I started off this post with the words, “What a steaming pile of sh…” before I remembered, Disney doesn’t produce these shows for people like me, those of us old enough to remember seeing the original three movies in the theater.
Skeleton Crew is absolutely geared towards kids, 10-12 year range.
I’ve watched the first two episodes. Looks like there will be 8 total. Assuming other than episode one, they’ll all be ~20-25 minutes, I’ll stick it out as a fix waiting for Andor season 2.
Let me guess you hated the Ewoks too
No, Ewoks are fine.
The show was described as an attempt to make “Goonies in space.” I think, geared for kids, is an accurate description.
I should’ve prefaced my remarks with I went into watching it cold, no previews watched or read.
It’s nice to get away from those fucking Skywalkers for a change LOL
So, it’s The Goonies … I’m OK with that
Right off the bat, there’s a blink and you’ll miss it Easter egg from the Legendary “Star Wars Holiday Special” and a shot stolen from ET, (or Poltergeist? I get those Amblin/Speilberg neighborhoods confused); a meet-cute outside the Principal’s office that echos Ferris Bueller
Also - because it’s about pirates - there’s a one-eyed, peg-legged droid called SM-33; get it?!!! I knew that you would
Practical makeup for the dozens of creatures, always a plus
I can see a overall plot where the harder they try to get home (a place which people seem to think doesn’t REALLY exist, so there’s THAT) the further away they go
Also, the writers & directors that Filoni & Favreau has lined up are NOT hacks
John Watts - Tom Holland SpiderMan movies
Bryce Dallas Howard - already a Star Wars veteran
Daniel Kwan & Daniel Scheinert, aka The Daniels - Everything, Everywhere, All At Once
And others
Star Wars is such a funny fanchise. Obviously kids like it, but they get a lot of flack if they make anything geared directly toward kids. And the real odd thing is even when they do make things for kids like Rebels it inevitably turns dark. At the same time (with the exception of Andor) their more mature offerings often devolve into family entertainment.
On the Goonies angle, I can dig that and will go into the next episode with a bit more enthusiasm.
@RandMart SM-33…dude I completely overlooked that!!
Well not until now!
I was watching with captions on and saw it right away - it doesn’t hit you until you see it spelled out
We’re in a funny era where adults expect people to keep making the movies they liked as kids, but for the same audience now as grown-ups.
I don’t know if previous generations expected their childhood entertainment to follow them into adulthood or not.
I had Kevin Smith’s Fatman & Beyond podcast on the other day, and it was brought up that Skeleton Crew referencing The Goonies (1985) would be parallel to Star Wars referencing Flash Gordon or Buck Rogers in that they’d about 40 years apart*
Which George Lucas TOTALLY did!!!
.* I’m SO fucking old!!!
Ok, I am dumb. Whats with ss 33, one eye and peg leg?
Smee, he was the pirate in Peter Pan that was friendly towards the kids.
To be fair & accurate, Smee of Peter Pan or Hook (Spielberg movie w/ Robin Williams & Dustin Hoffman) does not have a peg-leg or eye-patch; and yes, is as close to a “standup guy” as a pirate could possibly be (played by Bob Hoskins - Roger Rabbit, Brazil)
The eye-patch and peg-leg trope come from Robert Louis Stevenson’s Treasure Island
So Jude Law’s character is also known as “Crimson Jack?”
Hmmmm
Noticed that IMBD says Christopher Lee was in that film, as well; y’know … Count Dooku?
Not that anyone asked for my opinion, but I’m pretty much done with Star Wars. The TV shows have all been mediocre at best, with some being pretty bad.
I agree, mostly. Andor is the exception, it’s great. Nothing cutesy and very good acting. No Jedi or force sensitive plot lines.
Don’t forget …
Andor was good in all of those ways, yet i liked it the least. It was soooooooooo slooooooooowwwwwwww.