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Message: <blockquote data-quote="delericho" data-source="post: 3766453" data-attributes="member: 22424">True. But he spends the first few minutes of his time on screen generally annoying Luke, throwing his stuff around, and getting into a tug-of-war with R2-D2. And while he's doing this, he's taking screen time away from Han Solo and Leia being on the run from the Empire.But, hey, I'm not dissing Yoda. He's a great character (although, had I been running the prequels there is no way in Hell he would have picked up a lightsaber... but that's another rant). It's just that, on paper, it doesn't seem like it should have worked.The nice-guy innocent, banished from his people because he just doesn't fit in? There are loads of ways one could have made Jar Jar kick all kinds of ass. In fact, write it correctly, and you could have had the entire audience in tears when he stands up to propose Palpatine be given emergency powers... and thus dooms the galaxy.What's more, you wouldn't even have to sacrifice the comic relief element to do it - Londo Mollari starts as comic relief in B5, and ends up as anything but. Sadly, George Lucas forgot how to write good characters somewhere along the way, or became too obsessed with the CGI, or decided to go for the 'easy' laugh.(Or, perhaps he never had the ability. Perhaps Han Solo works because of Harrison Ford, and Obi-Wan because of Alec Guiness, and Tarkin because of Peter Cushing, and Vader because of James Earl Jones...)Anyway, we digress.</blockquote>

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