I used to hate Jar Jar. Then I started to accept him as a fact of life, kinda like how I have to accept that my uncle is part of my family. But then I actually started to like him. Here's how it happened.
I was out in the mountains with my friends and Yoda guiding us on my Garmin. We started talking about what other voices would be good on GPS device like this. Obvious gems would be R2-D2 or Chewbacca (since you can't understand them). Then we realized that characters like Han or Luke would be harder to pull off because they're just normal people. Yoda and Vader work because they have iconic voices and speech patterns. So I started thinking: who else has a unique way of speaking?
Jar Jar Binks!
We laughed at how annoying that would be, but then we started coming up with things he might actually say, and it was hillarious!
"Where are wesa goin'?" [When you start your trip]
"At de next intersection, turn right. No left! Wait! Yah, right! Uh-huh." [giving directions]
"Mesa cause maybe one or two little accidentes." [Randomly says this at different times]
"Wesa gonna die!!!!!" [When you take a wrong turn or miss an exit]
We came up with others, but I can't remember them. Suffice it to say that after that experience, I actually grew to like Jar Jar's idiosyncratic speech patterns.
And that is how Jar Jar became not-hated by me.
Now the fun part, if you had Jar Jar on your GPS device, what do you think he might say?
Edited by Budgernaut