Hi all! I know it's been a while...shame on me! I promise whole-heartedly to catch up on each and every one of your blogs. Eventually.

Everyone is well; the baby is growing like a weed--she turned 10 months old on the 22nd. How time flies!! Anyway, she's starting to pull herself up on things, and in her crib, so we had to lower the mattress so she wouldn't tumble out on her head.

When I went to put her to bed, the lowered position of the mattress was lower than I anticipated (and I'm a shorty), and I sort of....well....dropped her. Not to worry, it was a soft landing.

But that got me to thinking about something (as it always does) in Return of the Sith. When Padmé was unconscious on Mustafar, how in the world did the two droids get her aboard the skiff?

"We have Miss Padmé on board" 3PO, ROTS

How?

In the novelization of ROTS, Matthew Stover writes this:

He had no idea how he could get her back to her ship--he certainly had not been designed for transporting anything heavier than a tray of cocktails, after all...

.....3PO could see the little astromech: he'd tangled his manipulator arm in the senator's clothing and was dragging her across the landing deck.


Which still doesn't answer my question. How did the two of them get her up onto the bed in the skiff? I mean, really, she was "dead weight"!

Did you see the way 3PO dumped the dead jawas on the fire in ANH? It was just kind of a toss. I certainly hope he didn't toss Padmé on the bed like that! I know, I know, the jawas were already dead. And probably 100--give or take a few pounds--lighter. Maybe he was more flexible 20 years earlier? Maybe he was able to bend at the waist a little better?

If anyone has any insight into this matter....which I'm sure you will--you ALWAYS do--please enlighten me! I'll be back a little later to check things out.

Have a good day!!

GB