Speaker 1: Per Hello ladies, gentlemen, welcome back to another episode of
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Speaker 2: I am one of your.
Speaker 1: Hosts, the Secrets of Secrets Taylor Field that I'm joined by.
Speaker 3: I am the real good guy KIRKL. Pats.
Speaker 1: We are here to conclude our adventure in a galaxy
far far away with the finale Skeleton Crew Star Wars
Episode eight.
Speaker 2: We're gonna be getting into our spoilers thoughts.
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is the latest and greatest right now?
Speaker 2: In the feeds.
Speaker 1: You and Dylan just did a Daredevil Born Again trailer analysis,
you did a news episode. What else did you cover
in that?
Speaker 3: Basically just a bunch of Disney plus rumors in the
Marvel sphere different tiers, So definitely go check out that
episode if you're into that. And a bunch of trailers,
a lot of horror movie centered trailers. I think all
of them except one was a horror movie. And yeah,
if you're curious about that, go check all that episode.
And Taylor, I've been I don't know if we committed
to this, but I've been just pumping out a Wolfman
review on the feeds. So I feel like pressure is
on at some point.
Speaker 2: Maybe when do you feel like what do you feel
like you'd watch it?
Speaker 1: Because I'm thinking my son day, like Sunday early noon,
but then plans in the evening.
Speaker 4: So I could coordinate, I coordinate with something like that.
Speaker 3: I'll look into my weekend because of course I'm going
on my little ski adventure next week. But I'm definitely
would be down because I was mentioned to Dylan. We
ended the year with a Nosferatu review, and we're gonna
be starting the year with a Wolfman review just full on.
It all goes back to Underworld. Baby it the likes
in the.
Speaker 2: Vampire Absolutely, I love it.
Speaker 1: So yeah, there you go. Maybe we'll do that perfect.
What else do we got here? We finished Creature Commandos.
That's something you can check out season one. We're currently
in the process of doing Dexter Original Sin. This week
they took a break, so we'll be back next week
with the I think episode seven is where we're at,
so we're getting close to the finale of that.
Speaker 2: I think it's ten episodes, Yes it is. You got
to side quest dropping every week.
Speaker 1: You get another episode coming up this following Monday Tuesday
time period.
Speaker 2: But yeah, that aside, let's let's get into it. Unless
I missed.
Speaker 1: Anything, drop your non spoilers thoughts on episode eight.
Speaker 3: Episode eight, Yes, the the finale. This one was called
Oh yeah, the Real good Guy. That's why my name
is titled that.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 3: I think this was a pretty solid finale for for
what this show was in season one. I I don't
think this was my favorite episode. I still think.
Speaker 4: Maybe last week's episode was my favorite.
Speaker 3: If I sit down look at all the episodes, I'm
curious if I still feel that way. But yeah, no,
I I think this this closed out the book good enough,
although maybe I would have wanted a little bit more
with some certain characters minor spoiler, I guess. I still
think that Wendel, Whim's father is awful, and I I
think a lot of things were set up for him
to be a redeemed character from his first appearance earlier
on in the show, you know, just because like last
week when we see the hologram and just things that
he's been saying towards Whim. I was really looking forward
to the new Wendel, but I think I was very
disappointed with what we got from that character. So yeah, no,
I think it was pretty pretty solid.
Speaker 4: But still I.
Speaker 3: Have some questions I think going forward beyond the show
with just how it rounds out, And of course we'll
unravel at once we get to the spoiler section. But yeah,
it seems like no season two confirm yet for this.
I'm curious if they do get a season two, if
it would still be with these characters or if it
would just be like a new Skeleton Crew type adventure
with some younger audience members. Oh that tripped me out.
February First.
Speaker 2: Dramas what do you think?
Speaker 3: What do you think about this?
Speaker 2: So it's funny because.
Speaker 1: I will get more into it in either like a
Bread and Butter or after nine because I was in
I was at Disneyland for the past week and at
Galaxy's Edge, and it was fun being there leading into
this finale because I think Whim's dad specifically, no, but
it was just I wasn't sure if there would be
any Skeleton crew kind of tie ins because they've done
it in the in the past with like a soka
and a book, a buffet and all that, which I
did meet did meet Mandos.
Speaker 2: That was cool.
Speaker 1: But after that date, because it was like it was
a long day. You're there eight am to ten pm.
And then I thought, okay, I'm excited. I'm gonna watch
it like the night of. And so I got back
to hotel and everyone else was sleeping and I'm just
laying there and I put on my phone, my headphones,
and I'm watching it and just like thirty seconds in,
I was just out drooling on every Yeah, it's.
Speaker 2: Just a long day.
Speaker 1: So I got up extra early at like six six
thirty the next day and I was like, Okay, we're
gonna we're gonna watch it this time. So I watched
it then and I I was definitely engaged, and I thought,
this is it's good. It's not like the most strongest
of endings in my opinion, And maybe that's that's my
own fault, because I was partially expecting something larger, not
larger than life, but larger than this little kind of
storyline and kind of intertwining and interconnecting with the overall.
Speaker 2: Narrative of just the whole Star Wars universe. Again, that
is my own fault.
Speaker 1: That's not a fault against the show, because this show
sets up a pretty good start, middle, and ending narrative.
I think in itself, it's it's a it's a dang
good time. It's a good story.
Speaker 2: And though there's definitely some things that are not.
Speaker 1: Very refined, like Whim's dad, and for me personally, like
like Whim a little bit, I think there's definitely some
redemption in here for women near the back half of
this show. Whim's dad, I agree with you, Kirkle, and
this it was absolutely terrible. He was such a goofball
it bothered me out the wazoo.
Speaker 2: The parents really were just kind of idiots. Here.
Speaker 1: But that being said, there are some things that I like,
and hence my nickname, I'm excited to break it down
again to spoilers, there's something going on here that we'll
probably never get an answer for. But it just gave
me chills because it's set up something. It has a
connection to a character that I'm excited to kind of
explore and hopefully we get more answers to. But other
than that, like I said, a good beginning, middle, and
it's it's a fun time and you get to see
a very cool and engaging new narrative in the Star
Wars universe that isn't relying on the foundations of everything
else that has been there with like you know, the
Jedi and the Scyth and the Rebellion and ye yah, yet.
Speaker 2: Goes on and on and on.
Speaker 1: It's just hey, these small, contained events are going on
right now with this group of people, and it takes
place at the same time where you have X wings
flying around, you've got pirates flying around, and I think
that's what really makes it stand out, is its own adventure,
not relying on anything else. So I think they did
a good job and I think this is a pretty
dang okay, finish, even though I have my own biasedness
towards it, which I'm keeping separate from my kind of
overall rating to it.
Speaker 2: So yeah, that's that's all I got for non spoilers.
Is there anything else you want to add?
Speaker 4: I don't think so.
Speaker 3: We would I guess would you recommend the show now
that we're at the end of it for season one?
Probably asked that on episode one, but here we are,
at the end of all things.
Speaker 1: I would recommend it, and again, I'm happy to rewatch it.
I would love to just know more about where it
fits into the the overall storyline of things. I hope
it gets a season two. I think that's that's very important.
But at the same time, I'm okay with it not
having any kind of continuation, but.
Speaker 2: Having the characters appear in other places.
Speaker 1: There is a bit of news that I had read
a couple of weeks ago where a character from Skeleton Crew.
Speaker 2: Will appear in the Mandalorian Grogu movie. Let me just
confirm that.
Speaker 1: Yeah, okay, so Dave Filoni's Star Wars. Sorry, not not
Manduin Grogu. Dave Feloni, Well, maybe it is. I I
all I know from the news here via this tweet
from Daniel RpK. Dave Filoni's Star Wars film will reportedly
feature characters from Skeleton Crew.
Speaker 3: So I don't believe that a Star Wars movie's coming
out let alone Skeleton Crew appearances in there, but we'll see.
Speaker 1: I think if anyone was to appear, it's it probably
would be, uh maybe one of the Pirates or something
like that, like vain Vein seems to be a fav
that appears, and Mandalorian and now Skeleton Crew and all that, So.
Speaker 3: Yeah, that would make sense. Yeah, cool, Yeah, I'm ready
to go into spoilers.
Speaker 1: Then, Okay, we're gonna take our first ad break and
won't be right back and we're back and into spoiler territory.
Speaker 2: So where do you want to start?
Speaker 3: Yeah, well, I want to start with Jod because kind
of what you were mentioning right at the end there
of the spoiler free section about potential crossover, Now, what
happened at the end here with John Maybe I'm misremembering it,
but like he doesn't get like a very clear ending, right,
he just kind of walks out and sees his pirate
chip crashing, and then that's the last time that we
see him, there's no there's not even like an end
credit him picking up something looking on the fairies to
get ready for his next adventure. Like, it just ended
very unclear, And I think that's something that really really
surprised me, and I guess kind of bothered me that
we didn't get it, and he like follow up on
kind of what the next trajectory is for that character,
because I mean, it's Jude Law, Like it would be
the highest build name on the on the on the list,
like I would have expected to have a very definite
ending to that, or not necessarily definite, but just a
very clear what's happening next for this character, whether he's dead,
whether he's in prison, or whether he's just you know,
ready to kick ass on his next adventure. It just
it was weird that they it was so unanswered because
that was just such a big character throughout the whole show.
Speaker 2: Mm hmm.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I honestly could not tell you what what has
become of him. But that's where I felt like, Okay,
we're going to be getting something more here because he's
clearly not out, he's not dead, he's still kicking around,
and they're keeping that open ended I think because they
want to pull him back in at some point in
the future. I think during this episode he was He
was just sinister and evil, and I really really liked it.
You know, he's not dark Jedi, he's not Sith, he's
not any of that.
Speaker 2: He's just a pirate and we get a good dose
of his backstory here.
Speaker 1: And I have to go back and revisit what we
were talking about in previous reviews because I think I
highlighted it. I'm pretty sure I mentioned it where. Okay,
maybe his storyline is that he was an apprentice at
one point in Order sixty six happened. He was just
a lost paddle one, and that's exactly what happened, and
I think that's freaking awesome. I love that storyline because
we've seen it. But for the most part, apprentices that
were trained by their Jedi masters, the masters get killed
protecting them, and then they go off on their own
and they kind of just hide from the force or
suppress it, or they get killed, or they become an inquisitor,
or they become a.
Speaker 2: Very powerful Jedi or dark Jedi. The list goes on.
Speaker 1: But here we have in live action our first representation
of a guy that was an apprentice master got killed
and then he was just like scraping the scraps to
get by at the bottom of the barrel. And he
became a pirate lord with his crew and everything, and then.
Speaker 2: Here you go.
Speaker 1: And it's nice to know that he has a little
bit of backstory because when he is being attacked, he's
not mostly refined with his lightsaber, but he was able to.
Speaker 2: Use it to a certain degree.
Speaker 3: Uh.
Speaker 1: And then he was talking about some of the basics
of the force that he was able, that he learned
from his master and whatnot. So there's just a lot
of cool things in that in that cup, in that
bowl that I really really appreciate and enjoy. And his
character from start to finish is just someone that I
really like. And he again, like I do believe him,
like he said he didn't doesn't want to kill anyone,
but he's still going to take advantage of people.
Speaker 2: And to me, that's yeah, that's Jod.
Speaker 3: That's Jod very much a scoundrel, very much not an
honorable character. Even though he doesn't want to kill people,
he's still still a pirate at the end of the day. Yeah,
I I must say I feel like you predicted a
lot of things with this character, because last week's episode
you had predicted that how it ended with him like
pulling out his lightsaber ready to chop up the parents,
and it was just like really doubling down on like, look,
I'm basically a Jedi from the Republic. Like I'm like, like,
nothing really came of it from the start of that,
so you you hundred percent nailed it there. And yeah,
he does mention his little backstory there with his old
master that just got fucked up, and really just yeah,
I made him look bitter on the whole world because
it's just a cruel place. I think part of me
wanted a little bit more than that, but I'm I'm
okay with it it being nothing more than that. I
think I was also okay with him just being like
a for sensitive person with like no Jedi training or
anything like that, So I think it fit the character
and kind of what the scope of what the.
Speaker 4: Show was for for that origin.
Speaker 3: But yeah, no, I I definitely was a little bit
I think wanting more, just more so at the end,
just just just to know what's going to happen with
that character, because uh, yeah, it was just left so
open and weird that he just he just walked like
I thought he was gonna die or so like I
thought the ship was going to crash down and just
murder him or something. But he just walks out, looks
at it, and then that's it. So uh yeah, just
just a little bit weird that they didn't put any
effort to mention anything about that.
Speaker 1: Hmm, yeah, I agree, But I do think he's going
to pop back in at some point in the future
because he's a valuable asset to use on screen, having
a Pirate Force user guy, and he doesn't have the
lightsaber anymore, whims keeping that wims part of that.
Speaker 2: So yeah, where do you want to go from there?
Speaker 4: We meet the supervisor here.
Speaker 3: This is a long time coming. I feel like I
didn't predict that it was gonna be a robot, But
as soon as it was, I'm like, why did I
predict it was gonna be a robot? Like that just
seems like the most obvious thing to have this, Like
AI Leader, They already have all these droids throughout, so
it makes sense almost like a hive mine type setting. Yeah,
I don't know. It really didn't do much for me.
I wasn't satisfied or unsatisfied. I was just very neutral
on the whole thing, and it just gets dismantled really,
really easily. So yeah, I think it was a I
think it was a disappointing reveal, But like they also,
it's not like the whole point of the show was
to lead up to what the supervisor was gonna be,
So it just seemed like a little bit of a unconsequential,
like big twist. I have it as this robot leader,
but I don't know. It didn't do much for me.
M hm.
Speaker 2: I agree.
Speaker 1: When I found out that it was a droid, it
pulled me out a little bit. I was hoping that
it was going to be something something else.
Speaker 2: It was like a person.
Speaker 1: But that's just again my own setting myself up for
a failure at that point because I had my own
expectations and it wasn't.
Speaker 2: The whole time sick.
Speaker 1: But I what I think is interesting here is because
of what this supervisor actually knows. When I see this planet,
I think, Okay, everything that we've led to believe is
that this planet goes back to the higher public time
with him. It's with its credits, with it being a
mint and with being cut off from the galaxy for
so long, and just the way it's technology has evolved
and has become its own thing after all this time.
And then you have the Supervisor as a droid kind
of running the whole show. And then we see the
other planets that were destroyed as well. So the thing
too is the Supervisor knows that and after receiving a
message from the Republic, it knows okay that the Republic
was still there. It didn't talk about the Republic turning
into the Empire, but it talks about how it knows
that one of the last messages that received from the
Republic was the fact that the Jedi were branded as traders.
So my question here is how does this tie in
with Palpatine, hence my nickname Secrets of Secrets. Palpatine had
his secrets, had secrets that also had secrets, like this
man had plans in his plans and his plans times three,
Like the man was just the bee's knees. So where
does that at and fit into that he knew about it,
I'm sure? And at what point was that I need
to revisit this whole show so I can make these
kind of highlights. When was that at and kind of lost?
At what point did the Republic let it go? Because
I feel like a Supreme Chancellor he would have had
knowledge of where it was. And if he left at
alone like it was, then he had a plan for it.
What was that plan? Why was he keeping it like this?
There was a whole thing about him controlling the banks,
but he got control of the banks after there was
a fiasco in the Clone Wars that was all sorted out.
But here he is with a Mint and he's producing
all this coin. The people are not led to believe
anything else that the Republic is not existent, and yet
they're not told either the Jedi or brand as traders.
So I feel like there are similar traits between the
way the Supervisor acts and the way Palpatine acts, if
that makes sense. Now that's me maybe stretching it a
little bit more, and they're just I'm maybe reading too
much into it, But at its core, I'm just very
curious why Palpatine left this planet as is, what was
his objective and plan for it?
Speaker 3: And yeah, yeah, perhaps it's just that's how like the
Mints are ran, like they have all these protocols to
be so hidden and secure. So if that's the function,
maybe maybe from Sheef's perspective, he has sees no reason
to the like station stormtroopers or anything on there, like
why even defense it up or anything like that. But
also maybe he just doesn't even really think about that.
He's just his other bigger fish to Fry, focusing on
ruling the galaxy with an iron fist more so than
kind of focusing about the money aspect of it. But
I would think that it would be something that he
is aware of because like just money is such a
big part of you know, control and power and everything
like that in the galaxy, and as as we both know,
like just even like the banking clan attachment to like
plagu Us and then of course plague Us to Sheave.
So I feel like it's very much something that he
would be focusing on, And maybe that's something that I
would have be one a little bit more focused on.
But I also don't think the show needs to have
like Palpatine in here to make it you know good,
what do you got here?
Speaker 1: Well, it feels like when you look at the room,
it feels like a dark imperial room when you look
at it right, it feels very different from everything else
that we've seen on this planet, and here you have
like it just it feels dark, it feels like it's
its own thing.
Speaker 2: So yeah, I just thought highlight that.
Speaker 3: It's dark enough to have this guy ahead and oh
he's in a supervisor.
Speaker 2: He's in that room for sure.
Speaker 3: Cool. The good guys, we we get the the real
good guys show up, kind of what we were predicting,
just some of the I guess the rebellion fighters, is
that right? Or they well a new Republic, right, yeah,
the new Republic. But just when they show up and
all the awesome showcasing of the ships and everything, I
was I was getting goosebumps when they have like that
one what is it a transportership with all those like
the what is it? It's like the nine engines on
the back.
Speaker 2: O the corvettes.
Speaker 3: Oh yeah, that was I was juicing on that scene.
What about you?
Speaker 2: Yeah, that was that was pretty awesome. It was just
you get a couple of little.
Speaker 1: Snippets of the pilots in there in their cockpits, but
other than that, it's just no, it's it's it's awesome
seeing these X wings come in the sound effects and
they're just popping off these pirates on their skiffs and
just going to town. It was just very nostalgic. I
really really enjoyed it. And my favorite part was the
the Bee Wings. That's something we haven't seen. We haven't
seen them since Return of the Jedi. They're fantastic ship.
That's the one that looks like the Teas, but they
call it a b Wing for whatever reason I cannot remember. Uh,
they did something here which is a huge shout out
to Star Wars Rebels.
Speaker 2: It was really really cool.
Speaker 1: So they introduce the bee Wing, of course, originally in
Return of the Jedi as a starfighter, but it's actual
introduction into the Rebellion. You get to see that backstory
in Star Wars Rebels. There's an episode called Wings of
the Master and Phoenix Squadron goes and they find this
guy who's really good at building ships, and they find
he's building this prototype ship that's.
Speaker 2: Able to just cause a lot of damage. That's the
Bee Wing.
Speaker 1: And so the Rebellion needs to get this ship to
help them break through a blockade and it supplies to
a planet. So after muchtibulation, they get the guy to
help them and gives them the ship.
Speaker 2: And this be Wing when they use it.
Speaker 1: It you never see it do this in the movies,
but through all of its points, it concentrates its fire
and I'm gonna show you a image of it here.
It concentrates its fire and you'll remember from the episode
all into one like ray and then shoots that beam
and so you get to see it do that in
the Skeleton Crew finale.
Speaker 2: That is something that.
Speaker 1: They brought in in Rebels and is a very very
cool effect. It's just it's a super powerful attack and
makes the Bee Wings even more deadly because be Wings
are primarily a bomber ship.
Speaker 2: So the fact that it has this charge up.
Speaker 1: Beam just a very cool nod to Star Wars Rebels
and very cool just to have those ships brought back.
That's them just quality of life improvements in my opinion.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I love seeing different just styles of ships and
everything in here, and like the show alone had quite
a few different ones, and I thought all of just
the CGI around those moments, with all the ships and everything,
it looked.
Speaker 4: Really really good.
Speaker 3: Like even when the pirate, like the Giant Pirate ship
gets access to the planet and just flying in there,
you know, it's like later at night, so it's just
cutting through the fog and all the lights and then
you just have all the pirates coming out on the
little dingy boats things that they got. It was.
Speaker 2: It was epic, Yeah, it was.
Speaker 1: I I was trying to tell myself in my head, like, Okay,
what is the narrative here, because we've seen pirates before
in Mandalorian and just the New Republic's response and how
they're like, oh, well, we can't help every single planet, YadA, YadA, YadA,
and yet here we have pirates attacking this planet and
immediately the New Republic is there. They just they get
there quickly with their X wings and their B wings
to help fight off the pirates. And I know that
they the kids called out to Kim and Kim, but
hopefully I'm saying that right the owl like alien astronomer
put out that helpline to the New Republic, and the
New Republic came right away, so obviously that this character
has a very strong connection to the New Republic. But
I just think it's funny to look at it because
all they had was her word.
Speaker 2: When ad Att is.
Speaker 1: Considered a myth, and these New Republic fighters are being
told like, Okay, you need to go deal with these
pirates on a planet that doesn't exist. And it's like, well,
I don't feel like that's how the New Republic operates
because when you watch Mando season three, we were barely seen.
We didn't even get to see much help come to
a grief cargo on Navarro because I can't remember his name,
but the pilot went to go and get help and
they basically shut him down.
Speaker 3: So yeah, I laughed so hard in that moment when
KB like gets through. It was KB right, she was
the one that yeah, uh, and it's like you got
to come save us the pirates. She's like, oh yeah,
like where are you. It's like they have to find
a way to get through the barrier and like that
it's all that she said to them.
Speaker 4: It's like what the fuck? Yeah, like you highlighted. It's
one thing for them.
Speaker 3: To believe the threat of like this Atlantis type mystery
place it is even real, like like it's one thing
for them to even make the decision to go there,
but then once they go.
Speaker 4: There, like how the fuck are they supposed to get
through the barrier.
Speaker 3: It's like one of the hardest things to get through
unless you have clearance, and then she's.
Speaker 4: Just like and they just have to find a way,
and like that.
Speaker 3: Was the last thing that they said. It was just
it was so cheesy. In my eyes, It's like, Okay, well,
I guess it's not that hard to get through because
when they show up, they're just going to get there
and go through it.
Speaker 4: And that's exactly what happened.
Speaker 2: Yeah, that's exactly it.
Speaker 1: On the note of getting to the barrier, I really
did like how it was revealed where the Onyx Cinder
was really just it was a New Republic ship or sorry,
a higher Republic ship, and that's why it had clearance.
Speaker 2: It was just its own thing.
Speaker 1: So that was a cool scene when it's flying down
and the other pirate ships that were chasing it were
just getting like shot with electricity, and it was able
to sneak on down. And again I love that Jod
snuck onto that ship.
Speaker 2: That was pretty cool.
Speaker 3: Yeah, Jod, oh, Jod. What else in here? Something that
I thought was a little bit weak though, was kind
of just Jod's like takeover plan here of I think
I just found it hard to believe that when he
like threatens all the kids. I'm gonna chop up your parents.
And then they just kind of get to leave and
like go home, and like Wim goes home with Wendell.
They're getting like spied on by a robot. But like
it's just so hard for me for me to believe
that they wouldn't be able to just tell them the
truth right then and there because the robots are spine
on them. But like John isn't controlling these these robots.
It's the supervisor, so it was it just seemed like
such a weak sauce plan. Uh. And then I just
couldn't help but laugh when they're like eating dinner and
Window's like, you're so much trouble, Like you you're test
to do tomorrow.
Speaker 4: I'm pulling all these shades.
Speaker 3: He's like the exact same guy that he was at
the beginning of the show, and I was just like
fuck this guy, man, Wow, Like what a character to
have in here.
Speaker 2: But and that's after he went through some development too.
Speaker 4: The sorry I didn't trust you, Wim, I'm sorry, I'll always.
Speaker 3: Listen to you in the future.
Speaker 1: And he like is trying to get the power back
on something in the garage and he gets seals this
other kids bike to chase whim down like you.
Speaker 2: Need to turn around, wom and go home. You're gonna
take your test tomorrow.
Speaker 3: Horrible, horrible development for terrible character.
Speaker 4: Terrible yeah character.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean all the parents are pretty pretty weak.
I feel like when we were getting close to the
kids getting back to add AT and I was, I
don't know, maybe seeing some potential hope with those characters
that they would be a lot more interesting, like maybe
when we actually got to add At and they would
be doing a lot more to really make an impact,
and they didn't.
Speaker 4: Really.
Speaker 3: The parents pretty much throw out the whole show. Were
kind of useless.
Speaker 1: They were except for when they sent their little message
and it went right through pirates telling them like, hey,
this is how you get in through the barrier.
Speaker 2: Ah.
Speaker 1: That was them fucking up royally and pushing the narrative ahead.
My god, Yeah, absolutely, what else do you got? I
don't really have much more to say is it wasn't
the craziest type of family but it also wasn't the
craziest type of show. And although I didn't start super
super hot on it, I definitely enjoyed it more as
the season went on. And yeah, yeah, I mean I agree.
I enjoyed it more as the season went on. I
just it took a little bit to get there, a
little bit more developing these storylines for me and just
to kind of see John take this turn.
Speaker 2: But all in all, I think it was I think
it was a lot of fun and it was enjoyable.
I'm trying to think what else there is here?
Speaker 1: The kids kind of getting the one up here I
I did like, and I like that when he's not
like a full fully redeemed I should say yet, but
he's definitely up there for me in terms of like, Okay,
he's come around a little bit. But the first the
first four episodes was just brutal for me. Just that
character was just not the most ideal, ideally written character.
But that's not the actors's fault. It's the just the writing,
but the kids in general, like Fern. I love how
that character has really grown and turned into a leader
and just.
Speaker 2: A great role model for the rest of her her
Skeleton crew.
Speaker 1: I guess you could say, especially when she's talking to
her mom and trying to convince her mom, like, hey,
you got to pull this lever. There's bad people, but
we've been out there and we've seen good people too.
So I love that speech that she gave.
Speaker 2: She just become a really confident character.
Speaker 1: And it makes me laugh when she convinces her mom
to pull that lever, like, hey, there's good people out
there too. I just imagine the New Republic coming in
and just fucking pillaging this planet. Carpet bomb, oh yeah,
because I mean, at this point, the New Republic is
mostly run by.
Speaker 2: Nothing gets done.
Speaker 1: I see the New Republic as being so faulty and flawed,
and you have a lot of their recruits are bad guys.
And eventually when you get to Ahsoka, see this, but
the New Republic has a lot of employed former imperials
and a lot of people working like in cover and
in a Soka you learn, okay that there are people
that serve the Empire still, and so they're working Republic jobs,
doing things and hiding things kind of plain sight. But
they're actively funneling materials and supplies to the Empire.
Speaker 2: Still. It's like, well, the nad Adam is fucked.
Speaker 1: Because you're gonna have these guys that are just actively
funneling all these new or higher Republic credits to the
Empire to these bad guys.
Speaker 2: So just I feel bad for the planet, but it
is what it is.
Speaker 3: Yeah, it's what it is.
Speaker 4: Cool.
Speaker 3: I'm ready to rate the show good. You have a Yeah,
I think I'm gonna give this show. You're gonna give
it a seven point four eight. I I don't want
to give it a seven point five. I think it's
a little bit less than that, but definitely seeded my
expectations overall going into it. So yeah, it's definitely a
solid show, not one I'm really going to be itching
to rewatch, but I did have a fun time with it,
and I thought Jude Law's performance of that character was
really interesting and it did surprise me. I thought he
was really gonna be just like a hero type character,
maybe just because I see Jude Law playing more of
those those types of characters, so definitely respect them to
just keeping him being that like dirty pirate that he
was very uh yeah, just questionable morals. So yeah, no,
I did end up liking the show. I do recommend
it to people, and yeah.
Speaker 1: Well said, uh yeah, it's like I mentioned at the
beginning of this episode, I would I would recommend it
to people. I think that there's going to be a
good market for it. And there's a lot of people
that I've talked to that are older and they don't
like a lot of the newer Star Wars stuff. But
I tell like, hey, if you look for something that's
a little bit nostalgic and it's got a lot going
on for it and it's it's kind of picking up steam,
I'd say try try Skeleton Crew because that might be
exactly what you're looking for as a Star Wars fan.
So it's got my approval there. As far as my rating,
i'd probably go with seven out of ten.
Speaker 2: There's a few things that I wish were explored a
little bit more in the.
Speaker 1: Show, and I'm extremely biased when I say I wish
that had a little bit of a larger than life
kind of thing and connected to other big Star warssm's
and Star Wars plots.
Speaker 2: But that's okay.
Speaker 1: Like I said, it's a start, a middle, and an end,
and that's that's all you could ask for for when
you wanted like a really good story, and so it
does that. So yeah, I feel pretty good about that
rating and I look forward to rewatching it.
Speaker 2: I usually try and get my dad to come in
and watch some of these shows.
Speaker 1: Usually after I've watched it, I'll be like, Okay, dog,
come on over for dinner and we'll put on a show.
Speaker 2: So maybe i'll get him over. I'll pen on the
Skeleton crew.
Speaker 3: Nice.
Speaker 1: Yeah, there you have it, ladies and gentlemen. We've done
it in the galaxy far far away. We will be
back with a lot more reviews like your friend the
Neighborhood Spider Man a bunch of other stuff too, So
stay tuned and we'll see you in the search bar.
Speaker 3: May the Force be with you always.