h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

If you throw up you'll wipe out an entire colony of sentient vegetables, thus commiting genocide! The only remaining sentient vegatable will be Gee Dubya!

Exactly, and you can't leave him as the only living example of his race.

That'd be like leaving Greebo as the only surviving cat and expecting people to get a good impression!

Or leaving Jar-Jar Binks as the only surviving character from Star Wars and expecting people to realise the magnificence of that series.

Who is Charlie the Unicorn?

Why does he have a chamber of specific explosions?

What exactly are specific explosions anyway?

When will I stop babbling?

Where is this taking us?

Jar Jar is actually kind of symbolic of the new trilogy as a whole. He started off annoying, intrusive, and lacking the charm of the Star Wars of old. In the next movie he had fewer lines and coincedentally, single-handedly allowed the bad guy to take over the Republic. In the third movie he just sat there and shut up. Actually, I'm not good with symbolism.

I found this Charlie the Unicorn http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8xV9A4v6G3E&NR

Indeed.
Now see what I did: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yTeOfBn4Txs

Who is more annoying, Jar Jar or that stupid "can you hear me now" guy?

Jar Jar is more annoying because he single-handedly destroyed childhood nostalgia in me. Probably some other people too but I'm self-centered.

Personaly I blame George Lucas. Not only has he stopped producing excelent point & click adventure games, not only did he mess up the star wars universe, like making the mystical Force a scientific phenomena, but he also went and f'ct about with the original trilogy.

There there! *pats TB on the back* Mean ol' Lucas can't hurt you anymore!

... Well, actually he can.

George Lucas? Who's he?

Is Jar Jar Binks any relation to Jar Jar Bush?

You really don't know of the fabled Lucas?

He was once probably the greatest director/producer of action/adventure films ever, rivaling even the great Spielburg. However he has now turned from his greatness, it having burned too brightly and consumed his very soul. Now he's just some schmuck who makes second rate movies to try and milk every last penny he can from those people who once stood in awe of his genious.

Of *course* I know about George Lucas. I thought his first Star Wars trilogy was okay (not great, not terrible, just okay), and the three more recent episodes were incredibly . Now, is fine by me: The plump woman in "Eraserhead" who dances on pollywogs to a theater-organ accompaniment is inspired weirdness. The last scene of "Scanners" is to the tenth power . Basil Fawlty is , too. But Lucas is not weird *enough*.

He has responded to those upset with the recenter star wars movies by saying that (paraphrased so I don't have to look up the quote) "Star wars has always been a kids movie and the people that are upset over stuff like Jar Jar are in denial over this fact"

Actually, the scene where Jar Jar is elected as a Senator, and stupidly sells everybody down the river is a brilliant, inspired bit of social satire. Trouble is, the social satire may be way over the heads of the kids that the movies are aimed at.

You are right, EvilClaw. It is a children's series. I hate rating it, because I was too old for it when it started . I want to leave that to people in the right age group.

wow... you must be..... really old

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But my inner child is still alive and well.

If it's a children's series then explain the scene in the new Episode three where Whinyikin Skywalker gets three of his limbs cut off and then gets set on fire.

It's highly amusing.