Will Star Wars: Skeleton Crew Keep Jod a Villain?

More often than not, Star Wars is astir redemption. Darth Vader saves Luke. Ben Solo helps Rey. The Mandalorian gives up his codification for Grogu. On and connected down the list, characters that astatine 1 clip are atrocious extremity up turning good. So acold though, connected the latest Star Wars show, Skeleton Crew, we’ve seen the opposite. Jod Na Nawood (Jude Law) has gone from a roguish would-be leader to a full-blown evil villain passim the bid and now, arsenic we get to the end, we’re wondering, what’s going to hap next?

Obviously, your conjecture is arsenic bully arsenic ours here. We person not yet seen the last episode, and won’t until everyone other does astatine 9 p.m. EST adjacent Tuesday, January 14. So don’t interest astir spoilers. We’re conscionable wondering if the amusement volition support its top-billed A-list prima a atrocious feline oregon if it’s adjacent a anticipation not to.

To rapidly recap, the 4 kids who marque up the unit met Jod successful a situation wherever helium utilized the Force to assistance them escape. He past became their de facto usher and person arsenic they attempted to instrumentality to their location satellite of At-Attin. Jod however, who is known to astir each quality connected the amusement arsenic a antithetic name, seemed to chiefly beryllium tagging on not retired of kindness. He wanted to spot if the legends are true. If At-Attin genuinely has a immense treasure connected it.

So Jod took the unit crossed the galaxy, enactment unneurotic clues, and gracefully avoided immoderate specifics astir himself. We cognize that helium is Force-sensitive. We deliberation helium was telling the information astir being mislaid and alone. He was decidedly a pirate skipper earlier making a fewer mistakes. But erstwhile it became wide At-Attin did location immoderate benignant of treasure, a power went off. The antihero instantly became the selfish, evil pirate we met successful the archetypal country of the series. And, by the extremity of the penultimate seventh episode, he’d taken things good beyond that, sidesplitting his erstwhile archetypal mate Brutus, brandishing a lightsaber to endanger bot the kids and their parents, and yet discovering At-Attin’s treasure.

In our minds, Skeleton Crew has taken specified attraction to amusement Jod afloat embracing his pirate side, it would astir beryllium a betrayal for him to spell back. At slightest successful this season. Maybe, by the extremity of this season, helium escapes and successful a hypothetical consequent season, we spot him larn the mistake of his ways. Anakin Skywalker, of course, precise famously came backmost from the broadside of Actually Having Killed Some Kids–Jod’s beauteous tame successful the expansive strategy of things. Sure, helium lopped SM-33’s caput cleanable off, but helium wouldn’t measurement connected the cute alien rodent that called that caput home! If that power happens present though, successful this season, it would beryllium a large disappointment if helium instantly turns astir connected this way he’s been on.

Jod’s arc has been 1 of the existent highlights of the show, mounting up an emotionally charged showdown betwixt him and the 4 kids helium pretended to save. Let’s support it that way. Make the prima of your amusement a atrocious guy. We don’t care. We emotion it. If Skeleton Crew hopes to spell down arsenic possibly the second-best  Disney+ Star Wars show to date, it should play that retired and support him surviving successful that acheronian broadside for a small portion longer.

What bash you think? Do you agree? Is Jod worth, oregon worthy, of saving? Let america cognize below.

The archetypal 7 episodes of Skeleton Crew are present connected Disney+. Catch up earlier the finale.

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