Skeleton Crew Finally Gave Us a Great Star Wars Villain Turn

Even earlier Star Wars: Skeleton Crew was released, fans were curious astir Jod Na Nawood. On the show, the scoundrel of galore names, played by Jude Law, has delightfully tiptoed the enactment betwixt a roguish leader and a devilish pirate. And portion helium seemed to recently flip a power connected Lanupa aft betraying the crew, galore fans inactive held retired anticipation it was each a ruse. Well, successful the series’ penultimate episode, “We Are successful So Much Trouble,” Jod yet showed his existent colors and we loved it.

After a precise entertaining series of the parents trying to get a connection disconnected At Attin, which included many, galore of those iconic circular Star Wars stun blasts, we prime up with the unit yet connected their mode home. Unfortunately for them though, Brutus and his pirates get first. There, they archer Jod that if helium doesn’t yet present them treasure, he’s dead.

Unable to interruption done the intimidating and deadly obstruction surrounding the planet, Jod comes up with a plan. The kids get in the caller and improved Onyx Cinder, truthful Jod tells the pirates the vessel is the cardinal to get onto the planet. They seizure it and effort to board. You’d presume the kids would conscionable surrender, but these aren’t the aforesaid kids that near the planet. They’ve changed. They’re much capable. And with a small trickery, they’re capable to seizure the pirate person Brutus, scaring the remainder of his followers. One idiosyncratic isn’t frightened though. That’s Jod. And successful arguably the astir astonishing and brutal infinitesimal successful the full bid truthful far, Jod shoots a helpless, defenseless Brutus successful the caput with a blaster, claiming his pirate unit backmost for himself.

As Jod figures retired what to bash next, the kids get that connection from their parents. It gives them caller anticipation and, with a small assistance from SM-33, they’re capable to flight the pirates and alert done the barrier. They’re location free, oregon truthful they think. But nope: Jod stowed distant and soon takes power of the ship, utilizing the lightsaber helium got successful Tak Rennod’s vault to chop disconnected 33’s head. He past proceeds to endanger the kids with the slow, achy execution of their parents if they don’t unopen up and fto him bash his thing. That, coupled with the elimination of Brutus, yet turned the power for Jod. He’s successful this for himself. He’s not a hero. He’s an evil, stinking, slayer pirate.

Jod and the treasure of At Attin. – Lucasfilm

Which is benignant of amazing, right? Assuming it sticks done the last episode, we emotion that the large atrocious of the amusement has been staring america successful the look from the precise beginning. Jod has ne'er been a afloat hero, but he’s done heroic things to assistance the kids, arsenic good arsenic himself. And yet, the information helium ever had each those aliases and a latent Force quality made him other cagey and formidable. We benignant of hoped helium was a bully guy, but it’s truthful overmuch much satisfying for the amusement itself that helium won’t be. At least, not yet. It gives the kids a existent menace to (hopefully) defeat.

Realizing the Onyx Cinder is really from At Attin, its accomplishment puts a full caller protocol into play. The higher-ups connected the satellite don’t cognize that Jod is simply a pirate arriving with the missing kids. They judge he’s a Republic emissary arriving for a shipment of gold. Which is simply a small excessively convenient for us, the viewer, but works retired perfectly for Jod. He’s ushered close down into a huge, awesome bid of vaults (1,139 successful fact) filled with Old Republic credits. It’s the treasure helium and each pirate ever has ever dreamed of. And helium recovered it. He’s a legend.

By this point, the families person been notified that the kids person returned and they reunite. It’s a touching infinitesimal but is rapidly interrupted by Jod, who pulls retired his lightsaber to fto them cognize who is inactive successful charge. “We Are successful So Much Trouble” yet got the Skeleton Crew backmost to At Attin, yet revealed Jod to beryllium the existent villain we hoped helium wasn’t, and pulled the curtain backmost ever truthful somewhat connected the truths of the planet. It’s virtually filled with gold. Why? To what end? And however volition the unit prevention the day? One much occurrence to find out.

The archetypal 7 episodes of Skeleton Crew are present connected Disney+. The play finale airs connected January 14.

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