Star Wars: Skeleton Crew 1.06
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selenakIn which we get the show's version of Treasure Island's Fifteen Men on a Dead Man's Chest song as well as other more spoilery things.
So it seems the SW version of Flint is called Rennod, not Rennick, sorry, I misheard. Anyway: naturally he also left a song. This episode's bits of Treasure Island were a) the "after being deposed by the Black Spot and in danger of being killed, Silver manages to pull off yet another example of how he can talk (nearly) anyone into (nearly) anything by appealing to their greed and using some psychology" and b) "Jim Hawkins manages to recover the Hispaniola". While Jod/Silvo bit was excuted (no pun intended) well, the heart and meat of the episode were the kids' scenes, as it should be. The writers wisely decided the kids were due for a mix up so we can explore their characters more, create new dynamics and use the chance for some fleshing out of KB specifically, and the result was great, as the episode after a Fern/KB argument paired up KB with Wim and Fern with Neel.
Again, there were some kids' show archetypical moral lessons learned (pay attention to your friends and how they are faring, don't take them for granted), but not in a preachy way, and Wim saving KB's life not in the glamorous fighting way he envisioned but by her talking him through repairing her augments while painfully aware she could shut down/die at any moment was a fantastic scene. Great casting with these kids, show! Similarly, the KB and Fern reconciliation scene was truly touching, and I continue to be delighted how real these kids feel. For example, contrary to what KB secretly fears, Fern wouldn't look down on her or abandon her for not being able to keep up physically, but because Fern can be thoughtless (in a different way from Wim), you can see how she got that fear. (While Neel, bless him, outright says he can't physically do the same things Fern can, instead of keeping it to himself, so Fern in turn shows why she is a friend in deed and not just in word and figures out a way to help him so they both can make the climb.)
The bit with the trash crabs was classic SW humour which either works or doesn't, and in this case, it did (for me, as always). Now that our lot have retrieved the ship and are en route back to At Attin, as are the pirates, we're due for a big showdown and further reveals. (Is Rennod a) the supervisor and/or b) identical with SS-33, or c) another character we've already met, like the space owl librarian?) As for SW!Silver aka Jude Law, I expect him to like his original make a last minute move to help Jim Hawkins/the kids that means he won't end up either dead or imprisoned, and then to make a getaway with a bit of the treasure (not as much as he hoped, but a bit). And we'll probably discover whether or not he's a former youngling or padawan.
So it seems the SW version of Flint is called Rennod, not Rennick, sorry, I misheard. Anyway: naturally he also left a song. This episode's bits of Treasure Island were a) the "after being deposed by the Black Spot and in danger of being killed, Silver manages to pull off yet another example of how he can talk (nearly) anyone into (nearly) anything by appealing to their greed and using some psychology" and b) "Jim Hawkins manages to recover the Hispaniola". While Jod/Silvo bit was excuted (no pun intended) well, the heart and meat of the episode were the kids' scenes, as it should be. The writers wisely decided the kids were due for a mix up so we can explore their characters more, create new dynamics and use the chance for some fleshing out of KB specifically, and the result was great, as the episode after a Fern/KB argument paired up KB with Wim and Fern with Neel.
Again, there were some kids' show archetypical moral lessons learned (pay attention to your friends and how they are faring, don't take them for granted), but not in a preachy way, and Wim saving KB's life not in the glamorous fighting way he envisioned but by her talking him through repairing her augments while painfully aware she could shut down/die at any moment was a fantastic scene. Great casting with these kids, show! Similarly, the KB and Fern reconciliation scene was truly touching, and I continue to be delighted how real these kids feel. For example, contrary to what KB secretly fears, Fern wouldn't look down on her or abandon her for not being able to keep up physically, but because Fern can be thoughtless (in a different way from Wim), you can see how she got that fear. (While Neel, bless him, outright says he can't physically do the same things Fern can, instead of keeping it to himself, so Fern in turn shows why she is a friend in deed and not just in word and figures out a way to help him so they both can make the climb.)
The bit with the trash crabs was classic SW humour which either works or doesn't, and in this case, it did (for me, as always). Now that our lot have retrieved the ship and are en route back to At Attin, as are the pirates, we're due for a big showdown and further reveals. (Is Rennod a) the supervisor and/or b) identical with SS-33, or c) another character we've already met, like the space owl librarian?) As for SW!Silver aka Jude Law, I expect him to like his original make a last minute move to help Jim Hawkins/the kids that means he won't end up either dead or imprisoned, and then to make a getaway with a bit of the treasure (not as much as he hoped, but a bit). And we'll probably discover whether or not he's a former youngling or padawan.
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Date: 2025-01-03 01:55 am (UTC)KB's fondness for well-executed percussive maintenance is delightful.
And I suspect SM-33 is not long for that scrap-heap - not least because Nick Frost is credited for eight episodes.
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Date: 2025-01-03 03:01 pm (UTC)how genuinely frightening it was for Fern to actually make the decision to do it
Yep. I thought it would be Wim because touching something he's been told not to touch had been his MO so far, but it's really more interesting that it was Fern, and that it was part of her learning arc of what it truly means to be "the captain", the responsibility of it, in the very episode where her best friend had nearly died.
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Date: 2025-01-03 11:32 pm (UTC)I totally missed that! I assumed SM-33 was on the scrapheap because they did the rat-out-of-the-eye-socket thing again. Maybe that was meant to make the kids assume it was SM-33 as well, and feel like they were completely on their own now?
it's really more interesting that it was Fern
It definitely is. You can see her actually growing to become the leader she's positioned herself as and it's great. And Wim has now achieved the ambition he stated in class in the first episode - of helping people - by saving KB's life, so he's growing in the direction he wants for himself too.
I thought it was interesting the way they split the group up before that moment, though. Wim and KB weren't there to intervene, so either Fern had to break her "no touching things" safety rule on her own or Neel had to overcome his tendency to passivity in order to save them. But Neel hitting the button would have been acting out of fear, whereas when Fern did it she was acting in spite of her fear, and that's what makes her the captain.
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