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‘The Phantom Menace’ at 25: A Lover, Hater and Newcomer Debate Jar Jar Binks, Podraces, Droids and Darth Maul
For the 25th anniversary of "Star Wars: The Phantom Menace," three Variety staffers discuss Anakin, Darth Maul, Jar Jar Binks and lightsaber battles.
My dad introduced me to the original trilogy before I went to kindergarten to ensure I’d be properly socialized, so I grew up idolizing Princess Leia, totally in love with Han Solo and a star student of Yoda’s teachings. I know the broad strokes (Anakin is Darth Vader, Han and Leia are the it couple, Kylo Ren is Ben Solo), some random trivia (the music the cantina band plays is, for some reason, called “jizz”) and that people generally aren’t too fond of the prequels, to put it mildly. Think house elves, but robots, and you’re pretty close to how droids work within the “Star Wars” cosmology: a race of artificial lifeforms of varying levels of intelligence and sentience who are (almost) uniformly fine with being a perpetual servant class.
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