[Darth Player]

So for two films (I'm ignoring the "Special" additions of Jabba back into Mos Eisley with Han). We were led to believe Jabba was a bad ass MO FO who would sic the Voo Doo on you if you were late with a payment, let alone do much worse.

Then we see the lush fest that was his palace in ROTJ, and he sure as heck wasn't menacing to say the least. Leia's POed look may have had more to do with her thinking "I can't believe I fell for a Correllian wuss who ranted and raved on and on about how big and bad Jabba was and now I'm chained to a living, breathing water mattress." (OK, so i ripped off that line from Jerry Lewis lashing out at a group of protesters that ambushed him at a book signing in Chicago called Jerry's Orphans, a month or so ago, but its a good line.)

So how do you make it big in Jabba's palace? Solo had to bust tail throughout the galaxy smuggling stuff, Boba Fett was a Bounty Hunter on retainer to take care of shale when it hit the fan and keep fear/order in the Hutt regime, but what about the other losers like the obese multi-breasted gal? What in blazes could she have offered to the Jabba organization? Seems like if you have multiple chins or teets, you've got it made as a freeloader. No action figure of her thoigh, in the new line for sure!

This post has been edited by Darth Player: 20 December 2005 - 11:07 PM

[Smashman]

I thought he was a pretty awesome villain! I thought he was cool because he really surprised after hearing about him but never seeing him (which Lucas ruined with SEs). I don't particularly care for those opening scenes as a whole (well, until Luke's entrance) but Jabba the Hutt himself/herself/itself is awesome, I think.

[floppydisk]

Exactly. I love Jabba. I think it's hilarous that he's a powerful gangster who's basically a big slug. Him being a threat doesn't mean that he personally goes out and sits on people, he's just rich and pays others to rub out people for him.

[Despondent]

First of many JEDI letdowns for me. But more acceptable than the stupid SE scene.

"If I step on Jabba's tail one more time, AND don't pay him off (even though I just offed his henchman), I'm a dead man..."

maybe Greedo was working Zam Jr., who was working for Boba, who was working for Jabba (sigh).

[georgelucas4greedo]

This is a funny post, especially if you look at how many of the muppets in Jabba's palace have defied thousands of years of evolution. Look at that green piece of crap with the extremely long arms who is purportedly a head hunter. I mean all of these creatures look like they couldnt out run a bantha. So how the hell are they such a bad ass crime ring. Most of the guys on the sail barge look like pirates with deformed faces. And by pirates I mean literal pirates not the Han Solo-esque pirates. The only answer I can give is that Lucas was more concerned about the marketing ability of stupid aliens and ignored rationality.

[Darth Player]

If I may reitorate my original point, Jabba's crinimal Empire is so bad ass in ANH and ESB that he dispatches a bounty hunter well away to the outer rim to get Solo's head, and yet when we're allowed entry onscreen to the bad guy's lair, a seven layered teet gal is one of the prominent members of his inner circle, along with a bunch of other losers. The apt guys like Fett seem to get to scour the universe to enforce his will, or like Solo, travel great lengths to secure needed stuff to keep the crinimal enterprise going, but the bigger losers get to hang out on Tattooine to watch song/dance numbers, Rancor feedings, and Saarlac feedings. It just ain't right.

The beastial wench has a name and its Yarna D. Apologies for the double post.

[diligent_d]

You ever see some gangsters wives in real life? *shudder*

[barend]

i think she's salacioius crumbs wife...