[Fundguy1]

Originally Posted by PINeely

I think that those types of characters were Lucas' attempt to sell the new movies to everyone. Whereas the original 3 were produced for and marketed to a core audience, the new ones were like "it's Star Wars, everyone has to see it!" So you have silly Jar Jar and poop humor for the kids, angsty Anakin and half-naked ladies for the teen boys, female characters with extremely elaborate, constantly changing outfits and hairstyles for the girls and then Star Wars stuff too. I can't say that it worked out well though.

Agreed. He was trying to make them kid friendly. They all had that element a bit. First was r2d2 and c3po, then add in yoda, then ewoks. Finally adding jar jar to try to appeal to kids and minorities was too much. That's why he proctically vanished by episode 3. I hope they learn from this. The first movie is actually good if you remove jar jar and anytime anakin whines, which is pretty much constant. What I don't think they understood, or he understood, is you don't need a kid friendly character for kids to like it. My favorite character when I was 10 yrs old when it came out was a toss up between Han and darth. I didn't care about the bots or Luke really at all.