Now that it’s the first, but hopefully not the last season Star Wars: Skeleton Crew is in the booksit’s time to talk about spoilers. Creators and showrunners Jon Watts and Christopher Ford she recently sat down to do just that and tackled pretty much everything you’ve been interested in: Jod’s past, In Attin’s futurewhether or not their show will return for a second season, and more.
Their answers dive into major 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 hereWatts and Ford discuss Jod’s character, his backstory, plots they didn’t get to explore, the exit credits, and the potential for a second season. One of the highlights is their discussion of the final look Jod gives looking through At Attin’s window and what that might mean for him.
“I’ve watched this episode 10,000 times in editing and every stage of post-production, but watching it last night with my family, that was the part that kind of made me feel something that I didn’t before for some reason,” said Ford. “Now he is alone and thinks about his thoughts, reflects. It hit me in a way it hadn’t before.”
“It’s one of those performances where he’s open and real enough that you find yourself projecting a lot of yourself into his expression,” Watts added. “I was trolling Reddit while you were watching with your family. Different people read different things. Some people said, ‘Oh, he’s happy he finally has to give up this scam.’ Or it’s like, ‘No, he’s regretting it because he’s looking at this perfect family landscape and he’s all alone.’ People saw different varieties.”
One part of the diversity we won’t see yet is who the Jedi Jodom trained with. However, the showrunners admit they left it vague so they could address it in the future.
“In our minds 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 ongoing like that, leave it open enough to work on it and it can get better.”
“Yeah, not this season,” Watts added. “But what’s great Star Wars is to start talking about someone’s background and there’s already a history and appeal surrounding it. So you start to get excited about, ‘Oh, well, where do you place this person if it was X years ago on this larger galactic timeline?’ The world is so rich that you can have so much variation and variety of characters and backstories, and it’s like it has limitless potential. It’s a lot of fun.”
As for a second season, that’s something they’ve been thinking about but haven’t gotten the official green light yet. “We certainly have ideas in our heads,” Watts said. “We’re waiting to find out what everyone else thinks, but we always had an idea of where this could go even before we did the first season. So there’s a lot of potential and hopefully everyone will see that.”
And if that happens, the fact that all the children have probably aged significantly won’t matter. Their ideas don’t start the day after the season one finale. “We wouldn’t be pretending the kids were only six months older if we made more,” Watts said. “It’s fun to think about them growing up and where they would fit into the galaxy and how their world would change with the events that happened in season one.”
“And interconnected, how the events of the other shows would affect Attin,” added Ford. “It doesn’t have to be an episodic episode, because if historical events happen in the galaxy, it’s going to affect everything.”
“Yes, their isolated planet is now officially part of a larger galaxy. So what would be the ramifications of that?” Watts asked. It seems they may have come up with a story for a second season – if a second season happens.
Read more from Watts and Ford over at EW and check back tomorrow for our detailed Season 1 spoiler post Skeleton Crew.
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