Star Wars I: The Phantom Menace Glitches

Anakin's bedroom is filled with interesting sci-fi parafanalia, including a bowl-shaped object with a handle hanging near the door that appears to be formed of thin black plastic strips. This is a toy that was sold on Earth sometime in the '80's under the name of Trac Ball.

The decoy queen gives Padmé, the true Queen Amidala, the task of cleaning up R2-D2, a dirty job she could've alotted to one of the handmaidens just as easily.

The citizens who elected Queen Amidala probably know that her first name is Padmé. Wouldn't that make it dangerous for her use her real name when posing as a handmaiden? Or is Padmé just a super-common name?

Anakin builds a protocol droid to help his mom. It doesn't seem that a slave would have much use for a protocol droid. Perhaps a housework droid or a manual labor droid would've been more appropriate. More...