They are SW Eldorado. Hidden inside The Barrier. Stuck in the ‘80s forever.
But how did Fern’s mom describe their great work? I’m not remembering.
For the spirit of the show I am willing to put my critical thinking skills dial down to as low as the dial goes, but I still got taken out by the opening scene freighter captain being willing to die rather than open a nearly empty vault. Unless we DO later find there is more to that single credit and the ship that gave the location of the hidden planet of riches.
FWIW I think it is fun to have this goofy kids vehicle and the hopefully again gritty morally ambiguous Andor S2 in the same universe coming out near each other. I am more looking forward to Andor S2 though!
He seemed more like someone arrogantly confident that the legal system of the New Republic protected him. Sorr of a “You can’t do this, I’m an American!”.
One of the trailers for Skeleton Crew had a song, a cover of Major Tom by Peter Schilling, but this was in the Star Wars language of Huttese. And they have just released the full song.
Ootini! Yub Nub! (don’t know “woot” in Huttese)
According to one comment (no idea how accurate)
For anyone wondering, these are not strictly the original Peter Schilling lyrics translated into Huttese – these are new Huttese lyrics that instead tell the story of the characters in Skeleton Crew itself, wrapped around some of the original phrases
Brian
Fwanna, Duba, Doba, Bo…
(I like it, but better in the original Klingon )
So he’s Jod Na Nawood, but also Crimson Jack Silver? They’re going full Treasure Island. Though SM-33 is named after Captain Hook’s Smee. And is Benjar, voiced by Alfred Molina, modelled after Ben Gunn? Last week’s music felt very Monkey Island. It’s a great piratical rumbustification.
I’m enjoying this a lot. I had no idea I wanted Goonies-in-Star-Wars, but I did, and this is about as good as one could hope for Goonies-in-Star-Wars to be.
I could speculate some about some of the mysteries but, eh, whatever, happy enough with a light show like this to just enjoy the ride.
The child actors are surprisingly decent.
About the only thing that’s a big miss for me so far is the eye-mouse. A cute gag once, but not cute enough to be worth the screen time. Unless there’s more to it…
I thought this most recent episode was a BIG drop off in quality. It just made no sense. So within one day, they land on a strange planet, wander off with no way to contact the ship, get involved in a war, get recruited, get trained, get put in the front line of a presumed battle, and get rescued? It just made no sense at all. Utterly incomprehensible behavior all around.
I finally got my wife and kid to watch the first episode. No kidding about Goonies in space, but also all the Star Wars nostalgia beats, from the boarding prologue and forest speeder bike to the cameo by Rex from Star Tours. I also see the Explorers, E.T. (suburbia tracts in the wide angle establishing shots), Earth to Echo, Stand By Me, and of course Stranger Things (opening logo).
I’m bad with names, but we’ve got our primary four (with Goonies character equivalent):
Starry-eyed protagonist (Mikey)
Little Max Rebo (Chunk)
Geordi-Lobot girl (Data)
Con-girl “Leia face, Han sensibility” (Mouth)
I’m wondering if this will be good episodic like The Mandalorian, or throwaway episodic making the kids into Donald’s nephews and Kit Cloudcicker to Jude Law’s Quixotic Scrooge/Baloo?
Same, the whole kids joining the war thing made no sense. It would have been a neat episode if they just wandered around a ruined planet that was designed the same as theirs and gradually figured out they should go to the admin tower for answers.
The first episodes were very engrossing, this one not as much.
It was a bit if a filler episode, but I thought the guy was the equivalent of a warlord recruiting child soldiers to be cannon fodder in his battles. The kids don’t need to know how to shoot, they just have to catch “bullets” aimed at the adults.
But I wonder why the daughter has a Twi’lek accent but the father doesn’t.
Which is the bigger intended sign that Jod is in fact a former Jedi - his Force ability, the light saber at the end, or my favorite, his advice to give up all attachments …
In another show I’d suspect a misdirect, but this one I don’t think so.
If his age is anything like Jude Law’s age, he would have been in his early 20s when Order 66 went out, so that fits. But it seems sloppy to have yet another lost Jedi show up. If he’s as bad as he seems to be, could he have been an Inquisitor?
(The moment the lightsaber was first used was friggin hilarious.)
There must be loads of people who never make it through to full Jedi, for various reasons, so I think he went through some partial training, and then was either ejected, or ran away when Anakin rampaged through (he’s about the right age for that).
If At-Attin is the Mint, I wonder if the other At- planets are identically laid out to be decoys.
After being very underwhelmed by the child soldiers episode, I loved this most recent one. Exactly the kind of escapist silly fun but with some serious moments I want. Wim lighting the light saber was genius.
Unfortunately, I saw that one coming and literally said out loud “he’s holding it upside down”.
But Jude Law did a great job with the tense moment. Just say ‘I yield’! He’s bad, but not irredeemably so. It’s a fine line to walk.
The ep title and Jude saying the line telegraphed the twist. “You Have a Lot to Learn About Pirates”.
ETA: Lest anyone think otherwise, I’m enjoying the show overall. It’s a fun look at the SW universe from an unexplored perspective. Not every story has to have the universe on the line to be interesting.
Well that’s what is being telegraphed with him holding the saber hilt at the end …
He wants to be completely self interested and think that is what he is … but the kids are not letting him fool himself. When push comes to shove he’s just the kid who signed up to become a Jedi once upon a time.
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