Skeleton Crew Hold Jod a Villain?

Most of the time, Star Wars is about redemption. Darth Vader saves Luke. Ben Solo helps Rey. The Mandalorian gives up his code for Grogu. On and on down the listing, characters that at one time are unhealthy find yourself turning good. Thus far although, on the newest Star Wars present, Skeleton Crew, we’ve seen the alternative. Jod Na Nawood (Jude Legislation) has gone from a roguish would-be hero to a full-blown evil villain all through the collection and now, as we get to the tip, we’re questioning, what’s going to occur subsequent?

Clearly, your guess is pretty much as good as ours right here. We now have not but seen the ultimate episode, and received’t till everybody else does at 9 p.m. EST subsequent Tuesday, January 14. So don’t fear about spoilers. We’re simply questioning if the present will maintain its top-billed A-list star a foul man or if it’s even a chance to not.

To shortly recap, the 4 youngsters who make up the crew met Jod in a jail the place he used the Power to assist them escape. He then grew to become their de facto information and chief as they tried to return to their dwelling planet of At-Attin. Jod nonetheless, who is understood to nearly each character on the present as a distinct title, appeared to primarily be tagging alongside not out of kindness. He wished to see if the legends are true. If At-Attin really has an enormous treasure on it.

So Jod took the crew throughout the galaxy, put collectively clues, and gracefully averted any specifics about himself. We all know that he’s Power-sensitive. We predict he was telling the reality about being misplaced and alone. He was positively a pirate captain earlier than making a number of errors. However when it grew to become clear At-Attin did home some type of treasure, a swap went off. The antihero immediately grew to become the egocentric, evil pirate we met within the first scene of the collection. And, by the end of the penultimate seventh episode, he’d taken issues nicely past that, killing his former first mate Brutus, brandishing a lightsaber to threaten bot the children and their mother and father, and at last discovering At-Attin’s treasure.

In our minds, Skeleton Crew has taken such care to indicate Jod absolutely embracing his pirate facet, it might nearly be a betrayal for him to return. A minimum of in this season. Possibly, by the tip of this season, he escapes and in a hypothetical subsequent season, we see him study the error of his methods. Anakin Skywalker, after all, very famously got here again from the facet of Truly Having Killed Some Youngsters–Jod’s fairly tame within the grand scheme of issues. Certain, he lopped SM-33’s head clear off, however he wouldn’t step on the lovable alien mouse that referred to as that head dwelling! If that swap occurs now although, on this season, it might be a serious disappointment if he instantly turns round on this path he’s been on.

Jod’s arc has been one of many true highlights of the present, establishing an emotionally charged showdown between him and the 4 youngsters he pretended to avoid wasting. Let’s maintain it that approach. Make the star of your present a foul man. We don’t care. We find it irresistible. If Skeleton Crew hopes to go down as perhaps the second-best  Disney+ Star Wars present so far, it ought to play that out and maintain him residing in that darkish facet for a short while longer.

What do you suppose? Do you agree? Is Jod value, or worthy, of saving? Tell us beneath.

The primary seven episodes of Skeleton Crew are now on Disney+. Catch up earlier than the finale.

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