I feel that the big mistake with that trick is when they bring them back at the end.
the whole point of the trick is that the queens vanished and when u make them appear at the end it makes it less magical and kinda says, "hey, its sleight of hand, they never vanished!"
you are actually are thinkin in a toooo deep way of deception.
Your audiences brains are not trained in deception, so you will have a hard time, finding a layman, who thinks stuff like this, after you have reappeared the queens.
I wouldn´t say that the Bucks style is not magical and just a showoff of skill....their style is just directly in the face and more directed to the eyes of magicians than to the eyes of laymen...which is what I kind of prefere.
The Skillshowoff into all their handlings and the whole thing about showing that those deck of cards is such a "slave" of their hands...totally fits into it.
Maybe The Queens is not the most magical effect of the Trilogy....same thing goes for The Collectors.....and to name a whole other magician.....Collectors: Redux by Kevin Ho also has not a little piece of magical aspect into it....but it is meant to be like this. If this doesn´t fit your style than don´t perform it.
There are so many other effects that should work for you ...even on the Trilogy. The first time I saw the Tivo 2.0 or the Twinsplit Remix performed by Dave I was dashing my head onto my keyboard screaming "oouuu myy gooosh!"...although I knew how it was done....just because the magic takes place within those tricks, because it directly show´s things that can not possibly happen.
Magic happens in the eyes of your audience...in there heads...
Spectators as laymen will NEVER think as far as the magician himself referable to the effect of a trick...so do not be afraid of spectators who shout at you just because, you´ve just reappeared those queens.
As somebody correctly mentoined: The Queens without a reappear of those ladys in any kind of fashion..would be like a bad cliffhanger for your spectators....like the ending of "Matrix Revolutions" or.....the ending of every single episode of "24" or....the ending of the first season of "lost" or....the ending of my cheese sandwich now....I´m finished eating ....damn it..
cheers