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As a Star Wars fan who loves the original trilogy and is indifferent to the prequels it should be obvious who my least favorite character in all six movies is... I mean, who is the most hated character among people who hate the prequels?

We all know it is Jar Jar.

But that would be too easy, wouldn't it? I am racking my brain trying to come up with characters from the original trilogy who annoyed me. The closest I could find to characters who annoyed me in the original trilogy would be:

The lead security guard for Lando in Empire Strikes Back. He has these weird earmuff looking things on and in general seems a bit out of place to me. From the same movie the little troll looking creatures who do all the work before Solo gets frozen in carbonite seemed like something out of a Walt Disney nightmare.

But those are nothing at all compared to the characters we would soon encounter.

In the prequels it seems like Lucas wanted to make his aliens somehow human-like. Instead of speaking different languages they spoke English. That is nowhere near the worst part. They spoke them with accents that are strikingly similar to the ones found on this planet.

A galaxy far, far away and yet many of its inhabitants speak with Jamaican and Japanese accents? Listen to the alien creatures at the beginning of The Phantom Menace and tell me they are not speaking in a Japanese accent. Add to that the fact that they are meek and you have what might appear to some to be borderline racism!

Those creatures were beyond annoying.It would have been nice to open the prequels with some foreboding creatures but instead we get tall grey aliens (generic) who speak in Japanese accents (atrocious) and cower in fear left and right. They set a horrible tone and I would give anything to rewatch the movie with them edited out.

I also thought Count Dooku was a very bad villain. It is not the fault of Christopher Lee, who was great in the Lord of the Rings movies. He just had nothing to work with. He was not an imposing villain at all and he had some of the worst lines in the entire saga. This was the man who was to hold our interest, to strike fear in our hearts as we await Vader's transformation? This was the leader of the threat that unified the Empire?

Please.

And one final mention before we get to the King himself. I do not like what they did to Yoda in these new films. I think it is sort of horrible actually. He went from genuinely wise to sounding like a dyslexic fortune cookie every time he spoke. The dialogue

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