The co-creators of Star Wars: Skeleton Crew, Jon Watts and Christopher Ford, discuss the season finale, Jod's character development, the connection to The High Republic era, and the fate of Tak Rennod. They also reveal details about Neel's species, Jod's past with the Jedi, and the open-ended nature of certain moments.
Star Wars : Skeleton Crew officially wrapped things up this week, and we caught up with the series' co-creators, Jon Watts and Christopher Ford, to unpack the epic season finale and get answers to some of the most pressing questions. The finale saw the core four—Wim , Neel , Fern , and KB —in a race against time to stop Jod Na Nawood and his wily pirate crew from overtaking At Attin.
Were there ever discussions about setting it in a different time period, or was it really this era and the way everything is really shifting around in the galaxy that made it the perfect kind of jump point for the series? WATTS: We had written it as that, but then, really, it was when Jude came on board that we started to get into the details and the nuance. Ford, you can speak to that.
WATTS: It's been great watching. We were not really able to talk about Jod’s turn when we were doing all of our initial press, and so now it's nice to finally talk about that. It's been really fun watching people online really, truly believe that he was going to have a redemption arc. They were like, “He's going to have to sacrifice the gold to save the kids,” and just sitting there knowing that's not what we did and that we were sort of setting up that aspect to it.
WATTS: Yeah, they're Easter eggs from dumb YouTube videos that Fortnite made that are deeply buried in the show.FORD: Also, people find Easter eggs that we didn't even intend, but they are in there. So they're right, and we're wrong. It says something about how impactful the series is that there are so many people talking about what their interpretations were and there is this conversation. That's what I love about open-ended moments. That leads me to my next question, which is the series ended in a very open-ended way.
WATTS: Yeah, I mean I didn’t want to have to like fully step into that part of the universe and people working on it be like ‘It is that!’ But it’s supposed to feel connected, so if it’s not literally connected it’s still an idea that existed in the galaxy at a certain time of like ‘We can do better. We can do great things.’ And I think both At Attin and the works of were coming from the same place if they’re not directly related. But maybe they are.
FORD: They have this archive of awesome behind-the-scenes stuff. I'm not sure what the plan is with it, but it exists. But it’s like Jon says, the deleted scenes don't change anything. We honed things, and so it's interesting on a filmmaking level, but not on a Star Wars level of, like, what else is happening on At Attin.
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