10 Most Frustratingly Obvious Star Wars Missed Opportunities
9. Allowing Jar Jar Binks To Be A Three-Dimensional Ground-Breaker
With hindsight, it's easy to look back on George Lucas' creation of a certain bumbling Gungan as one of the most ill-advised projects ever to be committed to by the visionary filmmaker. After all, few characters - be they animated or live action - have ever experienced the sort of wholesale backlash, outside of the younger demographic who understandably lapped up his unashamed goofiness, Jar Jar Binks was on the receiving end of upon his The Phantom Menace debut.
However, it's easy to overlook just how ground-breaking Ahmed Best's work as the towering, elastic tongued being actually was coming into the new millennium.
Sitting as the first-ever fully CGI supporting character audiences had ever witnessed, the opportunity was undoubtedly there for Lucas to craft an entity with the same level of care and detail that he had with the likes of Binks' live action counterparts.
Of course, he instead skipped on down the Goofy-inspired route and the rest was painful history, for the most part. But there was definitely a moment there when this earliest version of motion capture could've found itself at the centre of a well-rounded and fleshed out alien feature player.