The next upcoming Star Wars streaming series. It’ll be interesting to see what in this one causes anvry review bombing. The adolescent Rebo seems to have limbs out of proportion with an adult Rebo, but that probably won’t have sticking power.
I’m always optimistic about a new Kids On Bikes adventure.
That’s so painfully Goonies. Kids are going to love this show.
The first two episodes were fun. Definitely a 1980s kids movie in the Star Wars universe. (Including kids obsessed with Star Wars!) Gonna bring out a lot of trolls because of that, though.
It bears similarities to Star Trek Prodigy.
Reviewing the trailer, I note that almost every second of it is from the first two episodes.
My teen and I watched the first ep last night but didn’t get the chance to see the second yet (and why are these episodes dropping at 8:00 central, they do know that I have work in the morning right?).
It was OK. I felt that it leaned so heavily into the tropes that my teen and I couldn’t help but notice how tropey it was. I know it’s geared towards kids and that’s OK but I hope that the first ep is suffering a bit because it’s setting the table and it’s not indicative of the whole series.
That describes all of Star Wars. Samurai movies in space, Westerns in Space, WWII dogfights in space, etc. They aren’t trying to hide it. In this case we have Goonies in space instead of Lone Wolf and Cub in space.
This is true. And tropes in themselves are neither good nor bad, they’re just tools. I would argue that Lone Wolf and Cub in space was very well done and even if Mandalorian was recognized right off the bat that it used this trope, it did use this trope well. I’ll still watch Skeleton Crew and I do like the idea of Goonies in space but I also think my criticism is that the episode had to spend all this time setting things up and introducing characters. I’m sure they’ll build from there.
The first episode seemed far more like Explorers to me, especially that gully. I’m sure it will become more Goonies as it goes.
I’m really enjoying it, this is the kind of whimsical adventure that I love, both within and outside of Star Wars.
Just watched the 1st episode - liked it OK. I don’t know how many points is “passing” but apparently it is x-50 (not sure it really is pass/fail, but I guess if you do bad you get assigned to latrine duty or something)
Anyone figure out the math thing? f(5) = 1.5 something
I was wondering if KB was blind (ala Geordi on TNG) , but she did tip up her visor – I suppose she could have moved it back down due to something she heard rather than saw.
Brian
1.6094, which is the natural logarithm of 5. Making kids memorize the natural logs of integers really drives home the soul crushing regimentation and boredom of New Republic suburbia. I’d jump on the first ship to the Outer Rim too.
Except that it isn’t New Republic. Everone the kids talk to has not heard of their world or think that it is a myth. The kid’s lunch money for the week is Old Republic credits so valuable that pirates were willing to kill each other for a few of them. Not only are the people of At Attin apparently unaware of the New Republic, they seem to be unaware that the Empire happened or the old Republic fell. The children’s stories and toys seem to imply that they think the Jedi Order is still functional. Something ain’t right there.
Ah, ok, I haven’t watched the second episode yet. I stand by my soul crushing comment though.
Well, the “basic table of 5”. Wim did say 1.609 (pause) 4, and then the dad said “almost”
But that IS ln(4) (at least the first digits). If he needed to recite more digits you would think the dad would say :"and the next digit is? (3).
I know, expecting accurate math in Star Wars when physics (and logic) don’t work is picky, but all they had to do was have Wim guess 5 (or 3) instead of 4, and then the “almost” would be good.
But yes, memorizing logarithms basic tables does sound boring rote memorization.
Brian
(memorizing pi, on the other hand…)
I think Wendle had no idea what the right answer was - he wanted to give an answer that wouldn’t discourage Wim, but would convince him to keep studying. That seems like the kind of Dad he is - he couldn’t even be bothered to make sure Wim was up on the morning of the test that determines your entire future? I’m guessing he’ll get his own redemption arc as a father.
Holy crap - the guy at the bar who summoned Brutus at the end of Episode 2 was Steve Erkel. And they’re really hitting all the old references they can - SM-33 is the pirate captain’s bosun.
Aka Smee.
I feel like SM-33 comes from the Commander Cody book of Star Wars names.
I’m guessing that the planet is the old republic’s treasury world, so well hidden that the empire never found it. A entire planet of accountants, no wonder it’s boring. The teacher droid even mentions currency valuation during its lesson. I bet that “single credit “ from the vault is actually more than it seems, and getting it back from Brutus is going to be a big plot point.
Looking forward to finding out.