Why would the fake queen send the real queen to go clean a droid?
What would be the purpose of this and why would the queen agree to do it? They were on the ship and could just wait until the Jedi’s left. They didn’t have to use the decoy
shareWhy would a queen's handmaiden clean a droid at all? She sent a lady in waiting to perform the work of a technician.
But, yes, very little about the Star Wars prequels makes logical sense.
Technician? From what I could see, only the OUTSIDE of the droid was being cleaned, so a lady-in-waiting would be perfectly suitable.
When Luke is cleaning R2-D2 in the first Star War, he's fiddling around in the bits between panels and is using tools and things. I just assumed that a thorough cleaning of a droid would involve some maintenance beyond the external. But, perhaps Amidala was only meant to polish up the droid.
Still, the OP's point stands: the queen should not be sent to polish up a droid.
Also, while a servant would be suited to cleaning and polishing the mechanized silverware, I think (if my viewing of BBC period dramas serve me well) a queen's lady-in-waiting would probably be above that work. Of course, who knows where "droid polisher" would sit on the servant scale.
Hahahaha, OMFG, and we're talking about ALIENS here. They can't POSSIBLY be the same as us!
Aliens that behave in very similar ways to us.
They have a senate and other forms of government we recognize. They have clothing. They have problems with trade, taxes, and economics. They have hierarchies.
Look, it's all speculation, but that's the fun of talking about these alternate worlds, isn't it?
Aliens that elect monarchs? Naaah, we never did that, correct me if I'm wrong. Even when I heard those relevant lines on Attack of the Clones (I served two terms) I thought it sounded stupid.
Then again, this reminds me of the Centauri Republic in Babylon 5: they are a republic, yet they have an Emperor. Nuts, eh?
I'm not saying it's one-to-one, although I will certainly agree that very little thought seems to have been put into it.
As nuts as England? They're a constitutional monarchy, so they have voting rights and an Empress. Or maybe as nutty as the Roman Empire with its Senate and Caesar combo.