Lit Meesa Jar Jar Binks (New Chuck Wendig novel)

Today, Del Rey announced a new Star Wars novel written by Chuck Wendig, author of the Aftermath Trilogy.

https://jedi-bibliothek.de/2017/04/del-rey-chuck-wendig-meesa-jar-jar-binks/

Meesa Jar Jar Binks is written from the Gungan's point of view and will bridge the gap between the Prequel Trilogy and the interlude chapter from Aftermath: Empire's End. In the book, Jar Jar will tell the child Mapo, which he encountered in Aftermath: Empire's End, the story of his life.

The novel will be entirely written in the unique speech of Jar Jar Binks. There's already a preview:

A 12-hour long audio book, read by Ahmed Best in Jar Jars voice, will also be released on the same day as the novel, probably in March 2018.

 

Well, that smells stinkerwhiff.

 

OMG, too funny.

 

What's sad about Gungans is that they wouldn't be half-bad as a species if it weren't for Jar-Jar.

 

Well and their leader is kind of an idiot as well.

 

That's true, but it would have been better.

 

Holy crap that is too hilarious.

 

Apart from Jar Jar, I actually like the Gungans, though. The TPM-era Expanded Universe did a very good job of expanding their culture.

 

Taking Jar Jar from only the movies then he is a terrible character. However adding in things he did in TCW he is somewhat redeemed.

 

I didn't know Jar-Jar was in Pocahontas and Brave.

 

I would probably read it. Not sure about the audio book though, 12 hours of listing to Jar Jar?

 

I still like the Gungans a lot. Boss Nass too. I want to know what happened to him after RotS.

 

He teamed up with Gurgi and together they solve wacky mysteries.

 

How so? What forms of media/book titles focused on them?

 

If you combine Ryder Windham's Ep I Adventures, the video game the Gungan Frontier, the lore from Galactic Battlegrounds, and that from the Wizards of the Coast RPG, you have a pretty detailed image of what their society and culture is like. (Also add the lore from Complete Locations, of course.)

 

None of which I've read or played. Thank you! I will keep those in mind.

 

Captain Tarpals wasn't too bad. He seemed somewhat competent at least. Too bad TCW killed him off (but at least his death was impressive).

 

Boss Nass made freaking Jar Jar a "combat general." That alone makes him an idiot.

 

Implying he isn't a Sith who hides in plain sight by playing the clown.

 

Thankfully this was a joke, JJ was horrible in TPM, pretty funny in TCW, but definitely not worth reading.

 

Doesn't look like it will be as good as Bib Fortuna and the Rise of the Dark Falls. But might be worth checking out anyways.

 

Well, I think that was more of an honorary position. I don't think Boss Nass actually meant Jar Jar to lead the troops.

 

I actually just watched TPM again yesterday morning. It continues to rise in my ranking of how much I enjoy and appreciate the SW films. I completely unironically consider it to actually be one of the most complex, well crafted, logically consistent, and polished of the films. Yeah, there's some clunky moments with the kid. Yeah, Jar Jar understandably grates on many as much as he annoys the characters in the film (my kids are still really entertained by him as they also realize how awkward he is). But all the time and prep that went into the film really reflects in the amount of careful parallelism and meta-commentary George worked into the script (First the Neimoidians tell Amidala, 'You Assume Too Much', and then Amidala finds herself frustrated and repeating the same to Qui-Gon on Tatooine. And of course Qui-Gon's prescient observation that "There's always a bigger fish," and more). It's not the movie most expected or wanted when they heard, "New Star Wars", but I think it stands the test of time MUCH better, structurally and in its writing, than AOTC or even ROTS.

Sadly, most had the bad experience of E1 messing with their expectations, and, not having revisited it since it disappointed them, their memories have often taken its recollections of things it didn't like to an extreme, and carrying with them the bad experience understandably don't even wish to revisit it, where many, I think, might find it to be better than they remembered (even though they will likely still find the kid awkward, and Jar Jar annoying).

 

A lot of people these days are saying that TPM isn't as bad as it seemed over 15 years ago. Now a days if someone is to say "Episode I-III don't exist" are generally a minority. I for one am glad for the PT hate to finally be dying down.

TFA, meanwhile seems over the past couple of years be doing the opposite. When it came out it was being lauded as the best star wars film ever while today the general consensus ranges from "Complete garbage re-hash" to "It was ok for a first try.

Personally, I think Finn can just be as bad as Jar Jar sometimes. When I first saw the film I found him funny now I find his jokes a little to "marvel" for my star wars.