Originally posted by: generalfrevious
That the star wars trilogy would be the highest-grossing franchise that will be destroyed
Racism would be revived in the form of JarJar Binks
That Clones would seem too much like our present
That Luke was born first

Much as I hate the prequels and love any chance to lay the smack-down, I've always sort of rolled my eyes at the charges of racism in the character of Jar Jar Binks, or any of the PT characters. They're just characters in a SW movie, and those characters, no matter how alien they're supposed to be, are always based on human traits, caricatures, and stereotypes. They have to be. Human reality is the only one we know. You can't create a character without someone drawing a parallel to perceived real world counterparts, no matter how strange you make them. And since its a black guy doing Jar Jar Binks to begin with, I find the accusations of racism even more funny. The character may have been a poor choice in some people's eyes in terms of how he was portrayed, but racist...not really. Annoying as all hell? Yes.

When Clones came out I remember some whack-job college professor on CNN or something talking about the "racism" of Clones. His chief argument, no matter how weak, was that the clones themselves represented hispanic people as slaves to the establishment. He saw dark hair, darker skin and eyes and assumed they were Hispanic. The fact that they were actually Kiwis didn't seem to matter to him. I guess for him all dark skinned and dark haired people look alike.

In this day and age everyone has their hyper-sensitivity meter set to overdrive. I don't know how people get through the day sometimes. Really, I don't. They're Star Wars films, period. And Lucas may be lots of things, but a racist the guy ain't.

I've heard people say that Anakin/ Vader is racist portrayal. Why? Because when Anakin's a good guy, he's a pretty white guy, and when he's bad he's a tough guy in a big balck suit with a deep voice. If this is the kind of stuff people get from watching a Star Wars movie, then they need to just lock themselves in their houses and up their meds because the world is too difficult a place for them to function in.