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When the first episode came out one think most said...

 

"That Jar-Jar is SO awful"

 

Why is that...

 

I never disliked him a bit...

He isn't the brightest brain...but he is some kind of "cute" :p

 

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Also in episode 2 i found him so grown up and depressed...

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It's simple, he is annoying, I always had to think about what he had just siad to make sure I had understood correctly (not that anyting he siad mattered). Ans secondly, he brought nothing to the movie, exept being the 'link' to the gungan army. Oter than that he's plain goofy and was only put there to buy some laughter, and it didn't really work for me. But he's far from ruining the movie, IMH.

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Originally posted by .:CoupeS:.

It's simple, he is annoying, I always had to think about what he had just siad to make sure I had understood correctly (not that anyting he siad mattered). Ans secondly, he brought nothing to the movie, exept being the 'link' to the gungan army. Oter than that he's plain goofy and was only put there to buy some laughter, and it didn't really work for me. But he's far from ruining the movie, IMH.

 

he was the one to suggest the idea infront of the senate to give emergency powers to the one guy. hence he should have been killed earlier so Paupatine wouldnt have gottin powers of a emperor

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If Jar Jar hadnt suggested that Palpatine should get emergency powers someone else would have. Remember Palpy has influence over hundreds of senators, he just needed one of them to propose the emergency powers. Jar Jar didnt give Palpy the powers, it was the whole Senate that agreed to do it. Anyways I dont hate or love Jar Jar. Hes funny and hes also annoying. Actually I didnt find him annoying in Ep2.

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Originally posted by lukeiamyourdad

Jar Jar is the comic relief, a brief moment out of the ordinary. Just like 3PO was in the OT.

 

I think that C3PO was much better for a comic relief. Jar Jar is just stupid and clumsy, he's not really funny.

 

However, the way C3PO was always scared about following artoo was nice :); and seeing a tall scared droid with a short courageous one was a good contrast.

 

Oh, and C3PO's voice is not annoying like Jar Jar's...

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Originally posted by Darth54

I think that C3PO was much better for a comic relief. Jar Jar is just stupid and clumsy, he's not really funny.

 

However, the way C3PO was always scared about following artoo was nice :); and seeing a tall scared droid with a short courageous one was a good contrast.

 

Oh, and C3PO's voice is not annoying like Jar Jar's...

 

Most definetly right !:)

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Originally posted by Darth54

I think that C3PO was much better for a comic relief. Jar Jar is just stupid and clumsy, he's not really funny.

 

 

Exactly. Comic relief has to actually be comedy. An idiot doing stupid things is not automatically funny, and that's all they had.

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I think people, especially the old SW fans who loved the classic trilogy, hated Jar-Jar because they felt his character was aimed at a younger, less mature audience. The older fans felt betrayed by Lucas by including such a poor character and decided to let their rants out.

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  • 2 weeks later...

The "older" viewers had their own ideas about what should be in episode 1 and when it wasn't in there, they started...well I'm sorta prejudiced, OK.

 

Jar Jar is just a loser. That doesn't mean I hate him. I don't love him eoither. I just think he's a loser.

 

Of course, he probably thinks the same of me.

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Well anyone who hates Jar Jar just isn't a true Star Wars fan as far as I'm concerned. I love him, he's one of my favourite characters.

 

But there is a reason he is in Star Wars other than for plot purposes. I think of myself as a Star Wars Scholar, so I'll enlighten the rest of you.

 

Star Wars is and always has been a movie about movies. It is an amalgam of genres, and that is precisely what George Lucas set out to do. Apart from the obvious ones like Science Fiction, Fantasy, Romance and Adventure, Lucas has inserted little bit of genre-mixing in other parts - the start of A New Hope is straight out of a Western, the extended musical seen in Jabba's Palace in ROTJ:SE was finally as lavish as the Musicals Lucas wanted to acknowledge, the detective story and lighting techniques of Attack of the Clones are conventional Film Noir, and every Episode is shot intentionally in a documentary-like format (no place names at the bottom of the screen, no inner-monologues, etc). Jar Jar is just another part of this - he is a homage to the classic Saturday morning cartoon characters we know and love. If it didn't look out of place we'd probably see Jar Jar opening a miniature umbrella to protect himself from a falling anvil. He falls over, he talks funny, his eyes pop out, let's face it he is a pure cartoon. So that is the real reason Jar Jar is in Star Wars - it is part of George Lucas' attempt to fit at least a passing reference to every film genre there has been into Star Wars, his movie about movies.

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Originally posted by Admiral Vostok

Star Wars is and always has been a movie about movies. It is an amalgam of genres, and that is precisely what George Lucas set out to do. Apart from the obvious ones like Science Fiction, Fantasy, Romance and Adventure, Lucas has inserted little bit of genre-mixing in other parts - the start of A New Hope is straight out of a Western, the extended musical seen in Jabba's Palace in ROTJ:SE was finally as lavish as the Musicals Lucas wanted to acknowledge, the detective story and lighting techniques of Attack of the Clones are conventional Film Noir, and every Episode is shot intentionally in a documentary-like format (no place names at the bottom of the screen, no inner-monologues, etc). Jar Jar is just another part of this - he is a homage to the classic Saturday morning cartoon characters we know and love. If it didn't look out of place we'd probably see Jar Jar opening a miniature umbrella to protect himself from a falling anvil. He falls over, he talks funny, his eyes pop out, let's face it he is a pure cartoon. So that is the real reason Jar Jar is in Star Wars - it is part of George Lucas' attempt to fit at least a passing reference to every film genre there has been into Star Wars, his movie about movies.

 

never thought at the star wars as this.....

 

hm....yes...it is true....and i may say i don't like the "copied" films :mad:....but if you look at it , it is not copy,...:D

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