Skeleton Crew Episode 7 Places The Adults In A Traditional Steven Spielberg Scene

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 mother and father of the imperiled children, 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 how you can 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 children and their ship, the Onyx Cinder, once they understand it would maintain the important thing to passing by means of the barrier. 

Ultimately, Jod comes out on prime, capturing the youngsters by pressure, 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 children are reunited with their mother and father. Nevertheless, 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. Nevertheless, one in all its finest scenes comes proper from a Steven Spielberg traditional.

“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, significantly 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 “Children on Bikes” style within the hearts and minds of ’80s children in every single place. However there was, after all, one other movie that actually kicked the style off within the first place: Spielberg’s 1982 hit “E.T. the Further Terrestrial.”

The seventh episode of “Skeleton Crew” begins off with a scene plucked proper out of “E.T.” With the mother and father of the lacking children assured the droids and supervisors of At Attin will do nothing to assist discover their kids, they’ve usual their very own communications machine, cobbled collectively from spare components, 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 brilliant flashlights within the evening, 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 by means of the woods at evening with flashlights. The opposite, although, is when E.T. has cobbled collectively his personal communications machine in an effort to contact his folks and get picked as much as go house. “E.T. cellphone house,” he tells his mates in one of many film’s oft-quoted traces.

Whereas “Skeleton Crew” episode 7 matches the photographs and vibe of Spielberg’s traditional with its personal nighttime forest sequence, it additionally places the adults within the place of operating away from the authorities this time, which is a hilarious change. Clearly, although, they simply need to get their children house protected and sound, and it makes one marvel 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.

If there’s something we will study from the instance of the “Children on Bikes” Spielberg films of the Nineteen Eighties, it is that they all the time have a rousing climax with plenty of motion and, properly, children 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 cause 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 likely to be just a little 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 could make lots of sense for him to get to turn into the Jedi he is dreamed of being because the very first episode. Additionally, hopefully the children’ 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+.