Skeleton Crew Episode 4 takes cues from a Disney animated film

It contains the following Spoilers For the final episode of “Star Wars: Skeleton Crew”.

“Treasure Planet” holds history for being Disney’s biggest animated failure at the time of its release, but the film’s legacy lives on in 2024 thanks to the “Star Wars” franchise. Inspired by Robert Louis Stevenson’s “Treasure Island,” the Disney sci-fi film tells the story of Jim Hawkins (Joseph Gordon-Levitt), a teenage adventurer obsessed with finding the titular planet that hides the stolen gold of legendary space pirate Captain Flint. Episode 4 of “Star Wars: Skeleton Crew” also borrows ideas from the buzzy space adventure — in a way, the plot of the Disney+ series is reminiscent of Flint invading planets and stealing their treasures (in a good way).

Attin is home to one of the most mysterious Star Wars planetsand this sentiment gains more credence in Episode 4 of “Skeleton Crew.” After Jude Na-Nawood (Jude Law) and the series’ young heroes arrive on Ashran (a planet devastated by a war between the Troik and Htan tribes), they learn that there is no record of the Children’s home world in the wider galaxy far, far away. Furthermore, they discover that its coordinates have been destroyed after finding directions to other undocumented worlds, indicating that something fishy has occurred.

The Children’s Home is an actual secret planet, not unlike the remote gold haven in John Musker and Ron Clements’ underrated 2002 Disney film. Furthermore, there are people (and robots) who want Attin and the Treasure Planet to remain hidden from the rest of the galaxy. Their own.

Space pirates and lost worlds are a big part of “Treasure Planet” and “Star Wars: Skeleton Crew,” so it’s natural to compare the two stories somewhat. However, there are certain elements in Episode 4 of “Skeleton Crew” that echo specific story beats from Disney’s failure, mainly due to the way they both feature robots containing forgotten secrets.

In this episode, we learn that SM-33 (Nick Frost) had his memory erased by his old commander so that no one would know about Aten. Likewise, Captain Flint removes his memory circuit from a robot named BEN (Martin Short) in “Treasure Planet” so that he won’t tell anyone about the pirate’s stolen loot.

Episode 4 also reveals that the original captain of the Onyx starship Cinder killed everyone who saw At Attin’s coordinates, and ordered SM-33 to eliminate anyone who came close to discovering their secrets – which he attempts to do after passing on the information to the children. This justifies it Why does Judd Na Nawood hate the robots in ‘Skeleton Crew’ But it also echoes the “Treasure Planet” story, which details Flint booby-trapping the planet so that it will explode if visitors find his spoils. Let’s just hope the heroes of “Skeleton Crew” don’t return to Attin to find it full of explosives too – they’ve been in enough trouble as it is.

New episodes of Star Wars: Skeleton Crew will be released every Tuesday at 6pm PT on Disney+.