Varför är Jar Jar Binks i Star Wars: Clone Wars?

Showrunner Dave Filoni diskuterade detta i en intervju med IGN . Det mycket korta svaret är att showen var avsedd att vara kul och tillgänglig för alla Star Wars fans, inklusive de små antalet fans (nej, allvarligt. De existerar ) som egentligen gillar Jar Jar.

But I think in the end, with 100 episodes of Clone Wars, no matter what type of Star Wars fan you are -- and I think that’s something a lot of people miss; there are a lot of types of Star Wars fans, and by now they want different things out of the saga. Some people want it to be like A New Hope, some people want it to be very dark. Some people want it to not be about main characters and about side characters. You know, everybody has a different need. Clone Wars, by the nature of the way George had to tell the stories, covers a lot of that. So if you just like bounty hunters, we’ve got that. If you just like Sith Lords fighting Sith Lords, we’ve got that. Sith Lords fighting Jedi, we’ve got that. Force gods that you never thought of, we’ve got that. Just about R2-D2 and C-3PO, got that. If you are a holdout Jar Jar Binks lover, we’ve got that. A whole range of clone people, we’ve got that. There was something to satisfy everybody in the end.

Dessutom, i Bombad Jedi-featurette på Starwars.com, säger Filoni uttryckligen att George Lucas insisterade personligen på Jar Jar's inkludering.

Filoni: Early on, George expressed an interest that because we're in this time period, the Clone Wars, that he wanted to see Jar Jar again and Henry Gilroy and I felt that perhaps an animated venue, like The Clone Wars is gonna fit really well for our friend, Jar Jar.