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Episode Date: December 4, 2024

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Star Wars is dying? Oh, geez. Well, look, I don't think Star Wars is dying, but interest in the show is low. and there was one point in time when anything was Star Wars labeled on it would have gotten the whole internet talking. So I'm going to give you my thoughts on the show, and a little later I'm going to talk to Heather Antos and Dodd's Sides to get their take. And today, I want to know what is the future of Star Wars and is this show the way forward? Quick reminder that we do have new holiday sales at our merch store and a ton of new designs that we are so proud of that we designed for you.

And you can also get tickets to our live show. We're in Chicago on Sunday, December 8th, and we have eight more shows next year where we can meet, nerd out and create a new screen crush video together and as always for up-to-date information and just to geek out with me you can join our free discord server so first let's talk about these first two episodes of skeleton crew guys it's hard for star wars to surprise me i mean the premise for this show was laid out pretty clearly in the trailers a bunch of kids get on a ship that takes off and they're stranded in space but then they added in this little twist that the planet is actually hidden from the rest of the galaxy and i find this so exciting i have no idea what this planet is or its connection to star wars pirate lore so far this

done a great job of recognizing what exactly makes Star Wars work. It has to feel familiar and yet be new. Like these kids in the show, they seem to be closely modeled after the kids from the Goonies. You have the Dreamer, the Tech Kid, the Husky Heartfelt Kid, and the Streetwise Loudmouth. And the show could have pretty much been this. You know, the kids get into trouble, etc., etc. But as soon as they get to the pirate base, the show suddenly expands. Then we finally get to see an aspect of Star Wars that has only been hinted at in the original movies, Clone Wars, and the Mandalorian. We finally They get to see that seedy space pirate underworld. Now, like I said, we've only caught glimpses of this before,

but this corner of the Star Wars galaxy has only ever really been explored in the comics and novels. What do you mean? Well, I mean, we've seen criminal syndicates in Star Wars before, the huts, the pikes, the Black Sun, etc. But in the outer rim, there are also these roving bands of pirates who are a major threat to shipping lanes. The enemy in the High Republic novels is a network of pirates called the Nihil, and they are a perfect adversary for both the Jedi and the Republic. So I would love to see pirates threaten the New Republic in the same way.

In The Mandalorian, we already saw the New Republic refused to help Navarro when it was attacked by pirates. We can't leave them defenseless. Of course not. But we have a backlog of requests from member worlds that have priority. And it seems like the New Republic's struggle to keep law and order would be a big part of this period between trilogies. So this is taking a familiar concept, pirates, and placing it in the center of a conflict in the Star Wars galaxy. And I am so excited for it. But most of all, I like that this show feels.

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you stay handsome. That's right, Doug. Now, back to what I was saying. So, like I said, there is a real sense of danger in this show. I really feel like these kids are in trouble and they're in over their heads. I mean, I know that they won't die. That's the rule. Kids don't die. But did any of you really feel like these kids were just screwed? They're lost. They have no way to find their home, and they're also kind of idiots. Well, that's not nice. No, I mean it in a good way. In other words, the kids behave like actual kids. Wham is a dreamer who screws up a lot, and they all kind of just want the same things that kids want. Some want to ditch school, some want their parents' approval. I mean, they're very relatable characters.

But most importantly, there's the mystery of their planet. Does the planet still think it's part of the Old Republic? Do they know about the clone wars or the empire? Is this going to connect to the sequel trilogy? We just don't know. And that is very exciting. Now, in a lot of ways, the show reminds me of the Acolyte. That is another show that had connections to the greater universe, but still told its story separate from anyone named Skywalker or Palpatine. And The Acolyte also managed to surprise me, what with all that Jedi child murder. Now, the Acolyte was not perfect, but it did expand the Star Wars Galaxy in some fun, interesting ways. Kind of like what this show is doing, and yet the fans don't really seem to be showing up. Like, Andor is the best thing that Star Wars Disney has made, and it took fans a long time to come on board for it.

Well, Ray, how did it their fans aren't on board for it? Well, that's a really good question, Doug. So, like, my biggest measure of fan enthusiasm is the views we get on our Easter egg videos. And I keep thinking about how the views for Book of Boba Fett were huge. And that was a really mediocre show. And I do think that people will come around to Skeleton Crew like they did for Andor, but it seems like there's no sense of urgency to watch these stories that aren't connected to the original and prequel trilogy. Which begs the question, is the scull?

By Walker family the limit to this saga. If it is, then Star Wars can't last forever. Eventually, we're going to run out of stories to tell that take place in this specific 45-year time span. Like, if they keep going back to that well, then we'll get stories like the Book of Boba Fett, which was fun, but didn't really tell a character-driven story that surprised you. Well, the two episodes about a totally different guy. That was surprising. I mean, yeah, but exactly. See, the Book of Boba Fett felt like they were throwing all the member berries against the wall just to see what would stick. And if that's what Star Wars has to do to get fan interest, well, then doesn't mean that Star Wars is basically dead. But on the other hand, think of the Mandalorian.

That first season only had very loose connections to the rest of the saga. It was fun to see the edges of the galaxy, to see the saga get a little bit of shading. Now, I think the skeleton crew will actually be more like the Mandalorian. It's going to begin with a small, personal story that is actually going to lead into a wider galactic conflict. At least, I hope it gets the chance. I mean, when Disney abruptly canceled the acolyte, it made me afraid for any story. Star Wars TV show that doesn't tie directly into the movies. Now, I want to know what you guys think,

if Star Wars needs connections to the movies, or if it can develop its own stories. And to help me answer all these questions are two of my very favorite Star Wars people in the world. We have Heather Antos, group editor and IDW Comics, and of course, a Star Wars expert, and Dodson cites, Dotson, who writes for us all the time and contributes greatly to our Star Wars content

and Easter egg videos that we make. Heather, I want to start, I just want to find out from you guys first, like, did you actually like the show? Heather, what did you think of it? First two episodes. Yeah, I thought it was super fun. It did take me a little bit to get into, I think, the 80s family movie Goonies-esque vibe of the show, because that's not something we've really seen in modern Star Wars.

It's certainly, you know, you could compare it, I guess, to the kids' adventure tone of the Ewox films, but we don't need to go there. But no, I thought it was super fun. You know, I think it's a perfect blend of the Goonies, Pirates of the Caribbean, and Star Wars, all of my favorite things. You know, I was worried about the visual language of this show leaning too hard into pirates, and we've only got a taste of it,

but it still feels very, very Star Wars and in the design. We've seen in some of the other shows straying a little too sci-fi, a little too fantasy, and, you know, it's... I kind of thought this show is going to stray a little too far into real world. I thought it was going to be like the diner. like Dex's Dyer and attack of the clones and the sports bar and stuff like that.

Yeah. What did you think of that balance? Did you think it was spacey enough? We got there. I think episode two, we got there. You know, episode one, I do appreciate the tongue-and-cheek of the school bus, the breakfast cereal,

the, you know, playing with the action figures. All of that stuff did feel very, very real worlds. But I did appreciate the nod. And again, I have to remind myself throughout all of this that, you know, I'm in my 30s. I'm not the target audience for this show, right? You know, the only, the only thing that I really have to poke at, and it's just my own storytelling grievance that I catch and just drives me crazy,

is the fact that episode one's cliffhanger was the marketing hook of the show. The marketing hook of the show is kids lost, you know, leave planet, get lost in space, can't find their way home and that's exactly how the episode ended um which almost makes me feel episode one and two were originally conceived as a single episode um i can see that right yeah so but i think it's so fun that character dynamics are hilarious um yeah uh minimis rebo is what i'm calling him but because he's not an ordalen too i said that in our eastern video and i was wrong i was wrong And I even, like, in the edit, I was like, actually, did they redesign this species because he doesn't really look like Max Rebo? I was just wrong.

I'm sorry, everybody, I was wrong. I will also note, I'm going to place this show's second place in terms of Star Wars characters eating cereal, because Cyril and his mom is still, like, that Catherine Hunter scene, is still, like, the best serial scene we've ever seen in the gallery. I forgot that is cereal. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, they are having cereal. You just have a miserable time with her. Dodd, what about you? You've been really patient so far. Before we get into the fate of Star Wars

and how it hinges entirely upon this Goonies and Space Madcap Space Adventure, what did you think of the actual first two episodes? Look, I came in with low expectations thinking, you know, hey, it's just going to be another Star Wars show kind of thing. It seems like they're kind of trying to go for a space Goonies thing. To me, honestly, that felt a little bit like, eh, at first. And then after seeing it, like, I was actually really excited, mostly because I just I love space pirates and I think that that aspect of Star Wars

one it makes the most sense that they would be like this big kind of force within the universe kind of thing and I feel like it's heavily unexplored we know that Lucas wanted to explore that in his potential sequel trilogy and so like I always felt it was like a great idea that was kind of left on the table and so seeing more of that and then just seeing the way that it was woven in. Like, I love S.M.33. Schmee, and just, like, the whole design of the character having the peg leg.

The way his, like, cords dangle down his back and, like, look like a pirate coat. The one eye. He has kind of a parrot with a mouse, a limb, yeah. Right. Everything about that. Like, to me, I love it when Star Wars, like, really does, like, this painting fantasy with sci-fi kind of thing.

And I think that this, This series has done it probably some of the best I've seen in Star Wars in a long time. Plus, you can't not help but love the deep cut with the holiday special stuff. Anytime holiday special reference comes up. Yeah, that was fun. I'm like, audibly started clapping. I was like, yes, yes. Dodd, let me ask you this before we get into all the pirate stuff.

Earlier I talked about how I think Star Wars, like Book Above Fet's a great example of, let's just take all the member berries and mash them into memberberry wine and get people drunk on it, right? You had things like Cursanthin was in there from the comics. Gee, Heather, you know, thank you for that, by the way. Heather was editor-in-chief,

or not editor-in-chief, editor-in-chief, editor of the Marvel Comic Star Wars line and oversaw the creation of the character. We had that, combined with prequel stuff and sequel stuff, and the Mandaloran. It was all just kind of thrown together along with cool spin turns and mods, and it was everything thrown up against the wall.

This show opened with a pretty direct homage to the opening of a new hope. And I don't think they're trying to say that Skeleton crew is going to be the new and new hope. I just think John Watts really wanted to do his own version

of the opening of a new hope. Which makes me think, like, is that, we're going to, I want to get to this in a second, but that's a lot of Easter eggs and callbacks that always go back to the original trilogy. Like all the evil species that we see

are always the same evil guys from Java's Palace. And you can't tell me that every single Quorum, Nektoe, and Weequay are always going to be bad guys, you know? Dodd, what did you think about that? Are we getting, like, was that too much? Like, does that distract you from the actual story?

That opening Easter egg? Yeah, I don't think so. Not in and of itself. But I think it depends on the attitude that they have going forward with it. I think there's a big distinction between, you know, as you were talking about just like the memberberry soup kind of stuff that we get, that's not good. I mean, Book of Povefet was, you know, had plenty of disappointments within it. I mean, I'm a big Cat Bain fan, and even that was disappointing for me.

Like, so, but, you know, first couple of seasons of Mandalorian, I think, did do it well. And I think one of the big key elements that I think was really working for them there is that instead of, like, looking to what they can put from the original trilogy, they look at the things that inspired Lucas when he was making the original trilogy. And when you have that kind of, like, source inspiration coming from it that's bleeding onto the work, I think that does translate well, and that's where we've seen the successes come from within the Disney Star Wars kind of situation. And so with that said, we see stuff from Pirates of the Caribbean, we see stuff from Goonies, we see stuff from a lot of different places. I'm definitely feeling a lot of different, like the inspirations are what's driving the work versus just trying to throw us member berries out there. Like, I step there and I try to pause the screen and I try to look around all over the room for, you know, small little Easter eggs that they could have put in there. Tons of things that they could have put in there, right?

It would have been really fun to sit there and try to find them, but they didn't. They were more focused on the story aspects of it, but they still did include things like making the desks look like an etch-a-sketched because they wanted to go for like a grounded feel of what it is. Right. If it's not just like the nostalgia member-berry stuff, I'm okay with it being, having those echoes of the original trilogy

because I think that that's what works best for it when it looks at the stuff that inspires it. You know, John Watts did say that they went back, and they watched a lot of the pirate serials from like the 1930s and 40s, Captain Kids, stuff like that, Flying Dutchmen. So that is to what you talked about, like in The Mandalorian and Asoka, you see a lot of samurai influenced things instead of just copying what George Lucas copied from Zemarai films. So I also think the show hit that. I do hope that the Gooney stuff is done now because if the whole thing is like, because every character like I talked about earlier already has a parallel to the Goonies, I know the Goonies. I know the Goonies really well

I know how the Goonies ends and I don't want to feel like I'm watching a Goonies remake take the template, take the format a million other movies have done that but I really hope they keep going and they explore it from there so Heather to kind of bring this home how does Star Wars

how is it supposed to hit a balance here because I do think fans are going to come home for this show I think word of mouth is going to get out I think our poor views are going to raise eventually but it does seem like, because Star Wars fandom is also so divided that if it doesn't look

and smell like the original trilogy in a certain way, it's not going to be embraced. Would you agree with that? You know, I think it's a couple different factors in there. I mean, first of all, everyone go tell your friends to watch Screen Crush's videos, so Ryan

is less sad. Yeah, so I can sleep. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. But no, I think it goes back to a conversation, you know, we had during Asoka and we had during the Acoly and we've had during Book of Boba Fett and we've had during Mandalorian and we've had during Bad Batch and we've had during and and and we've had during and and and there's so much Star Wars right now. There's so much and it is so flooded. We're not getting a chance to be excited for what's new and we're not

getting a chance to miss, miss it when it's gone. You know, I was thinking about when I first heard of Skeleton Crew in the Public Eye, right, a long time ago. It was announced a long time ago, you know, and then it was... I kept on getting it mixed up with a Rogue Squadron because I think that they came out with those announcements were at the same time. Skeleton crew was a little bit later because John Watts was still attached to do fantastic for at the time. But we've, but we've, we've known about skeleton crew coming for like close to two years before, you know, before the show actually happened. That's, and yes, I know there was writer strikes and sack strikes and all of those things in between, which, which do cost some delays. But it, but it also doesn't give us a lot of time to miss it. Um, on top of, you know, we get the trailer for skeleton crew, what, what six months ago, um, where there's an entirely separate show in between it for us to like,

forget that hype. You know, I think a lot, a lot of, um, the struggles we might be having with this one, again, aside from the fact that two, less than a week ago, they changed the release date, right? There's, there's a lot of messiness and randomness, um, happening behind the scenes. I think that are affecting how viewers are getting excited or not excited for the shows. I mean, you know, acolyte started very, very strong and unfortunately, you know, ended very poorly and then didn't get a season two renewed, you know, that leaves people on a bit of a bummer going into whatever's next. And I don't, and I, oh, I was just going to say, and I don't think Star Wars did a very good job pivoting on a marketing side as soon as acolyte, as soon as they knew that acolyte wasn't doing well and that they weren't going to, it wasn't looking good. for a green light, they should have started being, guys get pumped about this next thing and let's really hype it up. And I just don't think they did a really good job on that push. I think

if you're going to have as much saturated Star Wars stuff as you are right now, unfortunately, as we've seen, Skywalker saga seems to be what is getting people hyped. But I don't think it has to be that way. I really hope not. I mean, there's a million things about Star Wars. Like, I wasn't so much hyped, I keep saying I'm going to make a video about this, but I wasn't so much hyped about Acolyte season one. We talked about it on here. There were narrative problems with it. But I thought the premise was great for season two. What I was going to say earlier was, I just think they made a mistake when they assumed they would get a season two. Absolutely. Andor got the money and started filming season two right away. I don't think that Lucasfilm

was able to push all their chips quite on Leslie Headland just yet. But you guys are talking about too much Star Wars. For one, for me, it's never too much Star Wars and I do this for a living, right? Like, I watched every episode of the Bad Batch the day it came out, and I would have whether I covered it or not. I think maybe their balance, what I could see in the future is like a season of an animated show, a season of a live action show and a movie. I kind of look back at the acolyte and I go, I would have made a good movie. Or I look back at Obi-1 and go, I want to make a good movie, you know, and Book of Boba-Fet would have done a lot of things. We could have done a lot of things different. I do think that the lack of movies to kind of tie things

in, but then again, I'm like, I personally love watching these shows on Disney Plus, but I get it doesn't have Luke in it and any of this other stuff. It doesn't feel necessary to watch. So maybe people just are waiting at their leisure and not checking out the night of. You have that. You have, you know, I mean, seeing a Star War used to be an event. You know, it used to be such an event. And yes, the hardcore fans like you and me and dad, we're going to watch everything no matter what day and date. We're going to watch everything. three times no matter what day and take because that's just how the people we are but the majority of viewers are the casual viewers that you know when you also have wicked and moana too and gladiator two

and all of these other options right now of things things that feel must see have to watch now so you don't have to miss out i don't know if skeleton crew has been sending that same message yeah and i think to kind of build on that too like we talk about all the content that we have here and how it feels flooded with content but like who that casual fan that you're talking about is Heather like I it's kind of

a weird space to be in right now right because if you're one of those older fans that would be in more of the casual the people that would consume those kind of things like you kind of have to be where we're at with all like the knowledge to understand the Easter eggs to understand all the connections to where these these fit

in with the plot why the Jedi are now wearing yellow robes and you know going after and killing people and all of those aspects of it, right? It seems very complicated. I think it's the same problem that people talk about with Marvel, feeling that they have to do a lot of homework before they come into the series. And, you know, I think that for me, looking back at it,

you know, Brian, you were saying earlier, I hope they're kind of done with, like, the Goonies side of it. And I was thinking for a second, I was like, I think that that's actually not, I think they should do more of the Goonies-style thing. At the end of the day, like what Star Wars was originally, was a show for kids. And if there's any demographic

that they need to keep Star Wars alive to keep the momentum going with it, they need to start reaching out for more kids. So Skeleton Crew could have a lot of advantages in there and being that approachable thing.

I can imagine being a kid right now watching Skeleton Crew and being like genuinely excited and also feeling kind of... Because the kids actually talk like kids just like they did in the Duny's. Yeah. Well, you might... I think you misunderstood me. I'm not saying get away from the kid's stuff.

I'm saying don't copy the story beats of the guis. Like, don't do that. You know, in the same way, I hope there's not an alien beaming designs into one of the kids' head because that's the explorers and other 80s movies like that. I'm going to push back on a couple things you said, though. I think the acolyte was a really good entry point for people because it was before, because you didn't really have to know anything other than Jedi good, Sith, bad.

The problems with that show, I think we're just all structural. like you're going to do a murder mystery show and solve the mystery in episode one like I said I'm going to make a video about all this because I can't let it go in my head and I think this show is a perfect entry point and like you said it's great for kids to be watching it and to just learn

to love Star Wars on their own because I correct me if I'm wrong here I don't think the sequel trilogy really gave kids that option I think it was a movie meant for people who grew up with Star Wars and it was trying to distance itself from

the prequels, which were more kid-friendly, and I don't think that they ever really tried to introduce totally new characters that weren't through the lens of all the stuff that had happened before. But that's just my opinion. I raised probably the exception to that, but even then, she still becomes a character who is

beholden to the legacy of other characters. That's not what we're talking about, but... Go ahead, Heather. I was just going to say, yeah, I think the sequel trilogy started strong in trying to, you know, reframe what was familiar in a new light and brought in a lot of new fans that way,

but that, yeah, just then became too self-referential and redundant. Heather, if you're working at Lucasfilm, right? If you're somebody who can, you know, have say in this sort of thing, where's the balance between this? Because what, you know,

I do think there's maybe something to a movie that, like if Skeleton Crew was a movie and Asoka was a TV show, you know what I mean, where you're taking like something familiar and it can go on Disney Plus, but then something new. gets introduced with a little bit more fanfare.

Where do you see that balance hitting with this canon, or should they just not do things in different timelines and commit to one timeline? You know, where do you see this at? Yeah, I definitely don't mind a variety of timelines. I don't

think that's really, at this point, and Star Wars fandom, we're very, very used to it. You know, all the stories and all the varying timelines. I think they need to do a better job of making it clear. what timeline, you know, the current story is coming in, because, you know, unless I, unless you've read that opening crawl and skeleton crew, like, until they say in episode two, you know, Republic credits, where did you get those? You might be a bit confused. Not that I think it really matters up until that point, but, yeah, I think, I think just having, a clear direction that is

that is messaged it would be the start because that's that's kind of I think ever since the sequel trilogy did not land in the way that they had intended it to land it's been a lot of mixed messaging I wish that they would stop announcing projects

until we actually knew that those projects were happening I think that was definitely Bob Chaypec pushing Kathleen Kennedy to do that though I mean normally studios don't announce things that like Marvel doesn't announce things that far in advance. Hell, they had shot Wonder Man before they officially announced it, you know?

Well, yes, but Marvel has also announced a bunch of things that haven't happened. I was going to say, I feel like that's happened before. Well, okay, Blade, but I think that was, I think they've learned from that. Because, you know, they also did announce inhumans and things like that. But again, in that instance, there was corporate reasons for that. But that's what I mean. But that's, unfortunately, it's a, it's a corporation. That's behind all of this.

It's a bureaucracy. And that's, you know, until the internal, internal messaging and strategy gets, you know, better, unfortunately, that output is not going to, going to improve either. So I, you know, that's, that's what I would just like to see is, again, just, just a more clear messaging from, from Disney from Lucasfilm. I definitely, you know, I think, unfortunately, Disney has been relying a little too heavily on Star Wars to fund Disney Plus. And that's why we're getting such an onslaught of things. And I wish rather it was Disney supporting the Star Wars projects rather than the other way

around. It's, you know, and who doesn't want to talk about a space wizard fantasy and bring corporate strategy conversation into it? Let's circle back around just a little bit before we have to go. and I just want to ask you guys what you think about the overarching mystery of this show. Dodd, what are your thoughts on this? Because it turns out there is a pretty big mystery. What in the hell are these people doing on this planet?

Yeah. How long have they been there? What are they really up to? You don't have to shout out any theories, but I'm excited about that. Yeah, yeah. It feels a lot like what we saw in Jedi Survivor with Tanelor and the nebulous, you know,

hidden planet and the galaxy kind of thing. And I thought that was a fun twist then with it, and I think that this is even a more unique version of that, right? You know, when I, one of the reasons I came in with such a low expectations is because it looked like almost like, you know, you asked an AI bot to like do a sci-fi version of Goonies and like that's what we got kind of thing. But with the ship leaves and then we find out that like, oh, they just left the treasure planet, that's different. That's new. And then I was like, oh, cool. Now we could look at all these characters here because this is actually going to be a fun, interesting story that breaks this dynamic before. So to me, the twist was really the hook that ended up, like, turning me from just being like, oh, you know, this is another thing that, again, I haven't been, you know, hyped up for as much.

And then now I'm like, okay, I want to see where this goes now. They're actually taking, like, a different direction with this stuff. Heather, what about you? Yeah, I agree. When I realize, like, oh, this is like reverse treasure planet, you know, the Adeline is, like, El Dorado of sorts, you know. I thought it's really cool and really, really, really. really fun. Um, I am a little bit, uh, hesitant on, you know, I, I'm, I want, I'm very excited to

find out like why they're hidden and on all of these things. I, I hope it's not like a tieback again, like a high republic reason this planet had to stay hidden because I think that is a pattern. It was cool in Jedi Survivor, but I think like now it's becoming, they're relying a little bit too heavily on the high republic. So I just hope this is something different and new. Um, but I'm, I'm, I'm really curious now to know, like, what is their government system? Do they know, you know, that the galactic war has ended? Did they even know the galactic core existed? Like, you know, like, um, it's really interesting.

But it is for public credits. So they were, actual humans, right, right. Yeah. Well, I don't know if you heard this. So when I was watching it the second time, when the teacher is teaching the stuff, she talks about how people do currencies outside of the barrier. And then she says that. But it's different here inside the barrier because we have multiple currencies.

I was like, oh, ha-ha. So when they talk about being of a glorious treasure, it looks like it's from other places, too. So it's kind of maybe like a one-piece situation where it's all been put in one place. Are they like a weird Canary Island vaults? Is that what it is? Is this like where? Maybe. I mean, they talk about the Republic credits, but not like new Republic credits, right?

And so that makes me think that like, yeah, it could be something that was like kind of stored away and like a vault of some sorts. And like that just, just that end of itself, I feel like was a solid twist on like the expected story that we had. So I loved it. Well, like I said, I'm looking forward to just having a mystery to solve that's genuinely, hopefully it's set up and it's paced a little bit better than Ackleite. And I'm excited about this show. And I think Star Wars fans are going to be excited about this show too. And you guys outlined a lot of reasons why I think Star Wars fans have a hard time being excited, the most one, biggest one being over exposure. But if projects are great, no one really cares about being overexposed.

Like if everything was Mandalorian season one and two, we wouldn't be talking about, oh, is there too much? So hopefully this is great. It sticks the landing. It's like Andor. It brings people back in. Not just for the channel, but man, I'm a Star Wars fan. I love getting hyped about this stuff. We do have to cut it off there.

Dodson sites, Heather Antosh, your social links are below. Guys, always a pleasure talking to you. And I want to hear what you guys have to say about all this. Let me know what you think of Skeleton Crew 1 and 2 down in the comments. and let me know, do you think Star Wars is dying on the Vine? Or is there hope for this franchise? Let us know your thoughts on our Twitter, our free to join Discord, and all that different stuff that we always talk about in the videos. And if it's your first time here, please subscribe and smash that bell for alerts. For Screen Crush, I'm Ryan Erie.

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