News Skeleton Crew

[Reverend]

I mean . . . there's literally skeletons in the ship; presumable the old crew. What with it being upside-down--not the typical orientation that results from a controlled landing--they probably all died and are now skeletons. I don't see the need to look much deeper than this.

Oh, apropos of nothing: one trivial (and I really mean trivial!) thing that did jump out at me was that the "Old Republic" credit had the Galactic Republic seal mostly seen in Clone Wars related media. So unless the old Old Republic used the same symbol (the one in the TCW Younglings arc may just be for the Jedi, even if it's the actual Republic seal in SWTOR where it originates) then the ship is no more than 1000 years old (give or take a decade.) My money is on it dating back to the High Republic era.

 

[Christopher]

I mean . . . there's literally skeletons in the ship; presumable the old crew.

Oh, I missed that. Still, a weird thing to name the whole show after. Maybe the kids dub themselves the "Skeleton Crew" as a reference to that? Pretty macabre, but kids can be pretty macabre.

 

[Set Harth]

moar zombies???

 

[Tuskin38]

It’s apparently been confirmed that Neel is not the same species as Max Reebo

 

[Reverend]

Oh for those that didn't catch it; the song they used for the trailer is the syth/new wave 'Major Tom (Coming Home)' by Peter Schilling. A pseudo follow-up to Bowie's 'Space Oddity', and appropriately is about a space traveller lost and cut-off from home.

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Not 100% sure, but I think the lyrics for the trailer are in huttese, or some other made up language. Certainly doesn't sound like the original German version to my ears, and it's obviously not in English.

 

[The Wormhole]

I mean . . . there's literally skeletons in the ship; presumable the old crew. What with it being upside-down--not the typical orientation that results from a controlled landing--they probably all died and are now skeletons. I don't see the need to look much deeper than this.

I'm already imagining the Pitch Meeting video.
"On board the ship they find the skeletons of the previous crew."
"A skeleton crew? That's the name of the show!"
"Yes sir, it is."

 

[JD]

Okay, so it looks like there is a specific ship that the show revolves around after all, which makes the meaning of the title a bit clearer. Still, it seems like a small enough ship that it doesn't need more than a few operators, suggesting that they aren't literally a skeleton crew (if "literally" is the word there, since it's a metaphor to begin with). So there may be some other meaning behind the title.

Did you not watch the first trailer? They already showed a lot of the stuff with the kids finding the ship and taking off on it there too.
This is looking like it's going to be a lot of fun.

 

[Christopher]

Did you not watch the first trailer? They already showed a lot of the stuff with the kids finding the ship and taking off on it there too.

Yes, but as I explained at the time, it was unclear whether the ship played a large enough part in the series to explain the title. This trailer makes it clearer that the ship is an ongoing presence.

 

[The Nth Doctor]

Oh for those that didn't catch it; the song they used for the trailer is the syth/new wave 'Major Tom (Coming Home)' by Peter Schilling. A pseudo follow-up to Bowie's 'Space Oddity', and appropriately is about a space traveller lost and cut-off from home.

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Not 100% sure, but I think the lyrics for the trailer are in huttese, or some other made up language. Certainly doesn't sound like the original German version to my ears, and it's obviously not in English.

Thank you for that! It was driving me crazy because I recognized the song but I couldn't figure out from where. Still not sure where I first heard it (probably "just" the radio...) but thank you for putting a singer name and song title on it.

Edit: Wikipedia reminds me that I know it particularly for its usage in the second season of The Umbrella Academy (which had a lot of great needle drops)...during the montage of Pogo going into outer space. It also popped up in The Americans, another favorite show of mine.

 

[Set Harth]

Still not sure where I first heard it (probably "just" the radio...)

Ever see Breaking Bad?

 

[The Nth Doctor]

Ever see Breaking Bad?

Several times. Where did it show up there?

 

[Set Harth]

Not much of the thing made it into the actual episode in question, but one of the special features is Gale's karaoke version of the song in its entirety. It's hilarious

 

[Tuskin38]

Not 100% sure, but I think the lyrics for the trailer are in huttese

It's Huttese.

Some of the lyrics are in the trailer's subtitles, at points where there are no other characters talking.

 

[Crewman6]

I had zero interest in this show on paper and the first trailer did nothing for me (except perhaps turn me off even further.)

But I gotta admit, this looks fun. Granted, "Major Tom" is doing a LOT of the heavy lifting in this trailer, but, who knows, this could be a fun, lighthearted romp. I wouldn't say I'm exactly looking forward to this, but I'm at least....curious.

 

[B.J.]

Is this the first time they've redone a modern song for Star Wars? I think the ones done by The Hu were originals created specifically for the games.

 

[Christopher]

Is this the first time they've redone a modern song for Star Wars?

Does the Holiday Special count?

 

[B.J.]

Does the Holiday Special count?

I have a VHS copy of the Holiday Special that my parents managed to obtain back in the early '90s, back when it took some serious digging to find such a thing. I still have it on a shelf somewhere. I've watched nearly every Star Wars bit of media out there, including the Ewok movies, the Droids series, and SW Resistance. The Holiday Special tape has not moved from where I stopped it about 1/3 of the way through the one time I tried watching it because I could NOT finish it! So if you tell me there's a real world song in it, I'll have to take your word for it.

 

[Christopher]

So if you tell me there's a real world song in it, I'll have to take your word for it.

Hmm, I thought it did, since it featured real-world musicians, but it looks like they did original songs.

 

[fireproof78]

Jefferson Starship was pretty talented there.

 

[Reverend]

Is this the first time they've redone a modern song for Star Wars? I think the ones done by The Hu were originals created specifically for the games.

As a straight-up cover? I think so, though they've come close a few times with things like how the cantina band music is heavily inspired by swing (Benny Goodman's work in particular IIRC) only arranged for a steel band, 'Jabba Flow' being a quasi-translation of 'It Wasn't Me' by Shaggy, and there was a "resembles but legally distinct" tribute of 'Anything Goes' when Clone Wars paid homage to the opening of 'Temple fo Doom'.

No doubt I'm sure some people are getting upset about this, but 1) as noted above, since the very beginning Star Wars diegetic music has always hewn pretty close to it's real world inspirations from swing, to funk, baroque, Indian pop, rock, angry girl punk rock, to name but a few. So it's hardly beyond the bounds. 2) So far as we know it's just a trailer; we don't even know if it's actually in the show or not (I doubt it will be, but I'm not opposed to the idea either.) 3) The kinds of people that get upset about this kind of thing are always upset about something stupid (see also Ki-Adi-Mundi's birthday fiasco), so I'd call that a positive sign that this is all just fine.