With the twins taken care of, focus naturally switches to the Queen next.

And here I was sure from the get-go that she’d simply stay the Queen…either replacing one of Earth’s existing female monarchs or some other celebrity who has earned the sobriquet of “Queen of (thing/activity)”. And for a while I seriously considered making her replace Barbara Steele as the “Queen of all scream queens” – that would have had a nice resonance with the theme of B-movies.

But ultimately I decided to go down a slightly different road. See, the Queen kinda loves the spotlight, doesn’t she? She’s also notable for her stunning, energetic performances (just think of her revelation as the (apparent) villain). And the sequence set on her home planet did establish that she’s not averse to partying… really, really hard. In short, I felt she’d make an excellent rock star – and there is a way in which she can do that and still use hear established brand…

And, yeah…when she says she was “shocked” to learn that there are six more of the twins, she’s actually understating it quite severely. She cried for the future of the Universe for three days straight. =P

More on Thursday.