Skeleton Crew Episode 8 Review: Star Wars For 5-Year-Olds

The final episode of Skeleton Crew is now out, wrapping up the series and confirming that the show is essentially Star Wars for 5-year-olds.

Overall, I enjoyed the series. It’s definitely a fun watch, and I would watch a Season 2, but I don’t think it feels like Star Wars. There were never any real stakes. The writing doesn’t make sense at times, and it feels like they ended up catering to what I call a fair-weather, fake fan audience (looking at you, Reddit).

Honestly, the show had something really cool going for it. I think Skeleton Crew would have been much better off dropping the children angle and focusing instead on Jude Law and the pirates. The child actors are great, no doubt, but Jude Law—pardon the pun—really steals the show. He’s fantastic in the series.

Unfortunately, the final episode does little to resolve Jude Law’s arc. There are rumors he might appear again, but for now, we’re left hanging with just speculation. Judging by the horrible ratings, a Season 2 seems doubtful.

Regarding the episode, again it’s a really fun ride. There’s nods to E.T., there’s X-wings, the B-wings are super cool, but the episode falls short in delivery.

Dude! Just send the kids and the parents out of the room! That’s all you had to do, LOL. Or how about chopping down one of the parents? Or simply wounding one?? The kids were never scared. Fern has a lightsaber to her throat and isn’t scared! She’s mad! Oh, no! So Jude Law doesn’t want to hurt anyone yet he lets his pirate crew plunder the planet? They’re blasting everything in sight, albeit they shoot as well as Stormtroopers, LOL.

And what about the supervisor? I thought it was pretty cool that the supervisor was essentially a giant R2 unit. However, it felt really dumb when Jude Law disabled everything just by sticking the lightsaber into its optical sensor. Then, somehow, the dad flips a few switches, and the power is back on? Seriously? Huh?

I also liked how they explained At Attin and its connection to Order 66. Back then, I’m guessing the Republic kept their mints hidden to protect them. They would send out orders, and At Attin would use their ships to supply credits to the Republic. The last order sent out by the Republic was Order 66, declaring the Jedi traitors. After that, the Empire took over, which wasn’t the Republic anymore. Since the supervisor droid never received another message from the Republic, it just kept operating as it always had. Pretty cool.

Regarding the ending, I thought it was pretty funny that when the X-wings and B-wings showed up, they blasted the pirate ship out of the sky which crashed into the city. Of course, no one was hurt while making this episode.

The reveal of Jude Law’s backstory was pretty cool. Apparently, when he was a kid, he was a Padawan. Then Order 66 happened, and they killed his Master right in front of him. We can assume they didn’t realize he was a Padawan. From that, I guess we’re meant to understand why Jude Law never really hurt any of the kids or their parents—he’s not such a bad guy. That’s also why Fern was never afraid of him and why Wim called for him at the end. He knew Jude was never really going to kill his dad. Bruh, this is Star Wars for five-year-olds.

The Verdict

I grew up with Uncle Owen and Aunt Beru getting torched. I grew up with Obi-Wan getting killed, Luke losing his hand, and people getting thrown into the f’n Sarlacc pit. I grew up with Princess Leia choking Jabba the Hutt and an entire planet—billions of people—getting blown to bits! Skeleton Crew, my friends, is not Star Wars.

Skeleton Crew final episode gets a 5/10.