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[u/ChanceVance]

Wim has seen death and destruction on his journey. Worried about assessments when he gets home. Strict parents for you.

[u/AndresCP → u/ChanceVance]

Well, he also has to ace it just to get a passing grade, and bro has not been studying.

[u/revides → u/ChanceVance]

More like strict society methinks

[u/RadiantHC → u/revides]

Yeah they're basing your entire career on a single test that you take when you're a kid.

No wonder Wim wanted to have an adventure

[u/ChanceVance]

Goodbye Brutus, you went out like a classic Star Wars character. Barely did anything but boy did you look cool doing it.

[u/youarelookingatthis → u/ChanceVance]

Can’t wait till we get a miniseries about Brutus in a few decades.

[u/ContinuumGuy → u/youarelookingatthis]

The Book of Brutus begins with him crawling out of the At Attin defense grid.

[u/F00dbAby → u/youarelookingatthis]

I know your sorta joking but id read like a 5/10 issue comic about this guy

[u/bertobellamy → u/ChanceVance]

Now I want the Brutus Black Series figure.

[u/thebarnacleez → u/bertobellamy]

It’s a good figure! Even has 5 guns that he didn’t use in the show!

[u/GullibleCupcake6115 → u/bertobellamy]

Damn it. Brutus got Caesared. Talk about going full circle. 😂😂😉☠️

[u/CarsonWentzGOAT1 → u/ChanceVance]

just like Marrok

[u/amateur_techie]

If Jod was smart, he’d use the mint ship to fake being a Republic emissary and just collect more credits whenever he needed them. There is literally no need to steal them with force.

[u/Rosebunse → u/amateur_techie]

The problem is, I don't think there is enough money in all the world for Jod, especially since absolutely no one likes him and he would likely be paranoid for the rest of his life.

[u/Air-Master28 → u/Rosebunse]

Yeah this is your classic greed story, Jod will probably make off with a large amount of treasure in the finale and turn around to “just get a few more” and be killed in the process.

[u/hypermark → u/Air-Master28]

I said this in another comment, but he's giving off Elsa in Last Crusade vibes. The possibility of redemption will exist but greed will overtake him.

[u/Swiss-ArmySpork → u/hypermark]

He's literally stood in a room with more riches then he could possibly imagine, yet his first thought was "how much more is there?"

[u/FrostBricks → u/Rosebunse]

Yup. He already found Tak Rennods treasure. That room was full of riches. More than enough for him and his crew. 

And yet, in that room, he betrayed the kids because he wanted even more

[u/Sio_V_Reddit]

Man, between Qimir, Hemlock, and Jod it's been a bad year for children existing in the Star Wars universe.

[u/TanSkywalker → u/Sio_V_Reddit]

It hasn’t been good for kids since Attack of the Clones.

[u/Dry-Opportunity-8879 → u/Sio_V_Reddit]

The will finish what Ani started

[u/ContinuumGuy]

Jude Law plays good asshole.

[u/wardengorri → u/ContinuumGuy]

It's insane how much I was rooting for him even when I shouldn't lol. Also Jod threatening to behead the children with a blue lightsaber was some pretty messed up imagery in the overall Star Wars world. What a performance.

[u/ContinuumGuy → u/wardengorri]

Just think how the kids feel. To them, the idea of someone using a good guy lightsaber to threaten them is like finding out not only that Santa Claus isn't real but... IDK... Krampus is?

[u/biel188 → u/ContinuumGuy]

finding out not only that Santa Claus isn't real but... IDK... Krampus is

that sounds terrifying I'm ngl

[u/astatine → u/wardengorri]

It's insane how much I was rooting for him even when I shouldn't lol.

One of the great things about Treasure Island is that Long John Silver is a complete bastard and yet you root for him when you shouldn't.

It was published in 1883. The likeable bastard pirate is a good and well-established trope.

[u/lanceturley → u/ContinuumGuy]

Jude's performance has been one of the highlights of the show, and this episode in particular might have been his best. I was legitimately a little upset when he was yelling at the kids.

[u/isellJetparts → u/lanceturley]

His speech during the auto land sequence was pretty damn scary. I thought this show was setting up a redemption arc for him and now I'm not so sure.

[u/TylerHyena → u/isellJetparts]

I thought about him getting a redemption arc earlier in the series, but now I’m okay if he finishes the story as an asshole who gets his just desserts

[u/KingOfAwesometonia → u/TylerHyena]

Yeah there's only one way to deal with a greedy asshole like him, poetic justice by locking him in the vault.

[u/eabevella → u/KingOfAwesometonia]

I'd love that. All the credits but what good are they if you can't use them. Also it will be grim enough but not too "gory" for the show.

[u/Jsmooth13 → u/ContinuumGuy]

If you like asshole Jude Law, watch the Young Pope

[u/Mr_rairkim]

"Get me supervisor. Better than speaking to a Droid." Seems like foreshadowing that the supervisor is a droid.

[u/AdditionalError9832 → u/Mr_rairkim]

It's probably a computer system, the planets feel like fallout especially those vault doors 

[u/Spartan_Shie1d → u/AdditionalError9832]

I'm hoping for a Mr. House / Fallout New Vegas set up

[u/Street_Elk_8362 → u/Spartan_Shie1d]

They go to the supervisor's office. From the shadows, you faintly hear "Query: how may I help you meatbags?"

[u/im_super_into_that → u/Street_Elk_8362]

This would make me sooo happy.

[u/hyacinth17 → u/Street_Elk_8362]

Don't. Don't play with my emotions like this, man.

[u/RadiantHC → u/Mr_rairkim]

I think it's Tak

How would he be able to get to At Attin if he didn't have an At Attin ship?

[u/BDMac2 → u/RadiantHC]

We didn’t see his face on the hologram at his hideout either, the even hid his face so it could be someone we’ve seen before.

[u/Mr_rairkim → u/BDMac2]

Rennod would have to have an enormous lifespan to be alive now, so maybe they hid his face because he's Yoda's species lol.

[u/Worthyness → u/Mr_rairkim]

Combined himself with a droid so he could be a cyborg ruler instead

[u/jsun31]

SM-33 abides by claimsies

[u/dagnummit → u/jsun31]

aye

aye

[u/CatandOtter-3812 → u/dagnummit]

Captain Fern.

[u/sppy1]

33, NOOOO!!!!

[u/herkalurk → u/sppy1]

KB will re-attach his head.

[u/MalcoveMagnesia → u/sppy1]

think the space rat that lived in his brain is going to splice the wires in his head back to his torso?

[u/traaaart → u/MalcoveMagnesia]

For sure. We have not seen the last of SM33

[u/an_actual_coyote]

"I'm afraid it doesn't work like that."

-JOD GETS ABSOLUTELY SALTED-

"AYE, BUT IT BE CLOSE ENOUGH!"

[u/Khal-Marko → u/an_actual_coyote]

"The code is more what you'd call guidelines. than actual rules." -Hector Barbossa.

[u/RampanToast → u/Khal-Marko]

Proper pirate behavior, we love to see it.

[u/red-5_standing-by → u/Khal-Marko]

Pirates be pirates no matter what galaxy

[u/JuniorCaptain → u/an_actual_coyote]

Good thing Jod had his helmet on! 33 cracked that thing!

[u/an_actual_coyote → u/JuniorCaptain]

Yeah he got full arm extended bop'd

[u/TheCrispyAcorn → u/an_actual_coyote]

Im still confused why it worked. If he claimed the Onyx Cinder then that means he no longer captains the frigate. Or was it that because he already captained the frigate he could never claim the Cinder until he revoked his captainship to the frigate?

[u/lVlzone → u/TheCrispyAcorn]

I think it was simply that 33 preferred the kids and thought Jod was a jerk. Like 33 said, “Close enough” means it shouldn’t have worked, but oh well.

[u/Gorguf62 → u/[deleted]]

He is the pirate code.

[u/LetItATV → u/lVlzone]

Exactly. He wanted to help the kids, he just had to make it fit his programming.

[u/lanceturley → u/lVlzone]

Maybe the pirate code has a "new captain is a prick" clause.

[u/Pericles_Nephew → u/lanceturley]

Of course it does, it’s called a mutiny!

[u/youarelookingatthis → u/lVlzone]

I do like the idea that 33 is making up parts of the code to mess with Jod.

[u/astatine → u/TheCrispyAcorn]

Droids are programmed to obey rules, but if they're allowed to develop a personality they can take a like or dislike to people. Fern was never a jerk to SM-33, but Jod was. And if you piss off a droid enough, maybe rules become more like... guidelines than actual rules.

[u/Johnlocksmith → u/astatine]

If you piss off a droid enough you get Chopper. Take cover if you piss that droid off, believe it.

[u/RadiantHC → u/Johnlocksmith]

Now I want a buddy cop series starring Chopper and SM-33

[u/RadiantHC → u/TheCrispyAcorn]

I think SM-33 never actually switched sides

[u/MisterYammot → u/TheCrispyAcorn]

The code is more like guidelines than actual rules.

[u/Electronic-Flower921]

Jod had a pirategasm from seeing the vault

[u/GullibleCupcake6115 → u/Electronic-Flower921]

Yup. Midichlorians everywhere! 😂😂☠️☠️

[u/valarpizzaeris]

1,139 Costcos filled with Old Republic credits holy shit

[u/Khal-Marko → u/valarpizzaeris]

One less & it would have been another THX-1138 reference.

[u/3lbmealdeal → u/Khal-Marko]

My bet is that one of the vaults somehow gets wrecked, leaving 1138 remaining

[u/masterjedi747 → u/3lbmealdeal]

but the total is 1140 vaults – 1139 “other than this one”

number still seems like a deliberate choice, too close to be a coincidence? but not sure why they bumped it up

[u/JauntyLurker]

Wendle: Don't tell anyone where you're from

Jod: Oops

This guy is so unserious.

[u/jquiggles → u/JauntyLurker]

That part made me actually laugh out loud. Like yeah, little late for that lol. But I guess they don’t teach them it’s a secret till they’re adults

[u/RampanToast → u/JauntyLurker]

That "oops" had me rolling lmao

[u/TpxBr]

They'll assemble 33 back, right? Right?

[u/astatine → u/TpxBr]

Aye.

[u/youarelookingatthis → u/TpxBr]

I think it’s telling that his head was separate from the body, and that the thing that lived inside his head was still alive.

[u/LunchBoxMercenary → u/TpxBr]

R2 got blasted by Vader's Tie Fighter, 33 will be alright!

[u/valarpizzaeris]

"but he said all he wanted was his big brother"

God Neel and his entire family must be protected at all costs

[u/Rosebunse → u/valarpizzaeris]

Stop jinxing them!

[u/jquiggles → u/valarpizzaeris]

I almost lost it at that point but they quickly moved on to something else. Like that was SO sad

[u/Sack-O-Spuds]

He said TREASURE PLANET

[u/JuniorCaptain → u/Sack-O-Spuds]

Let this be the first sign of a live-action adaptation!  

(Although this show is probably the closest we’ll ever get, the visuals are spot on)

[u/jsun31]

Shocked to see SM-33 decapitated by a lightsaber, Jod is COLD

[u/SlaterSev]

Commiting to Jod being an actual asshole elevates him and the show, which were already good, massively.

The entire scene from him killing 33 onward is just another level.

[u/Boomshockalocka007 → u/SlaterSev]

Killing Brutus onward really. That was the first shockwave.

[u/duckfighterreplaced → u/Boomshockalocka007]

I can’t fault him at all for taking the opportunity to kill Brutus

Had him working overtime pleading for his life every ten minutes

Exhausting

[u/Untalented-Host → u/duckfighterreplaced]

Literally their scene before that, Brutus told Jod

"Treasure or no, I'm going to kill you first chance I get". Like even if they find it, Brutus was still going to kill him. That sealed it.

At that point, You gotta do what you gotta do...

[u/Deputy_Jrtssss]

Really good episode but that cliffhanger oof 🤯

[u/MHPengwingz → u/Deputy_Jrtssss]

They really should've done a one hour finale

[u/Sack-O-Spuds]

Jude Law is so incredible in this scene. And the kids are magnificent. Genuine peril. This is Ace.

[u/spaced_ent → u/Sack-O-Spuds]

No, this is wizard!

[u/Hanakin-Sidewalker]

At Attin is seriously one of the coolest concepts I’ve seen from Disney Star Wars.

One of nine jewels of the Old Republic, hidden away from the galaxy for its own good. The last Mint: vaults filled with billions of credits.

Forgotten.

No one on the planet knows the Republic has fallen. No one knows they’re creating money for a ghost. Surely they question why, and when the day finally comes when a new Emissary vessel arrives, it’s piloted by a pirate captain wielding the one of the most lethal melee implements in the galaxy.

A fantastic episode. I can’t wait to see how the show ends.

[u/Worthyness → u/Hanakin-Sidewalker]

At attin about to crash the credit market after this

[u/ImperatorRomanum → u/Worthyness]

Concerned about inflation, New Republic citizens vote in the First Order

[u/nessman930 → u/ImperatorRomanum]

The cost of blue milk and eggs was too high.

[u/Gorguf62]

The three most powerful things in the galaxy:

1: The Force

2: The Death Star

3: The Claimsies

[u/marwynn → u/Gorguf62]

1. Unclaimsies

[u/LunchBoxMercenary]

“Half the time I was about to die”

Neel, never stop being awesome

[u/wardengorri → u/LunchBoxMercenary]

"But that's what makes for good adventure." Just an absolute gem of a character.

[u/an_actual_coyote]

"Well well, back again, are we?"

SM-33 never hesitated to throw hands. A real mensch.

[u/Puzzleheaded_Cress75 → u/an_actual_coyote]

"How many times do we have to teach you this lesson old man"

[u/slycooper459]

I knew 33 liked the kids deep down

[u/CatandOtter-3812 → u/slycooper459]

I also knew it. It was obvious when 33 told the kids sorry as he was taking them prisoner.

[u/Lordsokka → u/slycooper459]

They are a good bunch, mostly polite, entertaining and pretty cool for a bunch of pre-teens.

[u/an_actual_coyote]

Neel's mom is a certified badass. My baby boy in danger? Fuck the consequences. Stun me all you like.

[u/RickKassidy → u/an_actual_coyote]

I love how all the parents are basically sharing the personalities of their kids in that scene.

[u/RampanToast → u/RickKassidy]

I'm really glad that the parents weren't totally sidelined for the show. I feel like it could have been easy enough to just focus on the kids and save the parents for the return, but having them be an actual B story was a really good call.

[u/slam99967 → u/RampanToast]

Also the parents are actually smart and not the standard “parents are idiots” trope.

[u/Mabvll → u/an_actual_coyote]

She said "LEROOOOOOY JENKINS!!" and just went from there.

[u/dagreenman18]

Neel’s mom gets the “I have a bad feeling about this” drop AND is the first one to try to run away with the communicator. We know where our boy gets it from now.

33 definitely made a choice there allowing Unclaimses

I’m leaning towards “I want to see Jod die a painful death” because threatening the parents with the lightsaber is about the last straw with him.

[u/ZLBuddha → u/dagreenman18]

I'm thinking that's a misdirection and next episode is gonna open with a pretty tense scene of him introducing himself as Jedi Emissary Whoever and forcing the kids to play along so he can leave with the credits unmolested

[u/TheRamdalorian → u/ZLBuddha]

I hope you’re right. I thought he was going to stab Neel’s mom in the back and I was going to lose it!

[u/JA_MD_311 → u/dagreenman18]

I think it’s all a bluff from him. My thinking is there’s some Jedi in there somewhere, it’s been buried by pain and greed but he doesn’t want to hurt the kids or parents. Maybe they go full prick and he dies a glorious death though.

[u/lustindarkness]

Wow, what an episode. And Jude Law is an amazing actor, 'cause right now I hate him.

Edit: A real Treasure Planet, huh?

[u/sppy1]

You will be stunned, for your own safety

[u/biglemon29]

I really think the supervisor is a droid/AI and not Tak Rennod. When the supervisor comes on the PA he announces the emissary arrival like its a normal occurrence , however all the citizens act very surprised/confused when the ground lifts up to reveal the landing pad and all crowd around it.

I doubt an emissary ever visited in any of the adult's lifetime on the planet since the fall of the republic.

I think we are going to see a fallout situation where a computer has been running the planet for hundreds of years and is operating as programmed

[u/paradox28jon]

Really good episode.

So a lot of us guessed that somewhere in episode 7 or 8 Jod would do another 180 & be on the kids' side. That ain't happening now. No way.

So I think episode 1 foreshadowed Jod's grim fate. Wim is playing with his action figures & he says "You'll spend eternity in my dungeons, being tortured until you die."

I think Jod is going to be locked inside one of these vaults. And it won't be opened again for centuries. He'll starve to death inside it. That's my guess.

[u/lanceturley → u/paradox28jon]

That would be a fitting end to his character, and I'll be both surprised and disappointed if it doesn't happen.

[u/Jake_The_Destroyer → u/paradox28jon]

Jod gonna get the Father Elijah treatment.

[u/Sack-O-Spuds]

HOLY FUCK

this show just jumped to top quality all timer Star Wars.

[u/GullibleCupcake6115 → u/Sack-O-Spuds]

Man. Jude Law better get a Emmy nomination for his portrayal. I actually hate his character! Law is AMAZING. He has no social redeeming qualities. Unless, there is a huge swerve next episode. I really hope not. He deserves to have his Captain Hook death or something PG equivalent. 10/10.

[u/JuniorCaptain → u/GullibleCupcake6115]

There’s a very high possibility he’ll flip sides at the last second to help the kids/At-Attin should (when) the pirates get through the Barrier and start an attack. He’ll still die, but be seen as a hero.

[u/wretched__hive → u/JuniorCaptain]

I thought that’s what was coming before this episode. Threatening to slaughter the kids’ parents made him irredeemable lol

[u/geth117 → u/wretched__hive]

I don't know this is Star Wars you can commit genocide in this story and still be redeemable

[u/TwoHandSquid → u/GullibleCupcake6115]

Seeing how he reacted to the vault, I could see him getting buried alive in a sea of dataries as they seal the vault.

[u/ContinuumGuy]

CLAIMSIES AND UNCLAIMSIES SAVE THE DAY

[u/slycooper459]

Neel is a mood “half the time I was about to die, but it was fun”

[u/an_actual_coyote]

Can you imagine the heartbreak their parents are feeling? Space is so huge, and they literally cast a football sized probe into the howling dark in the HOPE they can see their babies again.

[u/Rosebunse → u/an_actual_coyote]

It just hit me that we don't really see a ton of actual parents in this show. I mean, I guess Mando but even that took a while for Din to really adopt Grogu.

[u/Sullyville → u/Rosebunse]

Yeah. In Star Wars, you're either taken from your parents as a kid, you never knew your parents, you're a clone, or cloned, or your parents are estranged, hiding behind a mask, or your dad is a hero, but who let you go to his best friend's jedi temple to be trained as a youngling.

These are the first reasonably responsible parents in Star Wars history, I think.

[u/astatine]

The At Achrann episode (4) felt like filler at the time. Looking back I think it presented a honking big Chekhov's gun.

• The school on At Attin was built just like the one on At Achrann.

• The school on At Achrann had a gun emplacement on the roof.

• Wim has been learning gunnery, and he knows where the emplacement ought to be on his school.

Not sure if they'll make use on that in this episode or the next. Or ignore it, rewrites happen.

[u/youarelookingatthis → u/astatine]

I think it’ll definitely been relevant. This show has been doing a good job of setting up chekhov’s guns to fire them later on.

[u/Ray3142 → u/youarelookingatthis]

Like KB’s voice changing ability - used on Brutus this episode, originally used to scare Wim & Neel outside the “Jedi temple”

[u/Bellrung → u/youarelookingatthis]

E.g. keeping the lightsaber to surprise 33

[u/BDMac2 → u/astatine]

Or the biggest gun of all! We never saw Tak Rennod’s face at the hideout, so he’s either the Supervisor or a character we’ve already seen.

[u/astatine → u/BDMac2]

My absolute favourite Chekhov's gun of the series so far is how much the life-or-death Pirate Code resembles the apparently childish code of 'firsts' and 'backsies' the kids played in the first episode.

[u/ChromaticFades]

SM-33 they could never make me hate you

[u/Hanakin-Sidewalker]

I love how cutthroat they made Jod seem this episode. Executing his mutinous first mate, threatening to murder both the kids and their families if they stepped out of line…he wasn’t taking shit from anyone

[u/critical_courtney]

Inflation is about to be a BIG problem for the New Republic. Maybe THAT’S how the First Order gets so powerful so fast.

[u/Rick0r → u/critical_courtney]

If the supervisor is Snoke I will eat my hat.

[u/Sack-O-Spuds]

That was excellent and has revealed the show to be very delicately constructed. There was a callback in some form to every previous episode (claimsies!) And everything relevant was highlighted BRIEFLY and SUBTLY.

The acting across the board is topnotch and the bubbling, tense score under Jod's extended character descent was terrific.

I've full faith in them to stick the landing. Kudos.

[u/an_actual_coyote]

I thought Jod may have some sympathetic backstory but I kinda wanna see him thrown into the business end of an engine exhaust and atomized.

[u/Rosebunse → u/an_actual_coyote]

And not just get a weird scar like Crosshair.

[u/JA_MD_311 → u/an_actual_coyote]

The ending makes me think the first scene of next week’s episode is his back story being revealed

[u/Osuman5 → u/an_actual_coyote]

Jod changed from almost converted to almost dead due to karma.

[u/jsun31]

"Your little brother just lost his tooth." Neel's mom is adorable. All the kids' parents really love them

[u/Kalixburg]

Lol the way he punched Jod almost made me spit out my drink.

[u/JacksFist]

Am I the only one that likes Jod so much that I keep telling myself he can't be as bad as they're making him out to be?

[u/Rosebunse → u/JacksFist]

I think Jude Law is a very charming and charismatic actor and he puts a lot of that into Jod. However, that charm and charisma is also how so many people keep falling for his obvious schemes.

[u/Sack-O-Spuds]

You fuck with Neel you lost me Jod

[u/Spartan_Shie1d]

New top 5 favorite Star Wars line,

AYE, BUT IT BE CLOSE ENOUGH

[u/Edodge → u/Spartan_Shie1d]

Agreed. The key to good Star Wars is having a good droid along for the ride. 33 is top tier.

[u/an_actual_coyote]

This may be the most money ever depicted in fiction.

The only thing close to my memory is the amount of money Mansa Musa had, who ruined the economy of Egypt with all the gold he spent on his Hajj to Mecca.

400 billion USD currently. The amount of money one old credit in Star Wars appears to be anywhere between 20-80 dollars, in my estimate, and there was 100,000 vaults stacked to the ceiling, so uh mm

[u/KingEuronIIIGreyjoy → u/an_actual_coyote]

Now I'm just picturing Jod swimming in the pool of gold dataries like Scrooge McDuck.

[u/an_actual_coyote → u/KingEuronIIIGreyjoy]

He got money madness just touching them, so yes

[u/LegoK9 → u/an_actual_coyote]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scrooge_McDuck

According to Barks' The Second Richest Duck as noted by a Time article, Scrooge is worth "one multiplujillion, nine obsquatumatillion, six hundred twenty-three dollars and sixty-two cents". The DuckTales episode "Liquid Assets", Fenton Crackshell (Scrooge's accountant) notes that McDuck's money bin contains "607 tillion 386 zillion 947 trillion 522 billion dollars and 36 cents". Don Rosa's Life and Times of Scrooge McDuck notes that Scrooge amounts to "five multiplujillion, nine impossibidillion, seven fantastica trillion dollars and sixteen cents". A thought bubble from Scrooge McDuck sitting in his car with his chauffeur in Walt Disney's Christmas Parade No. 1 (published in 1949) that takes place in the story "Letter to Santa" clearly states "What's the use of having 'eleven octillion dollars' if I don't make a big noise about it?". In DuckTales the Movie: Treasure of the Lost Lamp, Scrooge mentions "We quadzillionaires have our own ideas of fun." In the first episode of the DuckTales reboot, Scrooge states that he runs "a multi-trillion-dollar business".

[u/an_actual_coyote → u/an_actual_coyote]

Considering Old Credits are nearly worthless inside the barrier or much more reasonable (a small amount left for Wim for dinner) practically made pirates flip at Libertalia/the pirate station..

[u/ContinuumGuy → u/an_actual_coyote]

Honestly that's so much money I gotta feel if you dropped enough of it you'd be doing super-hyper inflation. Practically make it worthless. Gotta be careful how you release it.

[u/ChanceVance]

Kyriana Kratter said 'Death' is ahead for the next 2 episodes. Jude Law said Jod's backstory will be revealed.

Get ready everybody, another Order 66 flashback is incoming.

Okay having watched the episode now, it certainly got dark. However, no Jod backstory. I'm not sure they'll go the redemption route now though and he may be a straight villain.   

[u/JA_MD_311 → u/ChanceVance]

I do not think Jod was a Jedi or a Padawan. I think he was a failed initiate. Not sure if it’s been canonized but in Legends not every youngling became a Padawan learner. There were other jobs they could do if they weren’t selected but perhaps Jod slipped into the pirate world after it.

It would make sense why he empathizes with the kids - he remembers looking forward to his own adventures and explains why he has some Force skills but not a lot. The pseudonyms make sense because the Empire would still want to eliminate any force sensitives.

[u/CarsonWentzGOAT1 → u/ChanceVance]

it could just be a family member of his passing. I don't think order 66 flashback is happening.

[u/tupe12]

>Sees happy children

>immediatly turns on his lightsaber

Jod might be a Skywalker

[u/dunderdan23]

Star Wars: Desolation of Smaug was really good

[u/Geek-Haven888]

Im more certain after seeing how Jod wielded the light saber that he isn't trained as a Jedi, or that if he was he was VERY young when order 66 happened. He just kept waving it around like, well, any of us probably would

[u/Vesemir96 → u/Geek-Haven888]

Unless he just thinks that’s the best way to intimidate the kids tbh.

[u/ASithLordNoAffect → u/Geek-Haven888]

Except he sure released his restraints with the force easily.

[u/valarpizzaeris]

The space rat who was living in 33's head should totally have bitten Jod's dick in retaliation

[u/tway2241 → u/valarpizzaeris]

For a sec, I thought Jod was gonna smoosh him

[u/AlpineSummit → u/tway2241]

I was so relieved when Snowball survived!

[u/Bobjoejj → u/tway2241]

Honestly the fact that he didn’t, and only shoed Snowball away might seem small; but it’s honestly a huge reason why I don’t think we should be writing him off just yet.

[u/RadiantHC → u/valarpizzaeris]

It needs a name

Rat attin?

[u/sppy1]

Ah, the Cinder is a mint ship

[u/TheBigWil → u/sppy1]

I guess you could also say it's in mint condition

[u/Unstable_Bear]

Oh my god, Jod is so unhinged

I love it

[u/Sack-O-Spuds]

STEPHEN FRY VOICES THE SUPERVISOR

HITCHHIKERS GUIDE CROSSOVER CONFIRMED

[u/youarelookingatthis]

Another great episode. Next to Andor this feels the most consistent.

Loved all the pirate stuff, especially the music. We’re definitely seeing Jod at his worst here, but I want to believe he’ll change in the last episode. His comments to the kids about them being spoiled seemed almost jealous, like he never got the chance to have a real childhood.

Jod just taking out Brutus was definitely dark, but all of the good children’s stories have a bit of darkness in them, I’m glad Disney is acknowledging that.

I think the communication beacon will be relevant and will bring the New Republic into things in the final episode.

I’m convinced that the Supervisor is a droid or automated in some way. It’s been hinted at and lampshaded now a few times.

I want to believe that Jod’s saber being blue means he’s not all bad and still has some good in him, though that belief has been tested quite a bit in this episode!

[u/LunchBoxMercenary → u/youarelookingatthis]

His comments to the kids about them being spoiled seemed almost jealous, like he never got the chance to have a real childhood.

Makes the theories of him being at least a padawan making sense, they essentially had no childhoods. But after this episode, I want him to just be a nobody with magnets. Fuck Jod (that's how good the character is written lol).

[u/Sack-O-Spuds]

Scrooge McJod

[u/an_actual_coyote]

Seeing Jod threaten children with a lightsaber makes me think about how Obi-Wan waxed nostalgic about them. A more civilized weapon.

There's no civilized weapons in the hands of men.

[u/Rosebunse → u/an_actual_coyote]

I mean, look at all the other times kids were murdered with lightsabers. Or that time Krell almost took Fives's head off with one.

[u/solo13508 → u/an_actual_coyote]

I think Jod using a Jedi weapon to threaten the kids is a very intentional choice. Wim immediately assumes that he is a Jedi but really he's about the farthest thing you can get without being a full on Sith.

[u/AneriphtoKubos → u/an_actual_coyote]

He said, 'An elegant weapon... for a more civilised age'. The age is definitely not civilised...

[u/C1138P]

Gotta say I’m really really liking this show, Lot of good unexpected moments, Brutus getting executed, the SM33 punch on Jod, man Jod is just a dick…. In an entertaining way

[u/Darth-Bag-Holder]

This episode is fucking dark.

[u/astatine → u/Darth-Bag-Holder]

In the first act of the '77 original the bad guys torture a young woman with a hypo then blow up a planet. Elsewhere some blowhard gets his arm lopped off in a bar and another one shot under a table by, as it turns out, two of the biggest heroes in the galaxy.

I'd say the tone is remarkably consistent.

[u/Junior-Conversation2]

Looking forward to the "supervisor" reveal in the next episode. Maybe at the very end, but I think they won't be able to resist connecting it to the films and/or TV shows.

[u/3lbmealdeal]

The security droid lights in the woods were very ET, and the comm device was also kind of shaped like a tiny little model of ET’s ship

[u/gladline]

The parents messages made me CRY

[u/JauntyLurker]

I call unclaimsies

My face when that actually worked 😭

[u/jsun31]

Jod executing Brutus was ice cold

[u/stealth57]

The only way Jod can be redeemed is if he finds out At Attin is funding the new First Order/Empire and after an Order 66 flashback, he destroys the credits somehow without destroying the planet. But still manages to take enough credits for himself because pirate.

But it's looking like he's a straight-up villain.

However, I thought there were plans to expand on this character as you don't hire someone like Jude Law for nothing. Guess we'll see next week.

[u/Brookings18]

GODDAMMIT JOD! I was really, really rooting for you to be a decent guy, but it turns out your Jack Sparrow without the character development and morales...but just as much charisma, hats off to Jude Law. I have never before had my heart sink upon seeing a lightsaber.

[u/LunchBoxMercenary]

Gimme a Pirates of the Caribbean ride based on Skeleton Crew in Galaxy's Edge pls.

[u/sppy1]

Jod, you Silvo tongue you

[u/lalalachacha248]

I just want Wim to stop taking L’s man. It seemed like he was gonna be the central character throughout all this, but he ends up a bystander for most of the adventure. I suppose it’s realistic for him to learn that real life isn’t like the stories, but it’s still kind of a bummer to watch.