Random Posts of Goofiness

What I've learned from this video.
-Spongebob is the best.
-Prolonged exposure to baked fruit confections will result in violent explosions unless he's removed from said confection swiftly.
-Spongebob's awesome.
-Spongebob maims his friends.
-Spongebob's mentally challenged friend manages to maintain the same level of popularity as him.
-Spongebob's superiority is based entirely on his habitual preparation of fast food.
-Plankton is redundantly small.
-Fishes are sexy.
-How to look like you're being held at gunpoint without even trying.

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Here I will seek to establish that Jar Jar Binks, far from being simply the bumbling idiot he portrays himself as, is in fact a highly skilled force user in terms of martial ability and mind control.

Furthermore, I assert that he was not, as many people assume, just an unwitting political tool manipulated by Palpatine-- rather, he and Palpatine were likely in collaboration from the very beginning, and it's entirely possible that Palpatine was a subordinate underling to Binks throughout both trilogies.

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Actually, if you watch the prequels with the idea that Jar Jar might be a manipulative, dark character, you begin to notice just how insidious and subtle his manipulation is, and how effective, in almost every sequence he's involved in, and also just how hyper-aware of the overarching plot he really is.

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As we all know, one of Lucas' big deals with the prequels was that they were intended to "rhyme" and mirror the original trilogy in terms of general narrative themes. So there should have been a seemingly innocent creature found on the side of the road that later reveals itself as a major player. We do have a creature that this seems to describe precisely... Jar Jar... but of course he never develops into a "master" anything.

Here's what I think happened: I think that Jar Jar was initially intended to be the prequel (and Dark Side) equivalent of Yoda. Just as Yoda has his "big reveal" when we learn that his tottering, geriatric goofball persona is just a mask, Jar Jar was intended to have a big reveal in Episode II or III where we learn that he's not really a naive dope, but rather a master puppeteer Sith in league with (or perhaps in charge of) Palpatine.

However, GL chickened out. The fan reaction to Jar Jar was so vitriolic that this aspect of the trilogy was abandoned. Just too risky... if Jar Jar is truly that off-putting, it's potentially ruinous to the Star Wars legacy to imply that he's the ultimate bad guy of the entire saga. So pretend he was just a failed attempt at comic relief instead.

This is why Dooku seems like such a flat, shoehorned-in character with no backstory; he was hastily written in to cover the plot holes left when villain Jar Jar was redacted. Yoda was meant to duel with his literal darkside nemesis and mythological equivalent at the end of AotC: not boring old Count Dooku, but Sith Master Jar Jar. And Binks was meant to escape, not just that duel but to survive the entire trilogy... so that he could cast a shadow on the OT, too; you'd rewatch the originals knowing that the Emperor wasn't necessarily the big baddie after all... Jar Jar is still out there somewhere. It would have been sort of brilliant.

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A few things have made me think George Lucas borrowed a lot of ideas from the Foundation saga by Isaac Asimov. The planet of Trantor, one huge city, became the Republic planet of Coruscant (for example). So the idea that The Mule, a gangly character that clumsily made his way over to routing out two Foundation operatives who were incognito in the same way JJB just happened to come across the two hiding Jedi, a character that everybody thought was a fool but who had the ability to change peoples minds by wiring them differently using the power of his mind...

Binks is The Mule..., the fool who helps dismantle the failing Republic in order to begin his galactic Empire. As detailed in the book Foundation And Empire.

Leading up to, during, and for a good time after the Mule's conquest of the Foundation and its trade confederacy, almost no one ever actually sees the Mule or knows what he looks like.

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Before being rewritten as comic relief, Jar Jar was a mercenary who ultimately betrays Qui-Gon Jinn

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