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Post by Hit Girl on Dec 17, 2020 13:04:18 GMT -5
Lucas found him funny, and that's why he made it into the film. It's similar to WWE booking. If it only pleases the guy in charge, it's approved.
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Post by Deleted on Dec 17, 2020 14:22:43 GMT -5
I was 18 when that movie came out, and had grown up on the OT non Special Editions.
Jar Jar did not at all feel like a Star Wars character. It was like a character from another movie showed up in the wrong film somehow.
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Post by Mighty Attack Tribble on Dec 17, 2020 14:33:43 GMT -5
or someone who inadvertently created darth vadar ... or you know, the galactic empire ... In canon it still blows my mind that Padmé appointed f***ing Jar Jar Binks to be the Junior Representative for the Gungans. I guess even the supposed best aren't above handing positions of political importance to their dangerously under-qualified friends.
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Post by Clash, Never a Meter Maid on Dec 18, 2020 11:09:09 GMT -5
Lucas found him funny, and that's why he made it into the film. It's similar to WWE booking. If it only pleases the guy in charge, it's approved. Really, Jar Jar was the Lana of Star Wars. A likable performer who played a character written to be a lame screwup that always got into trouble and had to be rescued by the more capable heroes (Asuka/Qui-Gon and Obi Wan), and when they do accomplish something it’s almost by accident. Like, if he was maybe a capable thief/bandit/whatever who knew more strategies that could help the main party, it’d have helped a ton. That’s not even me saying “oh he should have been a badass cool dude”, he still could have been kind of a goofball. The problem is when you remove Jar Jar and keep the Gungans from TPM, the story structure still works without him. And none of that was Ahmed Best’s fault, he tried to boost what was just a poorly written hero.
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