This text incorporates spoilers for “Star Wars: Skeleton Crew” episode 7, “We’re Gonna Be In So A lot Bother.”
The penultimate episode of “Star Wars: Skeleton Crew” season 1, “We’re Gonna Be In So A lot Bother,” brings the motion again to the planet of At Attin, with the entire present’s storylines and characters converging on the mysterious world of fantasy. As issues get underway, the dad and mom of the imperiled youngsters, Wim (Ravi Cabot-Conyers), Fern (Ryan Kiera Armstrong), Neel (Robert Timothy Smith), and KB (Kyriana Kritter), plot to ship them a message, letting them know methods to get previous the deadly barrier that stands between them and their return house. In the meantime, Captain Brutus (Fred Tatasciore), Jod Na Nawood (Jude Regulation), and the remainder of the pirates struggle over the youngsters and their ship, the Onyx Cinder, after they notice it would maintain the important thing to passing via the barrier.
Ultimately, Jod comes out on prime, capturing the youngsters by drive, taking them hostage with merciless threats, and leaving his pirate crew behind. Reaching the floor, he locates the fabled treasure of At Attin and the youngsters are reunited with their dad and mom. Nonetheless, the precise episode ends simply as the ultimate battle is about to start.
Alongside the best way, “We’re Gonna Be In So A lot Bother” samples every little thing from “Andor” to, as soon as once more, “Treasure Island” for concepts. Nonetheless, considered one of its greatest scenes comes proper from a Steven Spielberg traditional.
Skeleton Crew episode 7 channels E.T. the Additional-Terrestrial
“Skeleton Crew” creators Robert Watts and Christopher Ford have made no bones about the truth that they’ve been impressed by the work of Steven Spielberg, notably his directing and producing output within the Nineteen Eighties. “The Goonies” is commonly cited as a frequent inspiration, and it is smart. “The Goonies” actually cemented the “Youngsters on Bikes” style within the hearts and minds of ’80s youngsters in all places. However there was, in fact, one other movie that actually kicked the style off within the first place: Spielberg’s 1982 hit “E.T. the Additional Terrestrial.”
The seventh episode of “Skeleton Crew” begins off with a scene plucked proper out of “E.T.” With the dad and mom of the lacking youngsters assured the droids and supervisors of At Attin will do nothing to assist discover their kids, they’ve original their very own communications system, cobbled collectively from spare elements, to ship a message out past the planet’s barrier. They collect collectively within the forest to launch their message. Sadly, the safety droids of At Attin, bearing vivid flashlights within the night time, descend upon them and provides chase, hoping to cease their message from getting out.
The scene seems like a direct ship up of two particular, iconic moments in “E.T.” The primary is the foot chase in “E.T.” that is been referenced on the present earlier than, the place the eponymous alien is chased by authorities brokers via the woods at night time with flashlights. The opposite, although, is when E.T. has cobbled collectively his personal communications system as a way to contact his folks and get picked as much as go house. “E.T. telephone house,” he tells his buddies in one of many film’s oft-quoted traces.
Whereas “Skeleton Crew” episode 7 matches the pictures and vibe of Spielberg’s traditional with its personal nighttime forest sequence, it additionally places the adults within the place of working away from the authorities this time, which is a hilarious change. Clearly, although, they simply need to get their youngsters house secure and sound, and it makes one surprise if that is what it would’ve been like for the opposite extra-terrestrials making an attempt to get ahold of E.T. on the opposite finish of issues in Spielberg’s film.
Will Skeleton Crew finish with a Spielberg-esque rousing climax?
If there’s something we are able to be taught from the instance of the “Youngsters on Bikes” Spielberg motion pictures of the Nineteen Eighties, it is that they at all times have a rousing climax with numerous motion and, nicely, youngsters on bikes. Since this episode of “Skeleton Crew” ends with an enormous cliffhanger after bringing its younger heroes again house to At Attin, it stands to purpose we’ll in all probability get again to see the youngsters driving their hoverbikes as they attempt to save the day from Jod Na Nawood and his traitorous methods within the season 1 finale.
Will they fly into the sky and get silhouetted by the moon? That is perhaps a bit of an excessive amount of, however I might nonetheless guess the hoverbikes determine into issues. I might likewise guess that Wim will get his fingers on that lightsaber Jod absconded with, too. It might make plenty of sense for him to get to turn into the Jedi he is dreamed of being because the very first episode. Additionally, hopefully the youngsters’ droid buddy SM-33 shall be again, too. That is simply good storytelling within the Spielberg mode.
The “Star Wars: Skeleton Crew” season 1 finale drops January 14, 2025, at 6pm PST on Disney+.
