Skeleton Crew Episode 6 Fixes A Pirate Mistake In Star Wars

This text comprises delicate spoilers for “Star Wars: Skeleton Crew” episode 6, “Zero Mates Once more.”

“Star Wars” is likely one of the largest fictional universes in movie and TV, having been fleshed out with numerous legends, tales, places, and folks. Like Center-earth, it’s a place that may assist virtually any type of story. That is additionally why “Skeleton Crew” feels so contemporary; the existence of an all-ages coming-of-age journey set in the identical universe as “Andor” is nothing but good news for the sustainability of “Star Wars.”

Extra than simply “The Goonies” in house, “Skeleton Crew” has taken the franchise someplace it is by no means been earlier than by telling a narrative a few group of youngsters eager for journey and throwing them right into a world of ruthless pirates and the seek for a legendary treasure. (It’s essentially the “Star Wars” version of “Treasure Planet.”) The place “The Mandalorian” promised to take viewers deep into the “Star Wars” underworld solely to turn into much more involved with connecting to and organising different “Star Wars” tasks, whereas “The Guide of Boba Fett” completely failed at portraying the seedy world of legal cartels working on Tatooine, finally “Skeleton Crew” (like “Andor” before it) is fulfilling the promise of George Lucas’ never-made live-action “Star Wars: Underworld” sequence. Certainly, it is already proven us a darker aspect of a galaxy far, far-off — one which’s stuffed with fixed risks and killers out for riches or a giant rating.

Not that that is the primary time pirates have been part of a “Star Wars” challenge. Han Solo himself was known as a pirate again in “A New Hope,” whereas the “Clone Wars” and “Star Wars Rebels” cartoons launched loads of pirate crews with their very own kinds and ruthless methods. And but, it wasn’t till “Skeleton Crew” that we lastly received an important piece of pirate iconography that “Star Wars” had been lacking for many years: an area sea shanty.

Within the newest episode of “Skeleton Crew,” titled “Zero Mates Once more,” Jude Regulation’s Jod Na Nawood (aka Crimson Jack, Silvo the Mad Captain, Sprint Zentin, Professor Umiam Gorelox, and Jodwick Zank) is captured by his former pirate crew to be able to be sentenced to loss of life. Earlier than that occurs, nevertheless, he’s given the possibility to parlay for his freedom à la the “Pirates of the Caribbean” movies — a chance he takes to persuade the crew to hitch him in seek for the good treasure of At Attin. He even charmingly explains how he discovered a recording from legendary captain Tak Rennod that spoke of the planet of everlasting treasure.

However when phrases aren’t sufficient, Jod begins reciting a shanty about Rennod and his legendary feats on board the Onyx Cinder. That is proper, we now have our very first house sea shanty in “Star Wars,” and it is one which just about everybody else on the crew is aware of and joins in singing, suggesting this particular shanty is fashionable sufficient to be well-known all through the galaxy. Suffice it to say, this guidelines; sea shanties are nice, catchy, and assist paint a colourful image of the pirate life in a given time interval. It is likewise the key ingredient that made “Murderer’s Creed IV: Black Flag” top-of-the-line video video games in that franchise, supplying you with as a participant all of the extra purpose to spend hours merely crusing the seas together with your crew listening to sea shanties and overlook about the primary quest.

In fact, there’s additionally the truth that the shanty about Rennod is one more plain reference to Robert Louis Stevenson’s “Treasure Island,” the traditional novel that serves as an enormous supply of inspiration for “Skeleton Crew” (from the legendary treasure each the present’s younger heroes and the pirates are after to Jod initially presenting himself as an ally earlier than revealing his true colours to the children). In “Treasure Island,” the music “Fifteen Males on the Useless Man’s Chest” is just not solely a preferred tune amongst pirates, but it surely’s additionally a serious clue as to the situation of the titular location. Maybe there’s one other verse to the Rennod music that holds a clue as to the destiny of the pirate legend.

“Zero Mates Once more” additionally brings again a pirate custom within the type of strolling the plank — or, reasonably, being thrown out of the airlock of a spaceship. It is a technique of execution that is been utilized in “Star Wars” for years, significantly in “Clone Wars” when pirates and bounty hunters (significantly Cad Bane) threaten to chuck others out into the chilly abyss of house. In “Rebels,” although not technically a pirate, the struggle legal Chopper is consistently killing individuals by throwing them out of airlocks just like the twisted fiend he’s.

Greater than house cowboys and outlaws like Han Solo and Lando Calrissian, who care primarily about themselves and have a tendency to work alone, pirates are all about their crew, having enjoyable pillaging and plundering, and are principally simply bizarre little guys just like the werewolf Shistavanen Brutus (Fred Tatasciore) on “Skeleton Crew” or the Swamp Factor lookalike Gorian Shard on “The Mandalorian” (one of the best characters “Star Wars” has introduced in years). House journey is an analog for sea journey, so it is sensible for the “Star Wars” universe to be stuffed with pirates. If “Skeleton Crew” has confirmed something, it is that there can by no means be too many pirates in outer house.

New episodes of “Star Wars: Skeleton Crew” drop Tuesdays at 6 pm PST on Disney+.

This text comprises delicate spoilers for “Star Wars: Skeleton Crew” episode 6, “Zero Mates Once more.”

“Star Wars” is likely one of the largest fictional universes in movie and TV, having been fleshed out with numerous legends, tales, places, and folks. Like Center-earth, it’s a place that may assist virtually any type of story. That is additionally why “Skeleton Crew” feels so contemporary; the existence of an all-ages coming-of-age journey set in the identical universe as “Andor” is nothing but good news for the sustainability of “Star Wars.”

Extra than simply “The Goonies” in house, “Skeleton Crew” has taken the franchise someplace it is by no means been earlier than by telling a narrative a few group of youngsters eager for journey and throwing them right into a world of ruthless pirates and the seek for a legendary treasure. (It’s essentially the “Star Wars” version of “Treasure Planet.”) The place “The Mandalorian” promised to take viewers deep into the “Star Wars” underworld solely to turn into much more involved with connecting to and organising different “Star Wars” tasks, whereas “The Guide of Boba Fett” completely failed at portraying the seedy world of legal cartels working on Tatooine, finally “Skeleton Crew” (like “Andor” before it) is fulfilling the promise of George Lucas’ never-made live-action “Star Wars: Underworld” sequence. Certainly, it is already proven us a darker aspect of a galaxy far, far-off — one which’s stuffed with fixed risks and killers out for riches or a giant rating.

Not that that is the primary time pirates have been part of a “Star Wars” challenge. Han Solo himself was known as a pirate again in “A New Hope,” whereas the “Clone Wars” and “Star Wars Rebels” cartoons launched loads of pirate crews with their very own kinds and ruthless methods. And but, it wasn’t till “Skeleton Crew” that we lastly received an important piece of pirate iconography that “Star Wars” had been lacking for many years: an area sea shanty.

Within the newest episode of “Skeleton Crew,” titled “Zero Mates Once more,” Jude Regulation’s Jod Na Nawood (aka Crimson Jack, Silvo the Mad Captain, Sprint Zentin, Professor Umiam Gorelox, and Jodwick Zank) is captured by his former pirate crew to be able to be sentenced to loss of life. Earlier than that occurs, nevertheless, he’s given the possibility to parlay for his freedom à la the “Pirates of the Caribbean” movies — a chance he takes to persuade the crew to hitch him in seek for the good treasure of At Attin. He even charmingly explains how he discovered a recording from legendary captain Tak Rennod that spoke of the planet of everlasting treasure.

However when phrases aren’t sufficient, Jod begins reciting a shanty about Rennod and his legendary feats on board the Onyx Cinder. That is proper, we now have our very first house sea shanty in “Star Wars,” and it is one which just about everybody else on the crew is aware of and joins in singing, suggesting this particular shanty is fashionable sufficient to be well-known all through the galaxy. Suffice it to say, this guidelines; sea shanties are nice, catchy, and assist paint a colourful image of the pirate life in a given time interval. It is likewise the key ingredient that made “Murderer’s Creed IV: Black Flag” top-of-the-line video video games in that franchise, supplying you with as a participant all of the extra purpose to spend hours merely crusing the seas together with your crew listening to sea shanties and overlook about the primary quest.

In fact, there’s additionally the truth that the shanty about Rennod is one more plain reference to Robert Louis Stevenson’s “Treasure Island,” the traditional novel that serves as an enormous supply of inspiration for “Skeleton Crew” (from the legendary treasure each the present’s younger heroes and the pirates are after to Jod initially presenting himself as an ally earlier than revealing his true colours to the children). In “Treasure Island,” the music “Fifteen Males on the Useless Man’s Chest” is just not solely a preferred tune amongst pirates, but it surely’s additionally a serious clue as to the situation of the titular location. Maybe there’s one other verse to the Rennod music that holds a clue as to the destiny of the pirate legend.

“Zero Mates Once more” additionally brings again a pirate custom within the type of strolling the plank — or, reasonably, being thrown out of the airlock of a spaceship. It is a technique of execution that is been utilized in “Star Wars” for years, significantly in “Clone Wars” when pirates and bounty hunters (significantly Cad Bane) threaten to chuck others out into the chilly abyss of house. In “Rebels,” although not technically a pirate, the struggle legal Chopper is consistently killing individuals by throwing them out of airlocks just like the twisted fiend he’s.

Greater than house cowboys and outlaws like Han Solo and Lando Calrissian, who care primarily about themselves and have a tendency to work alone, pirates are all about their crew, having enjoyable pillaging and plundering, and are principally simply bizarre little guys just like the werewolf Shistavanen Brutus (Fred Tatasciore) on “Skeleton Crew” or the Swamp Factor lookalike Gorian Shard on “The Mandalorian” (one of the best characters “Star Wars” has introduced in years). House journey is an analog for sea journey, so it is sensible for the “Star Wars” universe to be stuffed with pirates. If “Skeleton Crew” has confirmed something, it is that there can by no means be too many pirates in outer house.

New episodes of “Star Wars: Skeleton Crew” drop Tuesdays at 6 pm PST on Disney+.