Skeleton Crew, Episode 8: The Real Good Guys
Children of the Watch: A Star Wars After Show
Children of the Watch
4.8 • 3.2K Ratings
🗓️ 15 January 2025
⏱️ 77 minutes
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Summary
Join Children of the Watch for our breakdown of the finale of Skeleton Crew, the incredible new Star Wars show! What a way to tie up this adventure. We go scene-by-scene reviewing the story, characters, and settings while making connections to the rest of the Star Wars universe.
Will we see a second season for Skeleton Crew? Will Jod or any of the kids find their way into other Star Wars properties? How did we feel after the watching the Skeleton Crew finale? Plus, we'll be talking about some The Mandalorian & Grogu news towards the end.
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| 0:00.0 | What an incredible finale. |
| 0:11.8 | And it's so tight. |
| 0:13.1 | It was so good. |
| 0:14.8 | I had such a fun time with this, Mac. |
| 0:17.1 | Yeah, absolutely. |
| 0:18.4 | What a way to bring Skeleton Crew home. |
| 0:29.8 | Definitely, you know, tying a nice bow on what has turned out to be like a very pleasantly surprising series. |
| 0:37.0 | You know, I always thought I was going to like it, of course, it's Star Wars. But I didn't know how much I was going to like it. |
| 0:41.3 | It's, you know, there was a lot that happened in the episode. |
| 0:46.3 | You know, it was maybe a little more straightforward than we thought it was going to be, |
| 0:51.6 | like we didn't get a lot of the bigger lore questions and stuff that we had, but that's okay because we speculate about that kind of stuff, |
| 0:55.6 | not expecting answers necessarily. It's just more fun to talk about than to not talk about. |
| 1:02.0 | And what I love is that they didn't give us answers on a lot of those things in terms of like |
| 1:07.4 | the murals and the scroll, the the Jedi there's a little hints throughout the |
| 1:14.3 | series that you know we can red string it and and put it all together but I think it leaves |
| 1:19.6 | an opening for a season two and beyond right like yeah I sometimes I love like unanswered |
| 1:26.6 | questions because what you've built in your mind is sometimes |
| 1:30.1 | more fun than the answers they give you. |
| 1:32.1 | So I love that they didn't close the door on those things. |
| 1:35.0 | Yeah. |
| 1:36.0 | I really love that. |
| 1:37.7 | But honestly, I think this episode was a master class in Max VibroBlade theory. |
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