News Skeleton Crew
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Totally agree. At first glance, it's a MUCH less interesting concept for a show. Maybe there will be more to it, but maybe not!
Mainly I'm just saying that it's not that similar to Prodigy after all, even though they both purport to be entry-level shows for young viewers. Although, yeah, if there is content in it to engage more adult sensibilities, or at least my sensibilities, I'm not seeing it yet.
I wonder what the reason is for the title. I don't see how the usual meaning of "skeleton crew" applies to this premise, unless the four kids and Jude Law end up operating a large spaceship that can be operated by a bare minimum of five people. But the trailer didn't give me the impression of this being a show centered on a specific ship. Yet I can't see anything else in the trailer that suggests any meaning of "skeleton."
Maybe that's just what they call themselves. You know, like 'The Goonies"?
Very very minor detail in the grand scheme of things, but I do wonder how they're going to handle the Ortolan thing. Is that kid an actual Ortolan like Max Rebo, or are they introducing a new species that just looks basically like the old EU four limbed version before it was corrected back to Phil's original design?
I'd prefer the latter, since that's less complicated than waffling about sub-species, or mutants, or, life cycles or whatever, and it preserves that Kenner version of the design without needing to really explain anything. After all, there's more than one type of "cat person", more than one "squid person", a bunch of "wolf person" aliens, two different "blue humans" and I don't know how many variations on "fish person", so no reason there can't be more than one type of "blue pachyderm person" . . . even though Max looks much more like a blue penguin when he stands up.
Also, the design looks way more anthropomorphised than Max, especially in the eyes. Really if he was any colour but blue, there'd be little reason to presume they're even vaguely related.
Also; they do find an actual skeleton!
I'd prefer the latter, since that's less complicated than waffling about sub-species, or mutants, or, life cycles or whatever, and it preserves that Kenner version of the design without needing to really explain anything. After all, there's more than one type of "cat person", more than one "squid person", a bunch of "wolf person" aliens, two different "blue humans" and I don't know how many variations on "fish person", so no reason there can't be more than one type of "blue pachyderm person" . . . even though Max looks much more like a blue penguin when he stands up.
Also, the design looks way more anthropomorphised than Max, especially in the eyes. Really if he was any colour but blue, there'd be little reason to presume they're even vaguely related.
Maybe that's just what they call themselves. You know, like 'The Goonies"?
Also; they do find an actual skeleton!
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Perhaps, but as I said, the trailer doesn't give the impression that a single specific ship is a major setting, or that being its crew is central to the storyline. It could be that they travel on more than one ship, as opposed to having one of their own.
Maybe that's just what they call themselves. You know, like 'The Goonies"?
In which case they will presumably have a reason for calling themselves that. I'm simply expressing curiosity about what that might be, since it isn't evident so far.
I looked it up -- apparently a deleted scene explained that the Goonies were named for their neighborhood of Goon Docks. I suppose these kids could be from a suburb called Skeleton, but that's a weird name for a suburb. Unless it's a wordplay on something like Bone Valley, say.
Both have some loose similarities. A group of kids lost in a ship, over their heads, wandering the galaxy.
Pretty sure there is a main "hero" ship which is a big component of the show.
Yes, that's my point. People were joking, or prematurely assuming, that this was the same show as Prodigy because of those extremely superficial similarities, and the trailer reveals that they're actually very different, as I fully expected they would be.
Although of course both shows were beat to the "group of kids lost in a starship" premise by Peter David & Bill Mumy's TV series Space Cases back in 1996-7. And there were probably earlier examples too.
OK hold up! I thought that weird fuzzy pink thing looked familiar from somewhere, and after rooting around in my brain for a while (also google), look what I found!
That's got to be about the most obscure George Lucas/Disney deep cut imaginable!
That's got to be about the most obscure George Lucas/Disney deep cut imaginable!
I have the complete opposite reaction, it's the mixture of '80s kid movie style with Star Wars that has me excited for this. Even now as an adult, I still enjoy those kind of movies.
Looking at it that way, it makes more sense now.
As odd as that was, I did get a kick out of seeing the way they mixed Star Wars elements into the traditional Earth suburb, like the Ithorian walking through the neighborhood, and the speeders instead of cars.
I didn't mean to imply that there was anything wrong with feeling the way you do, I was just sharing my feelings about it too.
Wow, that's definitely not something I expected to see in a Star Wars production.OK hold up! I thought that weird fuzzy pink thing looked familiar from somewhere, and after rooting around in my brain for a while (also google), look what I found!
That's got to be about the most obscure George Lucas/Disney deep cut imaginable!
I'm a little curious about how they could possibly be lost in a galaxy that's fairly well charted. Maybe we'll finally get a look on-screen at what life is like in the Unknown Regions? That would certainly be a good place for a Jedi to hide in, assuming Jude Law's character is another survivor of the Purge.
Probably just the Outer Rim, or Wild Space. In the real world, kids get lost in extremely well charted and populated places all the time. Doesn't matter if they're in a charted system or not; the point is that *they* don't know where they are, or how to get back home. Either way, wherever they are they're clearly not in NR space anymore.
It's not the idea of seeing Star Wars suburbia that I object to; I just find their depiction of it visually unimaginative, just a slight variation on what an American suburb looks like. And yes, this is a North American suburb, not an "Earth" suburb, because Earth is much more than just America. Star Wars has historically been pretty good at drawing on other cultural elements for its designs, or creating imaginatively alien ones. For instance, the original film depicted Luke as a farm boy, a familiar concept to American audiences, but the setting he inhabited was still very unlike an American farm in appearance, and much more interesting as a result. And then there's something like Andor's Ferrix with its distinctive and well-thought-out brick architecture. So there must be a way to convey the feel of "kids in the suburbs" without being so literal in the visual interpretation, or at least without being so limited to North American design influences.
When I said Earth suburb I just meant a suburb on Earth, I wasn't saying that every suburb on Earth was like that. If it had looked like a looked like British countryside village, I probably would have called it an Earth village the same way I called this an Earth suburb.
I watch a lot of foreign shows and movies, and travel shows, so I am very much aware that not all of Earth looks like North America.
I watch a lot of foreign shows and movies, and travel shows, so I am very much aware that not all of Earth looks like North America.
That's my point -- even something like that would've been more interesting. I'm not talking about what you said, I'm talking about the unfortunate tendency of Western science fiction media as a whole to default to "American" when they think of "Earth" (The Orville is an extreme example, even more so than the Star Trek productions it emulates). If they wanted to convey a sense of a quiet Earthlike residential community, there's a wider range of options they could've chosen from than just "E.T. with slightly different building shapes."
