avoidz wrote:

Now it's done on computers with sycophants who are too afraid to say Jar Jar was a shit idea.

Jar Jar wasn't a shit idea, GL gave up or didn't feel the need to carry through with the character. He took a character which in TPM was a societal outcast, in AotC he uplifted him until he was working in the Senate. If Anakin killed Jar Jar half way through RotS because Jar Jar while working in the Senate figured out that Palps=Sidy, there's the pay off. People get what they thought they wanted the death of Jar Jar but coming at the cost of Anakin turning his back to the Republic and JC, and it would have given more credance to Qui-Gon for picking him up. GL gave up on the character. The potential was there. but then you loose a popular kids toy.