Originally posted by: Adamwankenobi

The second type of fans are those who first experienced the saga after 1997. They either aren't familar with or do not cherish the originals the way the others do. These are the fans who say things like "Jar-Jar should be in A New Hope," or "Han Solo looks cooler dodging Greedo's shot!"

I fall into this category, but I certainly don't like the fact that Greedo shot first. It completely messed up Han's character and the purpose of character development on him. I am glad that at least Lucas met us halfway on that and made them shoot at about the same time. As for Jar Jar, I think that anyone over the age of 5 is embarrassed by him. To me, he's there for comic relief in the beginning, so that the series doesn't start out too serious, and be boring. Him being there basically eases you into the serious situation the galaxy is in. It was smart of Lucas to gradually reduce Jar Jar"s part to nothing, as things got more serious. He also did the fans a favor in having Jar Jar the one who let the clones be made, and allow all the problems.

The thing with the Jar-Jar role reduction is that it was obviously done to pander to everyone's hate of the character in TPM. It also goes to show how extraneous Jar-Jar was in the first place. If he was crucial to the plot of either movie (TPM & AOTC), then he probably wouldn't have needed to use fart jokes and other slapstick nonsense to be funny, we probably wouldn't have hated him, and GL would not have been able to reduce the role of Jar-Jar on the fly like that. I suppose it also goes to show how liquid the storylines of the PT were, even during filming.

Just think, if he had planned it all out as ONE concrete story, and divided it into three parts...