Skeleton Crew Preserve Jod a Villain?

As a rule, 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 record, characters that at one time are dangerous find yourself turning good. Thus far although, on the most recent Star Wars present, Skeleton Crew, we’ve seen the alternative. Jod Na Nawood (Jude Regulation) has gone from a roguish would-be hero to a full-blown evil villain all through the sequence and now, as we get to the tip, we’re questioning, what’s going to occur subsequent?

Clearly, your guess is nearly as good as ours right here. We’ve got 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 hold its top-billed A-list star a nasty man or if it’s even a chance to not.

To rapidly recap, the 4 children who make up the crew met Jod in a jail the place he used the Drive to assist them escape. He then turned their de facto information and chief as they tried to return to their dwelling planet of At-Attin. Jod nonetheless, who is understood to virtually each character on the present as a unique identify, appeared to primarily be tagging alongside not out of kindness. He wished to see if the legends are true. If At-Attin actually has an enormous treasure on it.

So Jod took the crew throughout the galaxy, put collectively clues, and gracefully prevented any specifics about himself. We all know that he’s Drive-sensitive. We predict he was telling the reality about being misplaced and alone. He was undoubtedly a pirate captain earlier than making just a few errors. However when it turned clear At-Attin did home some form of treasure, a swap went off. The antihero immediately turned the egocentric, evil pirate we met within the first scene of the sequence. And, by the end of the penultimate seventh episode, he’d taken issues properly 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 totally embracing his pirate facet, it could virtually be a betrayal for him to return. A minimum of in this season. Perhaps, 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 could 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 children he pretended to save lots of. Let’s hold it that means. Make the star of your present a nasty man. We don’t care. We find it irresistible. If Skeleton Crew hopes to go down as possibly the second-best  Disney+ Star Wars present up to now, it ought to play that out and hold him dwelling 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 under.

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