Skeleton Crew” ending reveals Jod’s backstory

Warning: This article contains spoilers about the season finale of Star Wars: The Skeleton Crew, entitled “The Real Good Guys”.

Penultimate episode of Star Wars: The Skeleton Crew‘s first season certainly ended in ominous fashion, with Jude Law’s Jod Na Nawood (or is it Captain Silvo?) after forcing his way onto At Attin, gaining access to the Vault of Wealth, and then addressing his pint-sized buddies and their parents with lightsabers drawn. Given that Jod had previously threatened to carve up their parents “every single one, piece by piece,” it wasn’t a welcome sight for Wim (Ravi Cabot-Conyers) and company. But would he carry out the threat on the finale (titled “The Real Good Guys” and written by creators Christopher Ford and Jon Watts, while directed by Watts)?

Of course not! This is a family friendly Star Wars show on Disney+! That would be crazy! Instead of Skeleton Crew the final went in a different direction. But those who assumed that Jod would be redeemed at the end were sorely mistaken.

The pirate captain went full villain in the finale. Turns out Jod wasn’t just going to bluff his way into the At Attin box and steal a bunch of credits; he wanted to take over the entire planet and subjugate its citizens to continue to make him equal more money under his rule, even announcing at one point over the public address system that “You all work for me now.” He also killed the planet’s Supervisor… who turned out to just be a very HAL 9000-like droid voiced by Stephen Fry. (But hey, we always knew Jod wasn’t a fan of droids.)

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Of course Wim and company would ultimately save the day. Wim’s father Wendle (Tunde Adebimpe) was able to turn on the power that was shut off when the supervisor was cremated into oblivion, and then KB (Kyriana Kratter) flew past the planet’s barrier to relay a message to Kh’ymm (Alia Shawkat) ), who promised to send the New Republic’s “best pilots in the galaxy.” Finally, Fern’s mother Fara (Kerry Condon) helped Wendle take down the barrier that allowed the X-Wings (the aforementioned “real good guys”) to fly in and shoot the pirates down for good.

While Jod was brutal in his plan for global domination, he seemed to shrink from ever harming any of his former roommates. He seemed to intentionally miss a blaster shot at Fern (Rayn Kiera Armstrong), most likely bluffed when he held a lightsaber to Wendle’s throat, and threw his blaster down instead of prolonging the conflict with Wim, which would have been bad equipped to block Jod’s shot with his drawn lightsaber. “I don’t want to hurt anybody,” Jod said at one point, and it seemed to be the case.

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The Force-sensitive pirate also finally shared his origin story, explaining how he was found by a Jedi when he was living in a hole in the ground as a child. The Jedi Master taught him some basic training before she was hunted down under Order 66. “They made me watch as they killed her,” he explained. It is clear that the event hardened him and turned the student into a criminal. In the end, with the battle lost and his ship in flames, a defeated Jod was left watching the wreckage around him, even as Wim called his tormentor to join them.

Now that At Attin has been saved and all the pre-pubescent heroes remain in one piece, the question becomes… what next? Will there be one Skeleton Crew season 2? Ahsoka recently got a second season, but The acolyte did not. Will Jod and/or the Cubs appear in one of the others Star Wars streaming shows set in the same timeline as Ahsoka or The Mandalorian? Or maybe the upcoming one The Mandalorian & Grogu film? And was there any meaning behind the end credits scene that almost felt like a pop-up book depicting Jedi adventures viewed on some sort of device?

Star Wars fans will now no doubt be as restless as Wim himself to find out if Jod will somehow, somewhere, somehow get that redemption arc, or if we’ll ever see the Padawan that has become a pirate again. At this point, this secret is definitely more secure than the secret of At Attin.

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