And lo on Sat, 02 Aug 2008 05:11:51 +0100, Chambers  
<ben### [at] pacificwebguycom> did spake, saying:

> Warp wrote:
>> John VanSickle <evi### [at] hotmailcom> wrote:
>>>> Jar Jar Binks is a great character.
>>
>>> What smokest thou?
>>    I really can't see what's wrong with him.
>>    When I first saw the movie, I didn't find anything annoying or wrong
>> with him. It was only afterwards that I realized that people hate him.
>>
>
> It was the sheer idiocy of the character.  It's the same reason I don't  
> like characters like Barney the Dinosaur, or movies like Dumb and Dumber.

But Barney's aimed at the young and Dumb and Dumber is intentionally  
idiotic, that's where Jar Jar fails; the humour in Star Wars was always  
incidental and oh look here's a character who's almost pure comic relief.

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Phil Cook

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