The Reel Rejects - STAR WARS: SKELETON CREW Episode 3 Breakdown & Review

Episode Date: December 11, 2024

THE PIRATE VIBES INTENSIFY!! Star Wars: The Skeleton Crew Full Series Reaction Watch Along:  https://www.patreon.com/thereelrejects Follow Us On Socials:  Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/reelr...ejects/  Tik-Tok: https://www.tiktok.com/@thereelrejects?lang=en Twitter: https://x.com/thereelrejects Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/TheReelRejects/ With Episodes 1 and 2 down, Michael Tessler & John Humphrey REUNITE for their inaugural series together, giving their FIRST TIME Reaction, Commentary, Analysis, Easter Eggs, Breakdown, & Full Spoiler Review for Episode 3 the new Disney+ series from Showrunners Christopher Ford & John Watts (Spider-Man: Homecoming / Far From Home / No way Home, Clown, Cop Car). Centered around 4 kids on a remote planet, The Skeleton Crew introduces us to a new corner of the Galaxy Far, Far Away with a healthy dose of Amblin Entertainment-style Coming-of-Age themes & aesthetics. The Skeleton Crew features Ravi Cabot-Conyers, Ryan Kiera Armstrong,  Robert Timothy Smith, & Kyriana Kratter as our surrogate Goonies along with appearances from Jude Law (The Talented Mr. Ripley, Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow), Kerry Condon (Captain America: Civil War, The Banshees of Inisherin), Nick Frost (Shaun of the Dead, Hot Fuzz, Attack the Block), Tunde Adebimpe (Twisters, TV on the Radio), & MORE! With its Stand By Me, Stranger Things, & Pirates of the Caribbean vibes, can the Skeleton Crew bring a much-needed shot of good will & heart to the Star Wars universe?? #TheSkeletonCrew #StarWars #FirstTimeWatching #StarWarsSkeletonCrew #StarWarsTheSkeletonCrew #SkeletonCrewStarWars #JudeLaw #Jedi #TheForce #Pirates #MovieReaction #SeriesReaction #Disney #Lucasfilm #DisneyPlus  Follow Michael Tesslerr:https://www.instagram.com/mjtessler/ Support The Channel By Getting Some REEL REJECTS Apparel! https://www.rejectnationshop.com/ Music Used In Manscaped Ad:  Hat the Jazz by Twin Musicom is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 license. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ POWERED BY @GFUEL Visit https://gfuel.ly/3wD5Ygo and use code REJECTNATION for 20% off select tubs!! Head Editor: https://www.instagram.com/praperhq/?hl=en Co-Editor: Greg Alba Co-Editor: John Humphrey Music In Video: Airport Lounge - Disco Ultralounge by Kevin MacLeod is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 license. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ Ask Us A QUESTION On CAMEO: https://www.cameo.com/thereelrejects Follow TheReelRejects On FACEBOOK, TWITTER, & INSTAGRAM:  FB:  https://www.facebook.com/TheReelRejects/ INSTAGRAM:  https://www.instagram.com/reelrejects/ TWITTER:  https://twitter.com/thereelrejects Follow GREG ON INSTAGRAM & TWITTER: INSTAGRAM:  https://www.instagram.com/thegregalba/ TWITTER:  https://twitter.com/thegregalba Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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Starting point is 00:01:40 you know, you get those first two episodes and the second episode, certainly compact. It's very much sort of when you look at it without the credits, it is like under 30 minutes. It's like 20 something on minutes. Yeah. So, yeah, to hop
Starting point is 00:01:56 to, you know, this piece after a week is like, oh, cool. I'm excited to have this anticipation cycle now you know it's you you take for granted the anticipation cycle uh of just like the magic of waiting a week and it's also i appreciate that it's not trying to bite off more than it can chew in an episode exactly like that new one to end i feel like oftentimes with these shows there is there's a spectrum of push pull where i feel like yeah either they're trying to get too far way too much too fast force force push force pull yeah uh which they're either trying to breeze through something way too fast or they're trying to like stretch
Starting point is 00:02:34 things out over way too many episodes and this feels kind of just right at the moment. Yeah, it definitely, it does have this sort of a perfect balance of it doesn't take itself too seriously, but it takes itself just seriously enough for me to buy into it. And I like, I've just been having fun. Yeah. And I appreciate like, they don't, beat around the bush and answering some questions. But they also leave enough mystery to where, like, every answer creates new, even more exciting questions than the one before. Yeah.
Starting point is 00:03:10 Like, I'm so excited at what they've laid down on the table and how they've done it. Like, because I'm not going to lie. I don't know why I had it in my mind that this show was going to be, uh, have you ever seen the, the spinoff movies, the Ewak ones? no where the kids end up crashed on endor no so they're like one of those uh you can you can look for them on on disney plus they exist i will um you should react i'm adding them to my cue and you know it's i was like oh it's gonna be a bunch of kids crash land at a planet with jude law somehow and everything i thought this might be it has it is not sure and it is subverted and it is subverted
Starting point is 00:04:00 all the expectations in a really refreshing and wonderful way. And I like that while it's not like, at least yet anyway, like it hasn't had any major implications on the galaxy at large or like the current narrative that they're building out, I love that it has this like, for the lore hoars, there is a additional voices Sam Whitwer again. Oh, my man. Darth Mall. Gabala.
Starting point is 00:04:33 Yeah? Yeah. So. Star Killer? Hey. Chief. McLeod. Anyway.
Starting point is 00:04:43 We can keep going. No, but there's this like really interesting, like, I imagine, I'm using the force to imagine what the comments are going to say. And I think everyone's going to be really intrigued by this idea of a planet. of the old republic era that has been in essence kept hidden
Starting point is 00:05:04 from the galaxy at large and it's cool because like for those that played like Jedi Survivor for instance like
Starting point is 00:05:13 uh uh uh Tanelor Tanelor I'm gonna stick with that and I'm so sorry if I got it wrong sorry I'm so dying
Starting point is 00:05:23 you definitely got it right I was fact checking you in my head where I know that information. I think it's, I think it's Tanelord, because I'm getting Mount Tantis, Tantis confused. Drink your Tannis route.
Starting point is 00:05:35 You know, and then there's also like Zeb's planet. So there's like other hidden planets. You really want that Zeb. There's a lot of hidden planets in Star Wars, but what I really like about this is that it's implying something
Starting point is 00:05:50 even older, like beyond the High Republic, like even further back to the old old republic. And like, Based on everything that we've heard, I wonder if this show, weirdly enough, without intention, is, like, connected to the old Republic game series, because there were some planet killer type super weapons of a death star type variety that existed that would explain how some planets that used to exist no longer exist, terrorists being one of them. You're familiar, of course. Sure. So, you know, I'm like, I think it's really cool that they have this like really fun borderline silly show that does not have direct implications at the moment on the Skywalker saga, which has been such a relief to like not need to think about that for a minute.
Starting point is 00:06:39 And coincidentally, they may have just given us the most that we've ever been given about a chapter of Star Wars history that I think a lot of Star Wars fans have been really hungry for. So I don't know how they've done it. But great Scott, Maury, they've done it again. Hey, that's that makes me happy. Yeah. For somebody as, you know, well read and invested as you are, I know that there's like things I don't even understand to perceive. But, uh, we'll sit in the ritual of the soul. We'll sit, yeah, I don't know, like this, it does have, we were talking actually earlier about the idea that, you know, if something is, is hewn the right.
Starting point is 00:07:21 way it should make you if there's some kind of other text or material that it comes from or is related to it should make you want to go check that stuff out and like this is the type of thing where if I hear like oh this is related to this game or to this book or to this other story it makes the the goodwill that this is bringing me is making me interested in more of that stuff the more that you expound the more I'm like what is that and and and and you're real quick real quick I don't know if it's a
Starting point is 00:07:50 tolerated ask just give me a quick rundown of all the eras you know oh sure sure sure sure sure sure sure so there's the pre-republic era like the creation of the Jedi eventually the old shit yeah the like ancient
Starting point is 00:08:05 ancient ancient which they haven't really canonically explored a lot and then there's the old republic which is sort of the the galaxy had ebbed and flow there was lots of civil wars there was a SIF empire there was the old republic
Starting point is 00:08:21 There was the Mandalorian Wars with ancient Mandelor, which was, you know, all these like epic tribes. There was Darth Revin, who is, I think, one of my favorite characters of all time. Okay. And the old Republic was like vast and interesting. And then as time went on, the Republic entered after it's like big civil war with the SIF Empire. The Sif disappeared. There was a thousand years apiece. And the High Republic era, which is like when the acolyte takes place.
Starting point is 00:08:55 Yes. Okay. The High Republic is sort of an interesting, like they, they wanted to capture the essence and the magic of like the knights of the round table and sort of this like the Jedi have assumed no longer just like their role as like these warrior monks, but now have become like an institution in of themselves, like instrumental in all aspects of politics. So you've got Jedi's... Yeah, okay. And they're Jedi. They're everywhere. There's hundreds of Jedi temples, if not thousands, scattered throughout the galaxies,
Starting point is 00:09:30 their outposts. They're just involved in all areas of life. There might be a Jedi among any given order of other interests. It wouldn't be unlikely for there to be, like, a pairing of Jedi on any planet at any given time. And then, like, full-on Jedi temples. And, you know, at the time, there's like, yes, there are enemies. Yes, they're fighting. but, like, largely speaking, there's no major threat to the galaxy at large other than, like, smaller quarrels and pirates and things that, you know, uh, pop up in a, in a bigger way. And the High Republic era ends. So Yoda's actually alive for this chapter of the High Republic. The High Republic comes to its grand conclusion as the Jedi become so jaded and the institution of the Jedi.
Starting point is 00:10:19 order begins to overshadow the values of the Jedi's themselves and all of that kind of culminates with the Jedi number slowly dwindling and ultimately like the last like big amount of Jedi die at the Battle of Geonosis yes and the Clone Wars is really the ultimate folly of the Jedi gotcha and so that that's the old orders After that, empire. Then we enter the empire. Then there's the war of the rebellion. The rebellion destroys the empire.
Starting point is 00:10:57 The new republic is established. It's not nearly as strong. No, it's been great. As the old republic. It's been great. And the Jedi never really come back in a major way. Nights of the new republic. Am I right?
Starting point is 00:11:08 No, there's not many knights. And all things get slaughtered by baby Kylo. And Luke gets sad. So he goes on a mountain island. He drinks the blue milk. teat of a disgusting creature. Guards the sacred Jedi tax. Yeah, guards the sacred Jedi tech,
Starting point is 00:11:25 which is just funny. And every day he throws that light saber. It's actually part of his exercise ritual. It's a Sisyphian task, he says, for himself. And I get that. And so then, basically, in the shadows, Palpatine somehow returns because he kept his essence alive, and then his essence was cloned.
Starting point is 00:11:41 And then they tried to make a clone, but they couldn't get it right. So he needed to put his essence into race. So anyway, he creates a force creature. snoke who then creates what's called the first order which in my head canon was palpatine's first order order 66 801 was this backup plan just in case he goes trains kailo ren creates the first order the first order then turns illam the place where all the jedai crystals come from like a really important old jedi temple place turns it into uh star killer base uses that to then blow up not just one planet but an entire system
Starting point is 00:12:18 which happens to be Hosnian Prime, which had become basically in the New Republic, they wanted to try to make it more fair. So instead of having the capital just on Corrassan, they actually move the capital around the galaxy. So Hosnian Prime, boom, blammo, gone in one foul stroke. The New Republic does no longer exist. Meanwhile, Leah, who was kind of on the outs with the New Republic,
Starting point is 00:12:39 because she's like, guys, I don't feel good about this whole first order thing. We should really, like, be militant, an arm creates the resistance. The resistance then fights the, the first order. The first order ultimately wins. And then there's like this period of luck, oh no, we're out of hope. And then there's the...
Starting point is 00:12:56 Mickey was there. Oh boy. We're out of hope. I hope I don't want Luke to appear in the first movie. Oh, no. And ultimately, with the power of friendship
Starting point is 00:13:09 and the force and a couple kids with the ability to grab brooms, they are able to defeat the first order. Snoke is killed. and then they destroy Palpatine with the power
Starting point is 00:13:20 of all the Jedi and then after that we don't know Ray starts a new Jedi order and that's where we're at did that do it I'm gonna revisit this
Starting point is 00:13:29 every time we sit down yeah I'm gonna revisit this as my as my guide but that is good to know okay so okay so what was the old republic okay this will all be on the quiz
Starting point is 00:13:41 no no no because because yeah getting my timeline set in terms of this show. And I mean, it is nice. Like, I don't know. So this takes place. Where does this take place, John?
Starting point is 00:13:54 This takes place after the original trilogy, but before-ish the sequel trilogy. Nailed it. Yeah. This is like where the Mandalorian is. Yeah. Okay. And so, yes, it is not the higher, the High Republic is earlier than this. Yeah.
Starting point is 00:14:09 And this apparently predates the High Republic, which is cool because we have never, this does. Really? Yes. Oh, no, no, no, no, no, no, at Aten. Gotcha. And the story that they're talking about. I think that's maybe where I got confused. Maybe I read something to that tune instead.
Starting point is 00:14:26 Well, I think there's a, there was like an interesting assumption that this very well could be in the trailers and some of the other pieces that were seen. Like, until I saw an X-wing, I was like, oh, okay. And then I saw like the new Republic symbol on it. And I was like, oh, oh, okay. They're not going to village us. Yeah. But then I saw those credits. And I was like, that's weird.
Starting point is 00:14:45 Let's don't, it doesn't look like. Anyway, speaking of credits, there's an Oliya Shokhack credit, which, did she play The Owl? Did she play? She's a hoot. Hey, hey, hey, hey. Well, you know, I mean, every time anybody shows up on a Star War, I assume it's a celebrity cameo, like every voice chatter on radio or whatever it might be. Did we react together when Jack Black and Lizzo were in Mandalorian? Oh, I was on that one, baby.
Starting point is 00:15:11 I'm on Mandalorian. I mean, I hope I get to continue with the movie. Did I have COVID during that and had like crazy brain fog because there's no way that was real? No, it was real. It's on this timeline. I don't know. Maybe you got pushed onto ours. So for this episode.
Starting point is 00:15:30 Yes. Because we didn't really react to it. We didn't really discuss this episode yet. But we're getting this is good. This is a good Star Wars discussion. Do you think people will listen to our Star Wars discussion? I hope so. I don't know.
Starting point is 00:15:41 Leave a comment down below if you start a Star Wars podcast after this. I like this episode a lot, though. I thought this was really strong and like, you know, the first two, I don't know, the first episode of anything has to set the chessboard up and it has to, you know, establish a bunch of things and it's all fresh to you. This, I thought, was really nice in the way that it, like, centered Jude Law as, it was really his episode because, you know, he makes that entrance. You, you know, get endeared to the kids in their situation to begin with. And now it's everybody, we're learning about him through everyone else's account of him. a bit of his personal charm and how he behaves. And I like his roguishness.
Starting point is 00:16:19 There's a little bit of Dumbledore, but there's also some, you know, suave, mischievous pirate energy. And, you know, he's talking about the big score. You can imagine that this might take a trajectory of him. Yeah, initially setting out to, you know, rob the planet and then eventually getting endeared to the kids and turning around and doing the right thing
Starting point is 00:16:40 and really tapping into the force and stuff. And he keeps saying that he's, Is there a difference? I mean, not all forced users are Jedi, correct? So, like, is there a chance that he's maybe not a Jedi specifically? I think there's the, well, yeah, you could be force sensitive without being a Jedi. I think based on his age, it makes sense that if he was involved with the Jedi, that he was very young when things hit the fan. Which I think creates sort of an interesting, like, I'm like you, I'm alone.
Starting point is 00:17:13 if you're a youngling or like a young Padawan who's been separated and had that whole that is a location torn apart yeah and and it's interesting because like the premise of like Jedi survivor the the video game is is very much about like a young Jedi who survives and is very alone um and it's a really sort of interesting place to be of you know clearly he became the pirate and they figured I had to survive and if he is like of a Jedi background the idea of a planet that is not only like full of riches that can fulfill your pirate desires but it's also hidden from everything sounds pretty appealing to somebody whom has probably been on the run for their entire life yeah and now it's not going to be so hidden anymore because people will be
Starting point is 00:18:07 looking it up yeah and so you know I wonder there's there's some curious intention and also he's the Jedi to a large extent at this point in history are like borderline myth to most people sure like most individuals have never seen a Jedi so for him it's got their little light bright you know story that's exactly it but no but those light bright story pads were on a planet that was only in contact with the Republic while there were Jedi everywhere. Yeah. So for him to go to this planet
Starting point is 00:18:42 and to see like a reverence and a respect for the Jedi that he's probably never seen before. Oh, we'll probably be crazy. I imagine that will create a unique burden on his shoulders. And like, he probably doesn't know Luke exists. Like, how would he? He's been a pirate. Fun.
Starting point is 00:18:58 You know, so, you know, I think that's what's neat about this is that there is a, regardless, of what he is and what his like his motivations are there's so much character room to play with and it's freaking jude law yeah he's just a miraculous actor in of himself so fun to watch and he's a natural fit for this universe and this type of character and i like that i buy each version like i like how this episode throughout allows you to play along with everybody going like Ah, some about this guy. And like the, the first few moments of them following him around, there is this, there was a nice little magic kind of, I don't know, question mark space where it was like, oh, is he just a quirky guy?
Starting point is 00:19:42 Yeah. Is this going to be just like a bouncy or more like, ah, this is kind of like fun and a little wild type of show? Or, yeah, is he nefarious secretly? Or is there just some other, yeah, grander purpose to why he's here and why he's feeling so run down? And I just like, yeah, being in that space, being able to kind of entertain all those ideas and then being swept along for the rest of the adventure. And I mean, like the kids here, too, it's like you have just, I think, the right amount. It's not really heavy on developing them so much, but I did like the, like, the first couple you're meeting them. And certainly they're arguing and they're bickering.
Starting point is 00:20:18 But there's, they're not used to each other yet. Whereas here, they're more like sibling energy. There's a dynamic and a, I don't say respect, but there's a. there's a good chemistry being created between those characters and I really appreciate that they're really coming into Star Wars
Starting point is 00:20:39 with a adorable elementary understanding of Star Wars they're like yeah the Corrisson and Alderan and the Jedi exist and there's their republic and like okay if you don't know anything about Star Wars you're like oh Jedi yeah like
Starting point is 00:20:54 and I think it's it's fun to experience the galaxy from the perspective of people that haven't lived in the galaxy. Yeah. Yeah, I mean, it's interesting because, like, I don't know, I guess if you're, I don't know, everybody brings in their own want and expectation for like how important is this to the main overarching plot of the universe versus how well is this just capturing the essence of what it means to be a Star War and maybe expanding that or whatever else. And I feel like to me, to if you're like me,
Starting point is 00:21:27 Uh, who's seen a good amount of Star Wars media, but probably should rewatch some of it, probably should check out some other pockets of it. Uh, this is the kind of thing where it's like, this is just enough of both. It's like it makes me again curious about the outside universe, but I like that this is contained enough. And I'm curious enough about just the stuff in here. Yeah. And it's, I feel like I guess you could dismiss it as like, ah, it's just like a side quest or like a one off. But I think that's also a strength. And I feel like that enables them throughout this to put in some really fun. like they're in a way again that that was noticeable but did not off put me or feel tacky to me they they did kind of do this was like being at disneyland this episode because it was like run down this corridor and you're in indiana jones and then run down this corridor and you're in some other kind of fun and the framing of it was while it was still like true to star wars it was also different and interesting enough to where like it wasn't so predictable the formula wasn't so refined and and i appreciate that there are there are nerdy three that you can pull at, but to your point, the show thus far could exist on its own. You could
Starting point is 00:22:34 go ahead, never see anything else Star Wars and really enjoy this. And, you know, I think maybe it was at WonderCon, we had this conversation. WonderCon where, you know, I was talking about my great frustration with the MCU and what's gone on. And it's because if you go back and watch any of the early MCU films, they were just focused on making a great standalone film, mostly because there was no assurance that there was going to be anything beyond that or any actual connective tissue. And I think Star Wars, in a desire to expand the galaxy and a desire to tell a larger narrative, often sacrifices the individual story and the individual show or film that allows it to be good on its own
Starting point is 00:23:25 without the context of all the other pieces and this is really for me the first time at least since the first season of the Mandalorian and I'd say and or even though it's sort of a this beautiful past tense piece that there is a it can just be enjoyed
Starting point is 00:23:45 without needing all of the baggage because I love the baggage but without all the weight of the galaxy on your shoulders. within a certain, yeah, whatever the umbrella is that you're under. Sometimes you want the baggage and sometimes you want a lighter iteration
Starting point is 00:24:00 or something that doesn't come with, like sometimes you still want to be in Star Wars land, but you want to be in the light side versus the heavier, like I'm going to dig into this kind of side. And I think Mandalorian started with that where like, hey, here's a guy
Starting point is 00:24:14 who's a bounty hunter, cool, understood, and he finds an adorable child who is being also hunted. And he challenges everything that he knows in the process about himself. And it was a really, while it had much bigger implications, as we've since discovered, it was self-contained in a way that, you know, for a lot of my non-Star Wars fan friends, that was their way in. And I think that's what I want to keep, like, reiterating.
Starting point is 00:24:47 it doesn't have to be what we always want it to be but what it does need to be is an inviting way in so that this has a future and I just like I'm like so excited to watch this with my niece and nephew like I'm so excited and yeah this is going to be a great a great digestible thing for them and still a miraculous and wonderful thing for me to enjoy
Starting point is 00:25:13 yeah I would agree I mean yeah It makes me excited for what else is to come in Star Wars. I feel like sometimes, I feel like both Marvel and Star Wars are kind of victim in their own ways to the modularity of, yeah, the bigger plan of the big, yeah, the giant story tree of where they want all this stuff to go. And yeah, I feel like containment really helps with that. Actually, I'm really excited to see the next episode, just do who the directors are. Do you want me to tell you? yeah it's it's it's the daniels yeah so i don't know i mean that like this will be a real interesting moment because i feel like within a show like this you have a greater latitude
Starting point is 00:25:59 within the the plan of the show itself to fool around or to at least you know like invite back some of the fun and playful spirit that allows you to innovate in certain areas that people might like just as much as like i feel like oftentimes filling in the map like with the Mandalorian and I and you know soon we will wrap this discussion up but like with the Mandalorian yeah it's like it starts out in a way where you're like yeah this is in the greater universe but it's telling its own story and it's capturing a different genre and committing to that much like Marvel used to do in the earlier phases commit harder to a genre mashup and to being also that and almost primarily in some cases that with a lot of its own you know
Starting point is 00:26:41 unique flavor or whatever but I feel like oftentimes when you try to connect the map, it makes it feel smaller rather than feeling bigger. I feel like the Mandalorian is a great example of how that can go kind of awry, and I wonder what turning that into a movie will do. But I feel like sometimes you can, if, you know, the pieces are well crafted enough, create just other parts of the map that are going in their own direction. And, you know, again, if you're doing a good enough job storytelling, you can make that super compelling on its own in a way that is, you know, complimenting the greater universe,
Starting point is 00:27:15 but it doesn't need to be subject to every circumstance therein. Well, and it takes all these established characters that you've been able to spend intimate time with. And there is a payoff to the dynamics and the relationships. And it really,
Starting point is 00:27:31 it all comes down to like character and writing and making those like interesting pairings. And it's, I think this is the first time I've watched something where, and I'm sure it's probably not true, but this is what it feels like to me. I feel like the weight of trying to make something Star Wars was not on the minds of the creative team here. I just feel like they went in, had a really fun idea, and then were able to incorporate their love of Star Wars into that without letting like the theoretical, what is a Star War, drive the creative to the point where,
Starting point is 00:28:11 it achieved nothing, which I'm not going to name names, but episode eight. Like, oh no, oh no. Like, cool, beautiful, didn't achieve anything. No. Didn't, we literally got from like here to there. You just started the car again. It was literally a slow moving tram. Yeah.
Starting point is 00:28:36 You know, like I used to work as a cast member at Disney. I would drive the slow moving tram at the great movie ride. that movie was slower than my slow-moving trim. Anyway, so enough about our thoughts and opinions. You don't watch this for that. You watch this to read the comments down below. What did you think? Write your comments down below.
Starting point is 00:28:57 I'm excited to hear your thoughts. And also, fandom, I'm proud of them. Yeah. Like, I was really worried. I was like, Star Wars Show post-ackelite with children in it. Uh-oh. I think this is good for the... the soul, the heart and soul of everybody, if, I don't know, again, I'm sure somebody
Starting point is 00:29:16 doesn't like it and I'm sure there are valid reasons as to why, but it's okay not to. Yeah, totally. But I feel like this is at least kind of, yeah, it's not trying to be more than it is and it's aimed right at your, you know, kid soul, I guess. And, uh, and should have called it out in the moment, fantastic beasts like, they're totally in a Harry Potter library with a talking owl and Jude Law is Dumbledore in those movies. There's a lot of, there's so many talking owls. Uh, okay. God, Jude Law is Dumbledore. He's bringing that Dumbledore in. Wow, when you said Dumbledore, I was like, that's a weird call.
Starting point is 00:29:46 Well, I mean, you know, obviously from the most memorable installments in the Harry Potter Cinematic Experiment, which that's a whole other conversation about how that franchise is. Join us next week while we ignore the episode and talk about Fantastic Beast and where to find them. This was good, though. And, yeah, good intro for Jude Law, excited for all the pirity stuff. Love all the accoutrements and all the, the big. escape on the ship I thought was a fun way to to take a pirate movie story trope and transcribe it
Starting point is 00:30:19 into Star Wars in a way that was very fun you know again would it be cool to see with some more miniatures but what they achieved here with these effects I thought was really I was still caught up in that I thought it was really fun I have not had a moment where I've been taken out of the experience with the effects so far I genuinely I feel like ILM has through the process of like the utilization the utilizing both practical and the volume at the same time have reached this like chef kiss. I-LM if you're listening.
Starting point is 00:30:48 Nice. Give us a call. No, but actually, I'd love to come visit. I do not have to hire me, but I'd love to say hello. Yeah, that would be great. And then you'd have to vlog it. And we'll put you crying in the thumbnail. No, I mean, that's fine.
Starting point is 00:31:02 We'll put you crying in the thumbnails. Honestly, lock me in a room with Dave Filoni for 12 minutes. Oh, the podcast begins. I'll come out the other end. the podcast awakens you said episode eight earlier I always get the sequel members out of I know my dyslexicness
Starting point is 00:31:18 oh you were thinking seven no eight eight is the last yeah okay okay yeah no nine is the last is the last Jedi is eight Jesus Christ well don't forget to use the force
Starting point is 00:31:30 to leave a like and if you want to enjoy more videos like this hit that notification bell it goes ding ding ding ding ding ding ding anything else John you know we'll if as long as we can get some more emotional, I don't know, characterization on the kids as we synthesize this into the next,
Starting point is 00:31:46 but this is eight episodes too, so this will be good. I think the kids are doing a phenomenal job. No, they're doing great. And I love them here as the supporting characters as having the conversations again that we all are having about Jude Law
Starting point is 00:31:58 and the show not wasting time and getting to that. And they're us. Yeah, they are. And they're bouncing off each other was really fun. When he stepped into the turret was like the most relatable people. of content next to when she's like, I'm not tired and then immediately cut to nap time.
Starting point is 00:32:16 And to your point, maybe he was like a young Paduan or something, because the way he just delegates to the kids, he's just like, okay, I think you're going to be good at this. So you take the wheel and then, okay, you guys, you got to find the turrets and then, you know, you're going to help me figure you out. He's also the CEO of a pirate troupe, which is very similar to being Greg. Yes. That's right. We are a merry band of misfits here.
Starting point is 00:32:38 Well, if you enjoyed the episode, whatever you thought about the episode, leave it in the comments as a hologram of you saying it out loud to us and compelling us to bring help. And also, yeah, we'll see you next time. Thanks for joining us. I don't know. Next week's going to be something interesting. We love you. We love you. Peace.
Starting point is 00:33:01 I know. Oh, Star Wars. I'm going to be able to

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