Ayatollah Krispies wrote:
Sorry, but Jar Jar's name and behavior suit the character. Giving the leader of the droid armies and a killer of Jedi a hopping, bird-like walk, a comic opera Dracula voice and the cutesy name "General Grievous" is something completely different.
It seemed to me that it was the initial design and the EU stuff that didn't fit in the style and story of Star Wars. A leader of the droid armies (look at them, how much more weak and silly they could get), that is mostly a droid himself, doesn't have any clue what the war is really about, allows Sidious to use him as a tool without even knowing his identity and he is supossed to show cunningness of a master strategist outsmarting all the Jedi generals, stand up to the Force-enpowered skills of the Jedi and kill them in single combat (even without using his additional arms), sporting an appearance of a white-painted terminator (even acting as one, most of the time).
I thought he was bad concept then, but I like him now, when he is full of weaknesses, individual traits, Dracula characteristics, is cowordly, constantly hunches and coughs, doesn't kill ten Jedi a day in duels, in fact we only know that he collects lightsabers from their bodies and that he fought Kenobi once. I still prefer for example Cushing's Tarkin as a villian, who manages to be interesting to watch without doing any weird stuff (apart from taking his shoes off every time when noone is watching), but to me Grievous is a 100% Star Wars character as well.
