Invisible <voi### [at] devnull> wrote:
> >> 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"...

  Why couldn't someone like a funny character? And one doesn't need to
even be infantile to do that. (I don't consider myself too infantile.)

> > 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?

  He was actually characterized as a good diplomat who helped unite the
two quarreling civilizations on the planet. Thus it makes sense that he
would be a representative of his people. This characterization didn't come
through very clearly, though (well, at all, really), which can be attributed
to substandard writing (something that can be seen throughout the trilogy.)

  Making him a general didn't make much sense, though. He may be good at
diplomacy, not at leading an army. (Again, either substandard writing or
idiocy of the gungan leader.)

> 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...)

  As said, he was characterized as a diplomat (at least in principle), so
in that context it makes sense.

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                                                          - Warp

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