Skeleton Crew Episode 6 fixes the Pirates bug in Star Wars

This article contains Mild spoilers For Episode 6 of Star Wars: Skeleton Crew, “Zero Friends Again”.

Star Wars is one of the largest fictional universes in film and television, embodied in countless myths, stories, locations and people. Like Middle-earth, it’s a place that can support almost any type of story. This is also why “Skeleton Crew” feels so fresh; Having a coming-of-age adventure for all ages set in the same universe as “Andor.” Nothing but good news for the sustainability of “Star Wars.”

More than just “The Goonies” in space, “Skeleton Crew” took the series to a place it’s never been before by telling a story about a group of kids longing for adventure who are thrust into a world of ruthless pirates and the search for a legendary legend. treasure. (It’s basically a “Star Wars” version of “Treasure Planet.”) as “The Mandalorian” promised to take viewers deeper into the “Star Wars” underworld and became more interested in connecting to and setting up other “Star Wars” projects, while “The Book of Boba Fett” completely failed to deliver. The seedy world of criminal gangs operating on Tatooine, finally the “Skeleton Crew” (Like Andor before him) delivers on the promise of George Lucas’ previously unproduced “Star Wars: Underworld” series. In fact, it actually showed us a dark side of a galaxy far, far away – one full of constant dangers and assassins seeking riches or a big score.

This does not mean that this is the first time that pirates have participated in a “Star Wars” project. Han Solo himself was referred to as a pirate in “A New Hope,” while the “Clone Wars” and “Star Wars Rebels” cartoons introduced plenty of pirate crews with their own methods and ruthless ways. However, it wasn’t until “Skeleton Crew” that we finally got an important piece of pirate iconography that had been missing from “Star Wars” for decades: alien sea shanties.

In the latest episode of Skeleton Crew, titled “Zero Friends Again”, Jude Law’s Good Na Nood (aka Crimson Jack, Silvo the Mad Captain, Dash Zinten, Professor Omiam Gorelox, and Godwick Zank) is captured by… Former pirate crew. To sentence him to death. But before that could happen, he was given the opportunity to do so Invest for his freedom, Pirates of the Caribbean style. – An opportunity he seizes to convince the crew to join him in the search for the great treasure of Aten. He even charmingly explains how he found a recording of the legendary Captain Tuck Raynaud talking about the Eternal Treasure Planet.

But when words aren’t enough, Judd begins reading a sheet about Raynaud and his legendary exploits aboard the Onyx ship Cinder. That’s right, we now have the first space sea hut in “Star Wars,” one that almost every crew member knows and joins in singing, suggesting that this particular hut is popular enough to be known throughout the galaxy. Suffice it to say, these rules; Sea shanties are fascinating and attractive and help paint a colorful picture of pirate life in a particular time period. It’s also the secret ingredient that made “Assassin’s Creed IV: Black Flag” one of the best video games in the series, giving you as a player even more reason to spend hours sailing the seas with your crew listening to sea shanties and forgetting about them. About the main task.

Of course, there’s also the fact that Reynaud’s shack is another undeniable reference to Robert Louis Stevenson’s “Treasure Island,” the classic novel that served as a major source of inspiration for “Skeleton Crew” (from the legendary treasure in both series). The young heroes and pirate seek to initially present himself as an ally before revealing his true colors to the children). In “Treasure Island”, the song “Fifteen Men on a Dead Man’s Chest” is not only a popular tune among pirates, but also a key clue to the titular location’s location. Perhaps there is another passage from Raynaud’s song that holds an idea about the fate of the pirate legend.

“Zero Friends Again” also brings back the pirate tradition of walking the plank — or rather, being kicked out of a spaceship’s airlock. It’s an execution method that’s been used in “Star Wars” for years, especially in “Clone Wars” when pirates and bounty hunters (particularly Cad Bane) threaten to throw others into the cold abyss of space. In Rebels, although he’s not technically a pirate, war criminal Chopper is constantly killing people by throwing them out of airlocks like a twisted villain.

More so than space cowboys and outlaws like Han Solo and Lando Calrissian, who are primarily concerned with themselves and tend to work alone, pirates are all about their crew, enjoy plundering and pillaging, and are mostly just weird little guys like… Werewolf Shestavanen Brutus (Fred Tatasciore) in “Skeleton Crew” or the swamp-like Jorian Shard in “The Mandalorian” (One of the best Star Wars characters in years). Space travel is the equivalent of sea travel, so it makes sense that the “Star Wars” universe would be full of pirates. If “Skeleton Crew” proves anything, it’s that there can never be too many pirates in outer space.

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