#Jar Jar Binks

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I OPEN UP MY PINTEREST TO JAR JAR BINKS RIZZING UP TECH

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One day i will create some serious art. But that day isn't today.

the individual art under the cut!

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I'm literally garbage at anything and everything that has to do with art please don't mind the hair and clothes I'm still learning 🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏

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#COMIC COVERS + VARIANTS FOR MAY 2024 #DANG PREQUELS FANS ARE GETTING FED THIS MONTH!!!!

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I am a bit surprised at your tags saying you like jar jar, I don't really know anybody who's a fan in 2023. What's the appeal there, would you say?

Did people like JarJar more in the past? I remember when the prequels were new, his poor actor almost died from the harassment. Surely the venom against JarJar has only weakened.

But mmmmm...I guess what I enjoy about JarJar is he just. He sucks so bad. Nobody has any use for him. He's not just bad at emergencies and space and knowing you have to pay for food, he's not even good at Gungan-ing.

But he's just kinda allowed to be like that. He's there. The other protagonists are varying levels of Ugh Why but they don't try to solve him. He gets Recognition From His People at the end of TPM and fails his way upward in galactic politics and has good intentions and tries sincerely and fucks up so so bad, and is dumb as hell.

He doesn't get punished by the story for being a loser. He's allowed.

That's what made so many people so mad at him back when, and I do get it because any scene he's in is hard to take seriously, he's walking bathos, he's like Original Swamp Yoda without the redeeming kung fu drama. But also wow yikes no.

Let me sit with this a bit and let me see if I can turn this vibe into words better.

Like @husborth was totally correct in saying the whole Gungan plotline was a waste of screentime, a fun little excuse plot allowed to run riot due to unchecked directorial hubris, and contributed to the prequel films being atrociously paced pieces of cinema. But (somewhat consequently) there's something luxurious about JarJar Binks being allowed to go around existing so much, something I think is prototypical of the whole prequel tone and its contrast to the snappy war-film energy of the original trilogy in a way that...really works to create the atmospheric contrast between life in the Republic and life under the Empire.

The Republic was a bloated ancient mess of a government riddled with corruptions, and badly out-of-whack power balances and decayed support nets that weren't technically corruption but weren't working well either, and inefficiency.

And also what the fascists like to call decadence. You know?

Like one of the consequences of having a tolerant diverse society is that even when poorly run and afflicted with capitalism it is going to be full of fantastically annoying weirdos who don't have anything better to do than embarrass people by talking, and there's nothing to be done about that that morally can be. You can't Force Choke people for annoying and have a free society. We all gotta make our peace with the fact that JarJar Binks has every right to exist.

Not that JarJar Binks is necessary to any specific piece of media. I am not advocating for annoying gag sidekicks in general. But I am saying that JarJar Binks is metaphorically inevitable, whenever people are allowed to just kinda be.

So his presence on some level feels political to me, inasmuch as Star Wars are actually political films at all, which isn't very much. But definitely not none either!

Also I am old enough to have grown less susceptible to secondhand embarrassment so I am able to forgive JarJar his cringe. He can still be a little painful to watch! But I do like that he's there.

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Can you do Anakin and Ashoka?

Of course!

Anakin: How stupid do you think I am?

Ahsoka: About the same level as Jar Jar.

Anakin, on the verge of tears: You fucking take that back.

[kurtssingh]

AFKed for a week, came back and saw Ahmed Best.

*cries*

[stagbeetleboy]

Wait gender swapping characters reminds he of my devastating jarjar binks edits

[thisisthe-way]

WAIT A GOSH DARN LONG TIME AGO GALAXY FAR AWAY FREAKING MINUTE—

You’re telling me Jon and Dave REDEEMED JAR JAR BINKS by making his actor the JEDI WHO SAVED FAN FAVORITE CUDDLE FORCE USER GROGU?!

What an honor. Welcome back to Star Wars canon, sir and may I say for the record SOME OF US ALWAYS LOVED JAR JAR.

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