True. But myself, I think Jar Jar and threeepio are needed for fun comic relief. since the story gets much more serious and depressing later on, I think it's best to have some fun wqtih these characters. I think that's what Lucas had in mind as well. I highly doubt that the's the money hungry guy somw paint him as. He's just out to tell his story thre way he wants it told. Jar Jar just sounds like something he thought was a cool idea for comic relief and he went with it. I don't see why he gets so much hatred just for that. And I mean, come on, didn't Lucas meet you half way when he reduced Jar Jar's role significantly, and made Jar Jar the idiot to help Palpatine be Chancellor?

It's the same thing with the Ewoks in ROTJ. Lucas used ewoks because he thought it would be good for the story. He needed a primitive race. He knew he couldn't use wookiees, so what was he to do? If he made a species similar to wookiees, everyone would say it was a copy of his idea of wookiees. So... to paraphrase Lucas "he chopped the wookiees in half, and they became ewoks." I don't think it was for marketing purposes. Yeah, I know kids loved them, but I just can't see Lucas sacrificing his "vision" for cash.