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Speaker 4: In today's episode, we are talking about Skeleton Crew episode one,
Speaker 4: six zero Friends Again.
Speaker 3: I wonder who that could be.
Speaker 4: Referencing who's once again betraying all of his friends and ending.
Speaker 3: Up scamming again. Could it be Joed Silva, whatever you
Speaker 3: call him.
Speaker 1: Probably let's get it to it, okay. Episode six zero
Speaker 1: Friends Again picks up seconds after the previous episode ends.
Speaker 1: We find the kids falling down.
Speaker 3: A shoot their goonies of them.
Speaker 1: Very very goonies of them from the One Eyed Willie
Speaker 1: Treasure Room of tac renod this trapdoor that they triggered
Speaker 1: to escape from jod semi on purpose, kind of on accident,
Speaker 1: and they are then spit out onto a desolate, snowy
Speaker 1: field that we are soon to find out is like
Speaker 1: I would say, two one hundred meters or something below
Speaker 1: the landing pad.
Speaker 2: Of the spot.
Speaker 3: Yeah, not great.
Speaker 1: And KB has been, we are soon to learn, has
Speaker 1: been kind of getting run down by this very dirty
Speaker 1: and steamy and cold adventure. Her servos, her machinery is
Speaker 1: getting gunked up, and also the fall didn't do her,
Speaker 1: didn't do her any favors. So Fern does some quick
Speaker 1: maintenance on KB, and Neil and Wim are clearly like
Speaker 1: very very concerned and very worried. John meanwhile, not worried
Speaker 1: at all. He climbs out of tach red tunnel leading
Speaker 1: from tech Renas treasure room, and he is like covered
Speaker 1: rosy in jewelry, in fine gold necklaces, wineries. Yes, he's
Speaker 1: looking he's looking quite royal, and he is quite delighted
Speaker 1: with himself. He appears before the SPA staff, who are
Speaker 1: shocked to see him, and he's like, haha, well, I'd
Speaker 1: like to pay for my room, but I'd like to leave. Well,
Speaker 1: he can't because He's immediately waylaid by Gunter, one of
Speaker 1: Brutus's pirate crew, played by Julil White of Arkle Fame.
Speaker 2: Of course, delightful to see him, love to see him
Speaker 2: in the Star Wars universe. Good for him.
Speaker 1: And I have to say, when you add in Kelly McDonald,
Speaker 1: when you add in Jude Law, when you add in
Speaker 1: the Goonies, feel and now Jalil White, this is a
Speaker 1: very like old millennial gen X coded.
Speaker 2: Oh yeah, that's in a lot of ways.
Speaker 4: It's it's a smart way to bring the nostalgia to
Speaker 4: the and everybody.
Speaker 3: While making it a very like, really enjoyable watch.
Speaker 2: I completely agree, it's wonderful.
Speaker 1: Jod tries to get s M thirty three to like,
Speaker 1: you know, resists, you know, get in the fight so
Speaker 1: he can get out of there. Sm immediately incapacitated. But really,
Speaker 1: before Jod can try anything, a squadron of X Wings
Speaker 1: show up and they start fighting the pirate chips. The
Speaker 1: pirates have to flee far below on that snowy field.
Speaker 1: The kids look up and they come to the realization
Speaker 1: they wait to sing and are the X Wings the
Speaker 1: good guys. This is very interesting because it shows you
Speaker 1: that again, the kids have been out of it for
Speaker 1: who knows how long.
Speaker 4: Told are not complete. You know, we know that they
Speaker 4: have these kind of myths of the Jedi, but the
Speaker 4: fact they don't know what an x wing is also
Speaker 4: just want to say, very nice to see. We rarely
Speaker 4: get any last Jedi nods, but during Jod's little escapade
Speaker 4: we do get a I believe a g Deck, which
Speaker 4: is the alien that's kind of covered in all those
Speaker 4: weird like fleshy things. And in the Last Jedi she's
Speaker 4: the woman who sings like there's a version who sings
Speaker 4: like the opera.
Speaker 3: When Rose and Finn are going through.
Speaker 4: So it's nice to see and I like her last
Speaker 4: Jedi riff.
Speaker 3: Whenever we get.
Speaker 1: One, the kids have a disagreement, is like, well, we
Speaker 1: need to get back up to our ship. Our ship
Speaker 1: is all the way up there, so let's climb. KB meanwhile,
Speaker 1: who is still very shaken from everything that's been going on,
Speaker 1: and while the maintenance did help, it's clearly she's still limited,
Speaker 1: and she says, I disagree. I don't think we should
Speaker 1: do that. I think it's too dangerous and I think
Speaker 1: it's a bad idea. Whim Meanwhile, has like made the
Speaker 1: acquaintance of various trash crabs, these like greed scavenger crabs
Speaker 1: who just keep saying like follow us or you know,
Speaker 1: just repeating words that he says to them. And he's like, well,
Speaker 1: and I think the logic is kind of sound rosy,
Speaker 1: which they're from here. The crabs are from here, so
Speaker 1: why don't we follow them? And maybe they have an
Speaker 1: easier way to get back up to the ship that's
Speaker 1: not climbing the very treacherous climb. Uh, women, KB go
Speaker 1: with the crabs. Fern and Neil go climbing. We go
Speaker 1: to Captain Brutus's ship. They're coming out of hyperspace. They've
Speaker 1: escaped from the X Wings and the captain is presiding.
Speaker 2: Over pirate court.
Speaker 1: The accused sits on the docket is Jod Slash Jack
Speaker 1: Slash Slash, whatever his name is. Brutus with alacrity, finds
Speaker 1: Jod guilty and sentences him to.
Speaker 2: Death by airlock.
Speaker 1: We're gonna let him out the airlock, but as various
Speaker 1: members of the pirate court, we're looking on mention, hey,
Speaker 1: we are pirates. But there is a very stringent legal
Speaker 1: code that says the accused must have equal time to
Speaker 1: argue their side of things. So Brutus very begrudgingly turns
Speaker 1: over a a uh sand of hourglass and is like, okay,
Speaker 1: go ahead, a very cool like lava lamp, lava lamp,
Speaker 1: A good a good plasma lamp.
Speaker 4: Yeah.
Speaker 1: Jod then very patiently, with a kind of air of weariness, like,
Speaker 1: oh this, you know, I guess it's my time and
Speaker 1: I have to tell the truth in the face of
Speaker 1: that injustice. And he makes his case, and his case
Speaker 1: is essentially a class warfare case, saying, hey, we're the
Speaker 1: down trodden, we are the poor, we.
Speaker 2: Don't have anything.
Speaker 1: No one is looking out for us. Therefore why shouldn't
Speaker 1: we Robin Steely, how much as can we survive?
Speaker 2: Right?
Speaker 3: I like, brow you also stole from these people?
Speaker 4: Like I feel like it's not like a great argument.
Speaker 2: By getting it's a very lizen. It's an argument that
Speaker 2: has its merits if it's not coming from John, who
Speaker 2: is a person.
Speaker 3: Truth truth.
Speaker 1: So he gets he finally gets to the point he's like, listen,
Speaker 1: I'm tired and hungry, and I know you're tired and hungry, and.
Speaker 2: Here we are.
Speaker 1: You guys are working for Brutus and it's very dangerous
Speaker 1: work when you really get any kind of loot. Well,
Speaker 1: I know of a place that's just loot, loot, loot, loot, loot.
Speaker 2: All it is lute. They actually make loot there. It
Speaker 2: is at Aton.
Speaker 1: Treasure Plane, at home of the Old Republic Mint. And
Speaker 1: guess what I got the details from the legend himself.
Speaker 1: Tack renod like bullsh fucking bullshit, I call bullshit tech.
Speaker 5: Round finally fucking like speaks like come on, realists, man, Yeah, like,
Speaker 5: come on, guys, don't trust Joad again.
Speaker 2: But also don't do it again.
Speaker 4: He's scamming as always, so good for him, incredible, you
Speaker 4: know what, maybe more sensitive because he can scam anyone
Speaker 4: out of anything.
Speaker 1: He can talk his way out of a situation. So
Speaker 1: he's like, listen, I know this place. He sings the
Speaker 1: tack renod at at and song.
Speaker 2: He says, I have.
Speaker 4: A who doesn't want to listen to Jude Law sing
Speaker 4: at because I was more.
Speaker 3: Let's add more in the last two episodes. More she's
Speaker 3: sea shanty.
Speaker 2: So he sings the sea shanty.
Speaker 1: And this seems to convince everybody that maybe this is
Speaker 1: the you know, the score is worth the risk and
Speaker 1: he and he says like, I've got the details. I
Speaker 1: know where it is, these kids being from their proofs
Speaker 1: that it's real. I got the details from tach Renod.
Speaker 2: Let's go.
Speaker 1: Let's make the biggest score of our lives. It'll be
Speaker 1: big rock Candy Mountain. You know, it's like candy and
Speaker 1: cakes all day for dinner, and an endless fountain of
Speaker 1: coins and it'll never run out and we'll all have
Speaker 1: as much as we want. Brutus is like, okay, but
Speaker 1: if the treasure's not there, you're dead.
Speaker 4: Very dumb for John to do this when he has
Speaker 4: no idea if this is actually what the treasure.
Speaker 2: Is, very very dumb for Brutus.
Speaker 1: Yes, I agree, Yeah, I think Brutus, why are we
Speaker 1: gonna trust this guy again? But I'm glad we do
Speaker 1: because the story continues. Yeah, the long walk with KB
Speaker 1: and Whim, KB collapses. Her hardware is it's all gunked up,
Speaker 1: all this like this planet. The environment is not great
Speaker 1: for her machinery. And they've been in steam rooms, they've
Speaker 1: been in water, they've been in snow.
Speaker 2: Yeah, that's bad.
Speaker 1: And she basically walks Whim through what he's going to
Speaker 1: need to do in order to fix her machinery, and
Speaker 1: luckily they're like in this trash field where there's SM
Speaker 1: thirty three probably would have ended up if he had
Speaker 1: been completely destroyed.
Speaker 2: There's just droids that are ded droids everywhere.
Speaker 1: Up above, Fern is really pushing Neil Art on this climb,
Speaker 1: but Neil points out, hey, listen, like I'm literally cheaped
Speaker 1: differently than you. My legs are shorter, my arms are shorter.
Speaker 1: You've got these long limbs. You're very athletic, like not
Speaker 1: everybody's like you, and you can't just be like, let's,
Speaker 1: you know, climb, climb, climb, climb climb.
Speaker 4: Yeah, there's a really good duality in those two scenes
Speaker 4: because also we're dealing with the fact that KB is
Speaker 4: like she's disabled. Fern will not do anything different because
Speaker 4: she doesn't want to acknowledge that KB has like different
Speaker 4: needs since the accident, and she just wants to pretend
Speaker 4: everything's okay. And that's actually like very real to how
Speaker 4: it is when you have a disability, Like people just
Speaker 4: want you to be fine, because then they're not. They
Speaker 4: feel uncomfortable exactly, And I.
Speaker 3: Thought that was really cool.
Speaker 4: There's been a lot too Star Wars disability representation. In
Speaker 4: the last few years, my great friend Jules Green, who
Speaker 4: is a fantastic writer, he wrote a piece of Adventures
Speaker 4: in Poor Taste about a character called Baylor Balance, who's
Speaker 4: like an old Star Wars character that they brought back
Speaker 4: in Bounty Hunters, and he's had this really incredible kind
Speaker 4: of journey as a character who at first was just
Speaker 4: like he's a cyborg, but now they've done a lot
Speaker 4: of like interesting representations of like disability in space and
Speaker 4: war and cyborgs and war and disability. So I'm glad
Speaker 4: that we got that here, and I'm also glad that
Speaker 4: it was Bryce styles sour direct thing, because I do
Speaker 4: just think.
Speaker 2: There's a sensorship.
Speaker 4: She's so fantastic, Like, when will we give her her
Speaker 4: own trilogy?
Speaker 2: Please, guys, She's real good.
Speaker 1: More on this storyline and a bit, Wim gets all
Speaker 1: the stuff and repairs KB, and as he's doing so,
Speaker 1: KB is talking about the situation with Fern and admits that,
Speaker 1: you know, I can't with you because I don't think
Speaker 1: I can make the climb physically.
Speaker 2: I can't do it.
Speaker 1: And Fern doesn't appreciate that, doesn't understand that since the
Speaker 1: accident I'm just limited in different ways, and she doesn't
Speaker 1: want to hear it, and she also brings up and
Speaker 1: I thought this was very sensitive and very real. Like
Speaker 1: anybody who's you know, there comes this is the age
Speaker 1: when you're a kid where friends start going in different
Speaker 1: directions sometimes, you know, because you know, when you're a kid,
Speaker 1: you're just like that kid lives next to me.
Speaker 2: Therefore we are friends.
Speaker 1: We are friendly, like you're close, but like at that age,
Speaker 1: you start realizing like, oh, we're different people, and that
Speaker 1: brings up all different kinds of emotions. And I thought
Speaker 1: they did a really good job here where Kabe basically
Speaker 1: says like I and I didn't bring this up to
Speaker 1: Fern because I'm afraid of losing her friend. I don't
Speaker 1: want to lose my best friend and then I'll be alone.
Speaker 4: Also, like when you're disabled and you start saying like
Speaker 4: oh I can't do that, I'm tired, or I can't
Speaker 4: make it, you do quickly use lose friends as a kid.
Speaker 2: Especially, Yeah, because people just yeah.
Speaker 3: They want to do fun stuff.
Speaker 2: They want to do.
Speaker 1: Fun stuff, or they don't want to be you know,
Speaker 1: being there's a hierarchy that's very very rigid when you're
Speaker 1: a kid and it's that and you feel it all
Speaker 1: the time.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 1: So Wim performs a procedure and then KB goes very ominously.
Speaker 2: Quiet for a while.
Speaker 1: It's very very scary, but then she reboots and she's okay,
Speaker 1: up above fern now with a rope connected to Neil,
Speaker 1: so she's listening to criticisms. Is now coaching him through climbing.
Speaker 2: Is not just like come on.
Speaker 1: Neil loo, she's actually being like, Okay, one step at
Speaker 1: a time and let's go and I grab here. Meanwhile,
Speaker 1: the crabs take women KB to like this rocky outcrop
Speaker 1: where there's like a giant crab Kaiju waiting who just
Speaker 1: wants to eat them. And it's very clear that what
Speaker 1: happened is the trash crabs just brought them.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I would like lunch to this.
Speaker 3: They surely like Wim just saved kb's life.
Speaker 4: But then he's like, let's get eaten by like the giants,
Speaker 4: you know, Mohanatu tamatoa, Like let's sing shiny, where's Jermaine?
Speaker 4: Like yeah that was I thought that was so funny
Speaker 4: because I was like, this is classic Wim, Like he'll
Speaker 4: come through in a moment when you need him, but
Speaker 4: he'll also be.
Speaker 3: Like, let's just follow some trash crabs.
Speaker 4: This seems like a good, magical fairytale plan that couldn't
Speaker 4: possibly end badly.
Speaker 1: Meanwhile, Fern and Neil are like have climbed level with
Speaker 1: their ship that is being like uh towed by these
Speaker 1: like little tugboat ships. They very dangerously jump on top
Speaker 1: of their ship and manage to like guide the tugboats
Speaker 1: down to the crab kaiju and they save KB and
Speaker 1: WIM and it's very a very close thing, and then.
Speaker 2: The ship crashes.
Speaker 1: The kids for all off, but everybody's saved.
Speaker 2: They're okay.
Speaker 1: The kids, uh you know, are so happy to see
Speaker 1: each other. KB apologizes to Fern.
Speaker 3: Didn't need to.
Speaker 2: KB didn't need to.
Speaker 1: Fern first apologize to K for and I'm sorry too
Speaker 1: for not saying anything. And that's fine, but I just
Speaker 1: want to say, KB, you don't have nothing to apoligh
Speaker 1: you actually think don't apologize. Don't apologize when you're the
Speaker 1: person that doesn't need to. But I appreciate it. I
Speaker 1: appreciate the thought, but you you didn't need to. And anyway,
Speaker 1: the kids are like our ship, what the fuck? They
Speaker 1: look over and it's about to be like chewed up
Speaker 1: by this huge scrapper. So they get in the ship.
Speaker 1: Neil gets in the pilot seat, KB goes running off
Speaker 1: to the engine room to.
Speaker 2: Like do repairs.
Speaker 1: Whim of course gets behind the big cannon.
Speaker 3: And this guy.
Speaker 4: Can we just say, like, this guy needs to stay
Speaker 4: away from a like why is he god?
Speaker 2: Actually that's very childlike. Actually he loves a gun.
Speaker 3: He's a gun, loves the light.
Speaker 1: And then but it doesn't seem like anything's gonna work.
Speaker 1: You know, they've got full power going, they're they're they've
Speaker 1: got the thrusters engaged. Neil is pulling up on the yoke,
Speaker 1: and then finally they're like, well, I guess we got
Speaker 1: to push this button.
Speaker 2: Yeah, you were told never to push never Ever, Fern
Speaker 2: pushes the.
Speaker 1: Button and what it does is like Jettison's the outer
Speaker 1: skin of the ship, the junkie really shitty outer skin
Speaker 1: of the ship to reveal a sleek, very old school
Speaker 1: old Republic looking like Noboo looking ship and then they
Speaker 1: fly off off to ad Adam. Wonderful episode.
Speaker 4: Yeah, very fun episode. I you know what, sometimes when
Speaker 4: Disney is like uses Star Wars to like advertise stuff
Speaker 4: I can be annoyed, but I'm not gonna lie. I
Speaker 4: have played the Scavengers run ride at Disneyland, and it
Speaker 4: is very fun to see.
Speaker 3: The kids essentially doing the same thing.
Speaker 2: Everybody.
Speaker 3: Yeah, also as well, like it's nice to see them
Speaker 3: kind of become a crew.
Speaker 4: I thought this was a great episode. I think Kab
Speaker 4: deserved an episode like this. I love that everyone's getting
Speaker 4: their episodes. I think it was super producer Aaron who
Speaker 4: before was talking about, like, next episode feels like it
Speaker 4: has to be a whim episode. What do you think
Speaker 4: or do you think the wim episode for the finale.
Speaker 1: Feels like it has to be a whim episode, and
Speaker 1: then the parents get an episode we figure out what's
Speaker 1: going on. That's where I feel like we're going. Or
Speaker 1: maybe we get a job episode in the finale. Oh,
Speaker 1: that could be adults episode.
Speaker 2: In the adults episode.
Speaker 3: Also, I do feel like I feel like Jod.
Speaker 4: Is trying to get back to and for a reason
Speaker 4: other than the treasure, like maybe he had.
Speaker 3: Been there before or something.
Speaker 4: So I feel like there's gonna be some kind of connection,
Speaker 4: some kind of new fake name or maybe his real
Speaker 4: name when he meets the parents. I also think I
Speaker 4: feel like we're gonna get more of Whim's dad. Maybe
Speaker 4: that will be in the next episode, if it is
Speaker 4: a Whim episode. Yeah, I'm very interested. I feel like
Speaker 4: there is a lot to tie up into episodes, but
Speaker 4: so far this show has been no filler, only bangers.
Speaker 1: I do agree that there feels like there is something
Speaker 1: else behind Jod's mission.
Speaker 2: That's said.
Speaker 1: The light in his eyes when he climbed out of
Speaker 1: tech Renod's treasure room laden jewels. Oh, he looks jewel treasures.
Speaker 1: Was impot he was beaming. He looked so happy to
Speaker 1: be covered in lout. So I agree with you, But
Speaker 1: I do think he is heavily loot motivating.
Speaker 2: You know, he loves treasure absolutely.
Speaker 4: I just think that might be like a little bit,
Speaker 4: a little bit more. Maybe he feels like maybe he
Speaker 4: used to walk at the minute.
Speaker 3: I don't know, but I do.
Speaker 2: Yeah, obviously he does love treasure.
Speaker 1: Let's just I also feel like good shows, and this
Speaker 1: is a good show always figure out a way to
Speaker 1: make you forget about the cold open and then it matters. Yeah,
Speaker 1: that cold open is gonna matter somehow. Yeah, And I
Speaker 1: don't know how yet, But there's something in the storytelling
Speaker 1: of that that's gonna matter. I feel like I also
Speaker 1: feel like, just to return to the disability plot line again,
Speaker 1: I thought they I thought it was I thought they
Speaker 1: did an amazing job too, with how hard it can
Speaker 1: be to feel different and to not want to bring
Speaker 1: it up, but also to have to just coming having
Speaker 1: to come to terms with it on your own. Kabe
Speaker 1: is really having to do. She's having to come to
Speaker 1: terms with herself and her comfort level with herself and
Speaker 1: her confidence in advocating for herself, which is, again, you
Speaker 1: didn't need to apologize, you were advocated. You need to
Speaker 1: You've got to advocate for yourself. N't apologetically, but I
Speaker 1: get it. It's it's hardly at that age, which again
Speaker 1: I think they they tackled that with immense sensitivity, even
Speaker 1: like the climb where Fern is like driving, like come
Speaker 1: on deal and dude, my fucking legs are literally like.
Speaker 4: It's like I'm a cute, chubby elephant like climbing, Yeah,
Speaker 4: I have three fat fingers, Like I can't.
Speaker 2: It's not easy.
Speaker 1: And I think they did a great job and just
Speaker 1: bring highlighting differences and how other characters kind of like
Speaker 1: need to appreciate them and acknowledge it.
Speaker 2: I think it was. I was.
Speaker 1: I am always surprised by this show, just like how
Speaker 1: good and thoughtful it really is.
Speaker 4: And it's yeah, and the layers to it as well,
Speaker 4: because like you said, it's hot. It really is just
Speaker 4: like a treasure hunt and there's a lot of Yeah,
Speaker 4: you know, we get a lot of pirate lingo in
Speaker 4: this episode. There's lots of like sme and he's getting
Speaker 4: captured again, Like, there's all these kind of references and
Speaker 4: throwbacks to pirate law. Jod obviously loves treasure. We get
Speaker 4: some funny treasure moments. But within all of that, they've
Speaker 4: found a space to like tell these stories and I
Speaker 4: think that is really great. And I really really want
Speaker 4: to know more about Wim and Whim's dad and where
Speaker 4: the Whim's mum is the secret supervisor slash pirate at
Speaker 4: the Tack Reynold, I.
Speaker 3: Don't know, but I'm I'm interested to see what happens now.
Speaker 4: And I'm very excited that we're only two episodes away.
Speaker 3: Yes, so I will miss this show.
Speaker 2: I will miss it too. It's been fun. Well.
Speaker 1: Coming up tomorrow, we're doing our twenty twenty five look
Speaker 1: ahead at movies and TV shows and all the stuff
Speaker 1: we're looking forward to in this year of twenty twenty five.
Speaker 1: And of course we're going to continue to cover Skeleton
Speaker 1: Crew Episode seven of Skeleton Crew next week. That's it
Speaker 1: for this episode.
Speaker 3: Thanks for listening.
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