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[u/CarsonWentzGOAT1]

it could just be a family member of his passing. I don't think order 66 flashback is happening.

[u/ChanceVance → u/CarsonWentzGOAT1]

Well he's got to be formerly involved with the Jedi in some way.

Personally, I don't expect an Order 66 flashback per se but I hazard a guess he was a young man who was evading Inquisitors before joining up with pirates. So maybe something like that.

[u/BearWrangler → u/ChanceVance]

at the risk of disappointing myself by reading too much into it but Jod def had a certain look in his eyes when he was scolding the kids and mentioning their parents, like some sorta repressed trauma

[u/ChanceVance → u/BearWrangler]

Yeah I felt the same. Felt like projection and envy at having what he didn't. Also, I think it was a deliberate creative choice that you couldn't see his facial expressions when the parents message was playing.

However, it's a bold choice to commit to him being irredeemable and perishing in his selfish pursuit. Jod may be an expy of Long John Silver but he might meet the fate of greedy Disney villains like Clayton or Rourke.

[u/kapnkrump → u/BearWrangler]

He could have been a kid with force powers during the Imperial Period and was scolded and abused by his parents into hiding his abilities - or his force powers got his parents into trouble (or worse) with the Empire and he fled.

[u/LetItATV → u/kapnkrump]

He could have been a kid with force powers during the Imperial Period

This show takes place ~29 years after the formation of the Empire.

As talented as Jude Law may be, he can’t pull of playing a man in his 30s.

[u/BearWrangler → u/LetItATV]

not that I disagree but I just thought it's funny cuz Diego Luna was playing late 20s in Andor and he's 7 years younger than Jude Law lol

[u/LetItATV → u/BearWrangler]

TIL!

Though that’s a bit of them accidentally writing themselves into a corner by waiting six years to make a prequel set five years before we first saw them.
Luna was at least 4 years within his character’s age in Rogue One (33 Andor vs. 37 Luna).

[u/skinnysnappy52 → u/BearWrangler]

Almost as if he saw Anakin in himself there maybe?

[u/RazzmatazzSame1792 → u/ChanceVance]

Could be a Jedi who left before order 66

[u/stoicjohn → u/RazzmatazzSame1792]

His saber form is trash, I'm guessing he was a youngling.

[u/RazzmatazzSame1792 → u/stoicjohn]

I mean yeah he doesn’t seem very capable, dude was legit about to let them throw him out an airlock , just find it interesting he refuses to show anyone but the kids his abilities. That being said many younglings/initiates leave the Jedi order if they don’t find a master. 

[u/legacy642 → u/RazzmatazzSame1792]

Even if he was the same age as Jude law is IRL, jod would be the same age as Anakin, or roughly there. So during order 66 he would at most be a fairly new Jedi knight or a Padawan. If they bring his age down then he is definitely a Padawan.

[u/RazzmatazzSame1792 → u/legacy642]

I mean he still could’ve left the Jedi order , plenty of Jedi leave or get kicked out before making Padawan anyways

[u/Representative-Elk57 → u/RazzmatazzSame1792]

Kicked out before Order 66 because he was trouble?

[u/RazzmatazzSame1792 → u/Representative-Elk57]

That or he was just greedy and didn’t like the monk lifestyle of being a Jedi. His hatred for droids makes me think he’s was at least there long enough to participate in the clone wars 

[u/ComplexAd7820 → u/RazzmatazzSame1792]

I think he was a flunkie.

[u/RazzmatazzSame1792 → u/ComplexAd7820]

Maybe flunked because he was a little to greedy, that or maybe he couldn’t find a master so it was either Temple guard or exile 

[u/threeglasses → u/ChanceVance]

Is there a reason no one thinks the force manipulation thing is a total lie and he doesn’t just have magneto gloves. Maybe I missed an instance or something but I’ve been casually paying attention and whenever he uses “the force” he always has gloves on and the object is always metal. Also I’d enjoy the character being like a complete wizard of oz behind the curtain type sham. I feel like it would fit his arc

[u/ChanceVance → u/threeglasses]

It's a possibility but dropping the Qui-Gon line and having Wim's romanticized ideal of what Jedi are like shattered seems better fitting if he was indeed a former Jedi.

[u/Bobjoejj → u/CarsonWentzGOAT1]

Why not? What specifically makes you think not, in this case?