its like the writers thought "hmmm Padme is supposed to be the good politician and leader in Star wars and what do good politicians and leaders do? oh i know all good politicians and good leaders love refugees right? lets make her character support refugees" and couldn't think of any other example of "good leadership" except that
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Ol George was on more than his share of Ritalin at the time, I've heard. Why else would he have named a character "Dooku" for crying out loud? He had to have been high off his ass.
He literally created a giant nosed flying goblin merchant that sold slaves and whined constantly about money while trying to rip people off.
Dooku is like 6th place on the wild ass character decisions he made.
And yet he wasn't high enough to go through with the Darth Jar-Jar idea. Shame, bizarro evil Yoda would have made the prequels so much better than yet another asthmatic cyborg.
I don’t think that was ever a real idea that he could have “gone through” with.
No it was. The actor who did the mo-cap for Jarjar all but confirmed it directly years later. Jarjar was supposed to be like Tobi from Naruto, or the Blind Masseuse. Someone who acts completely goofy and ridiculous, but their antics are all "part of the plan" and they just act like a fag as a cover. The problem was that Lucas overtuned his goofiness to the point that everyone hated Jarjar so much after EP1 that Lucas concluded he'd never be able to sell the reveal "Its wassa ME ALL ALONG, Jedi poodoos!" He invented Dooku to fill the role, which is why the latter kinda comes out of nowhere in EP2.
He was once in a storyboarding session where they came up with a new sith character for a game and he suggested to everyone "Let's call him Darth Icky... or Insanius". Everyone chuckled and then noticed he was dead serious. The room fell awkwardly silent and they moved on to another topic.
It sounds like Dookie and also Doodoo. That's impressive in my book.