• givesomefucks@lemmy.world
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      8 minutes ago

      To be honest, waving a hand is a pretty natural thing to do while talking…

      Like, I’m all about Jar Jar as a powerful force user, I just think like Anakin, he had comparatively little training, if any. And likely didn’t know he was using the force, just lucky.

      That also explains how he grew up and lived on a single planet with just his own people. If he was an actual Sith, how did he get trained? Also, it can explain how his people eventually figured it out.

      When Jar Jar was around he always came out on top, and even tho he didn’t make any sense, if you talked to him you ended up agreeing with him, then after he left it’d wear off and they’d realize it was a stupid sounding idea, but the stupid idea always seemed to work out.

      If they were afraid of him, they’d have treated him better, instead he was treated as a freak that above all else, his own people that knew him best just wanted to avoid him, even if he was incredibly useful.

      Like an old timey witch. They didn’t like him because he was so strange, but they still saw his value and understood they may need him. When all else failed, they could always fall back on a Jar Jar plan, so stupid that it just worked.

      I feel like that type of begrudginged acceptance explains the interactions more than everyone being scared of him.

      But it’s been a long time since I watched the prequels.