Welcome back to the blog readers. At this point, it is undeniable. Star Wars: Skeleton Crew is awesome and I am loving every minute of it. Jon Watts has brought a sense of wonder back to Star Wars, and each episode is getting better and better for me. Last week definitely took a dark turn and now I am curious to see where we go from here. Would we continue to go dark or turn back to the light? More importantly, would we be able to stick the landing at the three-fourths mark of the show? Stick around to find out with my review of this episode, titled "Zero Friends Again," written by Myung Joh Wesner, and directed by Bryce Dallas Howard.
NOTE: I will be using spoilers for my thoughts, so DO NOT read ahead if you have not seen the episode. And as always, I will not be talking about the performances of the children for obvious reasons.
I personally could never expect that this show would be as awesome as it has wound up being. Five episodes in, I cannot believe how charming this show is and how much I have fallen in love with these characters. The children are all authentic and true to what kids are actually like. Jude Law is killing it in his role as Jod Na Nawood/Captain Silvo. And this episode really gets into the relationships between the kids and I fucking loved it.
I know I said I was not going to talk about the performances of the kids at all, and I definitely am not going to do that in this paragraph. But what I do want to mention about the kids is that their chemistry may have been really good in the first five episodes, but these kids so a really good job this week of making you care about them and their plight to return home to At Attin. We see the deepening of the relationship between Fern and KB when secrets between the two are revealed. We begin to develop a friendship between Wim and KB and one develops between Fern and Neel as well. And when they all come together for the end of the episode, my heart was smiling the entire time. I cannot wait to see what we get for the final two episodes.
Now let us talk about the story of this episode because although it is short, it packs a hell of a punch. We start immediately after the events of last week's episode when the children escape from Tak Rennod's lair through a hidden chute. They go through a trash chute and find themselves so far below the landing pad where the Onyx Cinder is. The kids disagree on how to get back to their ship (Wim and KB want to follow a group of trash crabs to determine if there is someone that can help them, and Fern and Neel want to climb up the mountain to return to the ship). The two teams split up. KB and Wim get tripped up when KB's cybernetics get corroded and Wim is forced to save her. Fern and Neel get tripped up when Neel's fear of climbing comes back to haunt him. When Fern and Neel discover the ship is being taken to the trash heap by barges, the two jump on the barge to get the ship back. Wim and KB find that the trash crabs are leading them to a giant one that wants to eat them, so they are saved in the nick of time by Fern and Neel. Once they get to the ship, they cannot escape the incinerator, so Fern presses the "emergency hull destruction button" that SM-33 told them never to press. This unveils a new ship that escapes the incinerator, and they leave the planet of Lanupa.
Meanwhile, Jod and SM-33 are escaping Tak's lair through the roof, and they are confronted and captured by Brutus's forces. The two are taken to Brutus's ship, where he deems him guilty and sentences him to death via airlock to suffocate in space. Jod convinces the pirates to let him have his last rites of appeal, where he reveals the treasure of Tak and the fact he knows the location of At Attin. Brutus decides to spare him in exchange for the location of At Attin. Even though I do not love him betraying the children, I do appreciate that he is still committed to it, even if it means betraying their trust in the end. I really do not know how this show is going to end, but I definitely think we are not done seeing backstabbing and backhanded deals. Especially since we have two episodes left to answer some major mysteries. Who is the Supervisor? What is this "great work" and why is this planet sealed off? I do believe we will get these answers by the end of the show.
Star Wars: Skeleton Crew is quickly becoming one of my favorite shows on right now, and everything is firing on all cylinders. I am loving the performances we are getting and the overall charm is on overdrive right now. Thank you all for reading, and I will see you for the next post.
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