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What is your favorite inconsequential fan theory? (lemmy.world)

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I'm talking about a fan theory, that if true doesn't drastically upend the fundamentals of the fiction it is set in.

Mine is that in the American Dad episode 'Can I Be Frank With You', that Snot's uncle is actually just another Roger persona. He appears suddenly and conveniently to pitch a bizarre scheme, he loves hanging around with teen boys and doing drugs, and the very instant that the plan has a setback he kills himself out of sight of everyone else. That's just Roger in a suit and glasses.

Edit: Ok, so, people are having trouble with the word "inconsequential".

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[-] YtA4QCam2A9j7EfTgHrH@infosec.pub 67 points 3 weeks ago

Jar Jar the sith lord

[-] Aurenkin@sh.itjust.works 20 points 3 weeks ago

I reckon it's legit but they decided not to reveal it because they sold Jar Jar toys to too many kids.

[-] Varyk@sh.itjust.works 21 points 3 weeks ago

I wrote like a 30,000 word treatise refuting every point of the Darth Jar jar with the help of an advocate.

for fun.

it would be great, but it seems unlikely and extremely lacking in evidence when you look at each point one by one and put everything back together.

[-] Aurenkin@sh.itjust.works 23 points 3 weeks ago

But he can jump really high

[-] Varyk@sh.itjust.works 18 points 3 weeks ago

this shocked a lot of people, but the frog guy jumping didn't convince me he was sith!

[-] Aurenkin@sh.itjust.works 25 points 3 weeks ago

[-] Varyk@sh.itjust.works 7 points 3 weeks ago

meesa?

[-] Postmortal_Pop@lemmy.world 7 points 3 weeks ago

Would your treatise allow this to work if he's not a sith, but instead an incredibly powerful by oblivious force user?

My take is that the gungans aren't well known to the Jedi so they could have missed him, on top of that, palps would have been on naboo when he was born so whatever he's using to hide his presence may have extended to other force sensitives in the area.

Quigon doesn't want to get rid of jar jar, even when he's given the chance to but dies before he has time to really look at jar jar.

Palps is stupidly chummy with jar jar even though everyone hates him. He also trusts the galaxies biggest moron to give the speech his entire plan henges on.

If his ability to accidentally always come up ahead was actually him being too dumb to realize he's passively using the force, and he wholly believes in palps being the emergency hero, he could have accidentally swayed a few votes.

[-] Varyk@sh.itjust.works 4 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

"Would your treatise allow this to work if he's not a sith, but instead an incredibly powerful by oblivious force user?"

yeah, it's as good as any other theory, maybe better than the sith one because there are less obvious things to point out that don't work.

it kind of sounds like a xanth premise, if you ever read those books.

I don't think there are strong enough foundations to hold the assumptions together myself, most binks theories I've read rely on a passive series of events and assumptions occurring in the background.

and I like them all.

i like the Darth Darth Binks theory and other theories, but taken in context with what is depicted on screen, how straightforward Star wars is, and what the actors and production team and scripts say about the character, there's no cohesive or convincing supporting evidence that Jar Jar was anything other than comic relief and then a hastily minimized plot device after audiences rebelled against him.

[-] vinceman@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 points 2 weeks ago

Got a link?

[-] Varyk@sh.itjust.works 3 points 2 weeks ago

i have five!

Part 1: https://sh.itjust.works/post/20963677/12244341

Part 2: https://sh.itjust.works/post/20963677/12244356

Part 3: https://sh.itjust.works/post/20963677/12244394

Part 4: https://sh.itjust.works/post/20963677/12244399

Part 5: https://sh.itjust.works/post/20963677/12244409

bear in mind that this is a second draft direct refutation of a list of Darth Binks evidence provided by another friendly user and we were having fun talking about it, so i was pretty casual speech to texting all of this and there might be typos.

also, if you have any direct questions or evidence of the darth binks theory, I'm ready to talk about it, it's a very fun theory.

have a good one

[-] Feathercrown@lemmy.world 5 points 2 weeks ago

He was the Phantom Menace

[-] Mango@lemmy.world 3 points 2 weeks ago

That's all the way consequential.

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