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Harry Potter fans force relocation of £430m undersea cable to avoid Dobby’s ‘grave’ (www.theguardian.com)

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Power cable linking UK and Ireland now passes near Bronze Age human burial remains instead of fictional grave on Welsh beach

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[–] remon@ani.social 21 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (2 children)

I think one major difference is that Dobby is a character that was introduced quite early in the main run of the books/movies, where as Jar Jar was kind of just shoe-horned into an already bad prequel.

But I don't want to imagine a world were Jar Jar was part of the OT.

[–] bufalo1973@piefed.social 4 points 3 days ago

Had Lucas not chickened out and go with the "Darth Jar-Jar" storyline maybe now Jar-Jar would be a good character for everyone.

[–] massive_bereavement@fedia.io 2 points 3 days ago

Meesa sad now.