SWR Ep. 210: Skeleton Crew Season Finale

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This week, our hosts sit down to share their reactions to the season finale of the hit Disney+ series Skeleton Crew! Join the discussion as they breakdown the pirate invasion, the many mysteries revealed and the questions left unanswered. They also discuss their thoughts on the possibility of a second season.

Make sure you stick around to the end to hear Aaron's all new Star Wars Dad Joke of the Week!

Talking Points:

• Episode 210 Intro
• “The Real Good Guy” Intro
• Mysteries Revealed
• Pirate vs the Kids
• Wim and Fern vs Jod
• KB and the Onyx Cinder
• X-Wings, B-Wings, and Blockade Runner, oh my!
• Wim reaches out
• “Everywhere we went, even in the worst places, there were good people too.”
• Will there be a 2nd season?
• Final Reactions
• Closing
• Star Wars Dad Joke of the Week

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Episode Transcript

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Speaker 1 (00:54):
Well, hello everybody, and welcome to Star Wars Reactions. We
are so happy you are joining us for our two
hundred and eighth episode. Man, large numbers, they're getting to me. AnyWho.
What my name is? Aaron Harris. I am one of
your hosts here in joining me. He is the whim

(01:16):
to Neil. He is the David moderates. What's up? David?

Speaker 2 (01:22):
Hey? Brother man? Well, what's up?

Speaker 3 (01:25):
Is?

Speaker 2 (01:26):
We are on, like you said, episode seven of Skeleton Crew,
and we're catching up. We're catching up with everybody. But
I'm ready to react and looking forward to covering this
very cool episode.

Speaker 1 (01:42):
Yes, I am too. This is gonna be so good,
so good to talk about because this series is getting
so so much fun. I just it's chilling. So let's
let's go ahead and just jump into Elton Crew Episode seven.
This one is entitled We're going to Be in So

(02:05):
Much Trouble. That's a phrase I said many many times
growing up. I'm sure most of us have. But this
episode is at least January seventh of twenty twenty five,
directed by Lee Isaac Chung and written by Christopher Ford

(02:26):
and John Watts, and the synopsis for this episode ripped
straight from Star Wars dot Com. Wim Fern and KB
and Neil are eager to finally get home, only to
find Jod and the Pirates closing in on ad Atton.

(02:48):
The kids make a daring bid to escape the pirates
and the Onyx Cinder, but their hope cooming is complicated
by Jod, who won't let go of the promise of
Atten's eternal treasure so easily. So let's jump into this. David,

(03:10):
I'm going to turn the floor to you talk about
your initial reactions to We're so going to Be in
So Much Trouble?

Speaker 2 (03:20):
Well, you know I've been because we are behind. We
have been running behind. That's okay. You know, I have
a few of the podcasts that I listened to and
it's always interesting. I can tell our podcast friends like
to say pen ultimate, right, So like them, I will

(03:42):
say in this penultimate episode, this is we're on an
absolutely crazy ride, literally through the barrier, you know, ending
with a cliffhanger that had you know, my daughter and
I saying like, quote, no way, you can't end it there.
We don't want to wait a week. And so it
was fun from start to finish, and yes for a

(04:05):
penultimate episode, it did a great job of getting us
to the final episode, which we'll be covering soon. Bud,
what did you think, Buddy.

Speaker 1 (04:15):
Well, I wasn't gonna use penultimate. I was going to
say second to last, just so I could stand out. No,
you know this this was fantastic. You know, I believe
I think it was. In our last the last episode
of reactions, I said, I can't see how they're going
to wrap all this up in just two episodes. But
I tell you what John Watson for They they had

(04:39):
to have graduated from the Dave Filoni School of cramming
an episode in with a ton of stuff to make
it good because they really did believe, make me believe
they can wrap this up in two episodes, and it
was absolutely and fantastic. How much story advancement we got
crammed it to this thirty well, by the time you

(05:02):
take out the six languages of credits, twenty seven minutes
episode it was. It was fantastic. And just to see
the the final start, the start of the final growth
of these characters for this season as we get to

(05:23):
that final episode, it was just it was incredible. I
absolutely loved it. So it was edge of the seat,
edge of the seat because remember when we recorded our
last episode, which this episode was already out. Episode seven
was already out when we recorded our review of episode six,
and I said I hadn't watched it yet. So as

(05:45):
soon as we got done recording, I turned it on
and watched it, and I'm like, oh gosh, this was great,
and I'm like, I will say this, my my my
thoughts were correct. I'm glad I didn't watch it before
we recorded the last episode because I'd have been totally distracted,

(06:09):
because it was it was just great, fantastic, so well
let's go ahead and jump into a few talking points.
We got here because we got we got, we got
lots happening here. We have the episode opening up on
at Aton with the parents who are continually continuing care bass,

(06:36):
continuing to work together to try to contact their kids.
They have their transmitter device that they stole the parts
for and assembled. They went out into the woods and
they're in the woods trying to activate the communication booye,
and next thing you know, they're surrounded by security droids

(06:56):
who keep telling them, don't move, you get done, don't move,
you will gets done. And what do they do? They
move and they all get stunned. They end up being
all back in the captured by the security droids. So

(07:19):
which I like how they've been I want to just
because I like how they've been telling things about the
parents throughout this series as well. We've been getting those
one or two or three minutes back on that at
and with the parents struggling and dealing with the missing kids.
What'd you think of that opening sequence with the especially

(07:41):
when Neil's mom is standing there, She's like, I'm going
to grab it and run.

Speaker 2 (07:50):
I'm gonna steal this from another podcast. I think they
called it the worst relay race ever. I mean she
she literally needed to pick it up and got done.
She didn't even take a step.

Speaker 1 (08:06):
You know.

Speaker 2 (08:08):
Yeah, I mean it's it's it's I guess it's fun
to see the efforts they're making. But ah, man, we
do not want them running, you know, the four by
one hundred relay for the United States and the next Olympics.
Let's just say that it's just slow mo. But it
was cool to see. I like seeing you know, you know,

(08:32):
Fern's mom be able to to get it and and
you know, to take off, and uh, that was a
neat sequence. And I was wondering whether it would go, oh,
go through the barrier, and I guess I guess was
able to because Fern's mom got barrier access code, right

(08:53):
cod Yeah, yeah, so that's how she could get it
up through. So but yeah, you know, you see them
and I you know, to fast forward to what you
were talking about when they're like, why did you do that?
And they're like, you don't listen, you aren't helping us,
and then the droid, Oh, we're always ready to listen,
and it kind of goes to l I S you know,

(09:15):
and it turns because it's immediately distracted, and I like
to how Wendell's like, what was that? You know, this
is exactly what they're talking about. We're not waiting for
help from you guys, you know, so.

Speaker 1 (09:29):
Oh no they aren't.

Speaker 2 (09:30):
It's it.

Speaker 1 (09:31):
I loved it the whole the whole random relay scene.
And of course I love how it ends up being
uh Pharah friend's mom who ends up with the booiye
at h at the end, making her escape from the

(09:52):
droids and actually setting the buoy off before being captured.
I love that. I love that. And then of course
we have that booie going up, but then of course
it cuts out in the space and what do we get.
We get this giant pirate ship coming into orbit of

(10:13):
the Maelstrom. Of course, Captain Brutus is unhappy because of
course it's you know, it's a deadly Maelstrom. Nobody else
survived that, Okay, So he goes to Airlock John like
he said he was going to do. And next thing,
you know what happens, The Onyx sender shows up. Yeah,

(10:38):
and of course the Onyx cender shows up and they're
playing games. And I loved the brief scene of them
running through the ship. They're playing with the ball and
just playing and having a good time. There were being
kids for once in this for once, uh in this adventure.
They were running, playing, laughing, having a good time. Then

(11:00):
of course they arrive at at Atton and then they
get captured by the pirates. They lock on a tractor
beam and pull them in and things. This is where
we begin to see John's true colors. They see his
true colors timing through.

Speaker 2 (11:20):
That's a caravas, right, yeah, well you know.

Speaker 1 (11:27):
That that's a free serenade for everybody, but we do
we see his true colors coming through as he of course,
they let him out of the the air lock, they
capture the ship, they figure out what's going on, they
go in and next thing you know, they capture the

(11:47):
ship and they're trying to get the kids off. And
what do the kids do. They grab Brutus with that
big clothing they used to exit the ship on Lenopa
and he's just hanging there, and then you see the
wheels start spinning for Jod and what does he do.

(12:09):
He takes over the ship by executing Brutus kind of cold,
just shooting a guy while he's hanging out.

Speaker 2 (12:20):
Yeah, this, you know, this was I think, you know,
shot right in the face point polink. Basically they didn't
show it, but I'm a little darker than I thought
they would go on this show with that one with that,
with that scene. But Jodd I think did it because

(12:40):
of what Brutus said to him beforehand. You know, whether
at Atams in there or not, you're you're a dead man.
So he knew if he had an opportunity, he had
to kill Brutus first.

Speaker 1 (12:50):
Mm oh, absolutely, he gave his survival of the fittest
at that point. No no honor among thieves. I think
it's what they say, even though they have a pirate code. Yeah, yeah,
but it definitely puts him in the position he wants
to take at at and his master plan is in

(13:14):
full effect. At that point, he wins back over the crew.
He tells they go in, they capture the kids, and
while they are walking around the ship exploring the Onyx sender,
of course, Silvo has his helmet back on and he's
fully capta in Silvo again that transmission Booye begins transmitting

(13:36):
and they receive it and what do they get? Messages
from home, which was a very touching point. At this time,
we see each one of the parents saying something encouraging,
giving him news from home, ultimately ending with Wendell, who
was talking to whom and apologized for not listening and everything.

(14:00):
It's a very touching moment for the kids. What did
you think of when the messages started coming through?

Speaker 2 (14:07):
Well, I guess the I mean the practical side of
me was how how do you how many republic emissaries
are out there and how do you find one? I
don't know. I mean that's you know, I was like,
what did they really help them? I mean they did.

(14:31):
I mean they couldn't give up. They couldn't give up
the coordinates. They even say that, you know, the parents do.
But there's where I think about what a horrible position
to be in as parents. It's like, we're trying to
help you, but we can't really help you, right and

(14:52):
you and I are parents, and the idea of kids missing,
I mean this case, you know, where are they in
the galaxy? Know they know they were that close, you know,
which was fortunate, But that's kind of like what I
what I was thinking. I don't how does that work?
Do they know what a Republic emissary is how do

(15:13):
you find it? Et cetera. But I think it was
good for them to see it and kind of give them,
you know, the motivation to finish off the the the
adventure and get back to add At and but uh,
it just it kind of left me frustrated. Honestly. You know, hey,
we care about you, and but we can't tell you
the coordinates that at but find a Republic emissary. And

(15:36):
of course they didn't see any of them the whole
time they were out in the galaxy. But I don't know,
maybe that would be easier than I thought, But I
don't know, what did you think?

Speaker 1 (15:44):
Well, you know, I definitely understand that because I kind
of was thinking that too. How do you contact the emissary?
I mean, obviously it's still and even now that still
continues to prove that they don't know what's going on
outside that barrier. I mean, the empire. They don't know
that the Republic fell, that there is no more in

(16:06):
the saries.

Speaker 2 (16:07):
They are.

Speaker 1 (16:07):
They're at a complete loss, which which just proves so
much and what they're uh, how clueless. I would say
they truly are of the outside world.

Speaker 2 (16:21):
That's a really good point.

Speaker 1 (16:23):
And but at the same point what really frustrated me
is of course and then at that point, Jod knows
who each of these kids parents are, so now he's
got more ammo he can use against these kids. You know,
if he was to ever get down to the planet,

(16:44):
then of course we have.

Speaker 2 (16:47):
Uh.

Speaker 1 (16:48):
What really I enjoyed about this scene is once the
messages are over, women's like they're like, we got to
do something. When I's like attack and he just goes
running at the pirates and they're like they're just like
grabbing him and holding them and they's like doing nothing
to take care of everything. And I will say there

(17:11):
was a moment here where I thought they would actually
have a chance because when he claims when Jod was
they were on that ship and John claims to be
captain of the the Onyx sender and SM. Thirty three says,
you can't be you captain of this other ship. You

(17:34):
can't be captain of two vessels. It's in the pirate code.
He goes, so this ship is up for grabs, and
of course what you see Whim's face light up and
he starts calling claims they's as John runs over and
covers his mouth and claims to be captain of the
Onyx senda yea. Then of course, uh, then of course

(17:59):
that was priceless and of itself. Then next thing, you know,
you have S thirty three knock him out and crush
his helmet, and I'm like, this is the moment We've
been waiting for since John took control of SM thirty
three and got the lightsaber in the in the layer

(18:21):
on the NUPA, We've been waiting for him to just
you know, punch him out and start helping the kids,
and we finally got it. What were your reactions to
that whole challenge of power? What were your thoughts when
you saw that.

Speaker 2 (18:37):
I love that stuff. It's claims, he's claims, he's uh jinks,
bind me a coke, you know, all the kids stuff.
It is fun, how you know? John Watson Christopher Ford
have written in kind of this intermingling of the Pirate's
Code with how kids talk, you know, and some of
the silly stuff. You know, we all did as as

(18:58):
as kids. I remember playing marbles all the time as
as as kids, and I remember one of the things
that we would say is no keepsies, Like if it
was a really really cool Marble. I remember my buddies
and I if they had one eye wand and we're like, yeah,
let's just play. But no keeps ees, you know. So yeah,

(19:20):
so no claims these, no keeps thees. So it is
fun how they kind of mix that in and and
and that's some fun humor. And I love how thirty
three says close enough, right, close enough.

Speaker 1 (19:32):
Yep, yep, close enough kid. Oh it was awesome and
uh three man. I love Destroid. I truly truly love Destroid,
and I loved we we didn't get the scene where
they're they've stolen the onyx Cender. They're flying, they've left

(19:55):
the pirate ship and they're going through the barrier, and
of course you're being chased by two of the pirate
fighters that Vain launched, of course, and we see we
find out that the ony Cender is actually the ship
that the emissaries used to travel through the barrier, so

(20:17):
that's it's a safe passage in and out of the barrier,
which is awesome. We find that out in this and
of course we see on as are flying through the
barrier safely, the pirate ships getting blown up by the
security grid. But I loved seeing those giant almost like

(20:39):
shield generators that were kind of just floating in orbit,
These giant satellites that were like larger, like three times
the size of the Onyx Cender. Honestly, they were just
massive in the generating the electrical lightning things around it,
and it really seeing those really took me back to

(21:02):
the Clone Wars, to that one planet where the kid
has all the droids.

Speaker 2 (21:08):
Oh definitely, that was a really good one. Yeah.

Speaker 1 (21:11):
Yeah, because yeah, and I even mentioned this earlier in
the season when we were talking about the barrier, that
that's kind of what it reminded you of. But seeing
those satellites with those those lightning bolts and stuff come
kind of generating from them, it really made me go, yeah,
there's some inspiration from Clone Wars in there somewhere.

Speaker 2 (21:32):
Oh definitely, definitely. You know, I have it as as
one of our Easter eggs, as you know, because I
know you have mentioned that before, and I can see
the kid and I remember, you know, him saying people
can't get in or out of it and all that
kind of stuff. But you know, the the thing, you know,

(21:53):
when I saw these and remember over at Akron, not
at at at Akron, wrecked. They don't remember that. You
know a lot of people didn't understand what that was
up in space, and it's it's these things, but they
were they were wrecked, they were destroyed, they were non
functional over at Akron. But what they remind me of is,

(22:15):
I don't know if people remember Shattered Empire. It came out.
I'm trying to remember if it came out about the
same time as excuse me of coffin here on the
Aftermath trilogy by Chuck Wendig. But the Shattered Empire comic
did this really cool job of showing operations cinder. It

(22:35):
was something that you know, the Emperor put into place
if he died, you know, if he was killed and
so on. And I remember seeing, you know, these weather
satellites above Naboo. We see just lego there and stuff.
But the these these satellites, similar to these things, are

(22:57):
generating devastating weather patterns over an entire planet. And it's
just you know, one way that you know, the Emperor
was trying to do operations center again burn everything to
the ground. So that's what these things reminded me of.
You know, they're creating weather now, unlike Shattered Empire where

(23:19):
these these these you know, large space stations weather stations
are generating destructive weather over the entire planet. Here Watson
Ford have modified it and they're creating you know, Brutus
called it a toxic maelstrom you know around the planet
because once you through that, it's it's calm and peaceful,

(23:40):
you know, on at At and so slightly different take
on it. But I thought, pretty cool, pretty cool stuff.

Speaker 1 (23:48):
Oh yeah, you know, I forgot about those settles, those
UH stations in Shattered Empire. I would, man, you know,
I'm trying to remember. I think those I was gonna say,
I was gonna go back and read it, but I
just I think that I think I lost those in
the flood. I think I lost Shattered Empire in the flood.

(24:08):
So I have to try to get my hands on
those again. But that was a great story that when
it was released, and it's still a fantastic read if
you want more information on post return of the Jedi
UH Star Wars story.

Speaker 2 (24:25):
So now.

Speaker 1 (24:29):
During this flight into through the barrier, we get through
the barrier and there it is just hanging in the
middle of a basically the eye of the storm. UH
is the planet at At and the kids see it
for the first time, and they are you could hear

(24:50):
the you could see the the happiness and joy and
everything in there, and they're at it in their faces
and their voices. And next thing you know, John is there.
He managed to jump on board right before the ramp

(25:11):
finished closing, and he hid until that right moment. And
of course he didn't have his blaster, but he did
have his lightsaber, and we begin to see John make
use of that lightsaber as he decapitates our favorite droid.

(25:35):
I gotta say I was not happy with that.

Speaker 2 (25:39):
Well, no, I you know, my daughter has watched every
episode of this with me. And when his voice you
could hear it, and then they showed him. My daughter
was so upset. She was not happy seeing him. And
then when he did that SM thirty three, you know
my daughter loves SM thirty three. So yeah, John is

(26:01):
not up to win friends and influence people. So no,
it was a real, real turn. And I was not
happy either to send the least.

Speaker 1 (26:15):
No, absolutely not, and he is. John's frustrations are truly
growing at this point. You begin to see those frustrations
as he begins to lash out at the kids, telling
them to be quiet. You're always jabber jabbage abba j abber. Hey,
he's just he's had enough with the kids and is

(26:37):
just done. Then, of course he they're on autopilot for
the planet, and there's nothing he can do to stop it.
He can't reach the pirate ship to tell them that
at Aten's truly here. And then of course they come
in for a landing on at Atton. But as before

(26:58):
it lands, they cuts back to the parents who are
on at Aton. They are in a security room, the
conference room with security droid, who is basically telling them
they are broke. They broke rules and this and that
and the Supervisor's gonna have to And as he's talking
about super Holston, he just hold on and you seem

(27:22):
kind of look up, excuse me, and he turns and
walks away, and they're like, what's going on. Then all
of a sudden, for the first time, you hear the
voice of the supervisor, Yeah, yeah, announcing the arrival of
the emissary of the Republic to the vault. And apparently this,

(27:45):
of course, we find out, is the first time an
nenissary has arrived in a long time. So they all
moved to the window to look and all of a sudden,
Kaby's mom is like, it's KB because there a little
bracelet's going off, which is of course linked to her
cybernetic enhancements. And the excitement begins to grow, and all

(28:10):
of a sudden, we see this field in front of
the vault just kind of magically open. It's kind of,
I really got to say, very ingenious landing platform. I
was impressed.

Speaker 2 (28:26):
Yeah, yeah, well, none of the people there knew that
it was going to do that. It's like they're like,
what what, you know? They've lived there for how many years?
And now the grounds opening up and then they're running
down the side of the hills. So clearly they had
not seen that happen before.

Speaker 1 (28:43):
Oh no, obviously no. I mean and we kind of
try to. I mean, if we sit here and think
is I don't know, we know this takes place sometime
in the Mandalorian Ahsoka timeline somewhere in there, so we
know we're looking. We know Mandalorian takes place. What ten
years started ten years after a return of the Jedi,

(29:04):
I think it was. So you have that, then you
have the twenty eight years was it twenty eight, twenty eight,
twenty nine years of the empire's role since the Republic fell.
So you literally have probably the adults that are there
literally probably never saw a Republic emissary come in before. Yeah,

(29:28):
I agree, So I mean this is this is a
new situation for all of them, to the point that
they didn't even and obviously they hadn't seen one because
they didn't recognize John as not being an emissary because
I'm sure knowing the Republic, there would have been, you know,

(29:52):
more than one person on the ship, and there would
have been some kind of uniform exactly. Yeah, I mean,
it makes sense to me they would have some kind
of dignitaries uniform to go in take care of things.
But yeah, hey, what do I know? And of course

(30:20):
they land, Jod comes off the ship and he's of
course being trailed by the kids, and of course he
gets addressed. They think John is the emissary, and they
decide to take him to the vault, and of course
that's when we see the elevator. The elevator ramps go
back down into the tunnel and they go down to

(30:44):
the vault and it opens up and it is I say,
if I was a pirate, that'd probably be the most
beautiful thing I've ever seen.

Speaker 2 (30:52):
Oh gosh, unbelievable, even not being a pirate.

Speaker 1 (30:58):
If I was, just if I was controlled by greed,
that would be the most beautiful thing I'd ever seen.

Speaker 2 (31:07):
It.

Speaker 1 (31:08):
Kind of it kind of reminded me of, Uh, how
did you did you do you remember? Uh, I'm trying. Gosh,
I just blanked on the name Goldfinger, the Bond movie Goldfinger.
Not that it's shot that's shot conn. Yeah, it's when

(31:28):
when they when the bad guy in that movie's Goldfinger
and he breaks into uh, his whole goal is to
break in and steal the gold from Fort Knox. Okay,
And of course, kind of the way the vault opens
up at Fort Knox and he walks in and you

(31:49):
see all that gold kind of reminded me of this
vault opens up and you see all those golden credits.
It's just kind of Then of course, he John is
like talking to the droid and he's like, man, what's uh,
what's all this? How many of these vaults do you have?

(32:10):
Then he walks over to just the cart that's sitting
there ready to be loaded, and he just goes to
pick one up, and then they all just start pouring
off the tray and just are constantly pouring, and he
drops to his knees and he puts his head in it,
and all the credits are falling on his head and
he just begins to laugh uncontrollably because you know, he

(32:31):
is fun. This is what he has been searching for
this whole time. This is I mean, his whole life.
He's been searching for a payday like this to never
have to deal with it again now and he's seeing
the culmination of all his hard work coming into reality

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with all these credits in front of him, and uh,
it was quite a it was quite an interesting scene,
to be perfectly honest. What were your thoughts when during
that whole vault scene with him seeing the credits for
the first time.

Speaker 2 (33:11):
Well, I kept thinking back to the Uh, was it
was it the previous I was trying to think if
it was Was it was it the previous episode zero
Friends again where he's on the pirate figure and he
talks about being hungry, yes, and never having enough credits,

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you know, and here you see that said than he's
ever seen ever, Like probably most people in the entire galaxy,
you have never seen this many credits in one place,
So it's quite a you know, think about that. You know,
it's a myth, it's it's you know, it's a planet
of untold treasure, and it really is. He found it.

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He's got to be just mind blowing to him.

Speaker 1 (34:03):
Yeah, oh yeah, oh yeah absolutely, And we get actually
one of the best Easter eggs. And this is an
Easter egg that you actually have to think about if
you to to really understand what what the Easter egg.
Actually very brilliant bye by Watson Ford to write this
in there, because he's looking around at this vault and

(34:26):
he's totally amazing. He's like, how many how many vaults
like this do you have? And the droids like, we
have one thousand, three hundred or one hundred and thirty nine,
that's right. So that means besides the vault he's in,
there are exactly one thousand, one hundred and thirty eight.

Speaker 2 (34:47):
More, that's right, that's right, buddy.

Speaker 1 (34:50):
Eleven thirty eight, of course, is the reference to THHX
eleven thirty eight, which of course was one of the
founder's greatest or first not great, it's one of his
first films, THHX eleven thirty eight. So I thought that
was a pretty cool, cool nod there, so it was awesome.

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But of course while there John is basking in his
golden glory, the kids are standing on the ramp of
the ship and they basically a car, not a car,
but an other car shows up with their parents on it,

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and of course we have that warm reunion where everybody's
happy to see each other, and Jod comes out and
introduces himself and basically tells them that the kids are
in trouble because they broke the rules and they put
it out at and in danger and all this, and
he orders the Droids to take them away and keep
them locked up, and of course he knights is light

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saber in itence.

Speaker 2 (36:03):
That's right, that's right. I know the cliffhanger, right.

Speaker 1 (36:09):
Oh, yes, the cliffhanger. The cliffhanger. So what were your
thoughts on that cliff.

Speaker 2 (36:20):
That was?

Speaker 4 (36:22):
That was?

Speaker 2 (36:22):
You know? I was like, you know, like I'd mentioned
in my opening comments, my initial reactions, I was like,
you can't, you can't do that to us, you know,
it's it's not fair, But uh, it was a really
good ending with him having that blade out. It's it's
it is pretty wild to see a blue blade being

(36:45):
used like that in a threat manner. Right. We're used
to red ones doing that, so it's a little weird
to see him doing this like he did on the ship. Right,
you know, he has sent her and he had it
in their face and ill, you know, and then even
you know, we talked about how dark it was to
shoot Brutus in the face. But then he's like, I'm
going to carve you up, and I'll carve up your parents.
I was like, wow, he was getting a bit darker

(37:07):
than I thought it would, you know. And but then
at the end there you know, it's in a very
threatening way, you know, and you see the kids' faces
and then boom cut to credits. But you know I've
said it before, you know, the my dad said it.
My dad went to him this Saturday morning cereals. He's sewing.

(37:30):
He goes, oh my gosh, Dave Buck Rodgers and flash
Gordon and buy a tutsie roll that you know, with
the size of your head and you get a bag
of popcorn. And then all of a sudden, you know,
it's the cliffhanger and i'd have to come back the
you know, the next week at the theater. You know,
we'll go to the theater, and he said it was great

(37:50):
and it's fun. Cliffhangers can be fun. You're kind of like, oh,
come on, but really it's it is fun, and this
was a really good cliffhanger.

Speaker 1 (38:00):
It truly is. And I just realized I care basted.
I had a carabass moment and didn't even realize it
untill after you started talking, and I realized that the
episode ended with John walking up and igniting his lightsaber.
He hadn't told the parents the kids were in trouble
at that's the opening scene of the finale Caravas. But

(38:30):
but yeah, fantastic ending to the episode. Great cliffhanger, perfect
way to set up a season finale. So yeah, I
thought that was pretty cool. What any any other things
you wanted to hit on that we haven't touched talked

(38:50):
about yet?

Speaker 2 (38:52):
No, no, I wanted to hit those two easter eggs,
the Tex eleven thirty eight and and really kind of
you know, your view and my view, the reminders of
the Barrier, and really how it does feel like watson
Ford is pulling from the Clone Wars and from that
Shattered Empire comic, which you know, I really enjoyed both

(39:13):
that Clone Wars episode and the and the comic. So
those are the two things that I wanted to make
sure we mentioned, you know, and and go from there.
But but no, I think we've done a good job
on this all right.

Speaker 1 (39:25):
Perfect, perfect, Well with that, let's go ahead and jump
into final reactions here and uh get this completed. Uh,
I'll go ahead and go first, since you started off
with initial reactions you know again, like I said a
few moments ago, just a fantastic ending, uh, to the

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fantastic second to last episode to lead us into a finale.

Speaker 2 (39:54):
Uh.

Speaker 1 (39:54):
This it was full of edge of your seat action
and suspense. There was danger, there was fun, There was explosions,
and to reach their goal and the danger to still
be there is just ah, it's bone rattling, very fun episode.

Speaker 2 (40:15):
I am.

Speaker 1 (40:15):
I'm absolutely loving this series. It is to me, it's
a huge win for for Lucasfilm. Soh bravo, bravo, bravo, bravo.
How about you and my friend? What are your final
reactions to to the episode We're gonna be in so
much trouble?

Speaker 2 (40:35):
Well, I do you know? I said it before and
you you said it so well. On all the action
and excitement and and you know, I really felt like
this This episode really did work perfectly as a penultimate episode.
You know, it entertained the entire time while while setting
up what you and I are hoping that, you know,
it will be a great season finale, and I hope

(40:56):
it's season finale, not series finale. It does say season finale,
but uh, you know, we just don't know. But I'm really,
you know, hoping again that in the final episode that
we'll get a number of our questions and mysteries answered.

(41:18):
You know, his job uh really for sensitive is that
magnets and his gloves, you know those kind of things. Uh?
What else? Oh, you know, will will we uh? Will
we see you know, uh Kim come back into the story.
I feel like she will because of her telling KB,

(41:42):
hey call me if.

Speaker 3 (41:42):
You need me.

Speaker 2 (41:45):
What else? What are some other mysteries? Uh? Yeah, who's
the supervisor? Right? You know what? What what is that
all about? So we'll we'll get all those answers hopefully
in the season finale. But but I love this one.
As again, I gotta keep penultimate, penultimate, penultmen episodes. So
it really was great. I enjoyed it and and I'm

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ready to to see the finale, you know, with you
and and then comments on it.

Speaker 1 (42:13):
So absolutely absolutely we we definitely are, and of course
we want to hear from you and hear what you
have thought of the Skeleton Crew season before we uh
and I know of course by now everybody has seen
the finale because like I said, we're releasing this after
the fact, but let us know what you thought of
the series. We'd love to hear from you. You can

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us a voicemail. You can do that by going to
speakpipe dot com slash Star Wars Reactions. So, David, if
somebody would like to talk Star Wars with you, how

(43:23):
would they go about doing that?

Speaker 2 (43:25):
Absolutely main place is still twitter X. I don't know
if everybody's left or if there's still some people there,
but Twitter x. My handle is at David Underscore moders
m O, D, D E. R. S. And and then
of course if people you know, use any of our

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show socials, Aaron you know, always gets those over to me.
So those are the best places.

Speaker 1 (43:57):
Very good, very good of course if you want to
talk to me, of course through all the besides the show.
So bu bu bu bu bup up up up up
up care best show socials, you can always get a
hold of me on exit t A. Harris twelve, ten
seventy nine. I don't know why I have so much

(44:19):
trouble running those two words together. David.

Speaker 2 (44:23):
Well, there's a certain combinations, you know.

Speaker 1 (44:27):
Yeah, there's certain combinations that just trip me up. And
that does it so well, my friend, you know what that.

Speaker 2 (44:37):
Means trying to close the show, right.

Speaker 1 (44:41):
Yep, with the best part of the show, the Star
Wars Dad joke of the week. See how I played
off of that, huh, trying to rush me out? I
get I am sharp like Ninja. So we got this
bad joke of the week for you this week, and

(45:04):
here we go. What's the most important part of making
the jump to hyperspace?

Speaker 2 (45:14):
I don't know what's the most important part of making
the jump to hyper space?

Speaker 1 (45:19):
You got a planet?

Speaker 2 (45:22):
Oh, Oh my god, that's that was the slow burn.
I had to I'm like, oh, oh, that's pretty good. Actually,
don't you think I mean, that's pretty You've.

Speaker 1 (45:42):
Got to planets, Oh my god. Planet You know what
Han says. You can't just jump into hyperspace. You fly
through an asteroid, right through a moon or something. Oh yeah, yeah,
Oh I love it.

Speaker 2 (45:57):
I love it. I love it.

Speaker 1 (45:59):
Well. This has been a blast as always.

Speaker 2 (46:04):
Absolutely, Man, it's easy to cover these shows. These are
fun episodes.

Speaker 1 (46:09):
These truly are great episodes to cover, and I'm so
glad we've gotten to cover Skeleton Crew and we of
course I want to thank everybody for joining us. Remember
we will be at Central Florida Comicon this weekend. We'll
be there Saturday, of course, hanging out having fun. We
just found out Emily Swallows, the armorer from the Mandalorian,

(46:32):
will be there, so we are psyched for that. So
if you're in the Central Florida, come hang out with
us at Central Florida Comic Con. We're going to be
having a blast. Of course, we want to still, like
I said, thank y'all for joining us again week after week.
We appreciate each and every one of you. Joining us
and hanging out with us and spending your quality time

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with the two of us. Remember to do something kind
for somebody this week.

Speaker 2 (46:58):
You know, just.

Speaker 1 (47:00):
So much hurting in the world right now, Just do
something kind for somebody. There's it's just it'll, it'll If
everybody would just do something kind for one person, it
would just radically change the world. And let's let's get
it going and starting with you. So remember this is
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