#Skeleton Crew

[flaminbread]

I love them so much

predictably i love skeleton crew. i love annoying children

edit: sorry added a meme

[zetsubouzed]

✨curse your sudden but inevitable betrayal✨

STAR WARS: SKELETON CREW pencil studies. I just think they're neat.

[darth-memes]

[anonymousweirdo]

[badbatch-bitch]

yesss

I think Mad Captain Silvo is his best alias actually

[nika6q]

"But I am different"

[cogentranting]

What's interesting to me about Jod and his relationship with the kids by the end of the series is that it's so in-between.

It's not "actually I've come to care for these kids and I will give up my plan to protect them" but it's also not just that he's evil and doesn't care about them.

He does betray them and he does a lot of harm. He threatens them and their families and their home in a very genuine and traumatic way. He brings destruction and danger down on their home. He does not make the turn to help them or side with them against the other pirates. He stays on his course, stays a bad guy.

But at the same time, as much as he threatens them (in the pirate horde, in the ship and on At Attin) and their family, he doesn't actually hurt them. (in fact I think the only ones we see him actually physically hurt are 1. SM-33. 2. The werewolf pirate guy 3. the supervisor droid). And I don't know that the threats are empty, but he's certainly very reluctant to actually enact that violence, and his plan might not have fallen through if he had been more willing to hurt them. He's not willing to stop for the sake of the kids, but he'd much rather get through his plan without harming them. And when he KB is falling and he thinks she probably died there is real fear and regret in his face. He didn't want that.

All of this is an outpouring of his misguided worldview. Because again, Jod isn't a villain who can't recognize right and wrong. He knows what Good is, he's seen it. But his problem is despair so he believes that Good is not worth it, and is not powerful enough to make a difference. And because of that he becomes the manifestation of the cruel place he believes the world to be. The good in him is THERE but its not strong enough to really change him, but it's because his despair doesn't believe it can be. And so he becomes the very thing that made him-- he watched his mentor/parental figure killed in front of him, and he stands there threatening to do the same thing to Wim and Fern.

But he doesn't, because he isn't quite the villain that the Empire represents. Even though the difference doesn't come from him actively making a choice for Good, it does come from there being Good still in him, even just in the form of hesitation. Good is still powerful even when he's denying it. And then little ember in him is not what saves the day--that's the kids and their families and the New Republic. But it is there and it does mean that even though he stays a villain there is that moment of Wim calling out to him, there is still that spark of hope that Jod can be saved one day too.

[soularsss]

goodnight tumblr nation i have some screencaps of mr evilguy

[salubriousbean]

YES YES YES YES *shakes table*

"Yeah, the galaxy is scary and dangerous, but… everywhere we went, even the worst places, there were good people, too." WHAT A GOOD STAR WARS LINE. The galaxy should be a scary and dangerous place, but ultimately about hope and the light that exists in it. Even if it's just a pinprick of light, a single flame against a galaxy of darkness, that goodness matters. That hope in a terrible time and place matters. Skeleton Crew was a series that was very much Goonies In Space and it stuck to that feeling, but it didn't forget that Star Wars is a story about hope and kindness and caring about other people, even when it's not beneficial to you personally. The people who helped those kids, not because they were personally invested in them, but simply because they cared about other people, that is what the underlying message of a Star Wars show should be about. Skeleton Crew understood the Star Wars assignment.

[jedisandspacepirates]

I will admit that the fact that Jude Law was in Skeleton Crew held maybe 75% of my motivation to actually take the time and watch that show, but the whole dynamic he lent to his role....the nuances, the multi-facetedness (that's not a word, but how else do you describe it?) and complexity (there it is, that's probably it) of his character kept me hooked on it.

I did watch it for the kids because that story is THEIR story, as the writers reminded us when explaining that one of the reasons why they didn't want to include that cut scene of Jod's master precisely because this is all meant to be from the kids' perspective. But it was definitely something I was always wondering, this 'who is Jod? What's he really about?' and all that. And Jude did an absolutely amazing job with that to the very end.

[monikanarnia]

[thelawless7]

jude law as jod na nawood in star wars: skeleton crew

some screenshots of jude as jod—enjoy! 🧡

[darth-memes]

[ddesole]

SKELETON CREW 1.06 "Zero Friends Again"

[denndrawings]

Trying my hand on a new brush with a warmup sketch before working on comms! KB you are everything to me.