Skeleton Crew: the end of Jod and the series explained

What happened to Jude Law's character? What should we understand from the finale on At-Attin? The creators respond.

Was Jod Na Nawood ultimately a nice ex-Jedi who pretended to be evil to help children? The grand finale of Star Wars: Skeleton Crew delivered his revelations and the creators Jon Watts And Christopher Ford provide some welcome explanations. Warning spoilers!

In this finale, the children managed to defeat the pirates who had invaded At-Attin and destroyed the supervisor (a giant artificial intelligence governing all systems on the planet). They were able to warn the New Republic and X-Wings launched a fearsomely effective raid. Jod Na Nawood (Jude Law) lost. And while many Disney Plus subscribers expected the character to turn into a pirate with a heart of gold at the end, he followed through with his Machiavellian plan:

“Everyone necessarily thinks of a story of redemption. But we said to ourselves: in fact, he is not their parents!” respond Ford and Watts in EW. “So we chose to do that and obviously, we had a little doubt: should we have given him a redemption arc? Let's say we knew that this character archetype, false villain with a big heart, was part of Star Wars. So we had fun playing with this idea. Is he a Jedi or not? Is he good or bad? Our twist was this anti-twist: he is actually the one he was showing, apparently! Now, no bad guy wakes up thinking, “I'm the bad guy.” » He exists in a morally gray area. He's not so one-dimensional that he kills the children and runs off with the gold. He is tortured by his behavior, and that is what we must understand.”

Tortured because his past is painful. Jod Na Nawood is not a murderous sociopath ready to pull the trigger of the laser gun at any moment. He became a pirate following a tragedy. Jod reveals in this finale to be an orphan from the Galaxy who became a Padawan after being taken in by a Jedi on the run following Order 66. After being trained, he lost faith in the universe after seeing his Master being executed by the Empire before his eyes.

But who was this Jedi? We won't know more for the moment, but “we're keeping this potential to go deeper” in a possible season 2, assure the two creators. “This part of the story is something that could be explored in the future. We therefore left areas open to better exploit them in the future…”

Because Jod Na Nawood could return in the planned sequel to Skeleton Crew. He clearly didn't die in the Overseer's tower. Watts and Ford give their vision of this last scene: “He's alone with his thoughts at the end. He's brooding. He sees his whole plan – probably the closest to victory he's ever been – falling apart…”

What should we understand from the animated end credits of Skeleton Crew ?

So the kids win, and the series ends with a curious end credits sequence, which reads almost like a pop-up book of Jedi adventures. But which Jedi? For what ? “Initially we had thought about trying to do a bespoke version for each episode that would reference Wim's Storypad. But then we took all these ideas and just put them together and thought it would make more sense to make it a little icing on the cake at the end of the season.“Clearly, it's just a side Jedi story, the ones that Wim loves to devour on his Pad: “Because we fit our story into this larger world of Star Wars stories which are the things that Wim is obsessed with on his Storypad. And both of us are like Wim. We love Star Wars stories and always want to see more of them. “