Yoda does NOT rock, Jar Jar was not the problem with TPM

Rating: 1/10 (27 May 2002)

If you took Jar Jar completely out of Phantom Menace it would not save the movie, this was tried in the infamous "Phantom Edit" and what that proved is that even without Jar Jar it was still a deeply flawed movie. Furthermore, if Phantom had been a great movie, I doubt Jar Jar could have ruined it.
Sadly Clones is simply Phantom with no Jar Jar, Lucas thought the work he did in Phantom was basically good, so he took out what he thought was the only bad element, Jar Jar, and proceeded to make Clones. Well surprise surprise, taking out Jar Jar did not make up for bad writing, terrible CGI and marginal directing, but I'm sure George still thinks that Jar Jar was his only bad idea in the last 25 years.
I'm also completely mystified by the fan reaction to Yoda, they all say it like a mantra, "Yoda Rocks". Its like they handed out a pamphlet to the geeks in line telling them what they were supposed to think and say after seeing the movie. Don't these 'Jedi' have any opinions of their own?
I think Star Wars fans have now far surpassed "Trekkies" in terms of being blind to the obvious flaws in their franchise of choice, and I am sure the term "Jedi" will now go down in history not as a respected religious concept in a great movie trilogy, but rather as a term to describe the geekiest nerds in our culture, a term that is far more derogatory than "Trekkie" ever was...