CT Did anybody else think that Jabba wanted to eat Oola when you were younger.

Maybe it was because at a young age you naturally don't think sex as much. Regardless Jabba licking his lips while drawing the protesting Oola close and closer to him always made me suspect that he maybe wanted to eat her.

 

I think the imagery is intentionally conflated. Jabba is a sexual glutton just as much as he is a glutton for food and drink. It's all mixed up together. He degrades Oola sexually, then he feeds her to his hungry rancor, then he himself gobbles up a helpless frog. It's all the same to him. It's the wanton cruelty and the mismatched power dynamics of his gluttony that give him the greatest pleasure.

 

When I was a kid, for some reason, I thought that the Rancor transformed Oola into that frog and then Jabba ate her....

For some reason, the juxtaposition made my kid self think that. Immediately after Oola screamed, we see the frog-like creature appear (at least to me, it seemed like it wasn't there before).

Why? I do not know

 

This appears to be a pretty common "misconception" for kids. But like I said, it actually shows that kids are often even better than adults at understanding the underlying thematic realities of the films. Oola doesn't literally turn into a frog, but you're supposed to associate her being devoured by the rancor with the frog being devoured by Jabba. Kids instinctively understand that kind of thing, in their own way.

 

I used to think that as well as a kid.
That was one of the many parts of the Jabba the Hutt sequence that my little sister couldn't even watch.

 

This has never occurred to me.

Awesome thread!

 

I used to think that as well!

 

If I remember correctly, I think I was under the impression that Jabba simply wasn't impressed with her dancing and decided to feed her to the Rancor.( I guess it was feeding time,and someone had to be Rancor lunch everyday!) Oola knew she was getting pulled over the trap door and knew Jabba was gonna kill her,hence her protestation.

 

No, but I thought she said something about treasure

 

I was under that impression as well. Which is worse though? Oola being purposely fed to the rancor, or that she is only fed because she didn't give into Jabba's desires? Either way, Oola did not deserve her fate.

 

I used to think she said "another Jedi!". Something she says sounds similar. I didn't know what the hell she meant.

 

Naw, the script says this:

Jabba leers at the dancers and with a lustful gleam in his eye beckons Oola to come and sit with him. She stops dancing and backs away, shaking her head. Jabba gets angry and points to a spot next to him.

 

I always imagined that after she saw Luke's hologram, she got the idea to escape so she tried pulling at the chain. This only angered Jabba, who slammed the button and sent her down into the Rancor Pit. Felt bad for her. :[ Kept thinking, “If you had just held on for a few more hours, Luke would've gotten there and maybe you could've gone with them during the escape attempt!!”

 

I knew Jabba wanted to get fresh with her but as a kid I didn't understand why he wanted to.

 

Um,Yeah, I get that now. But I didn't have the benefit of the script when I was 7 years old....

 

I thought that for a while too when I was a kid.

 

...Can....Can Jabba even have sex?


I agree with Phantom Calamari, it's all supposed to be the same disgusting ball game to Jabba. He's up for sex, or eating her, or both ( mind out of the gutter, people.) He's a sleazy slug, that Jabba.

 

If a whale can figure it out, I'm sure a slimy piece of worm-ridden filth can do it.

 

The Novelization of Rotj by James Kahn made it pretty clear that Jabba was sexual motivated in his treatment of Oola and Leia.

 

I wouldn't mind eating her

 

Yes, I did think that Jabba had somehow shrunk Oola into something tiny to eat. I was confused, and I didn't realize what happened until I was older.

 

......fap.

 

The EU at its worst, an author inserting his fetish (in this case vore) into a overglorified fanfic. Unless that woman is really small, isn't Jabba's scale way off? He isn't that big in the films.