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I have been holding out on this topic...Has anyone given any thought as to how this future leader may be worked into the prequals??

Is it a fact that amidala does die? can she be Mon mothma? (could be dear old mom?)

MAMA MATHMA??...

I don't think she's Mon Mothma...Nat and the actress who played Mon Mothma don't look anything alike...

I think she will be worked in like Nadine and Ackbar, just discontented individuals banding together to eventually form the alliance against the empire.

Go to the official site at look at the character section.Do you see that red head lady with the mole on her face?I beleave this may be her.

Wasn't there a rumour that said that Gillian Anderson would play her in Episode 2 and/or 3?

I do NOT want to see Gillian Andersen play her. I DO want to see Catherine McCormick play her. I do NOT want to see her as the bit character sh was in Jedi. I DO want to see her have a major role as the charismatic young senator who has some serious verbal spars with Palpy. As for her being Padme....that just silly.

Is Catherine the lady I described above?

Why?She is the one that started the rebellion agaist the evil Empire.

Is she? I thought it was Bail Organa?

No no.They were both senators and Mothma started the recisstance.She then droped out of the Senate because of it's poor laws and started the rebellion.

Oh riiiight. Didn't know that. Cheers.

ok, ok, I agree that the idea of mon mothma being padme is silly! it was very late....however, the real reason I brought it up was that I do believe she is 'one' of the most important characters in the main story....after all...she did start the rebelion / resistace...

she has to be worked into the prequals somewhere...and yes I did here a rumer about Gillian Anderson, but it was not that she was going to play mon mothma...it was going to be one of the female jedi council members that we have already scene in ep I...and she was trained by qui gon...funny how she makes it to the council and qui gon does not.

Do you think the Rebellion will actually be formed by Episode 3, or do you think that would be too early in the Empire's reign?

The Empire at the end of 2 and the Rebellion in the middle of 3.And I beleave that Claudia Karvan will be the young Mon Mothma.Look at her picture on the official site.

OK, bit of catch up for me here.

Gillian Anderson: She was rumoured as a member of the Jedi Council but according to an interview in Starburst or Film Review in the summer she new nothing about it.

Padme=Mothma: I think XC said it best, it was late when he posted but I do agree that her role in the formation of the Rebel Alliance has been drawn up historically as being so pivetol that to ignore that would be a GL crime.

Timelines: I think the Rebels will be beginning to establish but will not be at their peak, isn't the battle of Yavin quoted as being the first major victory against the Empire? This will happen over 10, maybe even 15 years after Episode-III.

I thought that at the prologue scrolling crawl for ANH it says "The Rebellion has won it's first major battle against the evil Empire" or something like that.
Wouldn't that mean that they won a battle BEFORE the Battle of Yavin?

Ethier that or they were unsuccessful every time.

I think that Mon Mothma will only have a small part in Episode 3 towards the end of the film. That's my prediction.

But she will need to be in the prequels because she was once part of the Galactic Senate.

Episode 3 IS a prequel.

Yes but the Senate starts it's downfall in Epi.II and that is most likely when Palpatine declares himself Empire.So it would be essential that she was there during the fall of the Republic.

Yeah I guess. Personally I don't like her though, so I'd rather she only be in it a little.

I never really liked her character either DD, but I am hoping that she redeems herself in the next two films. Regardless she will have to at least play a large roll in the 3rd film.

Yeah, but seeing as she wasn't in ANH or TESB then why would she HAVE to be in Ep2 or Ep3? Her actions may just stay off screen like they did before.