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 Hassle.”

The penultimate episode of “Star Wars: Skeleton Crew” season 1, “We’re Gonna Be In So A lot Hassle,” brings the motion again to the planet of At Attin, with the entire present’s storylines and characters converging on the mysterious world of delusion. As issues get underway, the dad and mom 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 easy methods to get previous the deadly barrier that stands between them and their return residence. In the meantime, Captain Brutus (Fred Tatasciore), Jod Na Nawood (Jude Legislation), and the remainder of the pirates combat over the youngsters and their ship, the Onyx Cinder, once they notice it’d maintain the important thing to passing by means of the barrier. 

Finally, Jod comes out on high, 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 youngsters are reunited with their dad and mom. 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 Hassle” samples all the things from “Andor” to, as soon as once more, “Treasure Island” for concepts. Nevertheless, one among its finest scenes comes proper from a Steven Spielberg basic.

“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 Eighties. “The Goonies” is usually 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 basically 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 dad and mom of the lacking children assured the droids and supervisors of At Attin will do nothing to assist discover their kids, they’ve original their very own communications machine, cobbled collectively from spare elements, 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 shiny flashlights within the evening, descend upon them and provides chase, hoping to cease their message from getting out.

The scene appears 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 with a view to contact his folks and get picked as much as go residence. “E.T. cellphone residence,” he tells his mates in one of many film’s oft-quoted traces.

Whereas “Skeleton Crew” episode 7 matches the pictures and vibe of Spielberg’s basic with its personal nighttime forest sequence, it additionally places the adults within the place of working away from the authorities this time, which is a hilarious swap. Clearly, although, they only wish to get their children residence secure and sound, and it makes one surprise if that is what it’d’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 be taught from the instance of the “Children on Bikes” Spielberg films of the Eighties, it is that they at all times 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 residence to At Attin, it stands to motive 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 perhaps a bit an excessive amount of, however I would nonetheless guess the hoverbikes determine into issues. I would likewise guess that Wim will get his arms on that lightsaber Jod absconded with, too. It might 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 youngsters’ 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+.