AHC: Make Jar Jar more Awesome

How about modelling him on Rom from DS9? Supeficially a clown but practically a idiot savant when it comes to engineering. Say one of the Jedi damages their lightsaber during the inital escape. To their horror Jar-Jar gets his hands on it, only to promptly fix it. This would help with the pod racing, instad of having some 8 year old building the equivalent of a Formula 1 car, have Jar-Jar take some old clunker the Jed get their hands on and turn it into a world beater. Oh and of course get rid of that damned accent.
 

jahenders

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I think they simply could have played him less for laughs (less stupid voice, less clumsy, etc) and then had him be a great warrior in battle. So, he could be a likeable (semi) idiot who only comes into his own in battle, where he becomes a ninja ...

off the top of my head, lose the stupid voice, lose the idiocy, lose the clumsiness, lose the crap CGI.

that said, was his purpose to be a lovable idiot? (like Homer Simpson) if so you can keep the idiocy and perhaps the clumsiness (only so much though)
 
But thats fan theory, or not`? George Lucas didnt plan that for real?
It's incredibly dumb. But I think it does address the fact that one of the (many) problems with the prequel was a lack of any established villain in between each movie.

So dumb, yet might even be a net improvement.
 
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