Skeleton Crew Official Skeleton Crew Discussion Thread (Spoilers Allowed)

I agree especially with how fans reacted to a great show as The Acolyte. Skeleton Crew is gonna get ripped apart people will complain the kids can't act but people always complain about kid actors I personally don't get the complaints of kid actors they just act like kids.

 

Just make a coherent story - that is the crux of it and if it is coherent, it will largely be liked.

But yes bringing that pointless pirate across from Mando is a concern, who knows maybe he will surprise.

 

Somehow, pointless pirate returned.

 

"Suffered under pointless pirate." -- Apollo Creed

 

Love this old school trailer!

 

Ironically I was eagerly awaiting The Acolyte, and only after I watched it, did I wince at how lousy it was. There was also very little to no fun factor there, nothing where you sat there seeing characters falling but having redeemable souls. Everyone on that show (who wasn't killed) was basically a rotten person. I found it incredibly depressing.

 

I get some people didn't like the show but it is growing quite the following on Twitter movements trying to get it renewed people watching it for the first time now scratching there heads trying to figure out why it was cancelled in the first place. It was an original story with a timeline never explored people loved the characters! There is a whole shipper Comunity with Quimir and Osha and even I loved the scene of Quimir walking out of the water and Osha taking a peak wink wink LOL the same thing is happening with Willow show on Twitter growing a huge following. I'm starting to think it's not a Lucasfilm problem it's spoiled fans. Comic Book Store Guy kind of people when Star Wars is for Kids and families we have all grown up our tastes have changed but the target audience still enjoys it kids that same thing happened to the prequels now the kids who grew up with the PT are all grown up in there 20s and 30s and they all love the PT and with the older generation they have come around to the PT I think this will happen with new Disney Lucasfilm content it's already happening to TLJ and the rise of Skywalker! What I don't like is Lucasfilm Disney bowing down to these negative fans not so much real fans like on this message board but the element on social media who I believe affect ratings in a big way unfortunately but Disney bows down to these in the minority folks for political reasons. For Star Wars or any IP to work it cant all be the same there has to be Diversity in Content I think the MCU gets it Lucasfilm should take a page from the MCU and not listen to fans make original different content some will stick to the wall some wont but you dont know unless you try.

How about Star Wars meets The Guardians Of The Galaxy or a Star Wars Pixar Toy Story Kid is a Star Wars Fanboy!

 

They don't. The show was cancelled for poor ratings and a bloated budget.

They don't. Nor does review bombing. People make up their own minds (most of them, not all) about whether a show is good or not and the shows that are good get positive word of mouth which helps and if it's bad it gets negative word of mouth which hurts. But word of mouth is not the be-all end-all. It all comes down to the quality of the show. "The Acolyte" was not a quality show. A subjective opinion of course, but a popular one, which is why certain folks calling it out for being bad on Youtube or wherever get lots of views because a lot of people happen to agree with their opinions, they are not being swayed to hate by said Youtubers opinions (again, most, not all,) they are just in agreement.

They don't. They don't care what YouTubers think. They care about the bottom line...and the show was cancelled for poor ratings and a bloated budget.

 

We will have to agree to disagree my friend happy holidays!

 

See Jake Lloyd... etc

 

He got way more flak then he deserved and it affected his mental health later on in life it's a shame fan backlash did that to him fans should feel ashamed for saying some of the really nasty things they said about him. I deal with mental health issues I know what it's like to be bullied it's not right and it's not fair. Carrie Fisher was an advocate for mental health all Star Wars fans should embrace her wisdom and grace on the subject because she dealt with it too.

 

Neel is a real friend. With Cassian and Brasso, it is good to have more characters that are simply friends rather than fire-forged companions.

 

Where was Neel when I needed him?

 

https://x.com/cosmic_marvel/status/1863184128654401725

The runtime for the first 3 episodes of ‘STAR WARS: SKELETON CREW’ has reportedly been revealed:
• Episode 1 - 47 Minutes.
• Episode 2 - 29 Minutes.
• Episode 3 - 37 Minutes.

 

Many failed shows have garnered large, vocal, fight the cancellation followings. In almost every instance they do not work. Star Trek and Futurama are perhaps some of the few examples, but those were massive movements. There was a huge save Enterprise movement 20 years ago, and it nearly worked. In the end, studios made the same decisions, the low viewership did not equate with huge costs.

Much of the outsized criticism the show got BEFORE it premiered would be trolling, and there was plenty of that. However, when reviewers and fans saw it, and kept watching, even they grew dour. As I said before, who as a viewer, am I rooting for here? Nobody! Every character I wished to "like" ended up dead or were written into a twisted, inconceivable, and confounding arc. I get it, the concept was to make Jedi into overly righteous fundamentalists, and rejecting them means going dark. Even when the character doesn't think he/she is "dark." It was just performed and written completely wrong. This wasn't like Breaking Bad (gold standard) where the protagonist is a screw up who becomes a crook constantly fighting his demons in a battle over right and wrong is on full display. I suppose they wanted to portray this, but the execution was just pitiful. It was a great concept, that should not have been difficult to portray. The show failed.

 

My point isn't whether the shows I mentioned Willow or The Acolyte get renewed but that despite ratings there are a very large number of fans that love both shows. Ratings only tell part of the story. Now it's streaming numbers even by the same household watching over and over but yes new viewership counts. Look at The Orville it is supposedly starting up filming either April or May for legal reasons with Ted and NBC Disney can't announce anything. The Strikes affected The Orville but fans binge watching and a Renewal movement on Twitter got Disney to consider making season 4

And I would say what killed the Acolyte was Anti Woke people

 

And the very important fact that the show was a mess and on a huge budget that just didn’t get the ratings it should have.

The reality is the show should have been a success, it was in an era that had never been explored in live action and had the chance to do something new, it didn’t need the Sith and as great as Darth Helmet was, he shouldn’t have been so out of the shadows in this period of time.

As mentioned above, there were no heroes, no one to get behind. Who were we supposed to be wanting to succeed? They all just turned out to be terrible people.

I’m really hopeful though the Skeleton Crew delivers, I really want to wash the bad taste of The Acolyte out of my mouth. Jude Law is always good though, so that’s a good start. The Show is an unknown, hopefully it delivers a coherent story.

 

Again we will have to agree to disagree me and my family loved the Acolyte and we can't wait for The Skeleton Crew Tomorrow night me and my family have enjoyed every Star Wars film and show Disney has made except The Todler kids Star Wars show haven't seen that.

 

I feel that given a second season, The Acolyte could've turned it around. The key word being could've and not would've, if Skeleton Crew receives equally negative reviews it'll undoubtably receive the same treatment as Disney seemingly looks for instant hits. Its target audience seems different from previous live action shows, Skeleton Crew's target audience seems also broader, from younger children in the family through to their parents. Given that, they've increased the potential audience numbers but will it turn away the older casual SW fans and Disney viewer?

 

There won't be a second season because the crew will die in their ship. Then we'll get a flash foward of someone finding their ship hundreds of years later. They will look inside the ship and say "Is this some sort of Skeleton Crew?" Roll credits.

 

Seems like the show won't be focusing on anything too heavy or controversial, so as long as its fun with good action, it should do ok. Hopefully the writers don't destroy their SW careers by making some kind of perceived lore mistake. God forbid, the Puritans may wake and rear their ugly heads.

 

I don't think reviews had anything to do with The Acolyte not getting a 2nd series. Its likely all in the budget that Disney didn't want to invest. Even had more people of watched The Acolyte its hard to say Disney would have invested another 160 mil into it. Because again, there is no box office or ad revenue for Disney+ so its banked all on subscriptions to make back money for everything on Disney+

Not sure it would destroy their careers to do so. It might annoy the fandom and the writers would never hear the end of it. Does that count?