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This feels like it's aimed at an elementary school crowd. The bulk of Star Wars feels like it's got a higher target demo.
It's aimed at that crowd and their parents...the ones who watched Goonies, ET, and Star Wars in the theater or on VHS. This is the first full series that's not a cartoon that's easy for you to watch with your kids.
 
I'm a baby of the early 80s, with a dad who loved Star Wars after seeing it in high school, so my memories of Star Wars movies, toys, and made-for-TV Ewok movies go back to my very earliest childhood. It was just always something I knew about and loved. I slept with a hard plastic toy of Rancor as a kid because it was my favorite toy in the world. I guess the modern era has skewed more PG-13 (because that's the sweet spot financially nowadays), but I still think that for me, Star Wars is like Wu Tang: it's for the children.
 
It's aimed at that crowd and their parents...the ones who watched Goonies, ET, and Star Wars in the theater or on VHS. This is the first full series that's not a cartoon that's easy for you to watch with your kids.
To clarify, I'm not saying it's a bad thing that this is aimed at youths.
 
And, despite what I just said, Andor is my favorite thing Star Wars from the new era... so like Wu Tang, I guess SW can be for the adults too. My family is going to start Skeleton Crew together soon, though... hopefully it's better than the Ewok movies and holiday special!
Andor S2 trailer is allegedly coming towards the end of Skeleton Crew's run so that's dope. If they can maintain this level for the entire series, it might not just be among the best SW properties, but maybe up there with the best sci-fi in years
 
Through six episodes and I think I’m cold on Skeleton Crew. It seems so obvious how it’s going to end, and the series faces issues with pacing I find almost every Disney show has: good start, good end, lots of meandering in the middle.
 
I'm a baby of the early 80s, with a dad who loved Star Wars after seeing it in high school, so my memories of Star Wars movies, toys, and made-for-TV Ewok movies go back to my very earliest childhood. It was just always something I knew about and loved. I slept with a hard plastic toy of Rancor as a kid because it was my favorite toy in the world. I guess the modern era has skewed more PG-13 (because that's the sweet spot financially nowadays), but I still think that for me, Star Wars is like Wu Tang: it's for the children.
I rewatched the prequels and OT a couple months back (still gotta finish the Sequel Trilogy) but was struck by 1) just how aimed at kids the prequels are and 2) just how much the OT is about adults. I think The Watch podcast zeroed in on a key differential: watching Star Wars as a kid you're swept up in the idea of adventure and stepping into a larger, grown-up world. Many of the newer Star Wars projects seem more interested in catering to memory of being a child watching Star Wars (or a child playing with Star Wars action figures) than capturing a childlike wonder.

The comparison I'd make is that they say the newspaper is written to be legible at the fifth (sixth?) grade reading level. That doesn't necessarily mean the content is purely directed towards school kids, and in fact a lot of what you'll find in those pages wouldn't be relevant to them. There's a difference between an adventure story for kids and a story about kids on an adventure.
 
i was really surprised how dark they turned Jude Laws character in that episode , in the beginning i was more expecting some hab solo-ish arc from criminal to lovable scoundrel
 
I haven’t actually been annoyed by any of the child actors and actually think they’re doing a decent job in Skeleton Crew. On the other hand compared to the child acting in Obi Wan…
 
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I think the material they have to work with is so much better and maybe that's more to do with it is a show centered around kids and not a kid being forced into a storyline. It's what made 80s adventure kid films so good.
 
Back in my day...

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This is exactly what I thought of. And I loved it. My brothers and I still might randomly say "star cruiser...CRASH" in our best Wicket voices.

Skeleton Crew is fun, definitely aimed at elementary school kids, but it doesn't talk down to them, even if it's a little more obvious than strictly necessary. It's unfair to compare it to Andor or Rogue One (the best Star Wars movie), but it certainly stands up to the other Star Wars made-for-TV fare
 
I think the material they have to work with is so much better and maybe that's more to do with it is a show centered around kids and not a kid being forced into a storyline. It's what made 80s adventure kid films so good.
Yeah the dialogue in Obi Wan is just bad. Maybe not the actress’s fault, but there’s no way that a kid would be saying those things at her age. Skeleton Crew feels more natural and written much better.
 
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