Summary
- Skeleton Crew avoided setting up potential future seasons with a neat, standalone finale.
- The show’s creators are open to a second season but facing challenges with audience ratings.
- Despite potential crossover opportunities, a return for Skeleton Crew remains uncertain.
The swashbuckling adventures of Star Wars: Skeleton Crew have come to an end, with Jon Watts and Christopher Ford’s eight-part series once again harking back to the Amblin Entertainment heyday of the 1980s. The ragtag crew of space kids were left in dire straits during the penultimate episode. But with the message of the series being about having a little hope, how did Skeleton Crew leave things with its action-packed finale?
Unlike previous shows like Obi-Wan Kenobi and Ahsoka in Disney+’s Star Wars catalog, which have ties to the wider Skywalker Saga, Skeleton Crew carved its own way as a standalone adventure. Even The Acolyte had a last-minute cameo from Yoda, but Skeleton Crew seemed to learn from the former’s mistakes. In its season finale, it rolled credits without setting up its own potential future that might never happen.
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Skeleton Crew Avoids the Acolyte’s Post-Credit Conundrum
It all went down on At Attin. January 14’s “The Real Good Guys” featured the quartet of heroes taking on the villainous Jod Na Nawood (Jude Law), who made it clear he was only out for himself and planned to take over the At Attin mint with the help of his private crew lurking beyond the Barrier. After besting the Supervisor (Stephen Fry), Jod’s plans came crumbling down when the kids and their parents sacrificed their own planet’s safety for the greater good.
KB (Kyriana Kratter) managed to get a message out to Kh’ymm (Alia Shawkat), who called in the New Republic to bust some pirate skulls. Some typically bombastic Star Wars dogfights ensued, with the New Republic gaining the upper hand on the pirates and leaving them to their grim fates. Skeleton Crew ended with the families facing an uncertain future. Apart from Jod’s next move without his crew, things were largely wrapped up in a neat bow. Most importantly, Skeleton Crew didn’t leave audiences with a post-credits scene akin to The Mandalorian, The Book of Boba Fett, or even the equally standalone Andor finale.
While Ford and Watts haven’t revealed why Skeleton Crew didn’t get a post-credit scene, it could have to do with what happened to The Acolyte. Despite plenty of hype that it was set in the lucrative High Republic period of the franchise that was yet to be explored on the small or silver screen, plans for a multi-season arc were cut short. The Acolyte was rumored for a second season before the first was even released, which sounds dangerously like Sam Raimi planning Spider-Man 4 and Spider-Man 5 before Spider-Man 3 even released.
Other franchises like the MCU also like to plan far ahead, but audiences have complained that post-credit scenes from Shang-Chi and Thor: Love and Thunder are taking years to pay off. Others, like the Council of Kangs, will likely never be revisited. Star Wars should be wary about future-proofing itself as well. The aforementioned Book of Boba Fett was especially guilty of this, teasing a second season that has no sign of materializing and its unanswered questions presumably being folded into The Mandalorian & Grogu.
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The Future of Skeleton Crew
There are still plenty of dangling cliffhangers that could warrant a return for Skeleton Crew season 2. Although not the most pressing, there are questions about what happens next to At Attin now that the galaxy knows it exists. Elsewhere, Jod had something of a thin backstory where his Jedi powers were never fully explained, as well as theories about who his mystery Jedi savior was. Even though the idea of Jod Na Nawood being an Order 66 refugee was off the mark, it feels like the story of this Force-sensitive pirate has only just begun. Skeleton Crew also went to great efforts to establish a younger cast of characters. The kids all feel like they could appear in other Star Wars projects, much like how The Force Awakens added some much-needed new blood to the galaxy far, far away.
Even if Skeleton Crew doesn’t have a post-credit scene, Ford and Watts have opened up about where things could go from here. Discussing what happens next with TechRadar, Watts admitted:
We wanted to make sure this season had a satisfying beginning, middle, and end. But, if people want to see more Skeleton Crew, we’d be happy to make more.
Ford added that the pair are ‘dreaming’ of a second season, adding: “We’ve come up with different possibilities, so never say never.” Unfortunately, those chances are looking increasingly slim. Skeleton Crew’s first two episodes set a new low for Star Wars shows on Disney+, and although ratings climbed from there, it’s not the kind of numbers that franchise overlords will be looking for in the wake of The Acolyte’s cancelation. In contrast, The Acolyte held strong in the viewing figures, but might’ve been shown the door due to the immense fan backlash against it.
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Whatever the future of Skeleton Crew holds, there could be a bit of a wait. In a separate interview with Entertainment Weekly, Ford and Watts suggested that if these characters return, the show would address the real-life issue of their aging. As well as teasing that future ideas for Skeleton Crew would explore Jod’s Jedi past, Watts explained:
“We wouldn’t pretend like the kids are only six months older if we made more. It is fun to think of them growing up and where they would fit into the galaxy and how their world would be changed by the events of what happened in the first season.”
Ford said there’s potential for how events outside of Skeleton Crew have affected At Attin, which sounds like a perfect segue into something like The Mandalorian & Grogu’s return of Grand Admiral Thrawn. There was also the interesting aside where he said the show had been ‘building’ viewers week-on-week, suggesting that sensationalist headlines about Skeleton Crew’s cancelation might be premature.
Even if Skeleton Crew is destined to be a one-season experiment at a time when Star Wars continues to struggle, there are rumors that these characters will appear in The Mandalorian & Grogu. Disney is cashing in on the post-Return of the Jedi era, with the so-called Mandoverse being where a lot of effort is being focused. Unlike The Acolyte, which sits in an awkward period of history without connections to the wider franchise, Skeleton Crew could have a reprieve without needing to get another season. It’s clear that Disney is heading toward some sort of Avengers: Endgame-inspired crossover between the various Mandoverse IPs. Even if many will be disappointed that the Skeleton Crew kids might not get another adventure on their own, at least the book isn’t closing on them just yet.
Star Wars: Skeleton Crew
Release Date
December 2, 2024
Cast
Jude Law
, Ravi Cabot-Conyers
, Ryan Kiera Armstrong
, Kyriana Kratter
, Robert Timothy Smith
, Nick Frost
, Fred Tatasciore
, Jaleel White
, Dale Soules
, Geoffrey Lower
, Marti Matulis
, Sisa Grey
, Dominic Burgess
, Vivienne Sachs
, Esai Daniel Cross
, Shane Almagor
, Paloma Garcia-Lee
, Alan Resnick
, Anthony Atamanuik
, John Gemberling
, Tunde Adebimpe
, Kerry Condon
, Alia Shawkat
, Cass Buggé
, Geneva Carr
Writers
Jon Watts
, Christopher Ford
Streaming Service(s)
Dis
Showrunner
Jon Watts
, Christopher Ford
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