Speaker 1: Warning, today's episode contains spoilers for the finale of Skeleton
Speaker 1: Crew and the whole series in general, so watch that
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Speaker 2: Exciting. In today's episode, we are covering the finale of Star.
Speaker 3: Wars Skeleton Crew?
Speaker 2: Do the kids survive? Is Jo a bad guy? What's
Speaker 2: going on in attin? All these questions and more will
Speaker 2: be answered.
Speaker 1: Let's get right to it, Okay, Episode eight, the finale
Speaker 1: the real good Guys. We pick up right after the
Speaker 1: end of the previous episode. Jod with his lightsaber ignited
Speaker 1: for some reason, is like pretending to be the new
Speaker 1: Republic emissary. He greets the parents, He gives them a
Speaker 1: big lecture about how bad their kids have been, and
Speaker 1: they're in trouble and security is very important, as you
Speaker 1: know on ad Adam, and so these kids should be
Speaker 1: grounded immediately and confined to their homes.
Speaker 3: That's it.
Speaker 1: They can't go out because, you know, you just be
Speaker 1: lucky that they're not in bigger trouble. Fern at this
Speaker 1: point makes it a little too obvious that she's not
Speaker 1: going to being not good at it.
Speaker 2: She's being like tough and I'm like, babe, just like
Speaker 2: pretend to go.
Speaker 3: Go along to ghet along.
Speaker 4: Yeah.
Speaker 1: She like is clearly signaling with her eyes to her mom,
Speaker 1: I'm under secretary of Farah and all this other stuff,
Speaker 1: trying to say with gestures and with looks like hey,
Speaker 1: something's wrong here. So John is like, you know what
Speaker 1: Fern and Pharah want, don't you come with me and
Speaker 1: let's go meet the supervisor. Wendell takes Wim home, where
Speaker 1: he makes him a sad single dad dinner. It's come
Speaker 1: on straight out of the microwave. Wendel stand before this episode.
Speaker 1: But I've gotta say, Wendel, he's not he's not living
Speaker 1: up to it. I hope Wim will be able to
Speaker 1: inspire him to be like a more dynamic dad after this.
Speaker 1: So Wendell is eager for Wim to just get right
Speaker 1: back to studying for placement exams, and Wim is like,
Speaker 1: are you fucking kidding me, Like, I just found out
Speaker 1: that the galaxy is a big, violent, dangerous place filled
Speaker 1: with lots of different kinds of people and like failed
Speaker 1: Jedi and the New Republic and X Wing fighters and
Speaker 1: all this like owls with telescopes and maps all this stuff,
Speaker 1: and I'm still like processing all of that information, like
Speaker 1: I can't just like get back to school.
Speaker 2: Yeah, and there's an evil guy on our planet trying
Speaker 2: to take overall.
Speaker 3: Yeah, Like, man, like, can you give me a second
Speaker 3: to try and deal with this?
Speaker 1: And he tries to hint at that, but Wendel is like,
Speaker 1: don't worry about it. The Supervisor's got this. The Supervisor's great,
Speaker 1: and he's got this under control.
Speaker 2: And the reason that Wim can't just tell him is
Speaker 2: because Jod has all the Supervisor droids kind of spying
Speaker 2: on the family and making.
Speaker 1: Its threatened to kill the parents if they.
Speaker 3: Yeah, in a very brutal way, said he would call
Speaker 3: him up.
Speaker 1: So Wim, though, begins plotting to like get Fern back
Speaker 1: from Jod's clutches. He's walking talking with Neil, but then
Speaker 1: the droids are just like all over his ass, so
Speaker 1: it's very hard to do anything. Pharah takes John and
Speaker 1: Fern up to see the supervisor and guess what's It's
Speaker 1: like an Arnhem Zola from the Winter Soldier situation, only
Speaker 1: if Zola was a droid. I guess the whole time.
Speaker 3: Like a whole time, like a giant one eyed android,
Speaker 3: one eyed droid slash Ai. Maybe I'm taking this as
Speaker 3: that we were right. I think we can ring the
Speaker 3: bell we were right.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I guessed he was a droid very how from
Speaker 2: two thousand and one with that big red blinking eye.
Speaker 2: And yeah, that is not a surprise, especially because it
Speaker 2: seems like the whole and is kind of running on
Speaker 2: an automated system where all the humans just do whatever
Speaker 2: the droids.
Speaker 3: Say, and now we know why because the supervisor is
Speaker 3: a droid.
Speaker 2: Also, Farah does not seem surprised he's a droid. So
Speaker 2: I guess they knew that, the parents obviously, and they.
Speaker 3: Think it's great. They I love this.
Speaker 1: So the supervisor sniffs out that John is a pirate
Speaker 1: for a variety of reasons. One he's acting really kind
Speaker 1: of evil and scary. Two he said he was a Jedi,
Speaker 1: and the last that at Aton heard was the Jedi
Speaker 1: were all traders. So the last time they've heard about
Speaker 1: Jedi was around the time of Lord is sixty.
Speaker 2: Yes, and when Palpatine sent out that little email, he
Speaker 2: made sure Yes likes two.
Speaker 3: He's like, hey, CC.
Speaker 1: Everybody on the planets, like.
Speaker 2: Just CC those old Republic gems and just let him
Speaker 2: know those Jedi who would have bad boys that trait is.
Speaker 1: Also, Jod keeps asking about his other ship and whether
Speaker 1: he can like break protocol and just have his other
Speaker 1: ship land. And then also Fern just like yells out
Speaker 1: he's a pirate.
Speaker 3: Yeah, She's like they're unto him.
Speaker 1: Like, so the supervisor triggers the security protocols, but Jod
Speaker 1: then stabs the supervisor through the eye and basically brings
Speaker 1: down the entire global network of power, of infrastructure, of
Speaker 1: security droids. The whole thing just like shuts down, which
Speaker 1: is like, why did you bring him all the way
Speaker 1: up there? They should have there should be like a
Speaker 1: waiting room and then you can interrogate him from there.
Speaker 1: Don't let him get close to you.
Speaker 2: What are you doing if your entire system is like
Speaker 2: a high mind of robots that will be shut down
Speaker 2: if you stab your big robot in the eye.
Speaker 3: I feel like that's a security issue. I'd put like
Speaker 3: a little.
Speaker 2: Cage over the eye or something, just a little security protocol.
Speaker 2: But you know what if this is from Order sixty six,
Speaker 2: but we are in you know, a kind of closer
Speaker 2: to like a Rise of Skywalker era that is.
Speaker 3: Very old technology as well.
Speaker 2: Yes, so you know what, sure, But Jod, he did it,
Speaker 2: He did it, He beat him, And I just have
Speaker 2: to say so many times throughout this episode, which I
Speaker 2: did personally love, I felt like they stuck the landing.
Speaker 2: But to me, I just kept having that same feeling
Speaker 2: like they are so lucky that they got Jude Law
Speaker 2: for this role.
Speaker 3: He has got so much emotion, and he can switch
Speaker 3: between smiley and scary and trustworthy and untrustworthy, and he's
Speaker 3: just so perfect as this kind of heel turning, face
Speaker 3: turning pirate who you never know what you're gonna get,
Speaker 3: and every kind of moment that he was going through
Speaker 3: this and face acting his horror or his resignedness or
Speaker 3: his frustration. I was just thinking, if there was any
Speaker 3: justice in this world, this man would be nominated for
Speaker 3: awards because he is just so good in this role.
Speaker 1: Jod insists that if under secretary Pharaoh will help him
Speaker 1: get his ship down, which does not need to include
Speaker 1: turning off the barrier all the way. You just have to,
Speaker 1: like whatever, use your navigational network to just open up
Speaker 1: a path and let my ship come down. He and
Speaker 1: his pirate friends will simply take credits and leave. There
Speaker 1: will be no enslaving of the population, none of that's
Speaker 1: they're not gonna stick around, yeah, or loot the surrounding suburbs.
Speaker 1: And then so Parah agrees whim. Meanwhile, now back at
Speaker 1: their house with no power, tells Wendell the truth about
Speaker 1: Jod and just in that moment, they look up in
Speaker 1: the sky and here's the pirate cruiser, and the pirate
Speaker 1: cruiser just immediately begins shelling the area. And it's just
Speaker 1: like completely mindlessly, Like you see a bus get blown up,
Speaker 1: you see a cam get blown ups. Family, They almost
Speaker 1: hit Neil's family. There's no way there are not oh
Speaker 1: dozens of.
Speaker 3: So many casualties.
Speaker 2: Also, I just want to say, if there is a
Speaker 2: way that you can allow a ship to come down,
Speaker 2: surely couldn't they have just sent a ship up with
Speaker 2: some credits for the pirates. I feel like, don't let
Speaker 2: them on the planet. Look, I'm a pirate fan. I
Speaker 2: have to say I was feeling for the pirates in
Speaker 2: this episode. I do think the pirates get a bad rap.
Speaker 2: Even though there's a lot of murder. They are working
Speaker 2: in a different system that's kind of in this outer
Speaker 2: Rim galaxy politics, like outside of the New Republic. So
Speaker 2: I don't necessarily, you know, see pirates as some all
Speaker 2: big bad situation. It's very complex, you know, when you're
Speaker 2: trying to struggle out there with no Republic credits.
Speaker 3: But don't let them on the planet, guy.
Speaker 1: You kid, don't let them, especially when credits without any
Speaker 1: kind of provocation at all. They're just like get their
Speaker 1: cannons off, like at that publication. Okay, So Whim, Fern
Speaker 1: and Neil show up at excuse me, Fern and Neil
Speaker 1: and KB show up at Whim's house and they're like,
Speaker 1: here's the plan. We go to our ship and we
Speaker 1: get out into the atmosphere. We send a message to
Speaker 1: the bird lady Kim with all the maps, and we
Speaker 1: have her contact the X Wing pilot. Good guys, and
Speaker 1: then they come and save the day. So they race
Speaker 1: off to do this with Wendell in tow and he's
Speaker 1: like not happy about it.
Speaker 2: He's on his little uh on his little speeder bike
Speaker 2: that he got from a random passer by, and the
Speaker 2: speeder bike seeing here where they're kind of going through
Speaker 2: the darkened streets of Attain.
Speaker 3: Very easy, very good, very fun.
Speaker 1: Next thing, you know, though, the pirate invasion is really intensifying.
Speaker 1: They're rounding up civilians. Now they're looting the areas. They're
Speaker 1: like invading homes.
Speaker 3: It's bad.
Speaker 1: Wendell figures out after they get to their ship, there's
Speaker 1: a chase. The kids get to the ship. They evade
Speaker 1: the pirates. They get to the ship, but the ship
Speaker 1: can't fly because it doesn't have power and windows, Like, oh,
Speaker 1: I know how to get the power. There's a switch.
Speaker 1: It's up in the supervisor's tower, so we have to
Speaker 1: go there. Meanwhile, Neil is like, I'm gonna go off
Speaker 1: to this rooftop superlaser, which I now know is up
Speaker 1: there because of the civil war planet we were on,
Speaker 1: and I'm going to use that to cover our our
Speaker 1: ship when it goes up into orbit. Fern plans to grab. Meanwhile,
Speaker 1: up in the Supervisor's tower means to grab a blaster
Speaker 1: from a downdroid. But John is like, sees her whispering
Speaker 1: with her mom.
Speaker 5: And they're not very good at this. Stop mom, stop
Speaker 5: plotting the pluting. He's like, stop plotting and listen to this.
Speaker 5: And he turns on the mic for the PA and
Speaker 5: he begins addressing the entire planet and he basically says,
Speaker 5: at at and you are my slaves.
Speaker 3: Now I'm in charge.
Speaker 1: I'm in charge of you work for me. Just keep
Speaker 1: making credits and no one will be hurt. But basically like,
Speaker 1: I'm the boss now. Wim arrives at the tower holding
Speaker 1: a walkie talking and he's like, guess what I just
Speaker 1: called the X the X Wings I just called The
Speaker 1: cops are on their way. John's like, oh yeah, what
Speaker 1: about the barrier? How's the single gonna get through the barrier?
Speaker 1: And He's like, well, guess what. We're able to get
Speaker 1: a signal past the barrier because of the crystal of
Speaker 1: the founder yeshs. John obviously knows that Wim is bullshitting,
Speaker 1: but he doesn't know that this is a stall play
Speaker 1: so that Wendel can flip aforementioned power switch. Flips the switch,
Speaker 1: Kab manages to get there pirate ship up into the
Speaker 1: sky and up into orbit with this in thirty three's help,
Speaker 1: He's just ahead now. Meanwhile, John has taken everybody prisoner again.
Speaker 1: Neil manages to cover kb's escape with the super laser,
Speaker 1: but then has to retreat because the pirate's begin shooting
Speaker 1: at the super laser. KB up in orbit, gets the
Speaker 1: message to Kim, who's like, guess what the X Wings
Speaker 1: are coming. They'll be there very very fast. She's like,
Speaker 1: I've been waiting, and I've been waiting for this.
Speaker 3: Look. I love Kim, I love KB.
Speaker 2: I want to support this plan holy but I will
Speaker 2: say Kim, she sounds pretty excited that they got back
Speaker 2: to At, and I think she may have ulterior motives,
Speaker 2: as would I do believe.
Speaker 3: Also that the X Wing New Republics.
Speaker 2: I believe they too may have been looking for At
Speaker 2: at Tim because they just see him very eager to
Speaker 2: get there very quickly, and I would be in And
Speaker 2: also the fact that this episode's called The Real Good
Speaker 2: Guys kind of like I think, adds to that complexity
Speaker 2: of like who is a good guy, who is the
Speaker 2: bad guy in this situation, But obviously in this moment
Speaker 2: seems great love to see him again. Love to see
Speaker 2: how and KB team back up. Well a bore pat Yeah.
Speaker 1: KB gets shot down out of orbit by the Powers
Speaker 1: and the Chip. The ship crashes and the kids watch
Speaker 1: it crash, looking on with horror as it does so,
Speaker 1: and John is like, see what you did.
Speaker 3: That's your fault.
Speaker 1: You did that.
Speaker 3: Seem really upset about it too.
Speaker 1: He was saying, but he was like, that's one hundred
Speaker 1: percent your fault, definitely. Wim takes this opportunity to grab
Speaker 1: the barrier switch and start trying to turn it off.
Speaker 1: There's a struggle now, Jod with his lightsabred to Wendell's neck.
Speaker 1: Wim saying, you were never a Jedi. Jod giving us
Speaker 1: a little bit of a backstory, saying, I was kind
Speaker 1: of raised and trained for a very short while by
Speaker 1: a person that was clearly an on the run post
Speaker 1: Order sixty six Jedi who was then hunted down and killed.
Speaker 1: Very sad story.
Speaker 2: Confirmation here in multiple ways that Jod actually is for sensitive.
Speaker 3: We see him force push, we see him you watch
Speaker 3: him do stuff.
Speaker 2: Yeah, and he doesn't have a lot of power, but
Speaker 2: it's very clear that this desperate woman, as he describes her,
Speaker 2: was somebody who trained him at least a little while,
Speaker 2: and that's helped him kind of get through the galaxy.
Speaker 2: But as he says, the galaxy, it's a dark, horrible place,
Speaker 2: like nobody's going to help you. This isn't something that's
Speaker 2: going to go well for you, And he wants Wim
Speaker 2: to be as depressed and hopeless about it as as
Speaker 2: he is.
Speaker 1: Eventually, once Farah adds her strength to this little struggle,
Speaker 1: they managed to get the barrier turned off. Barrier turns off,
Speaker 1: it disappears. Here come the X Wings.
Speaker 3: And I think the barrier has gone forever.
Speaker 1: It seems like it's like once it's off, you can't
Speaker 1: turn it on again. Seem to be what they were
Speaker 1: saying with the way you were watching it disappear. The
Speaker 1: X Wings then immediately go ape shit on the pirate
Speaker 1: ship and take it down, clearly resulting in another couple
Speaker 1: hundred days both on the ship and on the ground.
Speaker 5: Don't do not feel like the people over and are
Speaker 5: gonna look on this one as a oh, the Jedi came.
Speaker 3: And saved today, save to day.
Speaker 5: No, I think they're gonna be hayen on this situation,
Speaker 5: because very very clearly, the very violent crash.
Speaker 3: Yes, very violent, very wild.
Speaker 1: Everybody, all our heroes that is run to see where
Speaker 1: the kids ship crashed with KB on it, and luckily
Speaker 1: it was caught by like some weird name, like it's
Speaker 1: in one piece basically, and the cargo hold pops open
Speaker 1: and all these credits starts spilling out onto the ground
Speaker 1: and out comes KB washed along, you know, like a
Speaker 1: like a piece of food down the drain on these
Speaker 1: tide of credits, and she's fine, She's okay. Also okay,
Speaker 1: s M thirty three, who is just ahead, He's okay,
Speaker 1: hold his own head, also okay? Is the rat that
Speaker 1: lived in SM thirty three's head that Neil is apparently
Speaker 1: now gonna get AFTA love that.
Speaker 2: And then we kind of get this moment where we
Speaker 2: see all of the planet looking up at the stars,
Speaker 2: something they've never seen. The barriers kept them out of that,
Speaker 2: they've only had fake electric lighting. They're all looking up,
Speaker 2: but who is looking up the most Whim He's looking
Speaker 2: up at those stars and he's like, I'm gonna get
Speaker 2: involved with this galactic I want to chop.
Speaker 3: Some heads off, I want to kill some people. And
Speaker 3: he's looking up at the sky and his dad's.
Speaker 4: Like Whim, but Whim's like, no, sorry, Dad, He's like,
Speaker 4: I love violence, I love ships, shooting blasters.
Speaker 1: I love it. I want to do it again.
Speaker 3: And will he do it again? That's the big question.
Speaker 3: Scouting Crew has not yet been renewed for a second season.
Speaker 3: I don't believe and we.
Speaker 2: But I loved it. I thought it was great, Jason.
Speaker 2: What we have overall thoughts on the show.
Speaker 1: Really fun and the kind of tone that I think
Speaker 1: that they could do more of. It is you know
Speaker 1: whether or not this story will continue. I think it's
Speaker 1: a I think it's very interesting. I think I would
Speaker 1: love to see many of these characters make their way
Speaker 1: into Star Wars proper job included, and how they do
Speaker 1: that I think will be very interesting to see. Ed
Speaker 1: At now appears to be part of the Wider Galaxy.
Speaker 1: What does that mean?
Speaker 2: Could we see At and be visited by the Mandalorian
Speaker 2: or someone in those I think a big takeaway I
Speaker 2: had and I saw some people in the discord agreeing
Speaker 2: with this. That final moment where Wim was looking up
Speaker 2: and we were kind of getting this vision of his
Speaker 2: face as he saw the stars for the first time
Speaker 2: from his home planet. Definitely feels like he could be
Speaker 2: in the Race Skywalker movie as one of her students
Speaker 2: or a version of him. Jod, is he still alive.
Speaker 2: I think he's still alive. Yeah, he will see it,
Speaker 2: but I think he's still alive. He was a four
Speaker 2: sensitive Jedi. He seems like a very easy could show
Speaker 2: up in a potential TV show or movie something like that.
Speaker 3: We would know not to trust him, but the characters would.
Speaker 1: I could see Jod getting, you know, put on some
Speaker 1: prison planet somewhere, and then his story continuing from there.
Speaker 1: The creator and showrunner of Skeleton and Crew, John Watts
Speaker 1: told Collider that he does have an idea for a
Speaker 1: second season. Quote have an idea for a second season
Speaker 1: and know what.
Speaker 3: We would do.
Speaker 1: Adding quote have a built in ticking clock of the
Speaker 1: kids in their age, and by the time we would
Speaker 1: get production going, we know what age they would be.
Speaker 1: So basically, they're planning to do a time jump to
Speaker 1: catch up with the kids so that it's all their
Speaker 1: ages are correct in the story when they catch back
Speaker 1: up with That would.
Speaker 2: Be history as well, because then you could see an
Speaker 2: old version of Whim who maybe is already seeking out
Speaker 2: Jedi training. I would love to see him in that
Speaker 2: Ray movie. I think he's so fun. I think he's
Speaker 2: got such a hunger for destruction.
Speaker 6: But also hope, which is important when a Jedi in
Speaker 6: could it'll be interesting to see with Ray what the
Speaker 6: paradigm for the Force and force sensitives are going forward.
Speaker 1: Wim did not seem to have any talent no for
Speaker 1: the Force, and I kind of like it like that, Yeah.
Speaker 2: Me too. I think you need Jedi in spite of
Speaker 2: force sensitivity or not.
Speaker 3: You need some kind of force for good in the world.
Speaker 3: Maybe there'll be a lack of sensitive kids.
Speaker 2: In a certain generation. That could be an interesting rinkle
Speaker 2: for them to add. Okay, so we've had Tales of
Speaker 2: the Jedi, we've had Tales of the Sith. Are we
Speaker 2: going to get a more generic like Tales of the
Speaker 2: Galaxy or Tales of the Pirates? Not as catchy, But
Speaker 2: you know, I think we could see an episode about
Speaker 2: Jod and his backstory, because it seemed like they were
Speaker 2: telling us about that in the credits, and that really
Speaker 2: beautiful are I also think that we get some interesting
Speaker 2: nods here. The High Republic has for a long time
Speaker 2: been a big part of this show because of the
Speaker 2: great work, which is mentioned in the High Republic, but
Speaker 2: here we also get that the Crystal of the Founders,
Speaker 2: while there is no Crystal of the Founders in like
Speaker 2: Star Wars Law as we know it, like with that name,
Speaker 2: there are twenty two core founders who founded the Galactic Republic,
Speaker 2: and that's part of the High Republic era storytelling.
Speaker 3: So I'm interested to see them kind of digging a
Speaker 3: little bit more into that book Law also as well.
Speaker 2: I just love the idea that we're getting to explore
Speaker 2: these parts of the galaxy that have never been explored,
Speaker 2: and this, to me is a great example of how
Speaker 2: you can do that in a totally unexpected way.
Speaker 3: While still making something that feels familiar and fun. It's
Speaker 3: got that Gooniess.
Speaker 2: Vibe, it's got that et vibe, it's got the Amblan vibe.
Speaker 2: But I think that they did enough to make it
Speaker 2: stand with the modern great Star Wars stories like and
Speaker 2: or you know, these tales where there's more complexity than
Speaker 2: you're expecting, more exploration.
Speaker 3: But they did it through the lens of kids.
Speaker 2: So I would love to see a second season. I
Speaker 2: would love to see what happens to KB. You know,
Speaker 2: I think She's a really great addition. Yeah, I'm excited
Speaker 2: to see where Star Wars goes next and whether or
Speaker 2: not we will see any of these characters. I mean,
Speaker 2: we're so far away from a new Star Wars movie
Speaker 2: that the TV stuff is really what we're gonna have
Speaker 2: for the next couple of years.
Speaker 1: Yeah. Well, next week on Extra Vision, starting Tuesday, we're
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