Skeleton Crew Official Skeleton Crew Discussion Thread (Spoilers Allowed)

Just to play devi's advocate here...but maybe killing the flashback was a good thing. Considerig the live action Inquisitors we have seen...how badly would the one who may have killed her looked? Unless of course it was just an army of Stormtroopers who somehow got her.

 

Even if looked bad in costume most fans can look past it

 

That's a pretty silly thing to say. They........................might have looked cool?

 

GI and 5th Brother looked terrible. If either of them showed up looking like that it would have been as bad as Leia showing up...at least to me. Now if they did 4th Sister...or if they went bigger and got Sarah Michelle Gellar to do an great live action 7th Sister...it could have been really good.

 

Why do we need a flashback? Jod is not a reliable narrator. Haven't we seen enough Jedi slaughtered?

 

For something with the strategic importance of a fortress mounted turbolaser, I imagine they'd have the forethought to design the emplacement with an autonomous power supply. Otherwise it would be way too easy to shut down all defensive weaponry with one strike at the generator station.

 

I thought marketing was an issue for The Han Solo movie not enough Trailers and TV spots but everything else Disney has come out with Lucasfilm there are ample Trailers, On YouTube and on ABC Disney Channel and affiliates FX Network ESPN during Football and Baseball games Magazines like on the back of My Empire Magazine there were tons of ads on the back of the magazine and in the magazine. If low ratings are true and the source seems sketchy never heard of the website they seem worse then Inside The Magic and there really bad making stuff up all the time for click bait but if there is any truth to it what is Disney supposed to do for marketing? They had 3 trailers and TV spots and magazine and Internet adds what more is there? If ratings are bad it's Disney Bias this is on the fans.

And when this show started everyone was really impressed for a low budget show how good the effects looked now all of a sudden it has a big budget? I mean may be if you compare it to network TV but this is a Disney Plus Star Wars show compared to Disney Star Wars it was low budget. And as for low ratings that article only brings up the first week it went another 7 weeks.

 

SC had a budget of $136 million, which makes it the third most expensive SW show behind "Andor" and "The Acolyte" respectively. SC received $21 million in tax credit from the state of California bringing their net budget down to about $115 million.

We have Nielson ratings for up to the week ending December 22nd which encompasses the first four episodes of SC and none of them have cracked the top ten "originals." We don't know the exact number of minutes watched because of this, only Disney does, and I doubt they're going to tell us.

 

It's still only 4 weeks and the Showrunners say the numbers got better each week! Nielson ratings survey is so outdated anymore they compile data differently now it's all about how many times things are streamed hopefully people binge the heck out of The Orville and get that renewed? I'm doing my part so are the rest of the Orville fandom and supposedly it's renewed but I suppose The Wildfires are holding up an announcement or legal things with Ted and NBC? There is a similar movement on Twitter with the Acolyte I'm a part of, a lot of people surprisingly love The Acolyte and want it to come back renewal. Just look at the journey me and my Futurama fandom have been through for what 21 years. Fans should never give up. Even King Of The Hill one of my favorite shows is coming back I think this year! If I'd have to guess I'd say the fact the ratings got better each week and fans and media liked it that counts I think Skeleton Crew is coming back. The Acolyte the first two episodes ratings were good but tanked after that. Skeleton Crew there ratings matched from what we are hearing Andor more closely. I don't worry about budget that's for Disney to worry about a billion dollar corporation they can eat any losses I worry and care about mostly what I thought about it and the fans and media! And ratings to some extent. It's really out of our hands we shouldn't worry about it like TikTok all we can do is keep binging it till it's renewed.

 

If we get a season 2 I want the first scene with the kids to be Fern and Wim having a airspeeder race with a T-16 Skyhopper vs the McQuarrie concept snow speeder. Considering if it happens the kids will be mid to late teens it seems appropriate for the kids to have pilot training.

Of course...without weapons on the ships.

 

The marketing was fine, it’s gotta be accepted that sometimes people reject things just because it doesn’t suit their desired watch. Especially with a franchise like Star Wars.

in terms of getting a series 2. That’s likely gonna depend on budget vs whether they are happy with the view count. If it balances out, maybe they will.

 

I was one of those people who had little to no interest in SC. I found the pirates in The Mandalorian uninteresting. Was the wrong age, and never really cared about Amblin style entertainment. In general, I avoid shows with kids. And I was suffering disappointment that Acolyte didn't live up to its potential. It's understandable why SC didn't go gang busters out of the gate. I heard no prediction of this show being a perfect little gem of SW magic. Not sure how to market that concept.

So, here's hoping the Force is with Disney, and give this show time for word of mouth creating the kind of ratings deserving of second season.

 

No it wasn't. I saw no marketing. If it weren't for this forum, I would never have heard of Skeleton Crew.

 

I also wonder if the name of the show didn’t help. To me the name wasn’t very Star Warsy, and in the end, it didn’t really capture the nature of the show. I would’ve gone with The Good, the Bad, and the Elephant.

 

Treasure Planet?

Or...

Cheese String Theory / The Intergalactic Cheese / The Blue Crew / The Mozzarellarians / Emperor Provolone

 

So was At Attin from the Old Republic or the old Republic (eg pre-Empire)? The reference to the Great Works make it seem like High Republic? If they received the notification the Jedi were traitors then the planet was known about by the time of Palpatine so why didn't he raid the credits for himself? Also if the planet was so old why did the Supervisor room have such a "modern" Imperial like aesthetic?

I don't think the show did a good job of explaining the timeline of the planet at all

 

I'm going with old republic, pre-empire republic, not Old Republic. Possibly the mint was established on an already hidden jewel of the republic. Fern's top medal seemed to have much older symbols on them.

 

I think old old Republic

 

I can’t remember, but didn’t Bad Batch show that Palpatine made the Republic Credits useless and was trying to force people onto an Imperial system?

I was a little confused on this plot point. I was initially under the impression that At Attin was ancient since they were completely oblivious to the events of the past couple decades and the pirates regarded At Attin as some myth.

But then the Supervisor says the last transmission they received would have been around the time of Order 66. And given that the barrier blocks communications and only Republic emissaries know where At Attin is and how to penetrate the barrier, I’m thinking At Attin was known to certain people of the prequel era.

At this point I’m just guessing Palpatine was happy to let At Attin become forgotten, if he was trying to establish tighter control over the economy.


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The credits, old or new, seem to be made of a precious resource. Otherwise, I don't think the datary dropping into the pool of acid would have been recognized as treasure. They may not have spent the same, but they are not worthless.

 

Considering all the people on At Attin are involved in the mint work..analyzing currency and what not...where does the food come from? Is there another continent on the other side of the planet that focuses on agriculture? Are there some sort of hydroponics facilities?

 

I guess droids farm. They cut grass too.

 

Did they establish how far in the past it was that SM-33’s captain found At Attin?

I mean Watto seemed to think Republic credits were fairly worthless whereas all of these pirates see At Attin as a treasure trove and are in disbelief that these kids are in possession of “Old Republic” credits. If they are talking about the same currency, then Republic credits must have become incredibly rare over the few decades of the Empire.

It could be that Palpatine was just that good of getting Republic credits out of circulation that they are now extremely scarce and highly valuable.

Or these are a type of credit from a previous iteration of the Republic.

It doesn’t help that “Old Republic” covers pretty much all Republic history pre-Palpatine, even though the Republic had fallen before (as Pre Vizsla talks about the Dark Saber being taken from the Jedi Temple during the fall of the “Old Republic.”)

The excitement the pirates demonstrate for the currency suggests something exceedingly rare, not something that was galactic wide a few decades earlier.

But on the other hand At Attin was receiving messages from the Republic as recently as Order 66 and was presumably minting for that iteration of the Republic.


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I didn't watch the show week to week - it just didn't work out - so I missed most of the ongoing talk as the series was progressing. On the other hand, did manage to stay spoiler free. Finally all caught up.

I liked the show a lot. A lot. It wasn't "must see it immediately" TV for me, like Mando (esp Seasons 1 and 2) or Andor, but it was very very good, I don't know how others feel about this but I don't need every DIsney Plus SW TV offering to WOW me. Good solid entertaining fun SW content, with occasional exceptional content would leave me pretty happy. And never ever ever anything like whatever the Acolyte was. Sorry.

And yes, it was a kids show, but it wasn't just a kids show. There are things made for kids that only work for kids -- and that is more than fine. There should be. Then there are things made for kids that I can still enjoy as an adult and I'd put this series there.

A couple semi-random observations/comments-

> Jude Law was fantastic. I know he's a good actor but he fit this part perfectly. Menacing but with no sense of outright malice, if that makes sense - driven by greed, driven by desperation, driven by a sense that the universe doesn't give a damn, and saddened by that but that's the way it is. Terrific performance. I couldn't quite read his face as the pirate ship was going down...I may have to rewatch and see if I can sort that out. But A++++ for him. And I like that his ties to the Jedi ultimately weren't a red herring.
> I got the sense that the "coins" being produced at the mint were valuable in the way gold coins were/are. That is, they aren't valuable as money because they are backed by Republic "credit", they are innately valuable. It's the only way the show works, really - as others have noted, if it was "just" Republic "paper money" or some such, who would necessarily care? But as "gold coins", yeah.
> The New Republic seemed a LITTLE trigger happy didn't they? Unless, unshown, they gave the pirates a chance to surrender? It wasn't a battle so much as a rout; I never had the sense that the pirates had enough firepower to make a fight of it at all. They got massacred. Yeah, its a kids show but I have to think a lot of the pirates got killed.
> This is a stretch, but when the Supervisor said he had been watching Fern with "great interest", or implied he would be watching her going ahead, I instantly thought of Palpatine. Didn't Palpatine use almost the exact same words in regards to Anakin? Could be pure coincidence and mean nothing. But the choice of nearly the exact same wording...it definitely made me notice.
> A real nitpick. I know it. I mean, I do know it. But would "the Supervisor" have his critical systems installed right behind the front of his "eye" where he receives visitors (albeit rarely). I mean, why? He's a machine. I'd assume his "brain", if not decentralized over many locations, would be in the most impregnable shielded vault imaginable.. But yeah, I get it...
> I got the sense that Disney gave this little to no hype or publicity. I certainly didn't hear nearly as much about this as I had heard about almost any other upcoming Disney Plus SW show. Why? It's a shame, as it is one of their better offerings. That's subjective, granted, I don't know how much advertising they did but my personal perception is that this show got little support. For some weird reason.

So, overall, a fun ride, and a definite recommend. If they decided to continue with any of these characters, I'd be most interested in something following Jude Law's character (he had too many names for me to keep track of!). But a good time and a definite thumbs up.

 

The only thing I can think is that there was little faith in this show. Critics and fans seemed to really enjoy it, but from what I’ve read it sounds like viewership was low. Which might be ok as long as the budget wasn’t out if control like Acolyte’s was reported to be.

I think this worked well as a one season show. It wasn’t “must watch TV” IMO and I was actually slow to get around to seeing the finale, but my only complaints are a handful of nitpicks here and there. I thought this show was very well done for what it was.


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