Skeleton Crew Maintain 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 listing, characters that at one time are dangerous find yourself turning good. To this point 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 sequence and now, as we get to the top, we’re questioning, what’s going to occur subsequent?

Clearly, your guess is nearly as good as ours right here. We’ve 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 nasty man or if it’s even a risk to not.

To rapidly recap, the 4 children who make up the crew met Jod in a jail the place he used the Pressure 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 thought to virtually each character on the present as a distinct title, appeared to primarily be tagging alongside not out of kindness. He needed 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 averted any specifics about himself. We all know that he’s Pressure-sensitive. We expect he was telling the reality about being misplaced and alone. He was undoubtedly a pirate captain earlier than making a number of errors. However when it grew to become clear At-Attin did home some sort of treasure, a swap went off. The antihero immediately grew to become 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 nicely past that, killing his former first mate Brutus, brandishing a lightsaber to threaten bot the youngsters and their dad and mom, and eventually discovering At-Attin’s treasure.

In our minds, Skeleton Crew has taken such care to indicate Jod totally embracing his pirate facet, it might virtually be a betrayal for him to return. A minimum of in this season. Possibly, by the top of this season, he escapes and in a hypothetical subsequent season, we see him be taught the error of his methods. Anakin Skywalker, in fact, very famously got here again from the facet of Really Having Killed Some Children–Jod’s fairly tame within the grand scheme of issues. Positive, 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 children he pretended to avoid wasting. Let’s maintain it that method. Make the star of your present a nasty man. We don’t care. We like it. 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 price, or worthy, of saving? Tell us beneath.

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