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Skeleton CrewChildren are getting their first taste of a Star Wars big last week when they found out that not everyone around them wished them well. So naturally, this week is about a few of those who are looking at their relationships to do have them, and put them through the last test. What happens to a giant garbage crab?
“Zero Friends Again” sees Fern, KB, Neel, and Wim thrown onto a pile of trash after barely surviving Jod to add “doing Anakin Skywalker on little kids” to his list of criminal offenses—and, stay. children, the first thing they should do is argue about what to do. But there’s something different here than the quartet usually reaches Skeleton Crew so far: The giving of Jod to them, and the true nature of the way they are when they find themselves left behind when Brutus and his team drag ‘Silvo’ to trial, they begin to show the tension between their connections. This is especially the case for Fern and KB, as the latter struggles to explain why she can’t agree to the dangerous plan to climb the mountain face to get back to their ship.
The reason why he can’t understand when KB decides to follow Wim-who quickly decided that a nearby group of trash crabs will. of course lead them to someone who can help—one way, like Fern and Neel going to the mountains. KB’s accessories have been damaged by its time in the wet, slowly shutting down its motor function. Star Wars It has long had an interesting history with its portrayal of cyborgs and their inherent disability, and often that history. has been fullfrom when Darth Vader was called “more machine than man,” to when Skywalker’s amputations were often seen as pointless. But instead of a romantic romance – directed by Kyriana Kratter and Ravi Cabot-Conyers – as KB Wim’s lead during the replacement of his damaged fuses, maybe we can find the content. Star Wars‘ Better understanding of disability and chronic illness.
It’s not that we really get to see the reality of KB lived experiences with his augmentations–not the immediate threat that the way without them is death–but his disappointment in the world of people in his life, Fern in particular, trying to treat him as they can. doing everything even if he needs accommodation and understanding his abilities as a person with a disability. It treads the fine line that all disability stories should, and avoids many of the pitfalls that stories tend to fall into. It is not the case that KB is the pain of his augs, or that other people tell him what he should and shouldn’t be able to do: it is about him getting to speak these words himself, and people listening to him. Fern’s desire to be with her best friend by telling her that she can do anything any other child can do (including climbing a steep hill!) doesn’t match the fact that KB needs help and space to set her own limits, and struggle. to speak that fits well with Wim’s empathetic nature, allowing him to realize himself as he prepares to improve his attachments.
It’s not the so-called “very special moment” but the real bond between KB and Wim, which is interestingly similar to other groups among children. I will say that we left off a very clear discussion about KB setting his limits on Fern and Neel, when the former decided that the only answer to Neel’s complaint that he couldn’t climb as fast as him was to get a rope and a tie. them together to be able to pull him on his own path. And there are parallels with Jod’s actions in the story – he went to face the sentence of Brutus and was given time by the pirate to complain about being killed, which Jod offers instead Attin productsinstead of working hard or cooperating with his old group, he promises them that they will take away the property and dreams that they have been dreaming of. “Zero friends” of the title could be a line from KB, fearing that if he was honest with Fern he would lose his best friend, but it’s actually Jod: a lonely con artist playing one last trick, as the children he left behind find themselves more united than ever.
That is, after almost eaten by a large crab and a giant junk-slagging droid. It’s a bit weird to go from main to right at the end of the episode, but it’s the spark that makes these kids shine together as an episode (especially after KB and Fern get a nice little reunion. ). Together, and understanding each other’s strengths, they are able to achieve the impossible—and not only when Fern and Neel save KB and Wim from the trash crabs, but when they both climb into the Onyx Cinder and manage to free it from the trash. junkyard droid. It probably wouldn’t be Star Wars if their reward for fostering these relationships was simply a better understanding, of course: to escape the droid all have to believe that Fern knows what he is doing when he pushes the button on the controls Cinder SM-33 never told them. touch, blowing up the top of the ship to reveal a bright and shiny version of the ship that hides its ugly exterior.
Now they have the opportunity to return home (thanks to the co-oordinates stored in KB’s augs, of course), even with Jod and the bandits coming closer. But they can face it with a better understanding of each other, which inspires them to feel like they can take on the whole galaxy… which they will have to face in the end of it all.
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