The place Are the Jedi Throughout ‘Star Wars: Skeleton Crew’?

If there’s one solution to describe the two-episode premiere of Star Wars: Skeleton Crew, it is refreshing. After the lore-heavy storyline that The Acolyte explored earlier this 12 months, showrunners Jon Watts and Christopher Ford have fortunately taken a step again to discover a extra self-contained nook of the galaxy. Between introducing the suburban world of At Attin and taking a extra grounded have a look at Star Wars’ notoriously messy family dynamics, the present has already given us a glimpse on the on a regular basis workings of galactic life, together with a brand new age of Star Wars piracy. But, for all the gap Skeleton Crew places between itself and pre-existing canon, the present nonetheless does not totally keep away from the franchise’s major iconography, which begs the query — the place are the Jedi throughout this harmful time within the galaxy?

‘Star Wars: Skeleton Crew’ Takes Place in a Galaxy With out Its Primary Heroes

With the intention to work out what the Jedi are as much as on the time of Star Wars: Skeleton Crew, we have to perceive the present’s place within the Star Wars timeline. The present’s opening crawl already confirms that the present takes place shortly after the occasions of Return of the Jedi, and subsequent reports have revealed that the sequence happens across the similar time as The Mandalorian and Ahsoka, clarifying that each one three units of characters are energetic across the similar time. Subsequently, Star Wars: Skeleton Crew happens at a time when the Jedi now not exist as an organized peacekeeping pressure, as Luke Skywalker (Mark Hamill) remains to be within the technique of rebuilding the Order that Kylo Ren (Adam Driver) destroys throughout Disney’s Sequel Trilogy.

Equally, understanding Skeleton Crew takes place across the similar time as The Mandalorian and Ahsoka helps us decide the opposite Jedi energetic throughout this time interval. Except for Luke, Rosario Dawson‘s Ahsoka Tano remains to be carrying on the legacy of the outdated Jedi Order — albeit from a different galaxy — and each Sabine Wren (Natasha Liu Bordizzo) and Ezra Bridger (Eman Esfandi) are likewise two former apprentices who are nonetheless kicking round the primary canon. It is also doable that Star Wars Jedi‘s Cal Kestis (Cameron Monaghan) is active in the course of the New Republic period, that means we’ve got affirmation of solely a handful of Jedi who’re round to police their more and more lawless galaxy.

Nonetheless, given Star Wars: Skeleton Crew‘s time interval, it is not out of the query for one among these Jedi to appear in the kind of cameo that has turn into the norm in latest Star Wars tales. If that had been to be the case, Ezra could be the perfect guess to assist out Skeleton Crew‘s major forged, because the character’s experiences throughout Star Wars Rebels uniquely place him to advise a brand new group of intergalactic adventurers, and it is also doable the character has already returned from his exile on Peridea. No matter crossovers, nonetheless, the absence of the galaxy’s most dependable peacekeepers nonetheless makes itself felt extra poignantly throughout Star Wars: Skeleton Crew‘s adventurous premiere.

‘Star Wars: Skeleton Crew’s Jedi Downside Factors to a Unhappy Reality Concerning the New Republic Period

In a primary for the Star Wars universe, Skeleton Crew begins its first episode with a refined nod to the most recent era of the franchise’s followers, having Wim (Ravi Cabot-Convers) play with motion figures, toy lightsabers, and flip by way of a databook of outdated Jedi tales with an awestruck fascination many real-life Star Wars followers have undoubtedly skilled. The nostalgia-heavy opening is bolstered by a enjoyable reference back to Star Wars’ infamous Holiday Special, however there’s additionally a solemn facet to this fanfare. In contrast to real-world followers, Wim lives in a galaxy the place the Jedi was as actual as they sounded, and his father’s (Tunde Adebimpe) insistence that his son quit his fixation on them reiterates the unhappy actuality of Wim’s place within the Star Wars timeline.

Whereas Star Wars: Skeleton Crew might happen after Return of the Jedi, the truth that the Jedi are nonetheless little greater than fantasy to many on At Attin emphasizes the unlucky fact that the Sith actually did eradicate the Order’s standing within the galaxy. After decades of Emperor Palpatine’s (Ian Mcdiarmid) Imperial rule, Wim serves as a reminder that Star Wars’ latest era is rising up with out the hope of its best heroes, which is what makes Jude Law‘s possible Force use at the end of Episode 2 so thrilling. Within the sequence, the absence of the Jedi represents the tragedies of the previous and the necessity to start once more, proving that the galaxy is in dire want of latest legends.

Star Wars: Skeleton Crew is offered to stream on Disney+ within the U.S. New episodes stream each Tuesday evening.

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