Spoilers Skeleton Crew [Spoiler Discussion]

[JD]

The second episode was a lot of fun.
The introduction of SM-33 was great, I hope that wasn't it for him.
All of the stuff at the pirate port was a lot of fun. And the introduction of Jod was pretty cool. He must have had quite the life to possibly go from Jedi to pirate captain, and now joining up with the kids.
I'm curious how much of a secret At Attan really is. Was the woman at the school lying about being a representative of the New Republic? But then that raises the question of why she would lie, and how much the people in charge of At Attan know about what's going on in the rest of the galaxy? It obviously either hasn't been hidden for very long, or is at least aware of what's going on off planet since they know to talk about the New Republic and not just the Republic.

 

[Crewman6]

Looks l like Wolfman Jack took over

Another "American Graffiti" reference??

 

[Crewman6]

I've seen a couple sites claim that Hondo Ohnaka's ship from Galaxy's Edge was at the pirate port. Having no idea what Hondo's ship at Galaxy's Edge looks like, I have no way to confirm or deny this.

Off topic, but I hate, hate, hate the fact that Hondo "goes with you" on Smuggler's Run in his own ship.

That really takes so much of the fun out of it and makes it feel like we need a babysitter instead of being on a cool mission on our own.

Hondo should just be narrating the mission safely back from his office at OTS on Batuu. He can operate a drone/droid or just a tractor beam to pick up the coaxium and get it aboard the Falcon, instead of his own ship. After all, the Falcon is a friggin' freighter, that's the entire point!

Hondo's presence makes it less Smuggler's Run and more "Air Support" run, since that's all the Falcon is doing. Just covering Hondo, who is doing the actual work and the actual smuggling. He could probably have done the whole thing on his own.

LAME.

 

[Nerys Myk]

Another "American Graffiti" reference??

Knowing Star Wars he's probably one of the Wolfmen from the Cantina in ANH.

 

[Reverend]

Was the woman at the school lying about being a representative of the New Republic?

She didn't say anything about the New Republic. Just the Republic. Also the currency they're using for lunch money is old Republic, soooo . . . yeah.

Still a little up in the air as to whether the planet has been hidden since the Galactic Republic, or the Old Republic; ie; the Darth Bane/Tarre Vizla one.
Given the symbol on those credits is the same one from the Clone Wars era, and the mention of the "Great Work", my money is on this situation "only" dating back the the High Republic era.

 

[Crewman6]

Knowing Star Wars he's probably one of the Wolfmen from the Cantina in ANH.

Which was itself a Graffiti reference....?

 

[Nerys Myk]

Screen Crush has pretty good Easter Egg breakdown. Including mentioning the diner on At Attan who's name translates to "Mel's", which they identify with the show "Alice" but is also the name of the drive-in in American Graffiti (and a real restaurant chain).

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[Nerys Myk]

Which was itself a Graffiti reference....?

Off the rack Halloween mask to fill out the cantina.

 

[Relayer1]

I truly hate The Goonies, E.T., Strange Things and the bloody awful Spielberg-esque take on (American ?) childhood that is common to such shows.

Skeleton Crew is therefore, for me, something of an iffy prospect. Set in some futuristic pastiche of suburban '70's America I'm not exactly expecting to like it.

So, I've just seen both episodes that have dropped and...I don't hate it.

Yet.

 

[fireproof78]

That's the spirit; if you don't hate it keep watching it until you do.

 

[Nerys Myk]

I truly hate The Goonies, E.T., Strange Things and the bloody awful Spielberg-esque take on (American ?) childhood that is common to such shows.

Skeleton Crew is therefore, for me, something of an iffy prospect. Set in some futuristic pastiche of suburban '70's America I'm not exactly expecting to like it.

So, I've just seen both episodes that have dropped and...I don't hate it.

Yet.

Not sure how often the show will be on At Attan. Seems the goal for the kids is getting back there. So I expect more Lucas-esque takes on Space Fantasy and less Spielberg-esque Americana. Though I suspect a subplot with the parents on At Attan will be featured.

 

[The Nth Doctor]

Just watched the two episodes and I loved every minute of it. The show feels like felt like 80s Spielberg meets Prodigy meets Treasure Island meets Star Wars. In other words, Space Goonies.

I like all four of the kids but I especially love Fern, the rebel with the twisted imagination, and KB, the nerdy tech, while Neel is wonderfully sweet yet naïve. Despite his (very) understandable desire to go on an adventure and in no rush to get home, Wim is painfully selfish. As someone who loves Prodigy, it's hard not to see the obvious parallels with each of the characters, particularly Wim/Dal and Fern/Gwyn (themselves, basic archetypes) but I hope Skeleton Crew does a good job in differentiating them as the season progresses. Much like the crew of the Protostar, these kids have a lot of growing up to do and I'm looking forward to watching it.

I figured the soon-to-be-usurped pirate captain was Jude Law's character almost immediately considering he has a very distinctive cadence that even a voice modulator can't hide. I know we can't trust him or his motives, but I love a good Jude Law character, so I don't care. I just hope the kids don't get hurt too badly by him before he inevitably shows he has a heart of gold after all.

Speaking of pain, I was surprised by the level of violence at Space Tortuga, I mean, Port Borgo. For a kid's show, it was awfully graphic even without showing any blood.

 

[The Nth Doctor]

Steve Urkel in Star Wars. I don't know how I feel about that.

Oh, duh. I recognized him but my stupid brain couldn't remember who he was.

Plus that "kids' show" that Neel's siblings were watching was from the Holiday Special.

Thank you! I knew that looked familiar but I couldn't put my finger on it.

The actor who played Undersecretary Fara voices Tony's AI FRIDAY in the Marvel movies. I've never seen anything else she's been in looking at her Filmography

I recognized her right away from Better Call Saul. She's also fantastic in the film, The Banshees of Inisherin.

I really liked the holo-book stories, both as an aesthetic choice and as a world-building tool.
Did the best I could to translated them, though some of it was so illegible I had to infer more than translate, and I'm not convinced I got the name or the forest correct.

Note the last three were totally illegible, so I can't be sure if they're a separate tale, or missing pages from the other three. Druin's tale certainly seems to be missing both a beginning and an end, while Lina's is obviously lacking a climax.

Fantastic work. Thank you for the translations! I love the reference to Rebels (which Wim verbalized later on). I also really loved the artwork for each of those slides.

 

[Nerys Myk]

Just watched the two episodes and I loved every minute of it. The show feels like felt like 80s Spielberg meets Prodigy meets Treasure Island meets Star Wars. In other words, Space Goonies

So, you're saying it's Star Wars?

More seriously, I found this to closer to A New Hope, or as we called in '77 Star Wars, than just about any production since. Tone and feel mostly.

 

[Jayson1]

Well that was fun and enjoyable as expected! Still not wild about the weird episode lengths, but that's been true since Mando season one.

Caught a few easter-eggs and plenty of overt references. The Holiday Special hologram and the study model version of the Falcon (the one before they "finalised" the design to what ultimately became the blockade runner) rather leapt out at me more than most.

I really liked the holo-book stories, both as an aesthetic choice and as a world-building tool.
Did the best I could to translated them, though some of it was so illegible I had to infer more than translate, and I'm not convinced I got the name or the forest correct.

Note the last three were totally illegible, so I can't be sure if they're a separate tale, or missing pages from the other three. Druin's tale certainly seems to be missing both a beginning and an end, while Lina's is obviously lacking a climax.

The story book reminded me of the computer comic in "Big."

 

[Jayson1]

Knowing Star Wars he's probably one of the Wolfmen from the Cantina in ANH.

That was who I was assuming he was. Or at least someone from that same species.

 

[JD]

She didn't say anything about the New Republic. Just the Republic. Also the currency they're using for lunch money is old Republic, soooo . . . yeah.

Still a little up in the air as to whether the planet has been hidden since the Galactic Republic, or the Old Republic; ie; the Darth Bane/Tarre Vizla one.
Given the symbol on those credits is the same one from the Clone Wars era, and the mention of the "Great Work", my money is on this situation "only" dating back the the High Republic era.

Oh, I could have sworn she did, but I guess that must have been the opening text.
That definitely makes things a bit more ambiguous.

Not sure how often the show will be on At Attan. Seems the goal for the kids is getting back there. So I expect more Lucas-esque takes on Space Fantasy and less Spielberg-esque Americana. Though I suspect a subplot with the parents on At Attan will be featured.

I'm pretty sure we saw at least one or two scenes with Wim's dad in the trailer that weren't in these first two episodes, so I'm pretty sure we'll at least see him again.

Speaking of pain, I was surprised by the level of violence at Space Tortuga, I mean, Port Borgo. For a kid's show, it was awfully graphic even without showing any blood.

Yeah, I was a little surprised how brutal that was too, especially SM-33 burning the one pirate.

 

[Crewman6]

Off the rack Halloween mask to fill out the cantina.

Both can be true.

 

[Crewman6]

For a kid's show, it was awfully graphic even without showing any blood.

I don't think you can really call it a "kids' show" simply because it has kid protagonists. It still feels very similar in tone to garden variety SW. Granted, across the franchise, the tone has varied, but this doesn't feel any more "kiddie" focused to me than SW ever has, particularly since they leaned pretty hard into the violence right out of the gate.

 

[Nerys Myk]

I don't think you can really call it a "kids' show" simply because it has kid protagonists. It still feels very similar in tone to garden variety SW. Granted, across the franchise, the tone has varied, but this doesn't feel any more "kiddie" focused to me than SW ever has, particularly since they leaned pretty hard into the violence right out of the gate.

Yup. My first reaction was "this is a kiddie show?".