“Skeleton Crew” is a pleasant present that takes the “Star Wars” franchise to new and exciting places. Whereas it could inform a story that skews a bit youthful, it additionally does not draw back from reminding viewers that it takes place in a darkish and harmful galaxy — one crammed with pirates.
An enormous a part of what makes “Skeleton Crew” so good is the forged. The present’s child actors usually are not solely good on their very own, however additionally they have nice chemistry, making it really feel as if they actually have recognized one another for years. Issues solely get higher when Jude Law’s Jod enters the picture, as he finds himself consistently exasperated having to cope with a bunch of loud youngsters. As a lot because the present’s central thriller concerning the planet of At Attin is intriguing, it is the enjoyment of getting to observe these youngsters go from wide-eyed pleasure to absolute terror as they journey by area that makes “Skeleton Crew” value trying out. Nearly as good as the youngsters are, nevertheless, the truth that they’re youngsters additionally poses an issue. What if the present will get a second season (or extra)? How do you cope with a forged stuffed with actors who’re quickly rising up?
Fortuitously, it appears “Skeleton Crew” co-creator Jon Watts already has an answer. Talking with Collider, Watts revealed there are already plans for what season 2 can be about and, maybe simply as importantly, how the sequence will cope with the youngsters’ ages. “By the point we’d get manufacturing going, we all know what age [the kids] can be. So, we’d be writing in the direction of that,” Watts defined. “You will be rising up with the youngsters.” He added:
“It will be one thing like [a three to four-year time jump] to make sense. We’ve not seen the youngsters shortly, so it simply relies on how tall the youngsters are. However we would not do like a ‘Stranger Issues’ factor the place we’re like ‘It is the subsequent day,’ as a result of it will not be.”
Skeleton Crew would develop with its forged
“It is constructed into it that it will be a much bigger time leap ahead as a result of it does take so lengthy to get issues shifting. This is not like it will happen the subsequent day as a result of the youngsters are going to be older,” co-creator Christopher Ford famous in the identical interview. “There are such a lot of repercussions. It is like, you type of wish to catch up later.”
If “Skeleton Crew” had been to proceed, the prospect of it leaping forward and rising with its younger actors can be somewhat thrilling. We have seen this occur earlier than in “Star Wars” animation, as each “The Clone Wars” and “Star Wars Rebels” allowed its youngest characters to develop and develop with every season. “Rebels,” was notably good at this, because the present began when its protagonist Ezra Bridger was 14 years previous and noticed him go from a wide-eyed avenue urchin to a mature chief and Jedi who makes the last word sacrifice to save lots of the day within the sequence’ finale. On the identical time, “Rebels” had Ezra make errors by some very darkish chapters alongside the way in which somewhat than having him act mature and skilled past his years.
Likewise, we might probably see a future the place the youngsters of “Skeleton Crew” get older and maybe even change into pirates themselves, rising in notoriety and affect as they evolve into full-fledged rogues and scoundrels. Having the present skip ahead in time additionally feels like a a lot better thought than by some means forcing it to tie into no matter massive occasion Lucasfilm Chief Artistic Officer Dave Filoni is planning to unite the assorted Disney+ “Star Wars” sequence he is concerned with as a producer. “Skeleton Crew” might take place in the same era of the franchise’s timeline as different Filoni-backed exhibits like “The Mandalorian” and “Ahsoka,” however it’s in any other case dramatically completely different from these sequence (which can be what makes it nice).
New episodes of “Star Wars: Skeleton Crew” drop Thursdays at 6 pm PST on Disney+.
