Skeleton Crew Official Skeleton Crew Discussion Thread (Spoilers Allowed)

You know overall I have been really impressed by this show.

 

And then Mace Windu walks out looking angry and saying 'I'm sick of all these mother funky cheesy cliches'

 

Chedd-arrr.

 

I'm only five episodes in, and I won't be caught up for a bit, so staying off the Threads (mostly) to avoid spoilers. That being said, having a lot of fun with the show. It's very entertaining and definitely worth a look. Some stuff "for kids" is really just for kids (nothing wrong with that) and some stuff "for kids" is still a good time for adults and I'd put this show into that category. Feels a lot like some of the pulp-fiction sci fi I read as a kid, aimed at the young teen audience. Jude Law is terrific. A definite thumbs up.

 

I will watch at 5 in the morning so…but I could snatch some ripe cheese from the mountains that I have in the fridge to nibble with Grogu while we watch now that I think about it! I am really stressed for this finale I don’t want this to end!

 

It sucks the cheese out of the trees, making the forest less fun.

 

I mean, it makes your meal more fun if you are a treesucker hunter! The roast is already stuffed with cheese!

 

I'm seriously considering giving up the internet. Besides being bombarded with "Cheese from around the world," ads, it's article after article about the poor odds for S2. I want only happy thoughts going into tonight's finale.

 

I think the kids may show up in the movies so nothing is lost!
And ads about cheese are not the worst type of ads you can get eheheh

 

This Techradar article discusses the possibility of a "Skeleton Crew" S2 with some comments from Watts and Ford. (No Spoilers.)

 

I think the chances are zilch. And given how these SW shows go, even if it did get a second season, the kid actors would like like 20 by the time it was made.

 

Skeleton Crew was one of the most self contained Star Wars stories ever. On the one hand, I give it some credit for sticking to that approach, one that could easily appeal to those who are very casual or even uninitiated. It works well enough on its own terms. But as a fan, I kept waiting for the importance of At Attin to take on real significance to the larger narrative, and that never came. So ultimately the series is a fun distraction, but also the most skippable story in the larger saga.

 

All in all, a very good series

Hope Jude Law shows up in other material; he plays a fantastic irredeemable scumbag

 

High quality = not skippable.

 

Great fun show, but i missed the greater galaxy that involves the importance of the main story.

 

The planet and some of the characters may still have a role in later series and movies. I expect that.

 

Especially Jod the pirate jedi

 

Very funny show, is not my favorite SW show, but the heart that the creators put here makes me very happy for a possible S2.
Full series i gave a 9/10

 

Overall I give the series an 8/10. Up there with Andor and Mando, although maybe third out of this elite group.

I loved the fantasy elements, especially the creatures and locations. I really liked the kids and the fact that each had their little moments for growth and to shine. I think the Junk Crabs and escaping the Hotel/Pirate Cove Planet was the best episode, and honestly some of the best SW of the Disney era. It was borderline bizarre and I loved that 'not sure where this is going" feeling. However, there were some parts that didn't quite work for me. I think a lot of the stuff with the actual pirate crew never really felt ... right. Outside of Brutus, they just didn't seem threatening or serious enough. The tone could have been a bit more gritty to contrast with At Attin and the world that the kids knew. A bit more like the Fratelli's from Goonies, and less like the Pirates from POTC.

I also felt like the ending wrapped up a bit to quickly. I think maybe we should have gotten home sooner for this battle to unfold with a bit more time on their hands. However, I think this show - overall - suffered less from the typical problems of pacing and editing that seem to befall some of the Disney SW shows. That feeling where its really just one long movie, chopped up into episodes.

Although it certainly doesn't need it, the show deserves a second season. But alas, that will clearly never happen.

 

The show introduced quite a few ideas, and yet poorly elaborated on them and did not give me satisfying answers as to how it all fits into the larger context of Star Wars. The whole At Attin credit minting thing being the biggest one.

First, what makes these outdated Republic credits so valuable and desired? Remember, that in The Phantom Menace, Watto told Qui-Gon that these credits were worthless on Tatooine. Yet in this show, all the pirates and scumbags in the Outer Rim desperately want them. Why? Clearly, it cannot be the fact that these credits are valuable as a currency, because they cannot be. Republic credits were replaced with Imperial credits fairly soon after the Empire's declaration, as seen in The Bad Batch. Can you buy anything in America with Confederate money, for example? Or in any other country with its respective historically discontinued currency? No, you can't. They are worthless to anyone, outside of collectors. You can't perform any monetary transactions with them. This currency had long been discontinued. The same with Republic credits, which were replaced with Imperial credits. Well if it's not the fact that they are credits and currency, it must mean that they are made of some valuable material, then? Then why did Watto reject Qui-Gon's offer as utterly worthless in The Phantom Menace? Probably not, then. What is their value, and why hasn't the show clearly defined it? As it stands, At Attin's credits were just a nebulous plot device, a substitute for gold from Treasure Planet. But they did not really think how to make it make sense in the narrative of Star Wars.

Second, how can the Supervisor know that the Jedi are traitors, and not know that the Republic no longer exists and was reformed into the Empire? The show frames it as if At Attin and the other planets are these lost planets, completely cut off from the rest of the Galaxy, and they are still considering themselves Republic planets. The knowledge that the Jedi are traitors and that the Republic ceased to exist was made public at the same time. You can't know one without the other. It's in Revenge of the Sith. And yet, At Attin was still making Republic money, it was still waiting for Republic emissaries... Why? It makes no sense. Why didn't the Supervisor ever contact Coruscant?

Third, one must assume, that Palpatine absolutely knew about these planets existing. He couldn't not have known about them. So, why were they abandoned and not immediately occupied by the Empire? One would think that a source of infinite money would be on Palpatine's top priorities, especially given all the "budget constraints" talks in The Bad Batch and Andor, and other works, where it seems like the Empire was siphoning resources for the Death Star at the expense of everything else? So, why did Palpatine do nothing about these planets? How did they manage to get lost? They were making money for the Republic - or so this show wants us to believe - so there must have been someone on the other end, emissaries, that knew about it, and Palpatine must have known about them. If the planets were lost before Palpatine, how could the Supervisor know that the Jedi were traitors?

Fourth, the whole thing existing makes no sense retroactively. Remember, that the Republic had to take loans from the Banking Clan during the Clone Wars, because it was going bankrupt due to the military expenses? If they had these money printing planets all along, that situation would not have happened in the first place. The whole reason Palpatine had an elaborate scheme to nationalize the Banking Clan was to take control over the Galactic monetary system. I don't see how At Attin fits into all of this, and why was it never ever mentioned by anyone.

As usual with most of these Disney+ shows, they create all these mysteries and questions, and barely answer them. I am quite tired of that.

Overall, I found the show fairly middling. It started off solid, the first 3 episodes were solid 8-9/10s, but then fell off in the middle and never really picked up again for me. The whole thing felt like a cartoon arc, that was stretched thin over the course of 8 episodes, only cartoon arcs managed to have more meaningful character development, plot and importance to the overall Star Wars mythology than this entire show - the Younglings attacked by Hondo & Pirates arc from The Clone Wars Season 5 comes to mind.

This show felt quite predictable and by the numbers, lacking any stakes. There was never a point in time where this show managed to convince me any of the characters were in any danger - and the show tried really, really hard, so many times. The final episode being the worst offender, to the point where I rolled my eyes at all the baits and switches.

Now that the show is over, I can also confidently say that it being so cliche did not win me over. Was not a fan of the pirates with literal wooden legs, missing eyes, flintlock pistols, saying "Arrrr! Shiver me timbers! Aye aye, captain!" The whole American Suburbia, "claimsies", and other 80's American nostalgia elements felt quite corporate, forced, soulless, and overdone. At this point it was a knockoff of a knockoff. Seen it too many times too recently. Not Star Wars'y enough - just cliche. And there was nothing interesting or sinister underneath it, as many had thought. It was as it seemed. Quite boring.

In the end, it was utterly insignificant to the larger Star Wars mythos, and is entirely skippable. Jod was most definitely a standout character, Jude Law gave a solid performance. I would be surprised if they brought any of the characters back into the other shows/movies, other than Jod, because other than him, they were all utterly unremarkable. "Kids from Skeleton Crew" is the best you can describe them. They are too ordinary to appear in the grander Star Wars mythos, so it would be best if they were left in their standalone story — though knowing Disney, that probably won't happen. I applaud the show for standing on its own and not dragging any known character into it - God knows how exhausting Disney Star Wars has been with that - and yet the finale failed to conclude things in a satisfactory manner. It all felt very abrupt, which I went into detail in my final episode review. So much more could have been done, and should have been done.

It's not Kenobi, Acolyte or Boba Fett levels of terrible, but all in all it's more of a 5-6/10 for me. Just kinda "eh, whatever: the show". Would not have missed anything if I hadn't seen it. It did not actively disappoint me like The Bad Batch or Ahsoka - probably because I had zero expectations for this show to begin with. But they could have done so much more with it.

 

Some (counter)points:

-The reason why nobody "knew" about At Attin , as i already said a couple times, was because a great misinformation campaign. See EVERYBODY HEARD about the planet but everybody also believed it was just a myth, some sort of fairtale that was going around the Galaxy for quite some time.
Remember it's canon that in just 20 years the entire galaxy forgot about the Jedi and the Force.
So 300 hundreds years would be more than enpugh to forget about the jewels or to them become "fairtale".
- The Great Work was first mentioned in one of those High Republic novels. So the entire "experiment" with the Jewels of the Republic may have begun around 200/300 years before the Clones War. In Ep 4 it was said the way At Achram was "destroyed" , whatever happened was almost a century ago.
- There's a huge virtue in this show/story: it was entirely outside the "Skywalker Saga". Nothing that happened in the show was a consequence of Jedi Order misjudgments or Vader/Palpatine actions. Heck there weren't even stormtroopers in the show. How many times it happens in a SW project. So , in the end, with the good reception despite not all that great streaming numbers ( but remember that neither Penguin or Dune Prophecy made the Nielsen list) Disney can believe there tales away from the Skywalker family oand the bad fascist in black who want to takeover the galaxy to be told.
Also the here's the trick: what if there are more "jewels still functional" ? What the other planets were supposed to be ? All mints? Waht if there were something more to it?
And if Disney explore this, then again they can tell more stories apart the Skywalker saga wich is so contamined with cultural war nonsense.Despite SC being direct to kids, the concept of that society in At Attin and others jewels was somewhat creepy.
In the first episode the fixation with order and the ostensive ovserseeing by the drois had a far more more imperial feeling than anything we ever saw from the Republic. So this concept can be also explored in a more "adult" adventure.
Why did At AChram go full Mad Max ? Were those people also accountants who turned into war waging clans. Doesn't make sense.
And waht was really the goal of the Great Work? It would indeeed make sense the "disappearing" of those Jewels if there were some ill intent in that doctrine. Like someone tried to create a "back up" galaxy if things went awry (as they did) with the Republic.
So the secret is how this Great Work concept, repeat it, introcuced first in High Republic books will be developed.
An interesting twist in the current GFFA's Disney story would be if the discovery of this mint actually caused dissent among the New Republic and helped the rise of the First Order. See all that money could make some people want to take advantadge of it while other would not. The show was set about the same time of the Ahsoka series.
Is Disney trying to use these secret jewels to tweak or undo some stuff from the ST. How many people noticed, At Attin money could be a reason the First Order was so powerfull.
But then again , the idea here is that not everything has to be Palpatine/Skywalker/Clone Wars centric. The story can move on. The "kids" in the show would be about 30 years old by the time of ROTS. Could any of those characters step in ( alongside Grogu) and take over as main characters ?

PS: somewhere down here there's a explanation on why the old Republic were valuable again while the Empire ones lost value ( as Djin said in S1 Mando).

 

https://x.com/culturecrave/status/1879615606779232493?s=61&t=rv05ze1KDrOvRX51VQ2elA

 

Its first week.

 

The show lives or dies by the kids performances, they drew me in and I enjoyed them and I was invested in their adventure. Jude Law held it all together with his charm and acting ability too. This show deserves a second season and for me was up there with Mando seasons 1 & 2 and Andor in terms of my enjoyment. It gave us something different for SW.