Queen Amidala edged out Chewbacca to advance to the finals, while Princess Leia beat Admiral Akbar. Now mother and daughter face off in the championship round of the intersex, interspecies, intergalactic beauty contest hosted by FlynnFiles. Who is the true royalty of Star Wars: Carrie Fischer or Natalie Portman? Crown the champion in the comments section. Walrus Man will join me live from the Ice Planet Hoth for the coronation ceremony of the true Star Wars Beauty Queen on Thursday. Cast your votes below before the polls close.

It's a trap!

A joke, this is. Mmm? Fool Yoda, you will not!

Carrie Fischer, no question.

Wedgie anyone?

Anyone that can party hard with Hammerhead and live to tell about it is ok with me, I vote Carrie.

Anyone who spent time as Jabba's mistress is severly tainted. Queen Amidala wins by default.

Hard to say. Carrie has so much appeal these days because of the retro thing--of this I am convinced. At the time, she wasn't a stunner. Portman has more natural beauty, but suffers from the fact that she is so achingly contemporary in her look. She's hard to distinguish from lots of other famous actresses or models you see on the magazine rack.

So I say style points go to Carrie, raw beauty goes to Portman, and combined score goes to Carrie.

Carrie by a nose.

Leia!

Well, they were both senators, but Padme was so clueless she married a kid who confessed, during their courtship, that he had slaughtered a defenseless village full of kids and women. She let Jar-Jar stand in for her and propose supreme executive power to Palpatine. Talk about coming up small in a big situation...

Leia didn't stand for that sort of crap. She faced down Vader and didn't blurt the Rebel plans. She got captured by Jabba but then she killed him. And apparently, she remembered her mother even though George Lucas himself forgot (he killed her when Leia was an infant).

Princess Leia in a walkover.

Are you kidding? When Carrie she was chained to Pizza the Hut in that skimpy metallic outfit with the Dream of Jeannie hair do?? Yeow! That’s why Han Solo was only partially thawed when released from that block of carbonite.

This has got to be some kind of joke. Natalie Portman blows Fischer out of the water.

Let's not forget, on the question of royalty:

"Princess" Leia was from the days before Lucas wussed out like the sniveling panty-waist that he is and made "Queen" an elected office.

Watched ‘Attack of the Drones’ the other night and it convinced me that Portman is a fembot. Stiff, expressionless, plastic actress. Yes, she looks nice (in a school marm kind of way) but even her big Harvard brain can’t get her from scene to scene without it appearing that she’s doing anything more than reading.

Natalie Portman. WOW! She makes me wish I was young, rich and good looking.
On the other hand, Carrie, well, let's not go there.
Natalie gets my vote.

Princess Leia is supposed to be eighteen when A New Hope starts.

Sorrie, Carrie Fischer being eighteen in that movie just doesnt fly.

Guess I'm not enough of a SWs nerd to understand what 'A New Hope' is but, Leia was the best looking 28 year old 18 year older for that time and place and had edging, tough personality. Very Hot. Although, I'll give the Queen the benefit of the doubt as I have not seen the new one. Maybe the Force has provided a personality for her.

A New Hope was the name of the first Star Wars movie that was released.....

Ben-T, Steve: Carrie Fisher was 19 when Star Wars was released. I'll grant you that the picture isn't so hot on her IMBD home page. But we're talking characters, not actresses, and as I've outlined above, Leia kicked buns, even while wearing them.

Think - Padme let Dooku get away with the Death Star plans; Leia stole them and got them to the Rebels even though she was captured. Padme cried when confronted by the newly-minted Darth; Leia smirked in his face. Yelled at his boss Grand Moff Tarkin too. This isn't even a contest. Leia by at least a parsec.

The discussion was not who was more efficient, but who was hotter.

Portman was undeniably hotter.

PS: Tarken was simply a governor. Darth Vader was the Emperor's Personal Enforcer. Vader was higher ranking than Tarkin. However Tarkin was in military command of the Death Star.

"Padme cried when confronted by the newly-minted Darth; Leia smirked in his face."

Um, yeah. Because Leia wasn't porking him, and had no idea who he was.

carrie fischer.

"The discussion was not who was more efficient, but who was hotter." Ben-T

I personally find incompetence a huge turn-off. You can keep Padme. Ms. Organa, a word?

I dunno man, if your husband and the father of your children started killing everybody in sight and used the force to choke you and throw you around in the air, you might be a little more freaked out than if some guy you didn't even know yelled at you and had you dragged off to a cell. Especially considerding that Leia Organa was a high profile politician that never could have been seriously harmed by Vader without it being a huge political fiasco.

You know, that's what happens when you start killing Sand People, you just can't stop!

Ben, if my husband and father of my children started manhandling me along with most of the galaxy, yes, I'd be freaked - but I'd also be gone. "Until you come back to your senses, Mr. Dark Overlord, you're eating takeout and sleeping on the futon. I'll be at mother's."

Remember that Vader tortured Leia after he jailed her. And blew up her planet. And there was no fiasco because the Emperor had just sacked the entire Senate. And we are now officially the two biggest dorks on Flynn Files for going on about it! =)

OK, I just ante'd up and saw the corny sci-fi fairy tale. Didn't expect to like it as much as I did.

Hmm, Padme seemed written for the readers of Teen People magazine. Not much to pine for. Leia was more adventurous, like clutching Luke on the grappling hook when they spanned some abyss (Death Star?), and didn't she hook up with Da Dude, Han Solo. I didn't want to say that, since, with the right script, Portman can kick a** (like in The Professional). But: Padme's tame and Leia's a tiger. Split decision in favor of Princess Leia.

The way Leia was always all over his brother was just creepy in the first movies. Even before I knew they were siblings it creeped me out.