Skeleton Crew – Possible Spoilers

I know there are Mando/Andor/Ahsoka/Boba Fett (maybe not)/Acolyte (probably not) fans on here.  Anyone else watched the 1st 2 of Skeleton Crew yet?

I watched both last night and really enjoyed them, although clearly more aimed at kids, they seem well written and directed – something many of the other series have misfired with.

No surprises that it’s basically Goonies in space, but I’ve no problem with that, and it mostly had that cosy Amblin entertainment feel to it.  There were some callbacks to the main films/shows but they were mostly nice and subtle rather than lit with a big neon sign saying “HEY LOOK, WE’RE DOING THAT THING!!  YOU KNOW, THAT THING YOU ALL LIKE!!!” like they usually do.

Anyone else delved into it yet?

Yes, I am loving the new style tv shows.

Its a positive start

I have to admit I didnt even know it was starting. Saw a few things about it over the last few months but not really paid much attention.

Thats something I never thought id say for Star Wars

I’m waiting for Andor series two, and sort of hoping (against recent history) that they’ve not **** about with it too much.

As for the wider “universe” I’m entirely mleh about the TV shows that seem to have been released in a “Throw enough crap at the wall to see which ones work, and which ones don’t” way and TBH, most of them suck balls. I’m aware that largely “officially” the audience is children, but at the same time, Lucasfilm are aware of the age ranges of their audiences and who’s actually watching, and while I tend to try to ignore the howls from the basement dwelling white middle aged incel crowd who viscerally hate everything that Disney do: Just Because. They are sadly right in that the actual output has nevertheless been overall; a bit shit. They’re wrong about the reasons why the series are shit but still, you can’t deny the bad writing and barely visible plots.

I only caught wind of it last night, by dint of Nick Frost voicing one of the droids. Looks interesting.

Watched the first one last night with my 10 year old daughter and 12 year old son. They are both fully invested already.

They are young enough to not be infected by the life changing experience that I had at 7 years old watching the first one in the cinema so its nice to get a genuine, uncoloured view of whether they think the latest raft of offerings are any good to them.

I only caught wind of it last night, by dint of Nick Frost voicing one of the droids. Looks interesting.

He plays a pirate droid called SM33 (or Smee for Peter Pan fan 🙂 )