Skeleton Crew Showrunners Talk Finale Spoilers and Season 2 Potential

Now that the first season, but hopefully not the last season, of Star Wars: Skeleton Crew is in the books, it’s time to talk spoilers. Creators and showrunners Jon Watts and Christopher Ford recently sat down to do just that and addressed basically everything you were curious about: Jod’s past, At Attin’s future, whether or not their show will be returning for season two, and so much more.

Their answers dive into big spoilers for the show, so if you haven’t caught up yet, now’s your last chance.

In their full interview with Entertainment Weekly, which you can and should read here, Watts and Ford discuss Jod’s character arc, his backstory, plot lines they didn’t get to explore, the closing credits, and season two potential. One of the highlights is their discussion of the final look Jod gives peering out the window of At Attin, and what it could mean for him.

“I’ve watched this episode 10,000 times in editing and in every stage of post-production, but watching it last night with my family, that was the part that kind of actually made me feel something I hadn’t felt before for some reason,” Ford said. “Just him now alone and thinking his thoughts, ruminating. That hit me in a way that it hadn’t before.”

“It’s one of those performances where it is open and real enough that you find yourself projecting a lot of yourself onto his expression,” Watts added. “I was trolling Reddit while you were watching with your family. Different people were reading different things. Some people were like, ‘Oh, he’s happy to finally have to drop this ruse.’ Or it’s like, ‘No, he’s regretful because he’s looking out at this perfect family landscape and he’s all alone.’ People saw every different variety.”

One piece of variety we won’t get to see just yet is which Jedi Jod was training with. However, the showrunners do admit they left it vague to potentially deal with it in the future.

“In our heads, it’s like the potential to go deeper,” Ford said. “That part of the story is something that could be explored in the future. So when you have something that’s a kind of work in progress like that, you leave it open enough to get worked on and made better.”

“Yeah, not in this season,” Watts added. “But what’s great about Star Wars is that you start talking about someone’s backstory and there’s already a history and allure that surrounds it. So you start getting excited about, ‘Oh, well, where do you place this person if it’s X amount of years ago into this larger galactic timeline?’ It’s just such a rich world that you can have so many variations and varieties of characters and backstories, and it’s just like limitless potential. It’s very fun.”

As for a second season, it’s something they’ve been thinking about but haven’t been given an official go-ahead on yet. “We have ideas in our heads for sure,” Watts said. “We’re waiting to find out what everyone else thinks, but we’ve always had an idea of where this could go even before we made the first season. So there’s lots of potential out there and hope everyone sees that.”

And, if that does happen, that all of the kids are likely to have aged significantly won’t matter. Their ideas don’t start the next day after the season one finale. “We wouldn’t pretend like the kids are only six months older if we made more,” Watts said. “It is fun to think of them growing up and where they would fit into the galaxy and how their world would be changed by the events of what happened in the first season.”

“And interconnected wise, how the events of the other shows would impact At Attin,” Ford added. “It doesn’t have to be a cameo, because if there’s historical events are happening in the galaxy, it’s going to affect everyone.”

“Yeah, their secluded planet is now officially a part of the larger galaxy. So what would be the ramifications of that?” Watts asked. Seems like maybe they have their season two storyline figured out—if season two comes to pass.

Read more from Watts and Ford over at EW and check back tomorrow for our deep dive spoiler post on the first season of Skeleton Crew.

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