TL;DR – We are jumping from strength to strength, making this one of the things I look forward to during the week.

Disclosure – I paid for the Disney+ service that viewed this series.

Skeleton Crew Review –

For quite a while now, Star Wars has been a product filled with animosity and frustration where it felt like those with their hands on the wheel didn’t know what they wanted and with no clear leadership at the top, the community became toxic, or more toxic. That is why it has been such a joy to find Star Wars: Skeleton Crew, which has seemingly punctured through that malaise and is linked back to what made Star Wars good in the past yet with a modern veneer.

So, to set the scene, well, things are finally looking good for the kids: Wim (Ravi Cabot-Conyers), Fern (Ryan Kiera Armstrong), KB (Kyriana Kratter), and Neel (Robert Timothy Smith/ Kacie Borrowman). At the end of Zero Friends Again, they reclaimed the Onyx Cinder and are on their way to At Attin. The only problem is that Jod (Jude Law) and their pirates might have gotten there first. Now, from here, we will be looking at the episode as a whole, so there will be some [SPOILERS] ahead.

To start with, I just want to say how refreshing it was to make Jod Na Nawood just a straight-up villain. He is not the cartoony evil villain that we tend to get with the Sith, but he is someone who clearly uses what little force he has for his own personal benefit. He’s someone who clearly has some trauma in his past, and I am sure there are 101 Order 66 listicles already on the web. But while he does not want to kill children, he very much knows how to threaten them successfully. Jude Law also brings the perfect energy to the role of the weary pirate with thousands of names trying to get that big score he’s always dreamed about. I honestly hope he does not get a fast-tracked redemption arc next week.

Also, it was great to see the kids really be kids this week, trying the stupidly low change Hail Mary that is so dangerous, but they can’t see it. Well, to be fair to them, it did work, one of the three times, and blast it if I didn’t laugh my arse off for un-claim-sies. It did suck when they got the realities of their situation crashed into them. You gotta continuously check for sneaky, force-wielding stowaways. This combined with their families desperately trying to help them, was incredibly touching, and I’m not a monster because those scenes where the family send their good wishes made me emotional.

This week, we also got to see just how well the worldbuilding has been in this series. The hidden design of the Onyx Cinder was very much reminiscent of the Old Republic design that we saw in the prequel films. We also got to see what that barrier was made from: a gas layer masking the planet as it appears to be a green mini-Neptune, one of the most common planet types in the galaxy, so a perfect design, but it also works as a defence network in case someone goes for a look. Putting aside the question of how they pulled that off, it did feel like a legitimate way this planet could have stayed hidden during both the fall of the Old Republic, but also both the Rise and Fall of The Empire and now the New Republic era.

Which brings us to the question of Ad Attin, ruled by a Supervisor (Stephen Fry) who rarely speaks but has a large droid army to do their bidding. Look, dropping Stephen Fry into your show without much fanfare does give some hints as to who he will turn out to be next week. My money is some sort of droid, given the history of how they have voiced bots in the Mandalorian era shows. I mean, we already have Nick Frost this season. The real surprise this week was how much the planet gave off Fallout vibes, as one of my friends called it. There was always a dystopian vibe to the place, but they really amped that up this week and I am fascinated to see where they will go with it next week.

In the end, do we recommend Star Wars: Skeleton Crew: We’re Gonna Be In So Much Trouble? Absolutely. This was a blast of an episode, and it also covered so many different plot points in only half an hour. Modern streaming writers take note. Next week is the series or season finale, but I hope we get more in this world. Have you watched Skeleton Crew yet? Let us know what you thought in the comments below.

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Credits – All images were created by the cast, crew, and production companies of Skeleton Crew
Directed by – Lee Isaac Chung
Written by – Christopher Ford & Jon Watts
Created by – Christopher Ford & Jon Watts
Based On – Star Wars by George Lucas
Production/Distribution Companies – Golem Creations, LucasArts & Disney+
Starring – Jude Law, Ravi Cabot-Conyers, Ryan Kiera Armstrong, Kyriana Kratter, Robert Timothy Smith & Nick Frost with Kerry Condon, Tunde Adebimpe, Kacie Borrowman & Rob Ramsdell and Cass Buggé, M.J. Kang, Geneva Carr, Fred Tatasciore, Dale Soules, Jacob Roanhaus, Jaleel White, Marti Matulis, Sisa Grey, Sydney Rose Walker, Domonic Burgess, Stephen Fry, Dawn Dininger, Carey Jones, Stephen Oyoung, Mike Estes & Jasper Anderson