Skeleton Crew Preserve Jod a Villain?

Most of the time, 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 checklist, characters that at one time are unhealthy find yourself turning good. Thus far although, on the most recent Star Wars present, Skeleton Crew, we’ve seen the other. Jod Na Nawood (Jude Regulation) 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 tip, we’re questioning, what’s going to occur subsequent?

Clearly, your guess is pretty much as good as ours right here. We have now not but seen the ultimate episode, and gained’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 foul man or if it’s even a risk to not.

To shortly recap, the 4 children who make up the crew met Jod in a jail the place he used the Power to assist them escape. He then turned their de facto information and chief as they tried to return to their dwelling planet of At-Attin. Jod nevertheless, who is understood to virtually each character on the present as a special identify, appeared to primarily be tagging alongside not out of kindness. He needed to see if the legends are true. If At-Attin really 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 Power-sensitive. We expect he was telling the reality about being misplaced and alone. He was undoubtedly a pirate captain earlier than making a couple of errors. However when it turned clear At-Attin did home some form of treasure, a change went off. The antihero immediately turned 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 properly 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 point out Jod absolutely embracing his pirate facet, it might virtually be a betrayal for him to return. At the very least in this season. Perhaps, by the tip of this season, he escapes and in a hypothetical subsequent season, we see him be taught the error of his methods. Anakin Skywalker, after all, very famously got here again from the facet of Really Having Killed Some Youngsters–Jod’s fairly tame within the grand scheme of issues. Certain, 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 change occurs now although, on this season, it might be a significant 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, organising an emotionally charged showdown between him and the 4 children he pretended to avoid wasting. Let’s maintain it that manner. Make the star of your present a foul man. We don’t care. We like it. If Skeleton Crew hopes to go down as possibly the second-best  Disney+ Star Wars present thus far, it ought to play that out and maintain him dwelling in that darkish facet for a short while longer.

What do you suppose? Do you agree? Is Jod value, or worthy, of saving? Tell us under.

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