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What Skeleton Crew Teaches Kids@evih538d

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I think the most important thing we need to know about Jod is that he's a liar. He has multiple aliases and we don't know which one is real. He makes up stories and thinks that the crew that mutinied against him still likes him. He's a con man through and through. Every decision he's ever made is all in service of himself. And ultimately, he had the complete opposite life as the kids, which is why he understandably hates them. Since all that's left is the finale, I don't think we need any specifics for his backstory when his character throughout the episodes already informs us on who he is. In a life as unstable as his, betrayal is always imminent and life is never valued, money is the only stable thing that he can always rely on.

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I've been reading discourse on it, and I've seen the point made that kids' shows typically focus on showcasing messaging of morals that are easily understandable by kids. We're so used to stories like these having the bad guy shown to grow a heart and make the right decision in the end.

But if we look at the story as it's been presented to us, almost every single adult figure we've seen the kids be exposed to has told the kids not to trust Jod. And now we know they were all right.

The message there to kids is: if multiple people tell you someone is bad news, they're likely bad news!

Also, stranger danger.

I honestly think it's more realistic this way than the "bad guy gone good," even if the "bad guy gone good" is a more satisfying story. Because in real life, there are probably more people like Jod than we realize. It's a strong message as well for the kids, because this entire journey has been about them learning more concerning what the actual world/galaxy is like, rather than the idealized, sheltered, and utopian-esque version they've been exposed to up until now. Just because someone fits a mold from a story we've read in our eyes does not immediately mean that person can correlate to that story. When Jod told Wymm that this wasn't like one of his stories at the end of episode 5, he meant it in the sense of Wymm being heroic, being capable of saving his friends in that moment. But we can now see that this had another meaning. Wymm thought Jod was one of the hero Jedi in his stories because Jod has the Force, because Jod saved them a couple of times, but the truth is that he's the furthest thing from it. It isn't one of his stories primarily because Jod is not a hero.

One more thing on this: This show is teaching kids, I think, to be observant about their reality and circumstances. Don't take things at face value; see things as they are, as they're happening, and use that knowledge to make later decisions. A great lesson!

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›Skeleton Crew Ep6@evih545d
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6th episode was really good. That whole ship within a ship was fascinating, like it's the first time we have seen anything like this in SW, I believe. Also, got to know more about KB and that she needs those implants to survive.

I think they did a good job at showing Jod's discomfort in dealing with Wymm's little emotional moment, and I think that does make sense for him to not really know how to handle it. But there are moments any human who has lived a human life, regardless of whatever unique experience you have, that if you are capable of empathy and showing it towards others, you can tell when certain people need it more.

That's what I liked about Silver's character in Treasure Planet. He's a clearly hardened man, but he understands the cues on when to comfort Jim. And really, it's Jim who hugs him first, and he doesn't shy away from it.

I've made my feelings known here about the buildup/establishment of Jod's dynamic with the kids, and that I don't think they've done a strong enough job at showcasing the apparent warmth/affection he would have needed to grow to have towards them, if they were indeed taking this in the Treasure Planet direction. That pathway would justify the previous narrative decisions in that regard, showing that they did it on purpose knowing that the willing father figure trope was never the endgame.

Or perhaps it still is the endgame, and we have Jod reluctant up until the kids do save him, and he finally has a change of heart.

I feel like we expected Jod to save the kids and get his redemption arc that way, but it might go the other way around, and the kids will end up saving Jod instead. The pirates double-cross him or something when they reach At Attin, and the kids decide to rescue him despite what he did because they have a good heart. That would be a nice twist.

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›Skeleton Crew Ep 5@evih548d
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Overall, I think it was actually a really good episode, but the ending sequence just ruined the entire vibe for me. But it... was meant to ruin the vibe, because it's not meant to be a happy or satisfying end to the episode, considering where we are with the characters.

I think the execution and slow build to Jod's betrayal, with the foreshadowing throughout the season and prominently in this episode, was done well. But I think the root of my mixed feelings is that they appear to be taking the character of Jod in a direction I did not want them going in.

And if they are indeed going to do the redemption story with him, I don't think they've done a well enough job selling the fact that he was actually genuinely enamored with the kids in the first half of the show. Because the redemption in these kinds of stories is typically driven by the character relationships, not the older lead's own sense of morals and ethics.

I applaud them for the way they did that final scene, though, because it absolutely gutted me watching, and the next morning, I'm still gutted. Maybe it's because we're seeing it done with real kids who actually act like kids, rather than the way this story archetype has been done before in animation and novelizations.

With where I'm at currently, it's going to be a really hard sell for me to see Jod go good after all this. I feel like they need to actually start out episode 6 showing that he feels some sense of remorse for it to really start to settle in.

I definitely think he was a Jedi at some point. Or perhaps he was stolen from his master? Maybe he was. But I'm getting the feeling whatever happened to him was abandonment-related. Maybe he was stolen from his master but left to believe he was abandoned instead.

Now that I'm reflecting more, I think my frustration is rooted in me just being so emotionally shot by the way the episode ended, and I'm not capable, therefore, of looking at it completely objectively. Even with where I'm at, I still think this is one of their better seasons of television they've made throughout all the live-action shows.

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›Skeleton Crew Ep4@evih556d
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Personally, while I definitely didn't hate it, I have to say I didn't find the "world at constant war" trope very interesting either, even with the child soldiers. It felt too much like a Star Trek episode because of the "random encounter table" aspect of it, except it works a lot better with ST's overall premise than it did here. In this ep, other than the discovery of the mystery of At-Achen itself (which was actually cool), nothing happened until the last few minutes that had any bearing on the show's story arc. And I have to say, there were a few things that really didn't make much sense. Like Heyna apparently considering an new worldview because of Neel. I mean, Neel was his usual pacific, sweetheart self, but other than offer his food to the littler kids, I didn't see anything that made me understand why Heyna was so taken with his kindness. Unless her people are so embittered by conflict that offering your food is unheard of (though neither she nor the two kids acted like Neel's generosity was as astonishing as it should have been, in that case). And I think it could even be argued that Heyna offering food to Neel in the first place was just as generous as Neel's gesture, since he was a stranger who couldn't even fight. Her dad's interest in immediately using these four kids as canon-fodder made no sense either. Like, these are four children who arrived from another planet and nobody's more than vaguely curious about them? If the Troik are so desperate for more members/soldiers, why waste four of them instead of keeping them out of battle until they can be properly trained? And if he was that certain there would be an ambush, why bother springing it with four kids all liable to run or die instantly instead of an actual trap? And, as someone else mentioned above, how did Jeb find out about the eopie theft? But even more baffling, what in the galaxy did the Hatten need credits for? They stole the eopies because they were the Troik's source of food and barter via their hides, so who would they be buying anything from? Unless Jeb and SM33 really did murder all the Hatten dudes and hid the bodies and Jeb just lied about buying the eopies? And, where did Fern ever make the kind of decisions that would either make her thing she was a lousy captain, or give Wim reason to say she was "amazing"? All I can really remember her doing was arguing with him and taking control of SM33. Whatever orders she gave on SW Tortuga were immediately ignored by the boys, and then they followed Jeb's lead to get back to their ship. She did force Jeb to get SM33 and I guess that was in her position as Captain, but there wasn't much else. And on this planet, literally all she did was leave the ship with the others, follow Wim and Neel because they kept running ahead, and get captured. She didn't really make any decisions with the Troik either. So, what decisions did she think she'd done badly, and what did Wim think she'd done all that well?

This ep was also strange because it went too fast and too slow at the same time. I was bored when they were exploring the planet, because it felt like none of the kids cared about either the astonishing similarities between At-Achen and their home planet, or the fact a direct copy of their home had been destroyed at least a century before. After all, did that mean there was a copy of Neel's entire family who were dead? The kids should have been spooked at the least, but none of it seemed to matter to any of them. If I had written this episode, I would have aced the forever war part and really leaned into the dead planet. I would've had the four kids finding skeletons as they explored and more artifacts left behind, all with the same, eerie similarity to the world they knew. This show has already shown a willingness to go dark and violent, so I would have made it obvious the school was a last place of refuge, where the few survivors died fighting over scraps of food. Rusted robots everywhere, including the barely-functioning rusted hulk of one of the truancy bots, still trying to urge a set of skeletal remains in a uniform to stop lazying around and go to school. Fern could have her crises because Wim would ask her, what do we do? And she wouldn't know. They can't go back to Owlkitty because they'll be taken by the X-wing guys, but they can't stay here. SM33 points to the tower and says there will be coordinates there, but of course can't tell them why he knows. Wim finally really gets an inkling that being out in the galaxy might not just be a fun adventure. Hell, maybe he almost dies (again) because he doesn't listen to Fern, and starts figuring out there's a reason an older, wiser kid might be telling him what to do sometimes. The Supervisor's tower stands out even more on the wrecked landscape because someone painted, "PLEASE HELP US" on the dome at the top. But nobody came. I think that would've been a lot more tragic and hopefully interesting than what we got.

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