So, which of the following is the greatest embarrassment to the Star Wars franchise?

[Danger Mouse]

Poll question: So, which of the following is the greatest embarrassment to the Star Wars franchise?

George Lucas could never resist the lure of dollar signs, and in the pursuit of more and more of that sweet, sweet money, he's done some things that some fans would call stupid, others would call fucking terrible.
Which of these, dear fellow Star Wars nerds, do you find to be the worst?

[RevolutionaryActs]

1. Don't be hatin' on the Ewoks mo'fo!

Wicket be the shit, yo!

[Danger Mouse]

2. This post makes me want to weep.

:puke:

[RevolutionaryActs]

5. And Jar Jar is super dreamy!

Like, omg! :loveya:

[Danger Mouse]

9. You're not my friend anymore.

:cry:

[RevolutionaryActs]

13. Let's have a lesson shall we?

Ok kids, and Elrond :eyes:, todays lesson is sarcasm. Can you say that with me? Sar-ka-zem. Oooh, very good! *claps*
Even Elrond, you get a gold star!

[CreekDog]

12. Yeah, Jar Jar makes the Ewoks look like Sir Lawrence Olivier

[Fire Walk With Me]

16. I shall no longer fantasize about sucking your toes.

:cry:

[Danger Mouse]

19. TMI!

:P

[Danger Mouse]

3. WTF? I can't get a thread to stick today.

God I'm such a fucking loser.

[CreekDog]

4. I think had Jar Jar written and directed 1-3, they would have turned out much better

:shrug:

[Danger Mouse]

6. I agree. It might've kept him away from the actual movies themselves...

and I'm sure he could write better dialogue than George Lucas.
I swear, there were parts of Episode 2 that made me cringe.
Episode 1 made no sense. I had no fucking clue what was going on the entire movie.
Episode 3...wasn't bad. The dialogue still sucked though.

[CreekDog]

8. Just watched it last night with MST3K going

that helped a lot

[laconicsax]

31. Here's some unsolicited help with Episode 1

-First some stuff happens with Oskar Schindler, that guy from Moulin Rouge, and some robots and 1940s-style Japanese alien.
-Then some stuff happens with the same people and a Jamaican alien.
-Shortly after that, Oskar Schindler and Moulin Rouge guy take the girl from The Professional to Tatooine just cuz. There, they meet Darth Vader, but he's a little kid who built C-3P0 and works for some Jewish alien.
-There's some big race that Vader wins, but it's not really important at all.
-Schindler, Moulin Rouge guy, and the girl from The Professional take Darth Vader back to where they started for some reason, and there's a big space battle and lightsaber fight between Oskar Schindler, Moulin Rouge guy, and Toad from X-Men.
-Somewhere in here, the emperor, only he's not the emperor, or all weird looking, does some stuff.
-Also Yoda and Samuel Jackson talk to Darth Vader at some point and don't want him to become a Jedi, but Oskar Schindler wants him to, so he gets his way for some reason.

I don't think I left anything out...oh wait, I did. There was also some big battle between the Jamaican aliens and some robots. I think the Jamaicans were technologically advanced, but they rode these big hippo things and threw blue balls at the robots (which sounds dirtier than I remember).

[Danger Mouse]

34. I got all that...what I missed was...

the point.
Was there even a point?
Something about a trade federation, and some evil aliens who were obviously bad asian stereotypes...
something about gungans, who were bad minstrel stereotypes.
something about watto, who was a bad jewish stereotype (he might as well have been called Shylock Moneygrabber)


Oh, and what really upset me was the fact that Brian Blessed, one of my favorite actors, who is so good at going comically over the top (LOVE HIM in Blackadder and I, Claudius), degraded himself to play Boss Nass. 'Yousa in deep doodoo JarJar Binks.'
Just for that, I can never forgive George Lucas, or his family, for seven generations.

[laconicsax]

35. I think the point was for Lucas to see

how far he could go before people got really pissed off.

[Danger Mouse]

36. That's giving Lucas far too much credit.

He thinks he's a genius.

[WildEyedLiberal]

7. I didn't vote in your poll

I wanted to pick almost all of the options - Jar Jar, Hayden Christensen, the entire prequel trilogy, Ep I - all sucked giant donkey dong. Fortunately I am too young to remember the Christmas or TV specials, although I'd like to see them just for the sheer camp value.

[Danger Mouse]

10. You can hear clips of the holiday album on I-Mockery...

i'll try and dig up a link.
It is truly awful.

[DarkTirade]

38. I managed to miss the holiday special

and one of the two ewok movies...

then a friend of mine downloaded the holiday special and showed it to me.

I honestly think I lost brain cells watching it.

[DarkTirade]

11. We're s'posed to choose just one?

[Lethe]

14. we need an "all of the above" option

sheesh

[Danger Mouse]

20. i ran out of room.

=P

[Fox Mulder]

15. All of the above...well...

except for the Ewoks. I loved them. :)

[Mythsaje]

17. So many great authors have invested their imaginations into the series

after the original movies that what Lucas did going back in time was like a huge smelly moldy elephant fart in an enclosed room.

'nuff said.

[stuntcat]

18. Hayden Christensen

:puke: :puke: :puke: :puke: :puke: :puke: :puke:
:puke: (heartfelt apologies to fans of Christensen :p) :puke:
:puke: :puke: :puke: :puke: :puke: :puke: :puke:

[Auggie]

26. I'll second that. Worst acting I've ever seen.

[last_texas_dem]

21. I kinda liked Jar Jar

:hide:

And I know that Jefferson Starship did the theme to the "Star Wars Xmas Special" so that automatically makes it cheesy-cool in my view. haha

[Rabrrrrrr]

22. "NOOOOooooooOOooOoOOoooOOO!" followed closely by Jar Jar

Everything else that kinda dumb or ridiculous in the Star Wars cannon runs a far, far, far, distant third place.

[flvegan]

23. Let me consult the Wookieepedia and get back to you.

[DS1]

24. I'm going to have to take this opportunity to bitch about the pod race

First. The sound effects of the ships were ripped directly from Formula 1 races. They didn't even edit them. Lazy bastards.

Second. Annakin's ship is sabotaged. He loses much ground, but restores his ship, which then catches up to the front runners in a manner of seconds. Seconds! Why wouldn't he always go that fast?

Third. If it's legal to fly up above the rocks and fissures, why not fly up there all the time?

[CGowen]

25. McCain and his wife

http://www.pub.umich.edu/daily/2000/feb/02-23-2000/news/01.html

[Chovexani]

27. Episodes 1-3.

I would rather watch a million Ewoks skipping through Candyland than sit through any of those POS movies again.

[Danger Mouse]

28. So far, Jar Jar Binks is the clear winner!

...which isn't shocking at all, really.

[RadiationTherapy]

29. The whole fuckin prequel thing!

I heard about it first time age 4 in 198-goddamned-1 !!

So lame and disappointing; zero redeeming qualities in my eyes.


NOOOOOOOOoooooooOOOOOooOOoOOoOOOOOooOOO!

Do


Not


Want!!!!

[Danger Mouse]

33. Oh come on, that was one of the most hilarious moments in cinema ever.

[Heidi]

30. I _love_ Jar Jar Binks, and y'all Jar Jar haters can just

exercise a little civility. :P

[Danger Mouse]

32. You do?

...
:hide:

[IzaSparrow]

37. all of it