[WhoCares]

This is taken from the www.starwars.com website. How can they do things like this? After finish reading it I had to call my doctor for a new prozac treatmen....




Jar Jar Binks


In this scene, Jar Jar brings Queen Amidala before Boss Nass, forging an important alliance between the Naboo and the Gungans.


What makes him an unlikely hero? He's clumsy. He doesn't have very good manners. He's been in trouble with the Gungan authorities. And he's been known to accidentally get into danger.

Sound like an unlikely hero? Perhaps, but Jar Jar was eventually considered a great warrior by Boss Nass, the leader of the Gungans, for uniting the Gungans and the Naboo. He was then made a general in the Gungan army, and in this role led many brave Gungans into battle against the Trade Federation battle droids.

[Lord Aquaman]

This is taken from the www.starwars.com website.  How can they do things like this?  After finish reading it I had to call my doctor for a new prozac treatmen....

Jar Jar Binks 
 

In this scene, Jar Jar brings Queen Amidala before Boss Nass, forging an important alliance between the Naboo and the Gungans.
 

What makes him an unlikely hero? He's clumsy. He doesn't have very good manners. He's been in trouble with the Gungan authorities. And he's been known to accidentally get into danger.

Sound like an unlikely hero? Perhaps, but Jar Jar was eventually considered a great warrior by Boss Nass, the leader of the Gungans, for uniting the Gungans and the Naboo. He was then made a general in the Gungan army, and in this role led many brave Gungans into battle against the Trade Federation battle droids.

<{POST_SNAPBACK}>

Did you notice that Jar Jar landed on his crotch during the battle at the end of "Phantom Menace" when he's nearly blown to bits and lands on the tank gun? I shit you not, he landed on that gun CROTCH first, and it's made all the more obvious by the obnoxious exp​ression of pain he displays. Just one more reason to hate that damned elongated CGI man-frog if you ask me.

[Helena]

The way Lucas makes everyone who does anything remotely 'heroic' some kind of military leader is typical of his complete disregard for how these things function in real life. It was bad enough in the OT, when Luke and Han got made Captains and Commanders after they blew up a few TIE fighters, but having Jar Jar made a General just for showing the Jedi where the Gungans were takes things to an entirely new level of absurdity. Frankly, I'm surprised the nine-year-old Anakin wasn't made an Admiral or something after accidentally disabling those battle droids.

How did Obi-Wan become a General, I wonder? I can imagine the scene:

INTERIOR: PALPATINE'S OFFICE

YODA and PALPATINE sit at a table, deep in discussion.

PALPATINE: So have you discovered who the Sith Lord is yet, Master Yoda?

YODA: (Shakes head sadly) No. Meditated on it, I have - but no use, it was.

Enter OBI-WAN KENOBI, carrying a tea-tray.

OBI-WAN: Here's your tea, Master Yoda. And Chancellor, I brought you a coronation chicken sandwich with the crusts cut off, just as you like it.

PALPATINE: Wonderful! Tell me, Obi-Wan, how would you like to be a general in the Republic's new army?

OBI-WAN: I'm... flattered, Chancellor. But shouldn't a job like that go to someone with proven leadership abilities and military experience?

PALPATINE: Technically yes, but unfortuantely we don't actually have anyone with military experience, since for some unfathomable reason we never had an army before now. Besides, you seem like a talented young lad... so what do you say?

OBI-WAN: Very well, Chancellor. (Under his breath) I suppose it'll at least stop him giving the job to Anakin.

[use the force]

OBI-WAN: I'm... flattered, Chancellor. But shouldn't a job like that go to someone with proven leadership abilities and military experience?



- you mean such as a jedi.



please helena no where in your rambling do you make any sense.

This post has been edited by use the force: 21 December 2004 - 06:35 PM

[barend]

How did Obi-Wan become a General, I wonder? I can imagine the scene:

INTERIOR: PALPATINE'S OFFICE

YODA and PALPATINE sit at a table, deep in discussion.

PALPATINE: So have you discovered who the Sith Lord is yet, Master Yoda?

YODA: (Shakes head sadly) No. Meditated on it, I have - but no use, it was.

Enter OBI-WAN KENOBI, carrying a tea-tray.

OBI-WAN: Here's your tea, Master Yoda. And Chancellor, I brought you a coronation chicken sandwich with the crusts cut off, just as you like it.

PALPATINE: Wonderful! Tell me, Obi-Wan, how would you like to be a general in the Republic's new army?

OBI-WAN: I'm... flattered, Chancellor. But shouldn't a job like that go to someone with proven leadership abilities and military experience?

PALPATINE: Technically yes, but unfortuantely we don't actually have anyone with military experience, since for some unfathomable reason we never had an army before now. Besides, you seem like a talented young lad... so what do you say?

OBI-WAN: Very well, Chancellor. (Under his breath) I suppose it'll at least stop him giving the job to Anakin.

<{POST_SNAPBACK}>

continued:

PALPATINE: I can't give the job to Anikan... He's been my advisor for the last 10 years...



Helena... you Rock!!! I hope you're planning on becomming a satirical novelist or something one day...

This post has been edited by barend: 21 December 2004 - 08:07 PM

[Despondent]

please helena no where in your rambling do you make any sense.

<{POST_SNAPBACK}>

dooku. sifo dyas. lord tyrannus. el camino. poggle the lesser. elian sleazebaggano. jango.

Oh, I'm sorry. I'm rambling too. but in a sensical manner, hmmmm?

[Helena]

OBI-WAN: I'm... flattered, Chancellor. But shouldn't a job like that go to someone with proven leadership abilities and military experience?
- you mean such as a jedi.
please helena no where in your rambling do you make any sense.

It was a joke. The point I was trying to make - which everyone else but you seems to understand, strangely enough - is that Lucas hands out top-level military positions left, right and centre to people who haven't done anything whatsoever to earn them. Showing proficiency as a pilot or in hand-to-hand combat (or, in Jar Jar's case, nothing at all) does not automatically make you capable of leading troops, and neither does being a Jedi. I have no idea how Obi-Wan actually became a General, but what I proposed in my spoof is no less ridiculous than the reason why Jar Jar was made one.

[use the force]

I can understand why people would be pissed about jar jar being a general. But obi is a jedi for christ sake. DEfenders of the republic. And remember the republic didnt even have a army until recently so they had no war hereos.Which would you like to follow under. A jedi trained in the force or a fellow clone.

[Helena]

Like I said, it was a joke. I don't actually think Obi-Wan becoming a General is such a stupid idea (or at least not as stupid as Jar Jar being one); I was just making fun of Lucas by mocking the way he turns every Tom, Dick and Harry into a military leader, even those who aren't remotely qualified for it.

[use the force]

Like I said, it was a joke. I don't actually think Obi-Wan becoming a General is such a stupid idea (or at least not as stupid as Jar Jar being one); I was just making fun of Lucas by mocking the way he turns every Tom, Dick and Harry into a military leader, even those who aren't remotely qualified for it.

<{POST_SNAPBACK}>

E chu Ta

[Despondent]

"How rude."






which reminds me. Lucas did make threepio a "God."

[barend]

has any one been paying attention to despondent latley?

he's been so witty latley...
i think it's performance enhancing drugs...
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