Spoilers SW: Skeleton crew discussion thread

[MarkB]

Thinking about it, At Attan can't be too long-lost. They use the same model droid for their school buses as the rest of the galaxy does for their interstellar commercial shuttles. Admittedly some droid models can be pretty venerable, but still, it's a connection.

 

[Paul Farquhar]

Thinking about it, At Attan can't be too long-lost. They use the same model droid for their school buses as the rest of the galaxy does for their interstellar commercial shuttles. Admittedly some droid models can be pretty venerable, but still, it's a connection.

Well, the Republic only fell around 30 years previously, and droids seem to have a service life much longer than that. Maybe the galactic treasury planet was simply hidden for security reasons, and Palpatine simply simply buried it in bureaucracy and replaced the currency.

 

[Zardnaar]

It feels like a combination of The Goonies, Treasure Planet, Stranger Things, a few other movies, and Star Wars, and it is great so far. Also, their homeworld, At Attan, is giving off some major suspicious vibes or something being very off or strange there. Some people on the Reddit discussion think maybe it was sealed off when the High Republic collapsed, as there are so many references that make it not feel like it has only been sealed off since the rise of the Empire.

I was getting 80s vibes as well. Speeder bikes vs BMX. Mentioned goonied to wife.

Fun episode.

Lost planets are old Star Wars trope btw. Last days of legends one was cut off for 5000 Years.

 

[Ryujin]

The press release with the plot overview described their homeward as "seemingly safe". We have been speculating for a while that it's a First Order stormtrooper training world.

I would say there's too much positive Jedi propaganda for it to be First Order.

 

[Paul Farquhar]

I would say there's too much positive Jedi propaganda for it to be First Order.

Who, aside from the kids, talk about the jedi? Wim conspicuously does not mention jedi when he tries to describe what he wants to do, and no one else has a comic book or action figures like him.

 

[MarkB]

Who, aside from the kids, talk about the jedi? Wim conspicuously does not mention jedi when he tries to describe what he wants to do, and no one else has a comic book or action figures like him.

Yeah, but they're not treated as contraband, and him and Neel playing Jedi in the street is treated as silly, not subversive. And when he talks about finding a Jedi temple people know what he's referring to. It seems that the Jedi are known in this culture, and not with any significant negative connotations.

 

[Ryujin]

Yeah, but they're not treated as contraband, and him and Neel playing Jedi in the street is treated as silly, not subversive. And when he talks about finding a Jedi temple people know what he's referring to. It seems that the Jedi are known in this culture, and not with any significant negative connotations.

Yeah, I figured if anyone saw the two of them play-fighting as Jedi on the street, on a First Order world, they and their families would be hauled on for detention or 're-education.'

 

[Paul Farquhar]

Yeah, but they're not treated as contraband, and him and Neel playing Jedi in the street is treated as silly, not subversive. And when he talks about finding a Jedi temple people know what he's referring to. It seems that the Jedi are known in this culture, and not with any significant negative connotations.

I think "silly" is the key word here. Jedi seem to be considered mythical, the stuff of kid's stories, not something real. A High Republic world would have routine testing of children for jedi potential at a much younger age, and an important world, a manned jedi outpost.

 

[Zardnaar]

Lost colony is the obvious one.

 

[pukunui]

I’m just not getting “stormtrooper training world” vibes so far. I mean, that guy Fern wants to race looked old enough to be sent off to boot camp.

It seems like the kids are being trained as bankers / etc so it could be First Order related but not soldiers. This could be the First Order’s banking world. Maybe it was a lost High Republic world that the First Order has infiltrated / co-opted.

Hopefully we don’t have to wait till the last episode to find out!