[…] and an unvaliant, impudent, affronted pleading for untruth, tyranny and wickednesse, which is neither a product of prudence, nor magnanimity.

My Love, you are the Overqueen of Sarlon Kingdom. If you want your Queens to do something special, tell them you want it done. Even if they do it halfheartedly, they'll do it. Give it a month or two, after you've been in training that long and have gotten back some of your lost skills, then, with guards and some of your women riders, visit each of them and pun on a demonstration. But remember, Love, you're not sixteen any more. Neither are they. But do you what you do best. The bow, throwing a knife or a star, and actual hand to hand combat without weapons. You've been thinking of Cherry, haven't you?

If candidates stand on the liturgical south facing the presider and liturgical assistants on the liturgical north, it will present better visual lines for the congregation than if they stand facing east and west with their backs toward the congregation.

The film is a parable of magical entertainment's resuscitative power in a time of depression.