Pops Mgee posted:

Confirmed R2D2 is Snoke. Think about it. Snoke only appears via hologram. Who has the ability to project holograms?


And R2 just so happens to wake up at the end of the movie after we're done seeing Snoke. R2 also just happens to be at the center of every important event throughout the movies history. He's been pulling the strings all along. Makes too much sense.

MonsieurChoc posted:

In Episode VIII Luke will die by turning into a giant cockroach.

Lunchmeat Larry posted:

It’s going to be really funny in a horrible way if they were planning to kill Luke off in this one and make Leia the most important and only remaining old character for IX

The_Doctor posted:

I guess the Machete Order doesn't work with R1?

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Since children started coming in by the shipload as refugees, the Gungan has served them, performing for the kids once or twice a day. He does tricks. He juggles. He falls over and shakes his head as his eyes roll around inside their fleshy stalks. He makes goofy sounds and does strange little dances. Sometimes it’s the same performance, repeated. Sometimes the Gungan does different things, things you’ve never seen, thing’s you’ll never see again. Just a few days ago, he splashed into the fountain’s center, then pretended to have the streams shoot him way up in the air. He leapt straight up, then back down with a splash. And he leapt from compass point to compass point, back and forth, before finally conking his head on the edge and plopping down on his butt. Shaking his head. Tongue wagging. All the kids laughed. Then the Gungan laughed, too.

The clown, they called him “Bring the clown. We want to see the clown. We like it how he juggles glombo shells, or spits fish up in the air and catches them, or how he dances around and falls on his butt.”

The adults, though. They don’t say much about him. Or to him. And no other Gungans come to see him, either. Nobody even says his name.

...

“My no so sure.” The Gungan makes a hmm sound. “Mesa thinks it cause-o Jar Jar makin some uh-oh mistakens. Big mistakens. Der Gunga bosses banished me longo ago. Mesa no been to hom in for-ebbers. And desa hisen Naboo tink I help the uh-oh Empire.”

The MSJ posted:

A new novel reveals the fate of Senator Binks after ROTJ.

SuperMechagodzilla posted:

Neo-EU author, in an attempt to save Star Wars from Jar Jar Binks, unwittingly recreates The Day The Clown Cried.

SuperMechagodzilla posted:

Neo-EU author, in an attempt to save Star Wars from Jar Jar Binks, unwittingly recreates The Day The Clown Cried.

Maxwell Lord posted:

I do kinda like the meta-commentary there. The kids like him but the adults blame him for ruining everything. But all he wants to do is make people laugh...

ungulateman posted:

in other dumb news, browsing star wars memes has led me to a realisation about the change to obi-wan's weird yelling at the tusken raiders in the 2011 release of ANH. It's meant to convey that it's a ~space wizard power~ like palpatine yelling ("autistically screeching") at the jedi council in ROTS, rather than a regular old man figuring out how to mimic a predator call or something.

Maxwell Lord posted:

I do kinda like the meta-commentary there. The kids like him but the adults blame him for ruining everything. But all he wants to do is make people laugh...

turn left hillary!! noo posted:

Peak Jar Jar is in the Clone Wars episode where they crash land and get surrounded by enemy tanks. The clone commander sends him out to negotiate, knowing full well what will happen: utter chaos and the chance to survive.

That was the moment Jar Jar ducked under the shark and became good to me. In the cartoon at least, he just works.

Roth posted:

Roth posted:

This is Peak Jar Jar:

http://i.imgur.com/W4reRIs.jpg

SuperMechagodzilla posted:

It's actually a total misreading of the Jar Jar character. Nobody laughs at Jar Jar in the diegesis - not Anakin, and not anyone else. When he gets in a slapstick fight with a droid, Anakin just explains how to stop the droid.

This is because Jar Jar is ultimately just some dude, suffering misfortunes. He stepped on some poo poo - so what? Nobody cares. Jar Jar stepping in poo poo is a cosmic joke. We in the audience are given that broader perspective.

The Neo-EU is now presenting this desperate claim (a retcon) that Jar Jar was all along nothing but a clown - not the protagonist of his film. The author fantasizes that Jar Jar was being mocked and jeered by those around him - even though no such thing happens in any film.

Halloween Jack posted:

It's like how the EU has to retroactively rewrite Han Solo as always having been a hero who had just become disillusioned, fallen on hard times, and turned to crime some time before ANH. Even the stripe on his loving trousers is explained as a military decoration. A hero turned "scoundrel," as Leia calls, him because scoundrel sounds better than "petty drug-smuggling grifter."

When the truth is that everyone else in the movie treats him like a lowlife because he's a lowlife.

Hodgepodge posted:

"Han shot first" being, of course, catechism that is repeated without any understanding of what that characterization conveys- that he's a low life scumbag that will kill to get out of a debt.

Mr. Funny Pants posted:

Even that was BS. The shooting was 100% self defense, it was both moral and, in the real world, would have been legal. That he was in that scrape in the first place might be an indicator of his scum status, but the shooting itself proved he was a sneaky bad rear end.

General Dog posted:

In the prequels Jar Jar Binks basically had John McCain's career.

General Dog posted:

In the prequels Jar Jar Binks basically had John McCain's career.

Neo Rasa posted:

I always respected that in Force Awakens they were willing to make Han a piece of poo poo person. Rather than a guy who always had a heart of gold but fell on hard times he's scumbag to rises up, falls in love with a princess, becomes a general, a war hero, and then goes back to being a scumbag when things get too real with his kid.

SuperMechagodzilla posted:

It's actually a total misreading of the Jar Jar character. Nobody laughs at Jar Jar in the diegesis - not Anakin, and not anyone else. When he gets in a slapstick fight with a droid, Anakin just explains how to stop the droid.