infinite improbability

One more thing about George Lucas

Every time I watch Episodes One and Two, I realize even more just how racially stereotyped the characters are. The trade federation guys are some of the worst stereotypes of Asians since the early days of cinema (and how did he come up with such racist stereotypes when Akira Kurosawa is practically his idol?), and Jar Jar, well he seems to have been taken right out of a minstrel show. He's the stereotypical minstrel show character of the "good negro" who has the IQ of a brick and is slavishly subservient to his "massah." How in the heck Lucas got away with such blatantly racist characters is beyond me. Where's the outrage? If I wanted to see such racist portrayals of minorities, I'd go rent Disney's Song of the South or find a copy of Birth of a Nation.

Yet another example of Lucas ruining my childhood memories. Do I sound angry? I am. Return of the Jedi was the first movie I ever saw in a movie theater, at the ripe old age of three, and I can still remember how excited I was on the way to see it, and collectively, the Star Wars trilogy were the defining films of my childhood, but now all those memories have been polluted by the trash that is the prequels. A pox on all your houses, George Lucas.