Yahoo Lifestyle Skeleton Crew: Was the Force Strong With That Finale? Plus, the Story Behind Jod’s Jedi Powers Revealed
The following contains spoilers for the season finale of Disney+’s Skeleton Crew.
Disney+’s Skeleton Crew came to a close this Tuesday night, with a rollicking 34 minutes that showed just how clever, brave and bold the kids became during their whirlwind round trip aboard the Onyx Cinder.
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Picking up right where last week left off, Jod continued to pass himself off as an Emissary to Wim, Fern, KB and Neel’s parents, there outside the vault door. Flaunting his stolen valor, Jod urged the grown-ups to take the troublesome, security protocol-breaking kids home and “confine them to quarters,” with security droids keeping a watchful eye on each. Jod insisted that crafty Fern and her mom Fara, though, accompany him to see the Supervisor.
Said Supervisor, as speculated last week, is in fact a big ol’ droid that takes up a whole corner of the top floor of its tower — voiced by Stephen Fry and with a gleaming “eye” light that instantly evoked both H.A.L. (and thus She-Hulk‘s K.E.V.I.N.). Supes is savvy, however, so when Jod introduced himself as both an Emissary and a Jedi, he got called out for lying about one of those claims, since all post-Order 66 Jedi are known to be traitors. Jod abruptly ended the grilling by driving his lightsaber into the giant droid’s eye, which in turn powered down the security droids all across At Attin.
Worried for Fern — even more so given the sudden power outage — Wim, KB and Neel set out on their hoverbikes to help, and Wim’s “Level 7 Systems Coordinator!” dad Wendle even tagging along. Because Jod had secured his frigate safe passage through the Great Barrier, the kids were chased by laser-firing gunships. Neel got knocked off his bike at one point, but urged the others to continue on. The plan was to get back to the Cinder and fly past the barrier, where KB could radio K’hymm and her X-wing pals. To that end, Wim and his dad had to peel off to the tower, in order to restore power to the clamp that was holding the Cinder to the landing pad. But even if that is accomplished, they’d need to flip the switch that destroys the entire barrier, so that KB could fly past it.
Wendle managed to restore power to the clamp, but was in turn found and held at lightsaber-point by Jod. KB aimed the Cinder at the sky, getting help from both SM-33’s head (as co-pilot) and Neel on the ground (using the school’s rooftop gun to keep the pirate gunships at bay, #callback). Meanwhile inside the tower, things were super intense, with the lever that destroys the barrier needing to be pulled. Wim made the first try, but was scared off by Jod holding the saber to Wendle’s neck.
Jod used the moment to share his hardscrabble beginnings, saying that at Wim’s age all he thought about was where he’d find his next meal, while “living in a hole in the ground.” Then one day, a woman Jedi, “desperate and ragged like me,” saw “potential” in Jod and took him under her wing. Alas, she had only taught him “a little” before she was hunted down, and Jod was made to watch “while they killed her.”
As Jod remained contemplative/distracted, Wendle balled his fist, George McFly-like, rose up and slugged the pirate. Wendle then lunged for the lever, but couldn’t quite reach it, all while Jod kept the others at bay with Force pushes. Wim grabbed the dropped saber and powered it up properly this time, and when Jod tried to reclaim it with the Force, Fern helped Wim hold tight. Upon being swatted down by Jod, Fern nudged her mom to help with the lever, and between her and Wendle, they yanked it down, allowing KB to escape into the sky and contact K’hymm. But soon as KB put in her request for X-wing support, the Cinder took a hit from one of the ships the frigate left behind. The Cinder then careened toward At Attin, with SM-33 doing his best to right the ship enough for a safe-ish landing. Wim and Fern, though, could only look on as it skidded down to the ground in the distance, kicking up lotsa dirt.
Moments later, as X-wings descened on the scene to carpet-bomb the frigate, it was Jod who could only look on as his ship, his grand plan, went belly-up. But hey, he lived! Even if one of the arriving Republic cruisers is probably about to scoop him up and throw him into a proper brig.
Wim, Fern and Neel rushed to the site of the Cinder‘s crash, to find the ship hammocked in a building’s crumbled roof. The ramp opened, loads of credits cascaded down… and so did a a dazed, but alive, KB, asking: “Did we win?” SM-33 meanwhile trotted out, toting his own head, to boast, “One of my better landings, that is!”
And as the X-wings who saved the day flew off into At Attin’s actually starry, Great Barrier-free sky, Wim looked up, smiling….
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