and i agree to this to an extent, as i mentioned in another thread there were times when JJ went too far and it damaged the reality of the film. but what Lucas did with him in AotC really redeemed the character a lot in my eyes.
ah, i see the "blah blah" bit of my earlier post comes across as quite dismissive and condecending. again, i didnt mean it, and i apologise.
Dismissing an idea on the basis that it cannot be compared to what has been done in the PT because said idea has not been filmed is a bit of a weak argument isn't it? Let me give you a clear and concise written example:
"Jar-Jar jumps 30 feet into the air spinning and howling like a maniac before plunging into the lake."
"Jar-Jar looks back at the Jedi beckoning them along as he slowly submerges into the calm lake."
I don't know about you, but looking at these texts through lenses of, for example, plausibility and atmosphere makes me see a clear winner here. (Oh, and in my version, he is a Mon Calamari... ) And this is just the tiniest, little example among the multitude of horrors, large and small, that is the PT.
While I agree about the fact that not everything that sounds good on paper is good on the big screen, the flaws in the PT are so f**king obvious and in-your-face that they CAN be dismissed immediatly in favor of certain fan-fiction.