Star Wars: Skeleton Crew (Disney+)

I watched episode 5 last night while suffering through a food coma.

Really enjoyable episode, Jude Law is brilliant in it and the kids are thankfully not grating on me as child actors often do. It's a lot of fun, I wouldn't say it's a masterpiece but it's a genuinely enjoyable family show that gives me at least some hope for Star Wars.
 
Definitely a huge step forward after Acolyte. How did they get that so wrong especially given the budget sizes. Skeleton crew is far better in every department.

Acolyte just looks like money laundering at this point.
 
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I liked the idea of this episode but not a fan of the execution, some bits were decidedly dumb whereas in previous episodes it was possible to suspend disbelief.

And for no real good reason as they had plausible ways of doing it right there, a typical case really of people having "cool" ideas and unable to see they are terrible in reality.

EDIT: I wonder if a couple of them like what happened to the ship at the end were supposed to be metaphorical... :s
 
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6 was a return to being naff.
The realisation/retribution for the kids but done in such a naff way it was just a shame.
Jude's short scene was decent but getting a bit jack sparrow.
Hopefully just a blip.

Was the ship an old Republic model transformation? Looked like something from Starfox :p
 
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Still enjoying it. Is an easy watch at least and hasn't made me disappointed like a lot of the previous Star Wars stuff.
 
Yea after the first episode it has mostly been good I think.

I thought it was going to be another bad guy redemption story. But nope, he blew the furry's head off.

I'm starting to think they may have re-edited/shot some this show before release after seeing Acolyte flop. That it was originally something different to how it turned out.
 
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Bigpig said:
can’t help thinking this would have been an epic film instead of drawn out TV show with multiple directors at the helm.
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I personally think a lot of the Star Wars shows would have been better off as films.

Acoltye for example would have probably been received (a little) better if it was a 2.5 hour film rather than a long TV show where the pace was just off.
 
What a difference when the idea is not from the KK gang. Allegedly Jon Watts and Christopher Ford pitched the story to her before she agreed.
 
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its a pretty solid show I think
Jude Law is doing a great job too, was worried it was going a bit jack sparrow meets guardians ravagers but it didnt go that way thank goodness


edit : D+ = I think the movie vs tv show thing is mainly down to the episode lengths swinging wildly around from 25 - 45 mins, makes it just feel like movie scenes chopped up into a tv series, sticking with a uniform time like a tv show would stop this feeling IMHO, it worked better with mando s1 where it was more like a serialised tv show of old
 
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