Star Wars: Skeleton Crew: Way, Way Out Past the Barrier
December 2, 2024 7:34 PM - Season 1, Episode 2 - Subscribe
A surprising first stop marks the beginning of an unexpected journey.
Ah, what a great joke. Their awful bland home planet is a legendary lost treasure planet! Maybe it will get blown up. I hope it gets blown up.
posted by surlyben at 11:03 PM on December 3, 2024 [2 favorites]
posted by surlyben at 11:03 PM on December 3, 2024 [2 favorites]
I hope they do a kinda PG Blue Velvet thing where the Rowdy Pirates end up in the school interacting somehow with the Stodgy Careerists.
posted by CheesesOfBrazil at 6:47 AM on December 4, 2024 [2 favorites]
posted by CheesesOfBrazil at 6:47 AM on December 4, 2024 [2 favorites]
Apparently the pirate in the background was Vane, a reoccurring pirate from Mando, and not a ... well ok down on his luck and probably getting on in years Hondo.
I was kind of excited to maybe see Hondo again, OK?
I kind of wanted to tell the kid that Jedi aren't the only ones with powers, buuuuut that's probably a bit early and not in tone for the show, to have Jude Law's character be Sith.
posted by Kyol at 8:42 AM on December 4, 2024 [2 favorites]
I was kind of excited to maybe see Hondo again, OK?
I kind of wanted to tell the kid that Jedi aren't the only ones with powers, buuuuut that's probably a bit early and not in tone for the show, to have Jude Law's character be Sith.
posted by Kyol at 8:42 AM on December 4, 2024 [2 favorites]
Vane? I thought he looked familiar, but pirates in Star Wars tend to look kind of familiar unless they really pop like ol' Hondo. I think Hondo is active in this time period if the Falcon ride at Galaxy's Edge is set in the sequel time zone like the rest of the park area (that's my understanding?) so perhaps we might still get to see him. I wanted to really not like Hondo because he was introduced as a pretty bad guy, the bad guy in the Seven Samurai homage in Clone Wars, but geez, they really rehabilitated the heck out of him from that point through Rebels and now I'm kind of fond of him.
I did enjoy the pirate space port as a cantina scene writ large versus someone trying to recreate the cantina scene, i.e., like Maz's castle in The Force Awakens. Don't get me wrong, it was fine in TFA, but I like going for something different, but just as weird, alien, and full of that not quite so safe sensation.
SM-33's step in at the last minute was a pretty fun action scene. I wonder if his little shield was intended to reference the Mandalorian hand shields or not.
A note, so Wim paid with what we learned was vintage "old republic" credits, if I remember correctly, which in my mind, indicates that At Atin (sp?) exists outside of the New Republic and possibly, outside of knowledge of the Galactic Empire, too, since they're not Imperial credits, either. Which means that the planet has been doing its own thing for at least 25 or so years if not longer and I feel like if the Empire doesn't know you're there, it's been a while since you were on the radar. HOWEVER, if we want to drill down way too deep, the creators put in a holoperformance thing from the Holiday Special, which was set after Empire, I think? But, I think that was just a fun "let's sneak this in" type of thing versus something to indicate when At Atin was last part of anything remotely galaxy wide ruling government.
All of that to say, it's a place that's been out of touch, behind its barrier, for so long, that somehow it became the place of myth and wealth. Which is fascinating. If you're curious about Wim's Jedi storybook, Star Wars Explained translated the aurebesh.
One of the lines references "beacon of light" referencing the Jedi, which immediately made me think of the High Republic, in which the Jedi built a space station called "Starlight Beacon." And it was intended to show the outer rim/mid rim that the Jedi were there to protect them from things like pirates and raiders. Acolyte, which took place maybe 100 or 150 years after Starlight Beacon was a thing, was the end of the High Republic era. It made me wonder if At Atin fell off the map and into mystery sometime in that time frame.
Of note, Wim's reference to Jedi Temples lowering into the ground came from his book, but for the greater franchise, the Jedi Temple on Lothal, in Rebels, did this as well. The temple in the book reminded me both of the Kyber Temple on Jedha and of Vader's castle. I'm not going to take much away from its appearance, though, to be honest.
I kind of wanted to tell the kid that Jedi aren't the only ones with powers, buuuuut that's probably a bit early and not in tone for the show, to have Jude Law's character be Sith.
I don't think he's a Sith, but definitely not a Jedi unless he was the padawan of what Baylan Scoll from Ahsoka called "Bokken Jedi" who were trained outside the temple. He may just be a force sensitive/user with no affiliation.
One last thought, sadly thinking back to the Book of Boba Fett and how Wim on his tassled handlebar speeder bike was more impressive than the gang in Mos Espa. I'm still not sure at all how that scene with the chase failed so badly in that show, but at least, the creators here knew if you have a speeder, you make it go fast. Or in Fern's terms, literal breakneck maneuvering fast.
posted by Atreides at 12:10 PM on December 4, 2024 [2 favorites]
I did enjoy the pirate space port as a cantina scene writ large versus someone trying to recreate the cantina scene, i.e., like Maz's castle in The Force Awakens. Don't get me wrong, it was fine in TFA, but I like going for something different, but just as weird, alien, and full of that not quite so safe sensation.
SM-33's step in at the last minute was a pretty fun action scene. I wonder if his little shield was intended to reference the Mandalorian hand shields or not.
A note, so Wim paid with what we learned was vintage "old republic" credits, if I remember correctly, which in my mind, indicates that At Atin (sp?) exists outside of the New Republic and possibly, outside of knowledge of the Galactic Empire, too, since they're not Imperial credits, either. Which means that the planet has been doing its own thing for at least 25 or so years if not longer and I feel like if the Empire doesn't know you're there, it's been a while since you were on the radar. HOWEVER, if we want to drill down way too deep, the creators put in a holoperformance thing from the Holiday Special, which was set after Empire, I think? But, I think that was just a fun "let's sneak this in" type of thing versus something to indicate when At Atin was last part of anything remotely galaxy wide ruling government.
All of that to say, it's a place that's been out of touch, behind its barrier, for so long, that somehow it became the place of myth and wealth. Which is fascinating. If you're curious about Wim's Jedi storybook, Star Wars Explained translated the aurebesh.
One of the lines references "beacon of light" referencing the Jedi, which immediately made me think of the High Republic, in which the Jedi built a space station called "Starlight Beacon." And it was intended to show the outer rim/mid rim that the Jedi were there to protect them from things like pirates and raiders. Acolyte, which took place maybe 100 or 150 years after Starlight Beacon was a thing, was the end of the High Republic era. It made me wonder if At Atin fell off the map and into mystery sometime in that time frame.
Of note, Wim's reference to Jedi Temples lowering into the ground came from his book, but for the greater franchise, the Jedi Temple on Lothal, in Rebels, did this as well. The temple in the book reminded me both of the Kyber Temple on Jedha and of Vader's castle. I'm not going to take much away from its appearance, though, to be honest.
I kind of wanted to tell the kid that Jedi aren't the only ones with powers, buuuuut that's probably a bit early and not in tone for the show, to have Jude Law's character be Sith.
I don't think he's a Sith, but definitely not a Jedi unless he was the padawan of what Baylan Scoll from Ahsoka called "Bokken Jedi" who were trained outside the temple. He may just be a force sensitive/user with no affiliation.
One last thought, sadly thinking back to the Book of Boba Fett and how Wim on his tassled handlebar speeder bike was more impressive than the gang in Mos Espa. I'm still not sure at all how that scene with the chase failed so badly in that show, but at least, the creators here knew if you have a speeder, you make it go fast. Or in Fern's terms, literal breakneck maneuvering fast.
posted by Atreides at 12:10 PM on December 4, 2024 [2 favorites]
Some easter egg hunters claim they saw Hondo’s ship docked at Borgo Prime.
posted by 1970s Antihero at 12:23 PM on December 4, 2024 [1 favorite]
posted by 1970s Antihero at 12:23 PM on December 4, 2024 [1 favorite]
And I could have sworn that Jaleel White had been some SW nerdbait character already, but I'm not seeing it on his IMDB page.
posted by Kyol at 1:10 PM on December 4, 2024 [1 favorite]
posted by Kyol at 1:10 PM on December 4, 2024 [1 favorite]
All of that to say, it's a place that's been out of touch, behind its barrier, for so long, that somehow it became the place of myth and wealth. Which is fascinating.
It seems becoming myth happens pretty quickly in the Star Wars universe. Rey is amazed Jedi were real despite there being a giant Jedi bureaucracy previously, not to mention the events of the original trilogy. Maybe space is just too big for knowledge to persist when you have your own planetary problems to worry about.
posted by mikepop at 1:24 PM on December 4, 2024 [2 favorites]
It seems becoming myth happens pretty quickly in the Star Wars universe. Rey is amazed Jedi were real despite there being a giant Jedi bureaucracy previously, not to mention the events of the original trilogy. Maybe space is just too big for knowledge to persist when you have your own planetary problems to worry about.
posted by mikepop at 1:24 PM on December 4, 2024 [2 favorites]
It seems becoming myth happens pretty quickly in the Star Wars universe. Rey is amazed Jedi were real despite there being a giant Jedi bureaucracy previously, not to mention the events of the original trilogy.
I had the recent misfortune of speaking to a man who did not believe that polio had ever existed and that was a thing that had happened widely in his local community within living memory and there was no overarching government program to seek out and discredit claims that polio had ever existed. I could see an orphan living on a backwater planet five decades after the fall of the Jedi being snookered by the Imperial / First Order propaganda machine.
posted by Parasite Unseen at 2:07 PM on December 4, 2024 [10 favorites]
I had the recent misfortune of speaking to a man who did not believe that polio had ever existed and that was a thing that had happened widely in his local community within living memory and there was no overarching government program to seek out and discredit claims that polio had ever existed. I could see an orphan living on a backwater planet five decades after the fall of the Jedi being snookered by the Imperial / First Order propaganda machine.
posted by Parasite Unseen at 2:07 PM on December 4, 2024 [10 favorites]
Yep, myths and misinformation can spring up surprisingly fast, especially when they have existing prejudices as fertilizer. The Jedi were a standoffish and largely accountable-only-to-themselves group, and I wouldn't be surprised if the Empire had de-emphasized their good deeds as well as their Force powers (easier since they had the Inquisitorius going around rounding up Force-sensitives).
Anyway, this episode was fun too, with the kids both trying to be tough (Fern jumping on the opportunity to be captain) and also seeming to think that this obvious hive of scum and villainy would have a star charts kiosk not too far from the docks. It's an interesting comparison/contrast with the kids from Star Trek: Prodigy. And SM-33 is voiced by Nick Frost! He seems to be having a ball with it. I also didn't realize that Kerry Condon, who plays Fern's mom, was also Mike Ehrmantraut's daughter in Better Call Saul and F.R.I.D.A.Y. (Tony Stark's suit AI) in the MCU.
posted by Halloween Jack at 7:58 PM on December 4, 2024 [2 favorites]
Anyway, this episode was fun too, with the kids both trying to be tough (Fern jumping on the opportunity to be captain) and also seeming to think that this obvious hive of scum and villainy would have a star charts kiosk not too far from the docks. It's an interesting comparison/contrast with the kids from Star Trek: Prodigy. And SM-33 is voiced by Nick Frost! He seems to be having a ball with it. I also didn't realize that Kerry Condon, who plays Fern's mom, was also Mike Ehrmantraut's daughter in Better Call Saul and F.R.I.D.A.Y. (Tony Stark's suit AI) in the MCU.
posted by Halloween Jack at 7:58 PM on December 4, 2024 [2 favorites]
I thought the general feel of the pirate place worked pretty well. The kids are starting to feel less awful though I couldn't tell you the name of any of them. Interesting to see the visor one lift the visor in this one. It has a really dehumanising effect with it down, in a way that say La Forge's did not, and it's the only interesting thing that sparks my interest.
One thing that annoys me about the star wars TV stuff is that the credits can be so long, even for relatively short episodes. The credits for this ep, with less than half an hour of material are longer than for ANH.
posted by biffa at 12:05 PM on December 6, 2024 [1 favorite]
One thing that annoys me about the star wars TV stuff is that the credits can be so long, even for relatively short episodes. The credits for this ep, with less than half an hour of material are longer than for ANH.
posted by biffa at 12:05 PM on December 6, 2024 [1 favorite]
I thought the general feel of the pirate place worked pretty well. The kids are starting to feel less awful though I couldn't tell you the name of any of them. Interesting to see the visor one lift the visor in this one. It has a really dehumanising effect with it down, in a way that say La Forge's did not, and it's the only interesting thing that sparks my interest.
I was thinking a lot about that comparison between Geordi's and her visor and I agree with your assessment. KB (I had to look it up) must have some kind of backstory to that visor. Here's why I think that, even if we never hear it. First, she has cybernetic implants. So far in Star Wars, cybernetics have been a mixed shot between destroying one's humanity/individuality or not. We have Lobot in ESB, who got a lot more love in the comics, where we learn he had the implants and was fine until he had to do some brain computation stuff to save Lando that allowed the robotic aspect of the implants to override his personality. There's also a rodian in Rebels who had the same implant done forcibly on him, which also overrode his character after he uploaded too much information into it. So did something happened to KB for someone to take this drastic approach of putting a cybernetic implant in a child?
Or, alternatively, is the society on At Attin the type of place where the "Supervisor" or whomever deems it necessary to implant kids every now and then to give them necessary skills for the "Great Work" ?
Second, she did have her visor flipped up in the first episode, when her and Fern were looking over the speeder bike in KB's garage. When the annoying guy and friends suddenly screech to a stop in front of the garage, she quickly flips her visor down, almost in either a defensive manner, i.e., security blanket type thing, or to try and make her appear more confident/dangerous in response to the bike riding hooligan. Either way, it seemed she wasn't comfortable simply being KB with the visor up.
posted by Atreides at 12:40 PM on December 6, 2024 [1 favorite]
I was thinking a lot about that comparison between Geordi's and her visor and I agree with your assessment. KB (I had to look it up) must have some kind of backstory to that visor. Here's why I think that, even if we never hear it. First, she has cybernetic implants. So far in Star Wars, cybernetics have been a mixed shot between destroying one's humanity/individuality or not. We have Lobot in ESB, who got a lot more love in the comics, where we learn he had the implants and was fine until he had to do some brain computation stuff to save Lando that allowed the robotic aspect of the implants to override his personality. There's also a rodian in Rebels who had the same implant done forcibly on him, which also overrode his character after he uploaded too much information into it. So did something happened to KB for someone to take this drastic approach of putting a cybernetic implant in a child?
Or, alternatively, is the society on At Attin the type of place where the "Supervisor" or whomever deems it necessary to implant kids every now and then to give them necessary skills for the "Great Work" ?
Second, she did have her visor flipped up in the first episode, when her and Fern were looking over the speeder bike in KB's garage. When the annoying guy and friends suddenly screech to a stop in front of the garage, she quickly flips her visor down, almost in either a defensive manner, i.e., security blanket type thing, or to try and make her appear more confident/dangerous in response to the bike riding hooligan. Either way, it seemed she wasn't comfortable simply being KB with the visor up.
posted by Atreides at 12:40 PM on December 6, 2024 [1 favorite]
Actually there was another point which was quite interesting, the human boy keeps trying to do stupid shit like Ezra in Rebels or the male character in ST:Prodigy but here it is less tolerated by the other kids. It's a pushback against action oriented idiocy being represented as leadership, which seems positive.
posted by biffa at 1:16 PM on December 6, 2024 [6 favorites]
posted by biffa at 1:16 PM on December 6, 2024 [6 favorites]
Did we get the Captain EO creature? Any 'flight of the navigator' alien creatures?
posted by eustatic at 5:20 PM on December 6, 2024
posted by eustatic at 5:20 PM on December 6, 2024
My son and I watched this tonight. Unlike with the first episode, my son’s attention never wavered. He’s now eagerly awaiting the next episode.
This episode was thrilling, but unlike the first episode’s unsettling suburbia, the audience was on familiar Star Warsy comedy pirate ground. Which is good, since Star Wars is fun, and this is a fun Star War.
It’s set up a number of mysteries already, what’s with At Attin, what happened to the pirates on the ship, and what’s Jude Law’s deal… I may be forgetting something. I did a quick perusal of entries on Wookieepedia, and besides a couple of minor spoilers, I learned that Borgo Prime originated in the Kevin J. Anderson Star Wars novels. It had been mentioned in a couple of source books, but this is its first canonical appearance.
Anyway, I’m looking forward to watching the third episode.
posted by Kattullus at 12:39 PM on December 8, 2024 [1 favorite]
This episode was thrilling, but unlike the first episode’s unsettling suburbia, the audience was on familiar Star Warsy comedy pirate ground. Which is good, since Star Wars is fun, and this is a fun Star War.
It’s set up a number of mysteries already, what’s with At Attin, what happened to the pirates on the ship, and what’s Jude Law’s deal… I may be forgetting something. I did a quick perusal of entries on Wookieepedia, and besides a couple of minor spoilers, I learned that Borgo Prime originated in the Kevin J. Anderson Star Wars novels. It had been mentioned in a couple of source books, but this is its first canonical appearance.
Anyway, I’m looking forward to watching the third episode.
posted by Kattullus at 12:39 PM on December 8, 2024 [1 favorite]
Did we get the Captain EO creature? Any 'flight of the navigator' alien creatures?
A handful of the EO creatures, appeared twice during this episode. They were the monkey-face flying things in cages.
I did not see any Flight of the Navigator critters, but it has been a looooong time since I watched that movie.
I was listening to the House of R's breakdown on the first two episodes and one of the reoccurring guest hosts is Ben Lindbergh. He's their go to canon/EU guy and he brought up something that really keyed into a theory of how long At Attin has been cut off from the greater galaxy. I'd been wondering if it had potentially been severed since the High Republic. Ben brought up in that episode how the High Republic novel series begins, it does so by referencing that the Republic at that time, particularly under the Chancellorship of Lina Soh, engaged in creating "Great Works." Which, if you recall from episode one, Fern's mom comes into the classroom talking about how their society is focused on a "Great Work." HRM.
He also had a thought about the "barrier" in the show being somehow related to a Nihil stormwall, which...maybe? I dunno. It would require the ship the kids find to be a Nihil Raider and while the Nihil behaved like pirates, they definitely have never been presented as being like your typical Star Wars space pirate. Their ships were notoriously thrown together and had a mishmash appearance, which this ship definitely does not. They also wouldn't have used a rank like "captain" but a Nihil specific rank. Anyways...
If At Attin was somehow cut from the galaxy during the High Republic era, that would mean a couple centuries had passed since anyone came or went from the planet. Hyperspace lanes were generally mostly laid out by this point, it's possible there the hyperspace lane for At Attin may not have been shared widely and could have been lost, making it fall out of star charts and so on. But it also would give a lot of time for the planet to enter into mythology for everyone not living there.
posted by Atreides at 7:18 AM on December 9, 2024 [1 favorite]
A handful of the EO creatures, appeared twice during this episode. They were the monkey-face flying things in cages.
I did not see any Flight of the Navigator critters, but it has been a looooong time since I watched that movie.
I was listening to the House of R's breakdown on the first two episodes and one of the reoccurring guest hosts is Ben Lindbergh. He's their go to canon/EU guy and he brought up something that really keyed into a theory of how long At Attin has been cut off from the greater galaxy. I'd been wondering if it had potentially been severed since the High Republic. Ben brought up in that episode how the High Republic novel series begins, it does so by referencing that the Republic at that time, particularly under the Chancellorship of Lina Soh, engaged in creating "Great Works." Which, if you recall from episode one, Fern's mom comes into the classroom talking about how their society is focused on a "Great Work." HRM.
He also had a thought about the "barrier" in the show being somehow related to a Nihil stormwall, which...maybe? I dunno. It would require the ship the kids find to be a Nihil Raider and while the Nihil behaved like pirates, they definitely have never been presented as being like your typical Star Wars space pirate. Their ships were notoriously thrown together and had a mishmash appearance, which this ship definitely does not. They also wouldn't have used a rank like "captain" but a Nihil specific rank. Anyways...
If At Attin was somehow cut from the galaxy during the High Republic era, that would mean a couple centuries had passed since anyone came or went from the planet. Hyperspace lanes were generally mostly laid out by this point, it's possible there the hyperspace lane for At Attin may not have been shared widely and could have been lost, making it fall out of star charts and so on. But it also would give a lot of time for the planet to enter into mythology for everyone not living there.
posted by Atreides at 7:18 AM on December 9, 2024 [1 favorite]
the audience was on familiar Star Warsy comedy pirate ground
They're doing a really good job of keeping things dangerous-yet-comprehensible to kids while making some horrors clear to any adults watching. (The madam at the brothel is very clearly worried about these two girls being trafficked but in a way that I don't think a ten-year-old would catch.) Like, there's more than a whiff of menace to this outpost; it reeks of it! The body count on this show is already in the dozens. It's not playing soft.
And that's good! We could use a few good PG-13 stories for kids these days.
One thing that annoys me about the star wars TV stuff is that the credits can be so long, even for relatively short episodes.
Two things about this: one, I think it's good that people are getting credit for the work that they did, especially since it's easy enough to skip ahead to the next episode or just go back to the home screen. And two, a lot of the expansion in credits on Disney+ is due to all the voice actors getting credit for dubbing the parts into various different languages. These shows are getting dubbed into enough languages that those credits can easily add a minute or more to things, on top of the all visual artists who should get credit.
posted by thecaddy at 6:36 AM on December 12, 2024 [3 favorites]
They're doing a really good job of keeping things dangerous-yet-comprehensible to kids while making some horrors clear to any adults watching. (The madam at the brothel is very clearly worried about these two girls being trafficked but in a way that I don't think a ten-year-old would catch.) Like, there's more than a whiff of menace to this outpost; it reeks of it! The body count on this show is already in the dozens. It's not playing soft.
And that's good! We could use a few good PG-13 stories for kids these days.
One thing that annoys me about the star wars TV stuff is that the credits can be so long, even for relatively short episodes.
Two things about this: one, I think it's good that people are getting credit for the work that they did, especially since it's easy enough to skip ahead to the next episode or just go back to the home screen. And two, a lot of the expansion in credits on Disney+ is due to all the voice actors getting credit for dubbing the parts into various different languages. These shows are getting dubbed into enough languages that those credits can easily add a minute or more to things, on top of the all visual artists who should get credit.
posted by thecaddy at 6:36 AM on December 12, 2024 [3 favorites]
Also:
I kind of wanted to tell the kid that Jedi aren't the only ones with powers, buuuuut that's probably a bit early and not in tone for the show, to have Jude Law's character be Sith.
I don't think he's a Sith, but definitely not a Jedi unless he was the padawan of what Baylan Scoll from Ahsoka called "Bokken Jedi" who were trained outside the temple. He may just be a force sensitive/user with no affiliation.
I'm pretty sure that he's the pirate captain under the mask in the cold open of the first episode*, prior to the mutiny headed up by his wolfman first mate. At least through the mask, the voices and accents sound similar. But even should that be a red herring: if Jude Law has the ability to steal the key at any time, why is he still waiting in the brig?
*Both of these episodes are really just one 90 minute introduction movie, just chopped into two at the end of the second act.
posted by thecaddy at 7:07 AM on December 12, 2024 [1 favorite]
I kind of wanted to tell the kid that Jedi aren't the only ones with powers, buuuuut that's probably a bit early and not in tone for the show, to have Jude Law's character be Sith.
I don't think he's a Sith, but definitely not a Jedi unless he was the padawan of what Baylan Scoll from Ahsoka called "Bokken Jedi" who were trained outside the temple. He may just be a force sensitive/user with no affiliation.
I'm pretty sure that he's the pirate captain under the mask in the cold open of the first episode*, prior to the mutiny headed up by his wolfman first mate. At least through the mask, the voices and accents sound similar. But even should that be a red herring: if Jude Law has the ability to steal the key at any time, why is he still waiting in the brig?
*Both of these episodes are really just one 90 minute introduction movie, just chopped into two at the end of the second act.
posted by thecaddy at 7:07 AM on December 12, 2024 [1 favorite]
I'm pretty sure that he's the pirate captain under the mask in the cold open of the first episode*, prior to the mutiny headed up by his wolfman first mate. At least through the mask, the voices and accents sound similar. But even should that be a red herring: if Jude Law has the ability to steal the key at any time, why is he still waiting in the brig?
I think if you compare how Captain Silvo talks in the opener to Jude Law, they're a match. More on this in the next episode. Also more on the key in the next episode, too!
posted by Atreides at 7:46 AM on December 12, 2024 [1 favorite]
I think if you compare how Captain Silvo talks in the opener to Jude Law, they're a match. More on this in the next episode. Also more on the key in the next episode, too!
posted by Atreides at 7:46 AM on December 12, 2024 [1 favorite]
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Here we are, the Star Wars version of Treasure Island slash Treasure Planet (granted an adaptation of the former. Captain Silver, er, Silvo, is absolutely Jude Law, who's about to join young Jim Hawkings, I mean, our Goonies squad, on a quest to get to the fabled treasure island, er, planet - which happens to be the home of the kids. To complete the pirate makeover, let's throw in a pirate droid called SM-33, or you know, SMEE. If one of those skeletons in the ship had a hook on its hand, I'd about die...but in a good way.
Clearly, Filoni and Lucasfilm have drilled into this perspective that piracy becomes an element of the New Republic not quite having the ability to project its power after the fall of the Empire, and I'm okay with that.
In the second episode, I finally started to click with the kids, and the spirit of adventure pulled me along with the dust dropping
jedi templespace ship. More thoughts later.posted by Atreides at 2:23 PM on December 3, 2024 [5 favorites]