[kupoartist]

Originally Posted by Faile

People should stop being hung up on Jar Jar Binks. I mean, he's a side plot in Episode one and has lacked a role since.

I think he really stretched the boundaries of "side plot". That guy was there for 75% of the movie - that probably makes him the most obtrusive "side plot" ever made. Not one event was left unpunctuated by the pungent stench of his presence, nor the nails-on-chalkboard sound of his dialogue.

I don't give a crap about Lucas' achievements then or now. Jar Jar Binks stole my sanity. Episode 1 is simply a bad film made insanely unwatchable by a dire character. Episode 2 is an ok film made mediocre by a lengthy, uninteresting and amateurish love story. At least it didn't have Jar Jar ^^

As for your evaluation of colour schemes in the new trilogy, you're probably right. You wouldn't find me being quite so romantic over two films that I hold to have no artistic merit whatsoever. Overblown Sci-Fi extravaganzas. CGI is the devil. ^^