OK, I really want to make that last idea work, because it’s way more emotional.

I want it to play out as:

Dooku announces to the Republic: “Fuck you, and also Mina Bonteri is dead”
Padmé and team desperately try to rally senators, to find Onaconda has been attacked
Padmé goes wandering alone, to echoing voices in her head, something along the lines of:
** Onaconda: “I just want peace”
** Mina: “To peace.”
** Dooku: “Mina Bonteri is dead”
** Mina: “To peace.” (again)
** Padmé: “To hope.”
Padmé gets jumped, but gets away. This is Dooku’s plan succeeding - she now can’t rally the senators and heads back to her apartments to recover.
Whilst being tended to by Tecla, she really listens to a real citizen’s problems
Padmé makes the speech - she didn’t need to nudge potential on-the-fence senators into supporting her since her impassioned speech created a groundswell of support
Padmé’s team celebrate. I realised that in order to pay off my idea of going a bit emotionally deeper with this one, that Mina Bonteri deserves a bit of payoff at the end (which she never got in the original episode), so as they celebrate I’ll try to have the team toast Mina, something like- Bail: “To Senator Bonteri.” Padmé: “To Mina.”

This is going to take some time!