{"id":329,"date":"2025-02-14T20:51:10","date_gmt":"2025-02-15T01:51:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/johntilden.net\/?p=329"},"modified":"2025-02-14T20:56:16","modified_gmt":"2025-02-15T01:56:16","slug":"star-wars-skeleton-crew-disney-2024","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/johntilden.net\/?p=329","title":{"rendered":"<i>Star Wars: Skeleton Crew<\/i> (Disney+, 2024)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-330 size-medium alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/johntilden.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/swskeletoncrew-300x169.jpeg\" alt=\"Skeleton Crew\" width=\"300\" height=\"169\" srcset=\"https:\/\/johntilden.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/swskeletoncrew-300x169.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/johntilden.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/swskeletoncrew-768x432.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/johntilden.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/swskeletoncrew.jpeg 960w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 85vw, 300px\" \/>This one took me a while to go through its eight episodes, which says something right away about it.<\/p>\n<p>Right after it premiered I heard it reduced to &#8220;Star Wars Goonies&#8221; and while that&#8217;s probably a fair tagline, the story has to fit into a wider universe and timeline that was NOT a constraint for the 1985 film. An adult will recognize the various tropes here, but I&#8217;m not sure how well a kid will get these characters as they aren&#8217;t shown with a lot of depth.<\/p>\n<p>My biggest dislike of this story, though is Jude Law&#8217;s character. SPOILER ALERT!<\/p>\n<p>.<\/p>\n<p>.<\/p>\n<p>.<\/p>\n<p>.<\/p>\n<p>He&#8217;s the VILLAIN!\u00a0 You think he might have redeeming qualities, but, nope. Those little bits of good he did with the kids were just a jerk&#8217;s feint. The show&#8217;s ending doesn&#8217;t even hint at remorse for him.\u00a0 This just felt entirely out of place for this show&#8217;s two functions as Star Wars (Villains are Villains, well, except for Darth Vader\/Anakin at the end&#8211;which we at least get to experience) and as kid&#8217;s show (Good vs. Evil ends up being clear-cut).\u00a0 I doubt anything more will happen in this corner of the SW universe, so we&#8217;ll file this under &#8220;At least I got something out of my Disney+ subscription this month&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This one took me a while to go through its eight episodes, which says something right away about it. Right after it premiered I heard it reduced to &#8220;Star Wars Goonies&#8221; and while that&#8217;s probably a fair tagline, the story has to fit into a wider universe and timeline that was NOT a constraint for &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/johntilden.net\/?p=329\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;<i>Star Wars: Skeleton Crew<\/i> (Disney+, 2024)&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[31,29],"class_list":["post-329","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-short-take","tag-star-wars","tag-tv"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/johntilden.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/329","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/johntilden.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/johntilden.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/johntilden.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/johntilden.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=329"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/johntilden.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/329\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":334,"href":"https:\/\/johntilden.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/329\/revisions\/334"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/johntilden.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=329"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/johntilden.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=329"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/johntilden.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=329"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}