" as the latest Queen Amidala of Naboo; alas, she was all but unrecognizable under the ritual makeup. I would love to see her again!

[mechtild]

Thanks for the tip, Ann!

I looked Hughes up as 'Amadalia' and got this:

[mechtild]

Poor thing! Look at her eyes! I guess that's how you look when the world has just gone to hell in a handbasket.

'Come here, my pretty little catamite. Down! Down on your knees to do my bidding'..."
I'm sure our intrepid, courageous Frodo can get through it by closing his eyes and thinking of the Shire....

[just_ann_now]

It's not anonymous! It's me! *stamping foot angrily at LJ*

[mechtild]

Ann, she does look darned sad, doesn't she? Look at those red rims!

I only saw each of the recent three Star Wars films once (although I thought "Revenge of the Sith" was really good, unlike the other turkeys). If Natalie Portman was the Queen of Naboo (I thought?) in RotS, what was Hughes supposed to be -- Portman's successor or something, after she had died? Was she in the funeral procession, perhaps? I may have blinked and missed it.

Yes, I think fanfic Frodo can handle anything his captors want to throw at him ("throw" might not be the most descriptive verb, however), thanks to his writers. He has to live to cast the Ring into the fire, and then sail into the West, after all. *grin*

[just_ann_now]

Strange, now I'm not getting email notification of your comments! How bizarre!

I was confused also about the political situation in Naboo. Padme was queen, which I thought was cool, but then the next thing I know, she's a senator, having been appointed by the current queen. Since when is being Senator better than being Queen? Apparently the Queenhood is a revolving door for the politically savvy young women of Naboo!

Yes, that was Queen Amidala Keisha in the funeral procession. Such a waste of an Academy Award nominee, but then, she's got many more years ahead of her. She can go on to bigger and better things, just like Tatum O'Neal and Anna Paquin! /sarcasm.

[mechtild]

Actually, the political workings of Naboo are extremely silly, having read a synopsis of the previous films as a refresher before going to see RotS. On Naboo, queens are elected; they have terms of office. Isn't that a stitch? Who ever heard of royalty being elected? It destroys the whole notion of royalty in tale-telling. The point of royalty in stories and legends (and reality?) is that it's a leadership that is the result of destiny; one simply is born to it; "doomed" to it; it is the royal leader's duty to accept and live up to that doom, whether he or she wants it or not.

Imagine fairy tales working at all if Prince or Princess So-and-so were prince or princess only until their terms were up!! *rolls eyes*

[just_ann_now]

Not to mention the drain on the economy to have to keep recreating that fabulous wardrobe. Unless there are physical qualifications other than simply being young and female? Rather like the maidens of Castle Anthrax in Monty Python and the Holy Grail.
We are but eight score young blondes and brunettes, all between
sixteen and nineteen-and-a-half, cut off in this castle with no one to
protect us. Oooh. It is a lonely life: bathing, dressing, undressing,
making exciting underwear.

Oh, George! What a botchup you've made of Naboo!