Is Skeleton Crew’s First Massive Twist Hiding in Plain Sight?

The brand new Star Wars present, Skeleton Crew, is right here and the primary scene of the primary episode instantly hits you with a query. A query that, 15 seconds into it, mainly each considered one of us answered. However, since it’s not explicitly stated yet, we’re right here to tell you that sure. Sure, you have been proper. That’s precisely who you thought it was.

The primary episode of Skeleton Crew begins with a gaggle of pirates hijacking a ship hoping to seek out a great deal of credit. After they don’t, the crew mutinies in opposition to their captain, Silvo–who, all through the entire scene, is carrying what seems to be like a sinister mix of the Leia Boushh helmet from Return of the Jedi, a praetorian guard, and a pirate’s tricorne. Due to the helmet, technically, we aren’t alleged to know who Silvo is but. However then you definitely give it a second. The voice is oddly acquainted. We’ve seen that swagger earlier than. Then, when the episode ends, the reply is true there on display screen so that you can see, listed within the credit. It’s, certainly, Jude Regulation’s character Jod Na Nawood.

Regulation’s title is the primary title within the forged credit for the present regardless of the actual fact his face by no means seems within the episode. That’s your first clue. And sure, whereas some reveals credit score their greatest stars—like Regulation on Skeleton Crew—even when they don’t seem in an episode, that’s not the case right here. It’s Regulation behind the masks. A incontrovertible fact that’s bolstered when he seems as a prisoner on the finish of the second episode. The brig is strictly the place the pirates would’ve taken their disgraced captain, isn’t it?

Plus, Law already told us that ‘Jod’ isn’t the one title his character has passed by. “Certainly one of Jod’s different names is definitely taken from a very outdated early Star Wars comedian ebook,” the actor lately teased to io9 at a press junket for Skeleton Crew. “I gained’t inform you which one! However yeah, it’s a reference to a personality in a really early comedian.” Silvo doesn’t ring any bells from Star Wars historical past, so what might a 3rd id this thriller man has had even be?

So there you have got it. You thought it was Jude Regulation within the opening of the present and it was. So, what does that imply for what we’ve seen up to now? How did Jod Na Nawood rise to change into a pirate captain? Why does he go by Silvo? Which is his actual title? The place does his Pressure skill come from? Was he, in some unspecified time in the future, a Jedi as Wim suggests? These are questions that haven’t been answered but, however absolutely will quickly. For now, although, you can provide an enormous fats “I instructed you so” to anybody who didn’t consider you once you referred to as it.

The primary two episodes of Skeleton Crew are now streaming on Disney+.

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