 Editor in Chief Bill   | 03 Jul 2018 9:20 p.m. PST |
After the backlash of his role as Jar Jar Binks nearly two decades ago, "Star Wars" actor Ahmed Best says he once considered taking his life… link |
Dn Jackson  | 04 Jul 2018 7:06 a.m. PST |
The character sucked, that's no reflection on the actor. Especially considering the amount of CGI involved. Haden Christianson on the other hand… |
| Captain Gideon | 04 Jul 2018 7:37 a.m. PST |
Dn Jackson I disagree with what you have to say about Jar Jar Binks. To me he was a very good character IMHO. |
 Dentatus  | 04 Jul 2018 7:37 a.m. PST |
This is so freaking weird and tragic. Read that the actress who played Rose in TLJ deleted her social media account due to incessant harassment and death threats. All the s*#t going on in our world and folks are getting worked up over fictional SF characters that these real people were hired to play. What's wrong with this picture? |
| StarCruiser | 04 Jul 2018 8:01 a.m. PST |
Don't blame the actor, blame the writer/director/producer… It's always the suits that mess things up… |
| Roderick Robertson | 04 Jul 2018 8:17 a.m. PST |
Jar Jar has his precedents in 1930's Hollywood, in the eye-rolling, cowardly, "African American" sidekick, like Stepin Fetchit. It was a horrible stereotype then, and it's a horrible stereotype now. |
| Dynaman8789 | 04 Jul 2018 9:14 a.m. PST |
On a related bit Jake Loyd was a horrible actor but he was a kid, the cr*p fans put him through is unforgivable as well. Star Wars fandom is more toxic by the day. That is bound to happen when mixing nostalgia and sequels. |
| Dn Jackson | 04 Jul 2018 11:55 p.m. PST |
Captain Gideon; We'll have to agree to disagree on this one. Either way any dislike should be taken out on the writers and director. The actor on this one did a decent job considering what he was given. Roderick; The fact the character had a vaguely Caribbean accent doesn't equate him with the old racial characters of the 1930s. Jar Jar was just a poorly done comic side kick. |
| Roderick Robertson | 05 Jul 2018 10:06 a.m. PST |
No, there are clear parallels. The walk, the literal eye-rolling, the buffoonish idiocy (okay, that true of all slapstick sidekicks, but the others stand). The "Racial characters" didn't have Caribbean accents, they had Deep South accents. |
| altfritz | 05 Jul 2018 2:28 p.m. PST |
And the Trade Federation with their obvious Japanese accents. |
| Raynman | 05 Jul 2018 3:45 p.m. PST |
Jar Jar Binks was the only redeeming factor in those particular movies. He was the high point and the rest went drastically down into the crapper from there! |
| Wargamer Blue | 07 Jul 2018 4:34 a.m. PST |
Jar Jar was a brilliant character in comparison to anything in the current Soy Wars trilogy. |
| mpschaefer | 07 Jul 2018 2:33 p.m. PST |
I've never quite understood the hate on Jar Jar. Were there some attempted comedic / slapstick moments that just grated and felt out of place? Yep. Did it totally destroy the movie? Nope. A bit like the attempted comedic items in TLJ. I would prefer the movie without them because they pull you out of the moment more so than the characters involved are bad. |
| Howler | 07 Jul 2018 9:31 p.m. PST |
I enjoyed Jar Jar. He was funny |
 Herkybird | 10 Jul 2018 4:31 p.m. PST |
Jar Jar was supposed to be annoying, hence his frequent put downs by Qui Gon and Obi Wan.
I never minded the character, and he was a lot more sensible as his character was developed in SW: The Clone Wars animated series. |
