We are off on a brand new adventure with Star Wars: Skeleton Crew. The two-episode premiere introduced us to the four young protagonists, the mysterious Ja Na Nawood, a group of pirates, and the mysterious world of At Attin. Let's recap the end of the episodes.
Skeleton Crew Season 1 Episode 1, "This Could Be A Real Adventure," Ending Explained
Skeleton Crew episode 1 is the longer of the two-part series premiere and takes us into life on At Attin. As the episode draws to a close, Wim, KB, Fern, and Neel all find themselves in what Wim believes is an ancient Jedi Temple. Fern has her ideas and prefers to think of it as a haunted underground sewage. Neither of them is right, but it's already too late before they figure out where they are.
The lost "Jedi Temple" Wim found buried in the forest is, in fact, a pirate ship. As the group of kids explores the dusty old starship, we're introduced to a dead droid that has some quirky similarities to Cassian Andor's Rogue One companion, K-2SO. Wim continues to do everything he's instructed not to, and naturally, he presses a button that powers up the abandoned ship. As the engines roar to life and begin lifting off, the terrified kids hang on for dear life.
Watching them below is Wim's father, Wendle, who was looking for his son after he never made it home. The shocking discovery leaves him speechless, and the ship takes off before anything can be done. Within a few minutes, it enters hyperspace. The pacing here is quick, so it's nice when the kids get their first look at the stars, a wonderous sight similar to Omega's first look at hyperspace in The Bad Batch Season 1.
With an equal sense of horror and wonder, the episode 1, "This Could Be A Real Adventure," draws to an exciting and suspenseful close.
Skeleton Crew Season 1 Episode 2 "Way, Way Out Past the Barrier," Endings Explained
Things become far more complicated for our young adventurers in episode 2 as the group arrives at Port Borgo, which is teeming with pirates. As their ride was a pirate ship, and the supposedly dead droid who is very much alive, SM-33, sounds like a pirate as well, this isn't much of a surprise. On Port Borgo, everyone has their eyes on Wim's Old Republic credits. Any mention of At Attin by the younglings gets laughed at, but it's revealed that their home planet was legendary among pirates for being home to an endless treasure.
SM-33 comes to the kids' rescue when they're being chased by Captain Silvo's crew, which includes Vane from The Mandalorian, who mutinied against him. Unfortunately, SM-33 doesn't make it past the pirates, whose group includes a guy who looks like a werewolf named Brutus. Fern mouths off against Brutus, who's technically the new captain of their ship, and as a result, the kids are thrown into the brig.
With everyone now locked up, their only means of escape is to obtain a key that can get them out, but getting it proves to be a big challenge. Luckily, or not, someone arrives just in time to get the key and promises to free them all. This cloaked individual is Jude Law's character, Jod Na Nawood.
The cloaked individual appears to use the Force on the key and reveals that he's ready to help free the kids if they promise to keep his identity a secret. We don't know why he's in jail yet, but if Law plays a double role, it explains some of the confusing promotional content that paints him as a gray character. He's likely a pirate, but he'll be something else to the kids. Does he possess Force abilities? It looks like he does, but one has to wonder why he couldn't free himself if he can.
Jod also sounds a lot like the pirate captain, Silvo, in the opening of episode 1. It's unknown at this time if they are the same character, but if he is, it sets up Job being on the run from the pirates, too. He'll probably help the kids, as long as it means he gets to find the treasure promised on At Attin. Of course, finding At Attin is the challenge here. The kids don't know where their home planet is. No known database contains its coordinates. At Attin seems as hidden to the rest of the galaxy as Kamino once was.
The second episode leaves us with questions about Jod Na Nawood and the mysterious ancient history of At Attin. It's a promising way to head into the rest of the season.
Skeleton Crew is streaming on Disney+.