Can you hear me, Major Tom? We’ve now got 31 days until the Skeleton Crew takes off. This Disney+ Star Wars original is about as far from Andor as you can get: it’s about four kids from the Ambin Planet who illegally board a ship and become lost in space. It’s the biggest “we don’t know what to expect” production from Lucasfilm in quite a while.
The crew “makes a mysterious discovery,”according to the synopsis, that soon gets them “lost in a strange and dangerous galaxy, crossing paths with the likes of the mysterious Jod Na Nawood.” With a name like that, he’s an obvious Jedi, and he saves the kids from space pirates before agreeing to help them get home. WILL they get home or will there be a Season 2 teaser instead?
As a Stranger Things nut, I’m clearly not opposed to shows with a main cast of children. I’m just wary because a lot of other shows with a main cast of children have turned out to be dumb and embarrassing. It depends on how seriously they take this. The Duffer Brothers said in a recent interview they spent way more time auditioning for the preteen characters on ST than they did anybody else. They looked through hundreds of audition tapes for one big reason: they needed kids that came off as natural, and not annoying. They wanted adults to sit down for those scenes too, and the results have proved they succeeded in that goal. It’s something the producers of Skeleton Crew are gonna have to figure out as well if they want this to work — but did they?
Star Wars: Skeleton Crew will launch December 3 with the first two episodes, followed by one new episode on a weekly basis. Will it rest among the greats or is this another Ewok TV movie in the making? In a month we find out.
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