Years ago on an old message board, I knew a poster (not really knew, but knew as far as you can know somone on a message board I guess.) who LOVED jar jar binks. LOVED LOVED LOVED All the stupidness of that character and I couldn't believe it. I'd be awake at night trying to understand why someone who loves star wars can possibly love him, MAYBE someone with a gun to their head could say they LIKE him, but LOVE? That scene-destroying waste of cgi? It burns, rapes, destroys, craps on, and shreds my mind.
His nearly complete absence from Revenge of the Sith gave many the the impression that that was a better film than 1 and 2, i think, and is why many view tpm as the worst, aotc as better, and revenge as the best of the lot. And I think it's simply because Lucas finally wised up and dropped the silly thing out of these movies. I must say that as someone who hates (on a ridiculous level I admit) that thing, I actually really enjoyed RotS even with all its PT-ness still clearly there, what mattered to me was that I finally had a new star wars movie without some stupid cgi jamaican-thing flapping himself all over the place and I guess that's why a lot of other people like it too. Maybe we were so completely repulsed by that thing's pressence that we found a lot of relief in a practically jar jar-less film, even with all the garbage it still had (ie: NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO). jar jar was gone. halellujah...To me that made rots a masterpiece compared to the other two. I know it's really simplistic but please understand that I really hate him, so much so, that the rest of the pt's faults are nothing by comparison... Maybe this was gL's plan, maybe not, but the night I learned jar jar would be nothing more than an extra in episode 3, all was forgiven.
that's my story.