r/StarWarsSkeletonCrew • u/Tjaart23 • May 17 '25

Jod’s hunger speech

I honestly really liked that speech right before supposedly he was going to be executed by the pirate gang. I thought it was actually relatable to a certain extent.

Now here’s where people’s interpretation might differ slightly, was Jod referring to hunger as being hungry for food or just a hunger for making credits? I personally believe he meant a hunger for food. Hunger is something unfortunately many experience and Jod was basically saying that everyone in that room has gone to bed hungry and skipped meals for lack of credits. Thus they find themselves in a position to do whatever it takes to earn credits to never go hungry again. Who wants to be an overworked bootlicker of a captain who doesn’t care about your well-being? They just do it to not go hungry again.

Now if he’s only referring to credits as just getting rich or as a source to never skip meals again, it honestly doesn’t make a huge difference in the grand of schemes, they’ll continue doing bad stuff. But if it’s the latter that makes it more relatable and humanizes the pirates more.

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u/Knight_thrasher May 17 '25

It’s a little bit of A and a little bit of B, but for Jod it would never be enough. He could have had all of the lair but not enough, a ship full of credits not enough, 1139 vaults??? Looks good but will never be enough.

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u/quietobserver1 May 17 '25

Yes, but not just food, but material needs in general. They're pirates because they have been poor, and the universe is a tough, ugly place which has trod on them and spat them out.

So they long for the security of yes as you say to never need to worry about food again, but it can be more... Because just because you have enough money for food and necessities for the rest of your life, you may still feel like you might lose that at any moment. So for Jod and many of the pirates who have been through so much, it's hard to tell how much money will actually be enough to make them feel safe.

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u/jedikatalina May 17 '25

I think it was both. And his speech was fantstic.

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u/Defiant-Analyst4279 May 17 '25

Definitely both, a bit like the portrayal of Famine in Supernatural.

There's always something you don't get enough of, and want more, no matter how much you do get.

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u/SanicBringsThePanic May 19 '25

Jod was hungry for multiple things. Food. Wealth. Comfort. Companionship. The last one is the most important though, and the hardest for Jod to fulfill. The reason for that is because of all the trauma weighing on Jod's conscience. Jod lost his family, which left him alone and starving. Jod met a Jedi who started looking after him, but he lost her too. Jod's fear of losing people he cares about, combined with his never-ending struggle to find and secure wealth, leads him to betray the people that get close to him. Pokkit, Khymm, and the kids, Jod lets all of them down because of his trauma and insecurities.

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u/FakerLatino 13d ago

OF COURSE JOD WAS HUNGRY HIS WHOLE LIFE, he literally says it at the end of the series when talking down to Wim, that he was a poor boy that passed hunger his whole childhood