Obviously, we mentioned J jumped back on the Disney Plus train and they have a great show coming
or out
Yeah releasing regularly
Star Wars skeleton crew
Uh, neither J or I are completely caught up, but we have had some requests for this in the last few days
Um, we've watched the first few episodes J. What are your first thoughts on skeleton crew?
Yeah, so I think it was a couple episodes back. Uh, you mentioned it was kind of like a um,
A um, oh my gosh, I'm blanking a stranger things, but in the star wars universe. Yeah, I think that's a
Like a hundred percent accurate way to describe the show. It is very stranger things feeling
Um, but just said in the star wars universe
Um, I was actually shocked for the first uh, the first three
Or so minutes like the opening the opening went pretty hard. I was like, oh my gosh like, okay
Like I was not expecting this. Um, but it's a great show. I love it. Uh, it has nothing to do so far
Nothing to do with like luke skywalker or the death star or anything like that. Um,
Uh, you're just following like a group of four kids going across the galaxy
On their little adventure. So yes, um
Yeah, I I think that getting away from that core skywalker esque world
I think is a smart move on the part of lucas film. Um,
I think structuring it in a way they're structuring it and and the reason I get I get that kind of strange
Like we get and not in the first episode really but more toward the second episode
We get that that the central mystery gets framed out
Right is that these kids are all from this planet and then when they they accidentally leave everybody's like, what are you talking about?
What planet are you that planet's not real? It's a myth right now. Like we're from there. It's not we promise, you know
No major spoilers in that that's the kind of the central framing of the show
Um
You know it's and I think it's a good frame
for the show
Is it's it's both a homecoming adventure
But also the center of their home is the mystery of what is at at and really?
Right, uh, I like that we got suburbs. I was glad I wanted star wars suburbs
You know, we get all these like exotic locales in star wars, but you've never seen suburbs
But in that first episode you like this is some straight up 80s style
Yeah, like ride your bike down the road
Do do do do
um
Everybody's falling in love with neil
Which is the little not or tola but elephant dude
Yeah
Okay, he's so he's so like well mean like you just want you want a route for neil
Yeah, he's definitely very cute. Um
Yeah, for those of you that don't know he's kind of like a little like I don't
God i'm just gonna get canceled today. He's kind of like a little like dumbo character
You know, he has like the elephant face and he's like kind of cute and adorable and and he's a kid
Like he's again like stranger things like he's battling with like
You know trying to like be courageous trying to be a good friend, but also not
He's the super nerdy one too because he's like let's do the test
We got to do good on the test so we can get a good job and we're gonna do great
You know and his best friend whim is the like
I dream of adventure
And the Jedi kind of kid right
Um, I'm gonna the test and everything. Yeah screw the test. I want to go find this Jedi temple and
Oh god, you know, um, I like that the the droid is named smee. It's sm 33 and I was like he's smee
We're we're straight up. We're disneying this up. Good job disney and he's got a peg leg
um
What are your thoughts on jude law?
Oh my gosh, so um, I mean obviously I knew that he
And then they kind kind of mislead you a little bit. I don't want to give anything away, but um
Yeah, I think it's a great fantastic character. Uh, there's definitely a lot going on there. You're definitely he's kind of the character of like
Can we trust him? Should we trust him?
No, you can't trust him. Yes, you can trust him like kind of back and forth. Um
So I don't know I I definitely liked him
Or I like him so far. I guess I should say because I think he adds that like extra kind of dynamic to the group
Um, but uh, yeah, and I think you I think you are like a huge jude law fan, right?
I am a big fan of jude law. He's he's been in a bunch of the stuff that I consider some of my
My favorite movies of all time. Uh, if you haven't watched it, one of the greatest sci-fi movies of all time is a movie called gattica
Right
It was this very indie like nobody saw it sci-fi movie from the 90s. It's him
Ethan hawk and ooma thurman
Are all in it, right and it is one of the like
Most slow burn tense
sci-fi movies and again one of the best sci-fi movies. I think has probably ever been made. It's it's in my top 10 for sure
Um, and he's great in that
I can't think of many things I've seen with jude law that I don't like
I can't think of many things I've seen with jude law that I don't think he did well in
Even those really bad harry potter like spin-off movies
Right, which went completely off the fucking rails, right? But he was good as dumbledore
Yeah, right like he was a solid dumbledore, right? Yeah
Um
Somebody who's the only actor to be involved in marvel star wars and harry potter star was harry potter
I'm trying to think of what he was in marvel
He was uh in uh miss miss marvel. He was the um
Did I miss that green guy? I can't oh he was in captain marvel. You're right
Jesus, how did I forget about that?
Oh, dude, disney's been paying him for a while
Yeah, he's a cre. He's the one that like is working with
um
Uh
Yeah, dude
Uh, somebody's saying jude law and closer. Yeah, look I said, I mean I am a
I am a big fan of jude laws again. I haven't seen him. He was really good in captain marvel
Um, yeah, he was marvel. Thank you chat. I appreciate that. I I don't know why I forgot about that movie
um
like it's
It's an amazing. It's a good movie. Um, yeah
Get paid jude, you know, um
But yeah overall I said I I haven't watched this week's episode of skeleton crew because it came out literally last night
Um, and my wife and I are still catching up. We're gonna stay on skeleton crew
um
again
Where star wars has been very
Hit and miss on disney plus
Right very hit and miss
I what everything star wars is fantastic. Yeah, um, I love watching a tv show about the worst Jedi to ever live
That's a great tv show
Um
Yeah, I I think skeleton crew's caught it knocking it out of the park. I really hope here's my here's my fear still
still
Can they stick the landing?
I I don't know it's it's going good now. Um
Who's directing this one? Uh, john watz and so that's the other thing
So john watz who did all of the spider-man home movies, right for disney
Right for for marvel and sony. So he did uh, spider-man homecoming
Far from home and no way home. He did all three of those films. He was the director and
He
He has done
He has done a pretty good job with this. I think disney decided to go showrunners has been good
I think this is probably a step in the right direction
And again, I like what you brought up right at the beginning for those that came in late
Which is this isn't it? There's no skywalkers. There's no solos. We're not see it. There's no it's not the empire versus the
The republic you see two x-wings for like 15 seconds like that's the extent of it
You know what I mean and the thing um
I don't know the thing that I loved about that is that the kids
You know, they're like, I don't know middle school kids
Open fire on the x-wing
Pew pew pew pew pew
Oh god, um, I at some point we may have to do like a theory crafting before the end of the series
To see if we we figure out how this is, you know, gonna go out again
I don't want to give away spoilers for those that haven't watched it yet. Um
There's a couple of so there's the primary mystery which I will give away which is the kids come from this world called at atten
And once they get out of this barrier
they get to the thing
And they find out that nobody else thinks that atten is real
Right, it's like a myth like it's like El Dorado
Yeah, yeah, and so they're like, what are you talking about and they they get catch they run into jude lod. He rescues them out of the prison
The secondary mystery is kind of who is jude law
Yeah, right 100
He apparently has force abilities
But he doesn't you're too much with them yet
right
um
I guess like I will say
But the kids are like
Oh, you're a jedi
You're a jedi you're a jedi and jude law goes with it
And then a little bit later. They're like we thought you said you were a jedi and he was like I never said that
And you're kind of like oh god like
Yeah, something's
sketchy
Chats like sketchy four shoes or a bunch of kids. What can go wrong?
You're not wrong like that's kind of what makes it good. You know
Um, there's a point in I think episode four
Right one of my favorite lines from him is is he's him and him and smear about to get captured
Right and he just goes down. He's just like fuck it. Just shoot me. Yeah
He's like just shoot me out of care
Um, but then he does come through like he's like
He's like hey, I fixed it
Like you kids ran off and then I got cat but I I fixed it
Right. Um
And then neil kind of gets a shining moment there
And then so does he like there's some good
Again, there's some good interplay here
Yeah, um
All he does in the future. Yeah, and again
I'm I'm really I again. I think there's a mystery about
him
I think he does have force
abilities
And age wise if you make the character the same age Jude law is in real life
And this show takes place in roughly the same time frame as the Mandalorian so about five years after returning the Jedi
Right, which means he would have been a young adult
during order 66
Yeah, okay
so
So he could have been like a trainee like a padawan
padawan he could have been a youngling
Still like at the Jedi temple waiting for like a master to come get him. Yeah
And I mean like it kind of
Ah, so that's like the really interesting mystery here because they 100 could do that
They could be like yes, like he started his training order 66 broke out
He like ran off right?
Obviously that makes sense. He never finished his training because in the series you kind of see him kind of
It does appear like he does have force abilities, but he's not like a master. No he stumbles
So it's like, okay, maybe you never finished his training
But then also like he's and I will say he's also very knowledgeable of the force like he definitely like tells the kids like
Oh a Jedi wouldn't say that blah blah blah
um
But then you could he could also be a bad guy
That's kind of just a long further ride to see if el dorado if you will is true
so
Oh, I don't know
some of the chats asking a force user slow age slower than usual so
There's like two answers to that question
Uh, there's the only you answer which is yes, but uh, and then there is the current
There is the george lucas answer, which is the force does what we need it to do
That that's literally like the answer. There isn't there isn't like a really good
like
If you haven't watched the freddy prince jr. Rant about star wars
You should watch that he actually breaks it down really well
Right and it was an interview he did after he did star wars rebels, right?
Because in case you guys didn't know freddy prince jr. He is involved in the star wars universe, right?
Um
And he breaks it down really well on how philoni day philoni
Who's george's basically george's apprentice and obviously
Dave philoni with john fava runs a lot of this now
And Dave philoni is the chief creative officer at lucasfilm
Um
He explains really well how dave explained it to him, right?
And the thing that they're clear about it is that the force is not like video games. It's like you level up in the force
Right
It's it's much more amorphous than that so
Again, it's it's it's difficult to say
If that makes sense
right thing my favorite uh, george lucas quote of all time about star wars
is that uh
There's no brawls in outer space
Yeah, he did say that he told that to carry a fisher
Yeah
Oh god
um
And then george invented medical rites, so and there's medical rites counts and so
And there's medical rite counts and so maybe jude law just has a low medical rite count
again
I I don't know and again they haven't been super clear about that again. I think that's by design
I think as the show goes on
they're going to
Kind of break that out more. I think by the end of this
I don't know if this is going to get a season two. I don't know if they intended to have a season two. I have no idea
disney tends to make these decisions kind of on the fly
these days um
So
Uh
I imagine by the end of the season
Which I think we got what three more episodes left. Let's take a look
Uh, how many more episodes?
No, I don't care about yellowstone stop guessing
Uh, two more
Two more after this
So guess what?
We'll know in a couple of weeks
There was a lot of discussion today. There's a lot of articles out like I posted two day
Uh, it says the show's creators
Say that they have plans for a second season and have plans
Um to kind of follow the kids as they grow out very much like stranger things. Yep
They they they had plans for acolyte season two. They they do this. Um
They literally just did this with agatha
Right, so if you guys didn't know when they did the agatha show
Originally, they marketed it as a limited series. This is a one season and done
Well, what they found with agatha is the viewership kept going up and up and up and up and up as they went
Right agatha was a a success as far as disney plus streaming shows
So they just submitted it for consideration to the emis
So for those that don't know
Each of the studios when they want emi nominations or oscar nominations
They submit packages to each of the award bodies and say this is how we want you to review this
They submitted it not as a limited series
Right, which is one category for the emis but as a continuous series
So it's looking like while they have it announced that they're going to do a season two even though they weren't going to originally
So if skeleton crews numbers do well
They might come back and do a season two and I
I think it's a good idea
If you've got something good stick with it
But disney can you do me a favor? Can we not wait three years between seasons?
And actually sorry this goes out to all the streamers
Of all the things I miss about network television
right
Y'all would roll a 22 episode season over the course of the fall winter and spring
Cut for spring cut for summer
And in the fall three months later, I would get another season
Three months
I want I'm tired of waiting two years between seasons of television
Right aren't you
Yeah, I am but I I'm kind of wondering if like all the writer strikes like kind of have something to do with that
um
They did but I think we're past it now
We should be passing out now. Yeah, and we'll talk about that later in the show
Because we're going to talk about you know stuff that's coming to 2025 and a lot of what's coming in 2025
What stuff that was supposed to come out 2024 but didn't because of the writers and actress strikes. So anyway
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