annoying, vaguely racist, and inserted as an attempt at completely unnecessary and poorly executed slapstick humor. Also a mark of George Lucas completely misunderstanding why kids like star wars. As though a retarded talking bunny is needed when you have spaceships and lightsabre duels.
kind of like how he assumed putting kids learning how to be jedi would appeal to children, when no kid dreams of being a student, they dream of being a jedi.
You also forgot the part where he started the wars. He gave Palpatine all his power. It was his fault. They put that idiot into power. He's the reason for all the death.
harkens back to humorous depictions of slaves in the 50s and before, gangly walk, big lips, bumbling, uneducated, and speaks pigin english. Very similar to the old cliche.
**** man, what if someone born way after those times without any knowledge of those stereotypes made a character like that? Would people go all, "muh raceesms"?
Me too!
A kid in daycare gave me a Jar Jar figurine for some reason, and it was the coolest thing ever.
I was young, and he was funny. I didn't understand the hate
It kind of bugs me that people hate jar jar just because George Lucas threw him in there.
Here's the thing: George Lucas created ******* star wars. If he wants to put in a ******* talking spoon, then that's automatically cannon. I can understand hating jar jar as a character thinking he's annoying, but to draw it back and start hating him because of George Lucas is childish in my opinion.
It's his ******* creation, he can do whatever he wants with it. Jar Jar never bothered me, and he was an okay addition.
This also kind of brings up another issues with series (Not really relative to SW):
Don't ******* beg for sequels or more to the series, then ******* complain with where they went with it. I think a pretty good example in this case is Scrubs. Season 8 was an amazing ending and the fans craved more and demanded more, so they shelled out season 9 and everyone was disgusted. That should not be a thing. You should not beg for a sequel after they ******* ended a series perfectly to the point where TV Execs force it to happen and the creators have to **** out a forced sequel, then you ******* complain. This beyond agitates me.
And the stupidest part is that if they had gone with the original idea behind Jar Jar he might've been alright, but of course, like a lot of things, George Lucas just HAD to meddle with and ruin the concept completely he was supposed to be a professional assassin hired to hunt down and kill Qui-Gon Jinn who's only pretending to be a moron - on the other hand we got Darth Maul instead so...almost a fair trade?
Although its true that George could do what he wats, thats kinda the problem with the prequels, since he had complete artistic freedom he ended up making discrases, if you want to starwars to be any good it have to leave Lucas's hands.
I'm pretty sure I remember Jar Jar in Episode either II or III. That was like a deleted scene in Episode III where Grievous kills Shaak Ti but in reality she was one of the few who survived Order 66
I didn't mind the species and appearance so much as I absolutely despised the bumbling slapstick presentation of the character. He would've been much more tolerable if he wasn't portrayed as such an unnecessary idiot.
While I will admit I was vaguel annoyed with Jar Jar in Episode 1, that's not what made me hate him...
What made me hate him were the ************* Gungans on the Naboo Plains map in the original Battlefront that would never shut the **** up until you put a blaster bolt in their head Gungan: "MEESA GONNA DIE!" Me: "You're goddamned right if you don't shut the **** up in about two seconds!", and then I inevitably end up with 30 teamkills whenever I play the Republic/Rebels on that map in any given battle because they piss me the **** off.
He was supposed to be funny, but he was just annoying. Every time he talked I felt like turning off the movie because it just wasn't worth sitting through his **** .
when I was little I liked jar jar and one day I learned about slavery and throught he said "missie" instead of "misa" in french mister is said "monsieur" and black slaves characters in movies adressed their white masters as "missie", a deformation of the word "monsieur" so for years I throught jar jar binks was a star wars carricature of an incultured black man. sorry if my story isnt really clear but english isnt my native language