'Star Wars: Skeleton Crew' exclusive photos reveal Jaleel White and a band of space pirates, as show creators explain a 'resurgence of piracy.'

Did he do that?!?!?!?!?

Also, kinda burying the lede that the Wolfman-mask alien from the ANH Cantina scene will be an actual character.

Please don’t let this suck…

  • Hackworth@lemmy.worldEnglish
    4·
    20 hours ago

    That’s neat, I hadn’t heard about this show. The trailer looks fun. Is it just me, or does Jaleel look rendered in this shot?

    • wjrii@lemmy.worldOPEnglish
      8·
      20 hours ago

      I agree the trailer looks fun. Goonies in space, plus a Jedi.

      There’s just been a certain cheap and rushed quality to recent Star Wars outings, both in writing and actual production values, that has made them a lot less enjoyable than they could be. I actually kinda liked the Acolyte and hope in particular that we see Manny Jacinto again, but I can’t deny it was mostly just “kinda okay” and definitely seemed to squander its budget on cheap fake beards and fat toy lightsabers.

      A breezy, fun story could handle that campy vibe a little better than ponderous end-of-galaxy stories, though. We need an infusion of charisma, too. I dunno. As always, I’m cautiously optimistic.

      • Hackworth@lemmy.worldEnglish
        8·
        20 hours ago

        I’m an editor by trade, and weirdly, I think Acolyte’s main problem is editing. When I later heard that the story was supposed to be all about the Sith and was reworked by producers, it clicked. It’s cut like someone doing their best to make a story make sense after cornerstones of that story are removed. I’ve been in that position. It sucks.

        • PunchingWood@lemmy.world
          2·
          5 hours ago

          I didn’t have any real problems with the actual story of the Acolyte, but what did put me off most was the insane pacing and strange edits in that show, there was rarely a moment of rest to give viewers time to let stuff sink in. Some episodes also cut-off very suddenly to a credit roll, it was just jarring. And a lot of scenes felt like they were supposed to be a lot longer and could’ve benefitted from a lot more dialogue.

          I’m unsure why they did so, because most episode could’ve easily been like 20-30 minutes longer to make at least 1 hour episodes. I think they might’ve cut a lot and saved it for either flashbacks in a potential second season (especially the Qimir stuff) or decided they wanted to change it later.

          The whole editing and pacing reminds me a lot of Rise of Skywalker, the entire movie felt like they crammed 2 or even 3 movies into one.

          • wjrii@lemmy.worldOPEnglish
            1·
            1 hour ago

            The whole editing and pacing reminds me a lot of Rise of Skywalker, the entire movie felt like they crammed 2 or even 3 movies into one.

            I’m an unapologetic The Last Jedi fan, so fair warning, but this is a huge part of the issue with The Rise of Skywalker. It was such a knee-jerk, panicky reaction to the mixed reception of TLJ that it materially made TROS worse than it needed to be. You can walk back some of the more divisive stuff in TLJ in a way that’s much more graceful and isn’t lampshading it with stupid shit like, “Come with us Rose! I can’t Leia gave me homework!” or having Force Ghost Luke literally catch and return the Youngling-Slayer lightsaber. Even if you want to go a different direction, it needed to be “Yes, and…” rather than simply undoing TLJ. It left no one satisfied and wasted run-time.

            Beyond that, I agree, there was just too much, with the redemption of Kylo Ren (assuming you needed to go that direction… I don’t agree) being enough to fill out an entire movie if done with care, and then the rebuilding the resistance and invading Exegol being plenty for a third.