Spoilers SW: Skeleton crew discussion thread

[pukunui]

Why do all the names have a single syllable? My other three names have two, and therefore would need at least three letters.

Many Star Wars names have a single syllable: Luke, Han, Vane, Din, Mace, Poe, Finn, Rey, Ben, Maul, Sheev, Lars, etc ...

I would also argue that "KB" doesn't count as a single syllable.

 

[Paul Farquhar]

Many Star Wars names have a single syllable: Luke, Han, Vane, Din, Mace, Poe, Finn, Rey, Ben, Maul, Sheev, Lars, etc ...

And many that are not. Anakin, Leia, Padme, etc.

I would also argue that "KB" doesn't count as a single syllable.

Which is why KB is still KB rather than written phonetically in the subtitles.

 

[billd91]

Why do all the names have a single syllable? My other three names have two, and therefore would need at least three letters.

We may know that 3 of 4 of the kids have single syllable names (we don't really know about KB), but 2 of the parents are Wendle and Fara. Neel's siblings are named Jobo, Jorko, and Tuloo. So, pretty sure that people on At Attin aren't limited to one syllable first names.

 

[Ruin Explorer]

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.

That latter point is what rules out it being High Republic, essentially, yeah.

There's very obviously no testing, no Jedi presence, no particular regard for Jedi, and the entire societal role the Jedi filled is sneered at openly.

It's also clearly not an openly First Order world, so if it is First Order, it's on the downlow. Which would be a little atypical for either the Empire or the First Order, but not completely unlikely.

It seems more like this may be a bit of a case of:

There's definite evidence of active isolationism. Specifically:

1) The planet has a "barrier" around it - the nature of this is as yet unclear, but what is clear is that people are forbidden from going through it in either direction.

2) Nobody knows where it is, and At Attin has become myth.

3) Little to no real education (or even apparent knowledge in adults) about the rest of the universe.

4) No apparent defense forces except droids nor apparent strategy beyond "the barrier".

It also appears to be:

A) Wealthy - everyone has huge houses and no-one we've seen shows signs of struggling.

B) Really spectacularly badly run - They can't even keep track of kids well, have bizarre policies (-50 points on an exam supposed to determine what you're good at makes no sense at all - indeed nor does a numerically scored exam to determine what you're good at), show clear evidence of nepotism/hereditary positions despite paying lip service to meritocracy, etc. (This is kind of par for the course in SW but they seem pretty incompetent by those standards).

C) Centralized.

D) Lightly populated (though weirdly species-diverse).

E) Apparently didn't notice a massive spaceship landed and sat within a few hundred meters of their apparent capital with the last few decades/centuries.

Also seems messed up to cyborg-ize a kid when they're like 10-12, but they seem to treating cyborg as a race so god knows.

 

[billd91]

I'm not saying that there won't be some nasty reveal about At Attin, its seclusion, and whatever "great project" they're working on. I'm just saying that pointing to the protagonists as having single-syllable first names is one weird-ass straw to grasp at to support any theory.

 

[Paul Farquhar]

Really spectacularly badly run - They can't even keep track of kids well, have bizarre policies (-50 points on an exam supposed to determine what you're good at makes no sense at all - indeed nor does a numerically scored exam to determine what you're good at), show clear evidence of nepotism/hereditary positions despite paying lip service to meritocracy, etc. (This is kind of par for the course in SW but they seem pretty incompetent by those standards).

If accountancy is the ONLY career on the planet, then it might actually be to determine rank within a stratified employment structure. And anyone “unreliable” automatically scores -50.

E) Apparently didn't notice a massive spaceship landed and sat within a few hundred meters of their apparent capital with the last few decades/centuries

It’s not that massive. More mid-sized. But it was presumably there before the settlement was built, and unearthed during construction work. It may have been detected, which is why the work was halted. If droids are doing everything apart from accountancy, they may have simply considered it not worth investigating. Not programmed for curiosity.

 

[MarkB]

A) Wealthy - everyone has huge houses and no-one we've seen shows signs of struggling.

We've literally seen one suburb and the homes aren't that big and luxurious for entire families.

B) Really spectacularly badly run - They can't even keep track of kids well, have bizarre policies (-50 points on an exam supposed to determine what you're good at makes no sense at all - indeed nor does a numerically scored exam to determine what you're good at), show clear evidence of nepotism/hereditary positions despite paying lip service to meritocracy, etc. (This is kind of par for the course in SW but they seem pretty incompetent by those standards).

That's a huge stretch. None of that seems particularly out of place in comparison to most real-world schools.

D) Lightly populated (though weirdly species-diverse).

That part's interesting. There are several species on the world, and they're well-integrated with no signs of prejudice or classism between them (another thing that makes the First Order connection unlikely), but they all think of themselves as natives of At Attan, and are probably just the set of species that happened to be around in sufficient numbers when the planet became isolated. Note Neel's reaction to "aliens" at the pirate port - he's as shocked by the non-At Attan species as the human kids are.

E) Apparently didn't notice a massive spaceship landed and sat within a few hundred meters of their apparent capital with the last few decades/centuries.

Not that big by Star Wars standards, and it's a pirate ship. If they knew they were heading to the mythical At Attan, planet of eternal treasure, they almost certainly snuck in.

 

[pukunui]

I’ll just reiterate that the “Great Work” is a High Republic reference, and in the same sentence in which Fara utters that term, she refers to “the Republic” (not “the New Republic”).

So I think At Attin’s society began as a High Republic society but whatever it is now is part of the mystery.

 

[Kaodi]

While Fara does give me slight "love child of Syril and Dedra" vibes I think it is more likely that causality goes the other way with regards to the First Order: people from this place are instrumental in creating the First Order after it is opened up to the galaxy. However... there is something really weird about their planet being "named after" an AT-AT.

But anyway: I too totally missed the significance of SM-33 until I saw it in writing afterwards on IMDb.

 

[Paul Farquhar]

But anyway: I too totally missed the significance of SM-33 until I saw it in writing afterwards on IMDb

Yeah, I had to see it written down to get the reference.