‘Skeleton Crew’ Soldifies a Wizard Time of Adventure and Mystery

There’s something splendidly meta about seeing kids pretend to have a lightsaber battle, in a galaxy where there actually are Jedi and lightsabers. That’s what came to mind while watching the premiere of the newest Star Wars live-action series, Skeleton Crew, where a group of kids come across an abandoned starship and accidentally launch themselves into space.

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‘Star Wars: Skeleton Crew’ is a Fun Family Adventure That Feels Familiar

The Star Wars universe has always been seen in extremes — from the desolate sand towns to the gritty, grimy streets and the extravagant and luxurious worlds. There is rarely a middle ground. What is most intriguing about Star Wars: Skeleton Crew is how suburban and ordinary a Star Wars world could be.

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‘Skeleton Crew’ Star Ravi Cabot-Conyers on Being a Kid in a ‘Star Wars’ Production

George Lucas, the creator of Star Wars, has said that when he made the original trilogy of films, the initial target audience were kids. And yet, in the time since then, not only has that detail seemed to have been lost in the ongoing discourse on the franchise, but rarely has there been Star Wars productions with said demographic as the central characters.

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‘Skeleton Crew’ Trailer Brings the ‘80s Vibes in Story and Sound

The official trailer for Star Wars: Skeleton Crew is out, and… wait, is that Peter Schilling’s “Major Tom (Coming Home),” I hear? Already it was something to behold to have an artist create a song for the previous live-action series, The Acolyte, with Victoria Monét’s “Power of Two,” but to actually license a song for a trailer for a Star Wars series is very unusual.

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