Star Wars: Skeleton Crew Just Went Full Goonies in an Adventure-Filled Episode

Lucasfilm is gifting its fans two presents this vacation season: new episodes of Star Wars: Skeleton Crew connected some Christmas Eve and New Year’s Eve. On the 1 hand, it’s awesome due to the fact that galore of america are location and capable to watch. On the different hand, it’s a spot little awesome if you write astir the amusement for work and aren’t moving those days. So, that’s wherefore this week’s recap—and adjacent week’s—will beryllium a time late. Our apologies.

But we similar to deliberation of those days disconnected arsenic a sojourn to the satellite of Lanupa. A clip and spot to relax, rejuvenate, and, successful the lawsuit of Skeleton Crew, hunt for a pirate’s lair similar thing consecutive retired of The Goonies. Let’s sermon occurrence five, “You Have a Lot to Learn About Pirates.”

By this point, we fundamentally cognize what we’re going to get connected Skeleton Crew. Every week the unit goes to a caller satellite to find a caller hint helping them get backmost to At Attin. And this week was nary exception. After a way-too-easy crook backmost to the bully broadside for droid SM-33, helium reveals the determination of At Attin is hidden successful his aged boss’s vault. His sanction was Captain Tak Rennod, a sanction that instantly sparks Jod’s fancy. According to him, Rennod was the astir ruthless pirate ever, a antheral who killed his full unit searching for the treasure of At Attin. In Rennod’s concealed lair, located nether Skull Ridge Mountain, the unit tin find the mode home.

SM-33 remembers Skull Ridge Mountain, located connected the satellite Lanupa, arsenic a brutal spot but present it’s an adults-only luxury edifice and spa. Which is ace quirky successful a Star Wars consciousness portion besides speaking to conscionable however agelong agone Rennod’s escapade took place. Because, let’s not forget, the kids recovered Rennod’s ship—finally officially confirmed arsenic the Onyx Cinder though Lego told america that months ago—buried underground connected At Attin with everyone dead. We inactive are precise funny astir what happened with each of that.

Pokkit, played by Kelly Macdonald – Lucasfilm

After immoderate goofy but invited hijinks astatine the hotel, Jod and the unit find themselves searching the underground spas of Lanupa for Rennod’s lair. We spot each mode of chill Star Wars aliens, including a precise gross, precise bare Hutt. Jod besides runs into a bounty huntsman named Pokkit (Kelly Macdonald from Brave and Trainspotting) who knows Jod arsenic “Dash Zentin.” That’s astatine slightest his 4th alias which, of course, conscionable raises much reddish flags astir the character. Pokkit calls successful his bounty and Jod’s erstwhile crew, led by Brutus, are dispatched to Lanupa. And truthful the contention begins. Will the pirates find Jod and the unit oregon volition they find the lair?

Here’s wherever Skeleton Crew went afloat Goonies. After befriending a monolithic squid-type carnal named Cthallops, they interruption done the crushed and find themselves connected a booby-trapped way to the treasure. You know, conscionable similar erstwhile the Goonies broke done the level and had to travel a booby-trapped way to a treasure. Both had skeletons connected the ground, some had liquid pools to traverse, some had anti-gravity spike chambers. No, wait, conscionable Skeleton Crew had that. But nevertheless, the similarities are numerous, down to the existent treasure trove itself, which is besides booby-trapped.

Like The Goonies, the radical does find that treasure country and it’s chock afloat of chill stuff. Wim adjacent spots a existent lightsaber. Soon, they entree a dataport and 33 is capable to find the determination of At Attin and a signaling of Rennod. He’s clippy, truthful we don’t get to truly spot who helium is, but the little look seems to amusement a cowboy hat, giving Cad Bane vibes. Rennod’s connection besides reveals what, specifically, the treasure is connected At Attin: the past Old Republic mint. Meaning, you tin marque your ain money. (Also of note, the credits database Rennod’s show coming from Colin Follenweider, who is besides Jude Law’s stunt double. Could Jod beryllium related to Rennod? We’ll see.)

Jod gets a lightsaber – Lucasfilm

That revelation changes everything for Jod. Closer to the treasure than ever before, helium challenges Fern for the rubric of captain. She bravely tries to combat back, but his Force powers are excessively strong. Then, successful what is acceptable up to beryllium 1 of those unforgettable Star Wars leader moments, Wim takes retired the lightsaber. He’s astir to fulfill each azygous imagination and phantasy he’s ever had. But, erstwhile helium ignites it, it’s upside down and it flies away. Jod tells 33 to seizure the crew, but they marque a speedy escape, arsenic Jod grabs the lightsaber.

Our biggest takeaway from Skeleton Crew occurrence 5 is conscionable however overmuch amusive tin beryllium had wrong this story. Yes, determination are immoderate moments of pause—such arsenic Wim being homesick and his father, backmost connected At Attin, desperately trying to bash something. But much so, we conscionable emotion seeing this radical traversing the galaxy, solving puzzles, getting into trouble, and dilatory figuring retired this mystery. The enigma of wherefore At Attin is truthful hidden, what the radical really doing there, and who the heck is this pirate Force-user Jod Na Nawood? And if it means we conscionable caller aliens and bounty hunters connected breathtaking caller planets on the way? All the better.

You tin watercourse the archetypal 5 episodes of Star Wars: Skeleton Crew on Disney+.

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