User blog:Brandon Rhea/From Blithering Idiot to Crowned Prince: A Gungan's Big Adventure

Yes, time for more shameless spamming of my blog in order to have a behind the scenes section for one of my articles! Who’s it about this time? I hope that you would get by the title that it’s none other than Jar Binks, the exiled Crowned Prince of the Gungan Empire. Of course, this Binks is based off of the canon, who was a “blithering idiot” as noted in the title. At first, I just planned to make my version of the character in Star Wars: Episode I - The Chosen One a bit more serious, but when I saw a message board post on a website that I can’t remember, I thought of something new. This post said that the Gungans were a missed opportunity because they could’ve been a great race of aquatic warriors. That’s why I came up with the Crowned Prince and monarchial angles, which is the beginning of a more serious version of the Gungan people than what was seen in the canon prequels. Other, smaller things to help this are the fact that my Binks is clearly more respectable and less idiotic, and I also picture him with a soft British accent to help with the formality and professionalism of this poor exiled Gungan.

As many people know, when I first began the re-imagining of the films in the Alternative Star Wars Saga, I planned to leave the prequels intact and start writing at a new Episode IV. That necessitated keeping Jar Jar Binks as a character, although he didn’t appear in my synopsis for Episode IV. Instead, he first showed up in Episode V, and had a very minor role as written. Nevertheless, I wanted to try to redeem him by giving him a much better storyline before killing him off, which I would have done when exploded. Let it be known that I am neither confirming nor denying that this previous idea has anything to do with my current plans for the character.

So....that’s basically it. I just wanted to get that out there so I could source it!