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Jude Law Teases 'Childhood Adventure' and Star Wars Easter Eggs in 'Skeleton Crew' Series — See the First Look!
Jude Law exclusively reveals new details about his upcoming induction into the 'Star Wars' universe with 'Star Wars: Skeleton Crew' on Disney+. See PEOPLE's first look photos!
Skeleton Crew feels like Star Wars' answer to Prodigy...and I'm all here for it! Especially after reading Jude Law describing the show as "joyful."
An adventure in Star Wars with kids? Sounds like fun to me.
I didn't like "adventures with kids" when I was a kid, and I have not grown more tolerant of that kind of story as I've gotten older, so this show is an easy skip for me. But at least this show is blatantly a kiddie adventure show from its very premise, unlike Obi-Wan that pretended to be about the title character before having half the shows runtime taken up by a precocious brat (yes, I'm still bitter about that, and probably always will be).
Kenobi was not a kiddie adventure.
Oh, come on. The burning body definitely was for kids!
I guess by the "one kid standard" The Phantom Menace was a kiddie adventure
It was just a flesh wound.
'Skeleton Crew' is definitely skewing younger, but I would venture that it's more likely to be a family show than just "a kid's show."
Which is what those specific Amblin movies it's patterning itself on were; family pictures. 'E.T.', 'Goonies', 'Back to the Future', 'Batteries Not Included', 'Young Sherlock Holmes', 'Harry and the Hendersons', 'Innerspace'; none of them are exactly kids movies. Hell even 'Poltergeist' & 'Gremlins' fall into that general style and era, and those are definitely NOT "kids movies". (Even though I 100% saw both of them at a very young age!)
Either way; I'm glad they're making shows with different tones, genres and demographics. I'm sure 'Andor' bores the crap out of most kids, and even 'Acolyte' may have been a little too grim and inaccessible for younger audiences, so it's about their turn for something mostly aimed at them!
Which is what those specific Amblin movies it's patterning itself on were; family pictures. 'E.T.', 'Goonies', 'Back to the Future', 'Batteries Not Included', 'Young Sherlock Holmes', 'Harry and the Hendersons', 'Innerspace'; none of them are exactly kids movies. Hell even 'Poltergeist' & 'Gremlins' fall into that general style and era, and those are definitely NOT "kids movies". (Even though I 100% saw both of them at a very young age!)
Either way; I'm glad they're making shows with different tones, genres and demographics. I'm sure 'Andor' bores the crap out of most kids, and even 'Acolyte' may have been a little too grim and inaccessible for younger audiences, so it's about their turn for something mostly aimed at them!
I’m looking forward to Skeleton Crew! Early pics look great.
I never understood the antipathy towards kids and adventure stories involving kids. It's like people didn't have adventures or imagined adventures as kids but wanted to skip right to the grown up stuff.
I think a lot of it has to do with people not wanting to watch a show about overexaggerated teen angst and artificially manufactured drama that stems from a child's general inexperience with life. Most of it is unnecessary and self-destructive, if only they would take a second to actually think through the consequences of their actions, would solve a multitude of problems before they ever happen. Then again, there are apparently a lot of people who like to watch these kinds of dumpster fires occur. Such subject matter is well over 90% of Disney and Nickelodeon programming content. They want to attract new/younger viewers - methinks this is the kind of formula they're looking to exploit. If they get a few of the older folks like us on board, that's just gravy money for them.
This is my guess on such things, anyway. I am cautiously optimistic, personally, as everyone pretty much thought that Prodigy would go this route, when it completely put all expectations on their ass. I hope it succeeds.
This is my guess on such things, anyway. I am cautiously optimistic, personally, as everyone pretty much thought that Prodigy would go this route, when it completely put all expectations on their ass. I hope it succeeds.
Is that the push back that people are like "Oh, if only these kids thought for a minute?"
I mean, I will freely grant that I think that a lot with kids, but in the moment? It's damn entertaining. There's a certain level of catharsis of feeling like "Yeah, this problem that I felt at 8 to 14 was a big deal to me then and it's nice to explore that idea."
The other side of it for me with those adventures is that they usually wrapped up really nicely and neatly which gives a good satisfaction to the drama. I didn't get that as a kid with my drama.
The people I see complaining about kid's adventures reminds me too much of this strip from Calvin and Hobbes:
I think part of a child's adventure story is that you approach it as a child. This isn't a "turn of your brain" argument, but one of "recall what it's like to be a child" when those things did feel like a big deal, when moving, or new school, or pets or the like was really challenging. Yeah, adulthood comes with its own adventures but sometimes the little child ones are just fun too.
Maybe it's just me. I find kid adventures very fun and I'm 40.
It is for all those reasons that I'm willing to give it a go. Prodigy was the benchmark for me - not only did it prove that a "show geared towards kids" could be compelling, thought provoking and tell a great story, it had the double-negative for me when it was announced to basically be a spiritual sequel to Voyager, a show which I generally loathed, at varying levels. PRO blew me away and I hope Lucasfilm can do the same thing with SC. They have a lot to make up for with the infantile dreck that was "Resistance". THAT fucking thing embodied everything most people despise about kiddie shows, myself included. I gave the first season a chance then gave up on it.
To be fair to Lucasfilm, they did also give us The Clone Wars, Rebels, and The Bad Batch, which also had kids as main characters and they were great. I've suspected for a while now that they didn't put as much energy into Resistance as they did the other shows, and that they just threw it together to have something out to fill the gap between Rebels and The Bad Batch, and because they wanted to have something tied into The Sequel Trilogy.
