hey brother Jar Jar Binks might be the most hated character in the entire Star Wars universe he's
just so annoying I mean why do they even include him well what if originally all of his bumbling
clumsiness was just a massive facade for his true identity of ultimate Sith Lord you guys
have been asking me about this one for a while and since it is Star Wars week and I love this
theory we are going to cover it I'm gonna mention up front that I did not come up with this theory
the original article was created by reddit user lump owaru I will leave a link to his/her article
down in the description box below and I highly recommend you go check it out but after you watch
this video o Jar Jar you stupid cartoon rabbit why does everybody hate you well it's simple if
you remember back to my Pixar formula video I go over the 22 rules of good storytelling and one of
my favorites is coincidences that get characters into a bad situation are good coincidences that
get them out is cheating Jar Jar is the physical embodiment of breaking this rule he's clumsy and
clueless and often just dumb luck his way out of like every situation and if this was just
funny background comic relief it might have been acceptable but it's not his blunders often advance
major plot points or turn the tides of battle I mean what is the point of putting the characters
in a tricky situation if they don't actually have to overcome it they just lock their way out it's
just bad and sloppy storytelling unless those blunders aren't blunders at all but instead the
careful work of a master Sith Lord the Jar Jar actually be pulling the strings for the entire
galaxy and working alongside Palpatine let's look at the evidence first just help me meet
Jar Jar Binks he just happens to be standing right where the Trade Federation lands their
ships on Naboo which doesn't seem so suspicious until a little bit later when we learned that the
Trade Federation has landed on the exact opposite side of the planet from the city they are planning
to attack we know this because the Jedi have to travel through the core of the planet in order
to beat them to the city why land so far away why not just land right outside the city or just land
in the city unless you already have a contact on the planet who's waiting to intercept the Jedi who
you already know are on board and that's exactly what happens Jar Jar just inserts himself into
the plot everything else around him is fleeing the droid army but he's not he just stands there and
lets himself get tackled by qui-gon from there he brings the Jedi to his home city under water but
watch how he enters the water by doing a 15 to 20 foot jump in the air from a standing position and
you know frozen some acrobatics for good measure chromatics like this are only seen in the Star
Wars universe when performed by a Jedi or a sip with assistance from the force we assume
this is just something his species is capable of and yet when they're fighting the battle droids
later in the movie we don't see any other Gungans perform such acrobatic feats when you'd think it'd
be really helpful to like you know win a battle but they don't so it's possible that this initial
jump we see from Jar Jar is a forced jump but it's that initial assumption on us that is jar
jar's true power to deceive people by playing up their assumptions and expectations of him we're
accustomed to seeing force users well use the Force and somewhat openly and often accompanied by
some sort of flashy combat skills like lightsabers or shooting lightning out of your hand and this
seems to be where Jar Jar excels specializing in other parts of the force like persuasion and mind
tricks not that he doesn't have some combat prowess but we'll get to that the thing about
force persuasion is it seems to involve waving your hand in some way while you do it these
aren't the droids you're looking for follow me on Twitter but Jar Jar is far less obvious and yet
watch his hands here as he convinces boss nass to promote him to general or Padme to promote
him in the Senate or and this one's kind of small but asking the entire Galactic Senate to forfeit
their powers to who Palpatine seriously who in their right mind would make Jar Jar in general oh
whatever right Jar Jar just an animated guy lots of people talk with their hands waving about right
it gets much worse watch here as he literally mouths a log with Padme feeding her words via the
force Queen wishes it Queen wishes it wishes and not just once but twice well I don't well I don't
and speaking of jar jar's mouth how about here when he smiles at qui-gon funeral you kidding
me remember Jar Jar is an animated character so this isn't a nervous twitch or involuntary
action by the actor every single move he makes is carefully animated into the film which brings us
now to battle droids and jar jar's combat skills now much like Jar Jar all of the battle droids are
animated so you have to assume that every movement they make is very intentional so with that in
mind let's watch one in particular during this scene watch first as Jar Jar apparently bumbles
his fault here on klog ons left then they cut and Jar Jar drops to the ground on quaggans right now
maybe that's just the continuity error but maybe Jar Jar is using four speed to jump from one side
of the balcony to the other and split the battle droids attention watch this battle droids head it
initially fires a shot of jar jar's original position then tracks his movement across the
balcony the drawer behind him even does the same thing tracking his movement and then redirecting
a shot at him and then there's the scene on the battlefield where you can pretty much watch him
using the force joggers leg is tied up on another droid and it looks like he accidentally shoots
other droids trying to shake it off but watch his arm here as he basically does the exact motion
the droid then performs seriously he doesn't even go to Dodge even though he's looking right after
Droid he takes a step towards it he knows this attack is going to work this is very intentional
then he does the same thing with the enemy behind him again watch his arm heck even the title of the
movie The Phantom Menace would make more sense what does the Phantom Menace mean basically an
unknown enemy based on all the marketing before the movie we all assume this is going to be Darth
Maul because of his striking appearance and evil look and indeed he is evil but it's not unknown
if it's in all of your marketing we already know who that's going to be it's not a surprise after
you see the movie you assume the Phantom Menace is Palpatine because he appears to be this good
senator but you know he's bad but again this doesn't really work because everybody already
knew that going into the movie Palpatine is not an unknown enemy in the same way Anakin is not an
unknown enemy we already know they are going to be the bad guys that's why we're seeing the prequels
to watch that exact transformation so it's not surprised and that's important because this is a
franchise known for possibly the greatest reveal in cinematic history do you think they're going
to put a mystery in their title with the reveal already being known No now to be fair maybe that
wouldn't be true if this was the first movie you saw and you can argue all day about which order to
watch the Star Wars movies in but the fact is they did come out in a particular order and to that end
George Lucas wanted the prequel trilogy to rhyme with the original trilogy for them to almost be a
reverse reflection of each other Anakin and Luke having very similar stories except Anakin goes
dark while Luke goes light and in many ways they do rhyme with each other for example in Episode
one obi-wan is a Padawan who sees his master get killed by a Sith then in Episode four obi-wan is
now the master and is killed by a Sith in front of his Padawan there are kind of other examples
but it begs the question who was Jar Jar supposed to rhyme with well if you believe everything I've
said so far that Jar Jar is truly hiding all of his true potential then you basically have to
assume he's up to no good simply because of the fact that he is hiding them so if the original
plan was have Jar Jar be revealed as a terrible villain in Episode two which would have been
a great rhyme with the great reveal in Episode five then we just like to look for a character
in the original trilogy that was introduced as bumbling comic relief only to be revealed to be
a great force user so think about it who does that fit wait for it got it all together Yoda
yes my belief is that Sorey they didn't tell was that jar jar binks was originally Yoda's
evil counterpart how great wouldn't have been to see Yoda face off and defeat Jar Jar in Episode
two instead of fighting Count Dooku it would have any crazy reveal and shown us why Yoda
was so respected because really in lightsabers duels the two big ones Yoda has and in a draw
and a loss I mean Yoda finishes the series oh one and one so why didn't they do this well my
guess is that in episode one they were trying to create this beloved character that could really
shock the audience in Episode two but instead they created a hated character and not a hated
character by the other characters in the movie but a hated character by the audience because
of the lazy writing and it was so visceral a fan response that they just chickened out and
went with Count Dooku instead and my question for you and everyone else is do you think this
was the original plan and should they have done it let me know down to the towel section below
and I will see you in another life brother these socks are amazing another common trait for the
synth is to have yellow eyes Jar Jar has yellow eyes but so does the rest of his race so nobody
notices also jar jar's from Naboo and Palpatine is from Naboo I mean geez and Star Wars that's
like going to school together being best friends anyway if you want to see more Star Wars videos
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