Star Wars: Skeleton Crew - Jod Na Nawood's Backstory Has a Likely Darth Vader Connection
We still don't know much about Jude Law's mysterious pirate, but the season finale may have just given us an important clue about his past.
And from what we’ve seen of the Inquisitors in Star Wars thus far, whether in Star Wars: Rebels, Obi-Wan Kenobi, or the Star Wars Jedi: Fallen Order video game series, among others, the Inquisitors are ruthless and often relish their kill, just as Jod describes. Obviously he found a way to escape whomever it was at some point, but even spending just a short time with the Inquisitors makes Jod’s whole deal make a lot of sense.
The Inquisitors and pirates seem to have a lot more in common than you might think. They are both ruthless, going after what they want with a greedy fervor. Whether they are after riches or power, both groups are willing to do whatever it takes to get what they want. They aren’t afraid to use fear and intimidation to make others bow to their will, and they aren’t above taking hostages to lure their true target out in the open.
If Jod really has been fighting for his survival his entire life, a run-in with the Inquisitors is just the kind of encounter that could begin to turn a scared young boy into the ruthless man we know him as now. Especially if that encounter tore him from the one person in his past that seems to have ever shown him kindness.
Now this is all just speculation – Jod’s past is still just as much an enigma of secret identities and apparent backstabbing as it was when Skeleton Crew began. But this is the first clue about his past that feels real and not like a misdirect or manipulation tactic. Hopefully this isn’t the last we’ve seen of this mysterious pirate and simply the beginning of his story, both past and present, in the Star Wars universe.