Jar-Jar

I think Beck would probably be the real life equivalent of Jar-Jar Binks.

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I think Beck would probably be the real life equivalent of Jar-Jar Binks.

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(I'll set aside delving here into the flaws of Return of the Jedi, and those of the prequel films, although I do believe the prequels got better with each film, and each jump away from Jar-Jar Binks, and Anakin-the-child, because, hey, space limitations.)

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And God knows a lot of us would have liked to see Jar-Jar nuked from orbit ...

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Third item of business: He made a new Lego Star Wars character on his DS with Jar-Jar Binks 'head and a jedi body that he calls Jardi.

Comic Book Run darkerblogistan 2009

Also, I'm still waiting to hear the rationale for making a protocol droid a shrieking coward, aside from George Lucas rummaging through a box of offensive stereotypes (which he'd later return to while building Jar-Jar Binks) and picking out the "mincing gay man" module.

Boing Boing 2009

And I still remember coming home from the theater after seeing The Phantom Menace, trying to justify that it was entertaining, really, and Jar-Jar ... well, you could just ignore Jar-Jar, right?

Afterglow « 2009

I would have suffered through the midichlorians and Jar-Jar Binks and the whole nine yards, and I would have watched them again and again -- if there had been a girl Jedi who was an actual character with a name and lines of dialog and actions taken, and no, it doesn't count if you think you remember something about someone in the background or maybe in a comic or novelization or other related work.

mrissa: John Sayles pays up. mrissa 2010

And I still remember coming home from the theater after seeing The Phantom Menace, trying to justify that it was entertaining, really, and Jar-Jar ... well, you could just ignore Jar-Jar, right?

2009 August « 2009

I would have suffered through the midichlorians and Jar-Jar Binks and the whole nine yards, and I would have watched them again and again -- if there had been a girl Jedi who was an actual character with a name and lines of dialog and actions taken, and no, it doesn't count if you think you remember something about someone in the background or maybe in a comic or novelization or other related work.

Barnstorming on an Invisible Segway 2010