>> Jar Jar Binks is obviously one of the most obnoxiously irritating,
>> moronic characters in the history of film. And yet, there are people
>> alive today who actually /liked/ him. WTF, people?!
>
> It's amazing, isn't it?

I would be more inclined to use words like "baffling", or maybe 
"frightening"...

> And yet, we can see in Ep. II He's now part of
> the galactic counsel (or whatever that governing body is...) He got
> tossed out of his own society for being obnoxiously clumsy and moronic,
> and gets on the galactic counsel!?? There are deep, deep problems in
> that galaxy far, far away.

Wasn't he also promoted to "bom-baad genaaral" by his own society too?

Basically, Quigon says "this gungan may be of use". Despite the 
self-evident fact that he has NO USE AT ALL. It's clearly and obviously 
a transparent ploy to keep him in the story, because he's supposed to be 
the comic relief character. (Trouble is, comics are supposed to be FUNNY...)

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