echronorian posted:

It's not really that insane. JarJar grows as a person, while nearly all the other characters persist in their ways and learn nothing. JarJar says in one scene that he was quite happy to be wandering through the jungle - "my day started pretty okay with a brisk morning munch" - but gradually realizes that "people are going to die," and decides to do something despite being scared, clumsy and so-on. He risks his life for these idiots, and they betray him.

That JarJar's positive traits are devalued is not the fault of the film, or the character, but of those who fail to recognize them.

Quigon calls him brainless, and Jar Jar responds "I speak!" Quigon then snaps back that "the ability to speak does not make you intelligent." And of course, Quigon is totally wrong. Of course being capable of speech means intelligence - it goes straight back to the Turing Test imagery in A New Hope. Fans caught up in the Jedi ideology take what Quigon says at face value, and have simply accepted that JarJar is objectively subhuman.

The focus on JarJar's speech is crucial to the character, down to the 'random' gag where his tongue is paralyzed. See also the gag where Quigon grabs his tongue to chastise his intolerable behaviour. Jar Jar's various alien tics make him the perfect target for racism.

There's a great dynamic between JarJar and Quigon where he treats him with utter contempt. Jar Jar, for his part, is skeptical of the force - literally calling it bullshit at one point. And he's aware of the racism against his people, blaming it on fear of the Gungans' Grand Army - not so much that their army can threaten the Republic, of course, but that it demonstrates their resistance to assimilation into the liberal multiculture.

Jar Jar might be naive, but he's not callously indifferent like the others. When he gets tasered by a cop for no reason, he shouts "how rude!" - and that's also his response to learning that slaves are implanted with remote-detonation explosives to prevent escape. Calling it 'rude' is an understatement, but nobody else even blinks an eye.


This, I claim, is ideology.

naem posted:

In the 1st starwars Luke is a farm kid who goes on an adventure and learns he might me a SPACE WIZARD

Then he entirely fails to live up to the hype and turns out kinda weeny, then he does a couple p good sword fights I guess. Han was the star of the show

buzzsaw.gif posted:

a 5'1" 95 pound coked-out Carrie Fisher having the strength to garrotte a 2-ton space slug that probably doesn't even have a windpipe?

McDowell posted:

TIE Fighter - best Star Wars experience

ReRelease it Disney!

Robo Reagan posted:

i remember liking this game but i never finished it then it disappeared because i guess it's one of those things that's only in your life until you learn to take care of yourself and don't need it anymore

Old Dirty Cumburgs posted:

He isn't real nerd.

Harime Nui posted:

It's now my headcanon that Leia was coming up on a small hill's worth of space coke and that's how she had the freakish strength to throttle a two-ton worm, ty

etalian posted: