I was thinking about those stone heads on naboo the other day. I remember us talking about if they could be relevant to the story being told in TPM.
All of us here mentioned cloning, ancient slavers, ancestors of both naboo and gungan.
I really like the cloning angle.
Hey, what if they were Kaminoans? Maybe the Naboo/Gungans have this ancient cloning tech they "inherited" from this ancient alien race. Then in eppy 2 we meet this ancient race.
Necessary? No. But just throwing something out there. I'm just trying to find a way to tie the events of TPM into the subsequent two films more. And into the clone wars.