Spoilers for “Star Wars: Skeleton Crew” episode 3 to observe.
A galaxy far, distant has launched a model new assortment of characters with “Star Wars: Skeleton Crew,” one in all whom solely simply made his debut on the finish of the second episode that premiered final week. Donning the traditional apparel of a Jedi however feeling like something however is Jude Regulation because the mysterious Jod Na Nawood, who can be going by the title of Crimson Jack.
Touchdown someplace within the hyperspace between Han Solo (Harrison Ford) and Captain Jack Sparrow, there’s clearly extra to Jod than meets the attention, notably if the present’s occasions — coupled with “Skeleton Crew” toy packaging descriptions in the actual world — are something to go by. Firstly, there’s the truth that Jod/Jack seemingly used the Drive to get him and his new crew mates out of the slammer and away from hazard. Then there’s the Hasbro Pulse itemizing for the Jod Na Nawood 3.75-inch motion determine and the implications of his apparel (or lack thereof).
So, simply who is that this man and how much hassle may he be getting our heroes into going ahead? Effectively, for this we have to get deep into Dagobah-level weeds and focus on a “Star Wars” character that was as soon as canon, stopped being so, and now may simply be once more. Kinda.
Crimson Jack? Now, that is a reputation I’ve not heard in a very long time. A very long time.
The title Crimson Jack has been floating across the galaxy ever since “Star Wars: Episode IV — A New Hope” first made its method into theaters in 1977. Showing within the Marvel-published “Star Wars” comedian e book sequence and written by Roy Thomas and Howard Chaykin, Jack was a longtime rival of our favourite scruffy-looking nerf herder, Han Solo (Harrison Ford), and even stole the reward the smuggler and Chewbacca earned following the Battle of Yavin. From there, Jack despatched Han on his method and the rival pirate took off in his annoyingly cool experience: his personal private Star Destroyer.
Cool experience or not, Jack and his adventures had been wiped from the continuity of “Star Wars” after the Expanded Universe was deemed now not canon and renamed Star Wars Legends. That was till 2022, when in Ethan Sacks and Will Sliney’s “Star Wars: Halcyon Legacy,” Jack returned as a pirate captain as soon as once more, setting his sights on the eponymous vessel, the Halcyon. Nevertheless, each earlier iterations of Jack look extra like Tormund Giantsbane (Kristofer Hivju) from “Recreation of Thrones” than Mr. Serviette Head from “The Vacation” (aka Regulation). To make issues much more difficult, Jack was reintroduced to the canon in a narrative that noticed him finishing up a mission for the First Order, which does not come into energy for years after the occasions of “Skeleton Crew” on the “Star Wars” timeline. So, what does this imply for Regulation’s “Jack,” and was the character impressed by a well-known traditional literary determine?
Jod Na Nawood has a well-known streak of Silver
In addition to sharing the title with the already established Crimson Jack, Regulation’s shifty stranger looks like a space-based versoin of Lengthy John Silver from “Treasure Island” (or “Treasure Planet” if you understand your Disney). It is becoming, then, that, as is revealed throughout his rescue mission for SM-33 (Nick Frost), that his former crewmates handle him as Captain Silver, similar to the character from Robert Louis Stevenson’s traditional journey story.
Jod/Jack is already profitable over choose members of the Skeleton Crew on the sequence, similar to Lengthy John Silver famously did with cabin boy, Jim Hawkins, although it does not imply he will be trusted. It is fairly doubtless that is all a ruse and that Jod/Jack is solely somebody who can faucet into the Drive moderately than a full-fledged Jedi (very similar to the boy with the broom in Star Wars: Episode VIII — The Final Jedi”). The one distinction is that this lawbreaker makes use of the Drive to his benefit, which could repay given the place Crimson Jack leads to “Star Wars: Halcyon Legacy.”
Then once more, it is attainable that is one other Jack altogether and that Jod actually is a Jedi. In that case, he could be however one of many survivors of Order 66 who took on a brand new title and turned to a lifetime of crime after the Galactic Empire seized management of the galaxy. (Characters going by totally different identities, like Obi-Wan “Ben” Kenobi, is definitely a well-established “Star Wars” trope.) For now, we’ll have to attend and see what’s in retailer for the present’s heroes.
New episodes of “Star Wars: Skeleton Crew” premiere each Tuesday at 6 pm PST on Disney+.
