When it was first announced, journalists looked at the chance to swing lightsabers and force-choke stormtroopers with motion controls with cautious optimism, but as time went on, it became clear that this title was heading south.
The feedback Chenoweth has received steels her belief that this exposure, however uncomfortable it might be for both participants and onlookers, is a force for forward motion.
But in an eleventh hour move, David Ervine of the Progressive Unionist Party, which is linked to the loyalist paramilitary Ulster Volunteer Force, said he and his assembly colleague Billy Hutchinson had signed Mr Trimble's motion.