Star Wars: Skeleton Crew - coming Dec 2024

[Mannahnin]

Not really sure who this is aimed at, and I'm not sure the people who showran it are either.

Its vision of childhood is pure '80s nostalgia, when that's become more than a little passe (we're into '90s through '00s or even early '10s nostalgia now, for young people - c.f. TikTok etc.).

I got significant Spielberg-esque 80s kids adventure vibes from the trailer, yeah.

Of course maybe that's the answer- the target audience is families where the parents have nostalgia for that period and share Star Wars with the kids.

 

[Paul Farquhar]

That would be more ballsy than I'm reading in the trailer - quite a lot more ballsy. It would also be kind of relevant and political in a very George Lucas kind of way.

They said it was darker than would be expected. And there is quite a lot of First Order symbolism in that trailer, and it displaces the StangerThingsLand symbolism. I already mentioned the rows of identical white desks, but also notice the almost-white school uniforms, and the badge. Also, no parents to be seen.

 

[MarkB]

I got significant Spielberg-esque 80s kids adventure vibes from the trailer, yeah.

Of course maybe that's the answer- the target audience is families where the parents have nostalgia for that period and share Star Wars with the kids.

It gives me vibes of 80s movies like Explorers or Flight of the Navigator. These days that's not parent-friendly, it's grandparent-friendly.

 

[Paul Farquhar]

It gives me vibes of 80s movies like Explorers or Flight of the Navigator. These days that's not parent-friendly, it's grandparent-friendly.

Well, so is Star Wars if you get down to it.

 

[Mannahnin]

It gives me vibes of 80s movies like Explorers or Flight of the Navigator. These days that's not parent-friendly, it's grandparent-friendly.

Plenty of folks in that generation have had kids in their mid to late thirties, or early forties. I'm thinking of several friends right now. If a given parent was born in '75 they'd be 48 or 49 right now but could easily have kids in the 8-12 range.

 

[Ruin Explorer]

They said it was darker than would be expected. And there is quite a lot of First Order symbolism in that trailer, and it displaces the StangerThingsLand symbolism. I already mentioned the rows of identical white desks, but also notice the almost-white school uniforms, and the badge. Also, no parents to be seen.

Hope so but I remain skeptical given the showrunners. I guess we shall see.

 

[Belen]

Plenty of folks in that generation have had kids in their mid to late thirties, or early forties. I'm thinking of several friends right now. If a given parent was born in '75 they'd be 48 or 49 right now but could easily have kids in the 8-12 range.

‘76 and my kids are 12 and 6.

 

[Belen]

This is the first SW live action property that has interested me in years.

I doubt it will do well since the last few shows has killed the larger audience but I am more hopeful now.

 

[Rabulias]

I mean, they couldn't even work out, when they wrote Homecoming, how putting a massive arms dealer as the hero's mentor maybe conflicted with having a minor arms dealer as the main bad guy.

There was no conflict to work out. Stark was a former weapons dealer by the time he became Peter's mentor.

 

[Paul Farquhar]

Hope so but I remain skeptical given the showrunners. I guess we shall see.

I would imagine it comes from Dave Filoni and his mission to retroactively patch the sequel trilogy to suck less. So, a backdoor Finn origin story dressed up as The Goonies ...In Space. The showrunners where no doubt chosen to emphasise that latter element, and make sure it has the requisite amount of schmaltz.

Consider the uniforms. The Americana trope would be schoolkids don't have uniforms unless they attend really elitist schools (can't attest to how true to life this is, but it's certainly what the fiction shows). So, to be consistent with the rows of immaculate front lawns you would give the kids non-uniforms. So some other factor must be in play. You can just about make out the details on the "school crest" on the shot of the big-nosed kid at the garage door. There is a lot of writing (implicitly the school motto), in Aurebesh, around the outside, that is just too fuzzy for me to read.

The tailoring and colour of the uniform jacket is similar to the one Poe gives to Finn. Maybe Finn likes it because it reminds him of his old school uniform?