Skeleton Crew added a punch of pirate adventure to the typical Star Wars formula, providing viewers with a unique experience focusing on child protagonists. It recently concluded its debut season with the eighth episode seeing Wim and his friends return to their home world and save it from the space pirates.
Jude Law plays Jod Na Nawood in Skeleton Crew (Credit: Lucasfilm).
Meanwhile, the series slowly uncovered the true nature of Jude Law’s character, who is revealed to have some connection to the Jedi. However, with the Jod Na Nawood twist, the series broke a major Star Wars rule. Nonetheless, the franchise is better off with this rule break, and Skeleton Crew must stick to its guns and continue down the path it has carved for Law’s character.
Jude Law’s Skeleton Crew character broke a major Star Wars rule
Skeleton Crew introduced viewers to the character of Jod Na Nawood played by Jude Law. The character is initially a mentor figure to the children who helps them return to their homeworld of At Attin. However, Jod isn’t as benevolent as he projects himself to be.
Jude Law is the villain of Skeleton Crew (Credit: Lucasfilm).
As the first season approaches its end, it is revealed that Jod is the disgraced pirate Silvo. He later turns on the children and uses them to invade At Attin and the planet’s reserves of Imperial Credits. However, he is ultimately defeated after the children destroy the planet’s barrier leading to the New Republic’s arrival.
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Meanwhile, Jod is revealed as the show’s primary antagonist and his fate breaks a major Star Wars trend. In the franchise’s previous installments, a majority of its villains have been redeemed. However, Jod remains a villain and will seemingly face the consequences of his actions in a potential second season.
Skeleton Crew season 2 needs to keep Jude Law a villain
The Star Wars franchise is known for redeeming its villains with the original trilogy and the prequels being one epic story of Anakin Skywalker’s fall to the dark side and eventual return to the light side. Similarly, Kylo Ren’s redemption was also a key plot point in the sequel trilogy.
Jude Law’s Skeleton Crew character doesn’t need redemption (Credit: Lucasfilm).
Given that the franchise is primarily geared toward children, it has mostly black and white characters. Skeleton Crew has bucked this trend by making Law’s character a much more complex villain with potential for redemption. Jod’s history with the Jedi is hinted at in the finale, which might suggest he is redeemable.
However, by redeeming the character in a potential second installment, the series will strip Jod of all his moral ambiguity. Since the series heavily borrows from the tropes of pirate fiction, it would certainly be a bad move to take away Jod’s moral ambiguity which will make him a less compelling pirate. As a result, the series needs to stick to Jod’s dark turn.
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Series creators Jon Watts and Christopher Ford admitted in an interview with TechRadar that they were hopeful about the prospects of the series getting renewed for a sophomore outing. However, the series hasn’t been officially renewed for a second season as of this writing, leaving the fate of Jod uncertain.
Skeleton Crew is streaming on Disney+.
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