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Skeleton Crew: Review-Episode 3
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Oh, I love that intro. It is a banger, love it. So welcome everyone to skeleton crew review. We are the circle of nerds and this is kind of a a supplemental show to what we normally do with our star wars safe space podcast. We could not not talk about Skeleton Crew, so here we are. If you didn't check out last week's episode with Crash and I, please go check that out. We had a lot of fun. I was on the road at the time, so it was like laptop. It was like the lowest tech I could go Laptop.
Speaker 2:Gorilla podcasting.
Speaker 1:Gorilla podcasting on the road, doing gorilla podcasting, yeah. So I and I literally have not unpacked anything since we were in bostween, so I had to like get stuff, um and my camera's frozen again, isn't it? There we go all right. So I still have a few little bugs here and there, since I've gotten everything quickly set back up. So I'll do all that Anyway. So Skeleton Crew Episode 3 is out and we're going to talk about it today, but before we do that, let's go around and meet everyone. So the operator, the pilot of the infamous Parma Flyer, it's Crash.
Speaker 2:How you guys doing S-Foil's locked and ready to go.
Speaker 1:There you go, love it, love it, love it. And from parts unknown, it is T to the Oni and Friend.
Speaker 3:Welcome back, everybody.
Speaker 1:And who's that that like little santa grogu. That's exactly what it is. He's adorable, he is. He is adorable so that I feel like um, oh, and I'm tommy, what's up? Okay. So I feel like the internet has already been debating this between Grogu and Neil, like who's got the cuteness? Have you seen the meme where it's? What is it? The guy and his girlfriend are walking and he turns to look at the other girl that's walking by and his girlfriend's like hey, the other girl that's walking by and his girlfriend's like hey, I've seen that where people superimposed like neil's head on the girl who's walking by and then, and then din, is the guy the boyfriend, and then the girlfriend is is grogu. So has grogu been dethroned as the cutest star wars entity in the galaxy?
Speaker 3:inquiring minds want to know what's the chance not a chance no there is a threat to grogu's overall cuteness by jeff the land shark and marvel rival, but that that's the only challenge that we've got right now yeah, but that's, that's different franchise.
Speaker 1:So we'll uh, we'll let that one slide for now and I hope I don't have to keep doing that like, well, that's a podcast, but this is still going to go up on on the tubes anyway. Um, that's like I'm sorry. I'm just kind of getting reacquainted with all the buttons. I apologize to all of our listener for uh for dealing with this anyway. So episode three uh, there is. There's a little bit to unpack. This episode went quick. It was pretty. I mean it was it was 40 plus minutes, but it was. It was done like that. I, when the episode was over, I was like this, is it there's? That was quick. I felt like it was 15 minutes yeah, definitely moved along.
Speaker 3:It. Did you get a?
Speaker 2:little spoiled with the two-parter. There's so much they gotta establish and they did the cliffhanger and the jail cell and it's like, well, it's like the start of a Doctor who episode. They gotta wrap up the previous episode in like five seconds and move on. So this was the sort of okay, escape the prison, get out in the world, and now what?
Speaker 1:Right. So we're going to the big question. We're not going to rehash the entire episode. If you watched it, you know what happened, so we're not going to rehash the entire episode. But the question that we're going to talk about is Jod and his identity and our thoughts and predictions. So have that ready, have that locked and loaded.
Speaker 1:But there's a couple things, uh, a couple other things we need to unpack. So, first of all, kb has two moms. It's a thing, get over it, move on. Like this, I feel like this is this is the thing that the fandom menace was waiting for, because, up to this point, they're pretty chill, they're pretty quiet, they were liking the show and then, all of a sudden, kb has got two moms. So and I haven't even bothered to look to see if there's been any backlash and I'm almost positive there has been or there will be so it's still early so, kb, two moms, nobody cares Moving on. Be so it's still early. So kb, two moms, nobody cares moving on, unless you guys have something to say about it all right, I'll take that as you gotta say about it if somebody has a problem with it get over it.
Speaker 1:Yeah, there you go. Well said, well said, all right. So one of the reasons and we'll just touch on this real quick here's why I think the show is brilliant, because in episode three, the children asked all the questions that the fans have been asking for like a week, so all of the stuff that happened in one and two. The fandom has been asking, well, how did this happen and where is this and why is this? You like the stuff with John like, well, if he was, if he's a Jedi, why didn't he escape sooner? The kids are asking these questions how did he, how did he use the force? And Fern said Fern listed like magnets, mirrors, string, it could be anything, and I love that and the sass she did it with like are you?
Speaker 2:you know how dumb are you to fall for a key on a string trick.
Speaker 1:You are right, Fern is the sass master and she's giving off like great Han solo vibes and I really, really hope that, that we see these kids grow up and I hope that we get more of them, because I would love you know, as actors you don't want them to necessarily get typecast and I hope that we get more of them because I would love you know, as actors, you don't want them to necessarily get typecast and I'm sure they don't either, but I would love to see them locked into Star Wars and watch them grow up.
Speaker 2:Yeah, it's a good growing for the good, Good Tony.
Speaker 3:I agree. I think it'd be a lot of fun.
Speaker 2:Correct and they're at that age where these kids, these actors, can play them for a certain while, for a couple years. You know if they do get a. You know the ever so hard to get season two renewal. You know if the show does well and they like the format and they want something. You know a lot of the buzz after the first two episodes was that star wars got to be fun again and I think these kids, almost like the harry potter cast, have a window where, okay, we can have these kids be part of something for a couple years while they're in that age where they, you know they fit the role and then they can move on with their lives and we and have nice quiet lives outside the show. But I think for now there's this element of okay, we've got child actors and an interesting story. How far can we work with this?
Speaker 1:in a in a healthy way, in a healthy way, and I I think that, um, they, they, they kind of did that with with harry potter. I I didn't hear a whole lot about the child actors' lives being ruined. They were handled well because they grew up doing these movies. They grew up, that was their childhood. They started when they were what like 10, 10 years old, 11 years old, something like that. Yeah.
Speaker 2:I saw the weasley brothers at steel city con, I mean, and they're like in their mid-20s, late 20s now and they're you know, they're still known for this role when they were teenagers. And there's perils that go with that, as child actors go, and as I feel like lucasfilm would be very good at protecting the children from the fandom menace, as it were I hope so.
Speaker 1:I hope so. Um, you know they, they didn't do a great job with jake lloyd, unfortunately, um that that kind of went sideways for him. But I, I think that they didn't. They didn't have jake for very long. They had jake for one movie and it's like thanks, buddy, enjoy the rest of your life. But there was so much hatred for that movie when it came out, um from, especially from the original anyway.
Speaker 2:Anyway, how could they be jamming us if they don't know we're coming?
Speaker 1:Yeah, all right, so we're getting off on a tangent. That's going to be for our other podcast, but this is skeleton crew, skeleton crew, skeleton crew. So, uh, one of the things that I did notice that they because a question that I had that they they addressed was when um whim was stuck in that little, that little gully area and you had the security droid just instantly, just pop up on him like you've got to get back to school. You're true, it it's like how did, how did how did he know? You know we crash you. And I speculated on that and they addressed it. They're all low jacked, they all have life monitors on them.
Speaker 1:So when he didn't show up at school, you know his his life monitor was checked and security droid zeroed in on him, so it's almost as if they heard us and they knew it's weird.
Speaker 2:The whole planet, you figure a whole school full of kids are low jacked. This is a very controlled society. Whatever's going on.
Speaker 1:Yes, it is. So we do learn more about that, which I think is very, very intriguing, and we may discuss that as well. I don't know, very, very intriguing and we could. We may discuss that as well. I don't know, but the big thing that I want to talk about is, uh, jod nanawood I think that's his full name also known as captain silo, also known as crimson jack. So who are you, buddy, and that's the question for this episode is who is Jod? What are our theories on this? And, tony, we're going to start with you, buddy. I want to know what are your thoughts here about Crimson Jack aka, jod aka, who knows how many else? So, when?
Speaker 1:I hear Star Wars and I hear the word Crimson, my mind immediately goes to Crimson Jack aka, who knows how many else when I hear Star Wars and I hear the word Crimson, my mind immediately goes to Crimson Dog.
Speaker 3:Okay, so to me, crimson Jack is a guy named Jack who worked for the Crimson Dog. Now, since then he leaves them or whatever, and becomes captain of a ship. So now he's Captain Silva, so maybe his actual name is Jack Silva. Now the thing is, for me that's also a pretty bland name, especially in the Star Wars universe. But he would be Captain Jack, I mean he would be, but still. I mean he would be, but still. So that makes it interesting when he introduced himself as Norwood or whatever.
Speaker 3:Jod I think it's Jod Nah Nahwood Like it's Jod, then N-A-Nah and then Nahwood, I believe. So if his actual name is Jack, silva or Silva, that's an interesting name to just make up on the spot. So maybe that is his actual name. Maybe he's hiding something about his past. That's why he goes by other names. Yeah, I have no idea. I genuinely have no idea, and I'm looking forward to finding out yeah me too.
Speaker 1:Yeah me too. It's like I I do. I love that there's, uh, there's so many questions and some things, some things feel a little predictable, but but then, but not really. I mean, there there's, I don't know, looking forward to it, crash. What say you?
Speaker 2:I think. First off, I like how this show has shifted from the Space Goonies motif heavy into the Pirates of the Caribbean in space.
Speaker 2:Oh yeah, Real quick, jude Law, you know, character with multiple aliases. Whichever one he may, we may never know which one he really is because his lifestyle, you know. He he's got to go by a different name every time he gets himself in trouble. That's a very you know, even when he shows up at this um observatory, you know. You know planet moon. You know. The first thought is you know, first thing, everything's is okay. What do you want from you know? What do you know? What are you trying to scam me out of now? Right, this guy's a troublemaker around the galaxy and I have a feeling he's got plenty of aliases that he burns through so you think that, uh, so what now we?
Speaker 1:yeah, there's definitely a lot of uh pirates, the caribbean vibes there was. When, uh, when he was in the uh, the little droid shop looking for sm33, um, it almost sounded like there was some pirates of the caribbean music being played in there. As he was going from droid to droid turning them on man thoughts and prayers to the battle droid. I felt so bad for him. When he turns him on, he's like did we win? Did we win Okay?
Speaker 2:You're going to take that headpiece and put it on the wall of remembrance with all the clones that went down it. Just you know, the poor guy doesn't even realize they lost the war I feel like, I feel like, I have to.
Speaker 1:I feel like that, I have to. And that was interesting. When they talked about alderaan and kim kim was like, oh, I guess they missed the war, huh, so that that gives us a little more hint into how long at atten has been shrouded so that's gonna be interesting. So here's. Here's my theory. This is what I think. This here's my theory about jod, and I could be way off. We talked a little bit about it last week, about I'm sorry, go ahead. Crash, were you saying somebody.
Speaker 2:No, go ahead.
Speaker 1:Okay, we talked about a little bit last week, but I'm starting to wonder. So, do we think that he was using the force at all, or was he manipulating things in some other way?
Speaker 2:I wonder if he might have been using the force in a casual. You know I am self taught but wanna sense, like you know, there's a lot of a little bit of truth in what he said about. Well, you know, it takes, it takes a lot of practice. Well, for Jedi, they go to a temple and they've, you know, been taught the ways and the meditations and stuff like that. After the empire they're still going to be force sensitive people. But that doesn't necessarily mean they can't do certain tricks out of reflex. And I wonder if maybe jude law's character has developed a little bit of force, sensitivity and use that to you know the, the heightened reflexes. Maybe he can, you know, call a small object to his hand and then, you know, do the Ben Kenobi distract the guards thing with a noise down the hallway?
Speaker 1:Yeah, jedi mind tricks, self-taught, okay self-taught, okay, so do we think that he had any formal training? Could he have been a Padawan who escaped order 66?, tony, what are your thoughts on that? It's entirely possible.
Speaker 3:I I think of him more. I think of him more as a natural force user, but not a trained one. To me, his tricks kind of remind me of the little boy at the very end of Episode 8, where he just pulls the broom to himself. I have this limited ability where I can do a little bit little things here and there, but I don't consider myself to be a jedi or anything else. Let's just I can just do these things right.
Speaker 1:So, but he has. He has knowledge of, you know, I don't want to say the force, but he's's got knowledge of the lore, he's got knowledge of some of the rules and the things that are said, and so he has knowledge of the Jedi. So did he again, was he a young Padawan? Did he happen to find some sort of holocron somewhere or some or some sort of ancient Jedi text? Uh, or or scroll or something? I'm probably not an actual scroll, but you know like, did he find like an ancient Jedi book of some sort and he read through it and you know he picked up these things. But do we, do we think that he is and he said he said he never said he was a Jedi? That he is and he said, he said he never said he was a Jedi. But do we think that he's in some way a part of the Jedi order, like pre-order 66,?
Speaker 3:obviously At this point I don't, if anything, I'd see him as kind of like Wim, where he's. Maybe he was fascinated with them growing up and just learned what he could. Again, I don't see any signs of formal training or background that would indicate that he's been around other Jedi.
Speaker 1:Okay, Crash. What do you think?
Speaker 2:When he meets the kids he hears them talking about Jedi and Jedi this and Jedi that and that was sort of his in. He may know a little bit about the lore just by growing up, much like when you know there might have been storybooks, there might have been you know, just tales of the Jedi that kids you know heard on the underground that the Empire just couldn't completely suppress underground, that the Empire just couldn't completely suppress. And I think he's sort of playing the role kind of like that guy in Kenobi who was pretending to be a Jedi to scam people out of money. You know you talk a big game, you work in a few sleight of hand tricks and the average person's not crash.
Speaker 1:You're breaking up a little bit there, but I I I get what you're saying. Like, you know slight of hand tricks. Just, you know it's all trickier. Maybe it was maggots, maybe it's some sort of remote or or something, who knows, who knows all right. So we're gonna have to wait and see and I'm really, really excited about this. So I'm I'm I'm so happy with the show. I really am, I'm so happy with the show.
Speaker 1:Um, we also heard that it is forbidden to make contact to anyone outside, anyone off world, so they can't even reach out to the republic. You know, I'm assuming they haven't had any transmissions in either, since they're a hidden world now. So do you think anyone on that planet actually has the means to contact the outside? And, if so, are they aware of where they are currently? Um, in the history of the republic, like because I think we're what about? Like seven to nine years after return of the jedi? This takes place around the same time as the mandalorian, so so somewhere around there, like seven to nine years out. So are the people of at at, and at least one person, is one person on this planet, aware of the current state of the galaxy? What do you guys think?
Speaker 3:I think there's a chance that there's one or two people. You know whoever put this. You know, great plan into effect, great plan into effect. But, like, I assume we're going to get to this a little bit more later, but my current theory is that, whatever this great thing is, it took the planet completely off the map, and maybe to such a degree that, like, the technology, is not even the same anymore. Um, and star wars has never done this, and I'm hoping that I'm wrong in this.
Speaker 3:But I've been trying to figure out why the ship would have just crashed there, the ship that they're they're currently on, why the ship would just crashed there, the ship that they're currently on, why the ship would have just crashed there and been buried.
Speaker 3:And the only thing that I can think of is that it's kind of like when you enter into that little bubble that they're in, you almost go back in time. Yeah, yeah. And so when that ship got there, you know, presumably by accident, like it just lost all control because it not, like it wouldn't work within that time frame, like there's no controls to. I don't know what the proper phrasing is, uh, but that's how the ship crashed there, and so now it's the like the people on the planet they might like. Again, there might be a select one or few that have that ability to reach out, but in the grander scheme of things, with all the things that that most of the people on that planet are not aware of happening in the outside world, being able to find a random ship full of kids is not going to be high on their priority list, right.
Speaker 1:Now, it's entirely possible, too, that the ship crashing on At-Aton predates the culture that's there now. It's entirely possible that it could have crashed a hundred plus years prior to anyone settling on that planet. And you know, maybe the planet was, you know, designated as the perfect spot for the you know the great work, but that ship had already been there and the treasure had maybe already been there. So, but I I did notice that they were looking at when, was looking at the credits again, as they were talking about you know everybody's into accounting and you know everyone's analysts and things like that. So it could be possible that they found the treasure a long time ago and they've been using it to basically melt down and print money and they have to keep account of it. So I don't know. I don't know. Crash, what are your thoughts?
Speaker 2:interesting how quickly, yeah, the parents, you know, once they got word of the kids that were off world and they were certain, you know, like, like parents I assume would do. You know their. Their first and only thought is how do I get my kids home? The droids to in my mind almost were writing them off right away as well. They're gone. Just go, go back to your daily lives, just go about your work. Um, forget your kids, and I have a feeling that's going to come back to bite them later on. This, the society, this is, you know, this planet that's been sort of deliberately reclusive from the galaxy. Like you know, I don't think anybody's ever left before because no one's ever wanted to leave. Now you've got somebody, you know these kids out there trying to find their way home, and who are they going to draw with them in the process? You know the pirate. Obviously the pirates are. Or, you know, heard the name and and immediately it's, like you know, eldorado. Yeah, I'll take you home to Eldorado, sure, can I bring some stuff home with me.
Speaker 1:Right. So, and you know it was interesting, so we're going to wrap up here in a minute, but it's interesting because, as they were, you know, you know the robot, the droid, was talking to the parents. We saw Wim's dad take his glasses off and in that moment I was getting a very like denzel washington, in the equalizer vibe. Like dad is about to go do some shit. Like he's not. He is not going to conform to this utopian ideal. He is not going to be a part of the status quo. He's damn sure not going to listen to these droids.
Speaker 1:Dad's going to look for his son. I'm telling you mark my words I really feel like he is going to. He is going to have an adventure and that's going to bring him and his son closer together. But he's going to Jack a ship and he's going to bring him and his son closer together. But he's going to jack a ship and he's going to take off and he's going to. He's going to go looking for his kid because he that was just just that one instance of him taking his glasses off. That's a man with resolve and that's a man who now has the wheels moving. There's a plan in motion and wim's dad poppy's about to get into some trouble to bring his kids back that will bring all the kids back.
Speaker 1:So, and maybe, uh maybe, fern's mom will go with him. I don't know, but I think we're going to find out some shit about about the parents.
Speaker 2:I think that dad might I think there's somebody's gonna be taking sides. You know. You know, do something versus let the authorities handle it. There's gonna be, I agree there's gonna be a schism amongst the parents over no, no, I need to get my kid home now but maybe dad isn't as mild-mannered as he seems.
Speaker 1:Maybe maybe he's got a background, maybe he's uh former old republic special forces operative. You know, he's a tier one operator for the old republic or so I don't know. I don't know. But uh, either that or he's just a dad who wants to get his son back and he's not going to be held back by anybody else. So I I don't know. Predictions for next week. What do you guys say? Crash?
Speaker 2:Well, I think the biggest thing I think is we're. You know, we saw the Jude Law kind of steering the kids away from help. You know, as an audience, when you see X-Wings come in, you think, oh, here come the good guys to save the day To a criminal. Oh, here come the cops. I better get out of here with this ship I've stolen and these kids I'm conning along the way. He's leading them where he wants to go and this partnership, I feel, is very Jack Sparrow-y loose. I feel is very Jack Sparrow-y loose in the moment. However, it benefits him. He'll wait for that opportune moment, kind of thing.
Speaker 3:Right.
Speaker 2:And there's going to be a little bit of a tension, I think, between him and me, the droid who is dedicated to the ship and partially to the kids. I feel like there's going to be a little bit of a power struggle on the ship, as well as between the parents and the authorities, about finding their children yeah, I agree.
Speaker 1:And uh, I thought it was interesting, the, uh, the kids were about to sauce those x-wings. I, they. I was like wait a minute, are there not going to? They're not going to kill some Republic X wing pilots, are they? What's happening over here?
Speaker 2:So I was like wasn't that like the greatest kid moment, though? Yeah, you know the first time that it's like. You know, luke Skywalker was all like a 19 year old, a 20 year old year old, a 20 year old, an older kid, but just that idea, you know you're the video game fantasy of. Okay, kid, here I'm gonna put you in this turret and just just shoot.
Speaker 2:Just shoot at anything you know just shoot you didn't tell him kill the x-wings, he just said just keep firing. You know, distract them, keep them busy until we. But just that idea as a kid to go oh wow, I'm in the chair, I come at the controls. Pew, pew, pew, pew. Cute, we've all. We all did that as kids. That was, that was total wish fulfillment.
Speaker 1:The fantasy, the fun that I feel like this show is touching on and if you're that age, even even in desperate times, and if you're a kid and you get into a laser turret, yeah you're like all right, that's pretty cool. He might still be scared, but he's pretty cool, and it was interesting how, how jod was controlling that narrative too.
Speaker 2:He was like those, you know, kim's goons yeah, it's not the new republic, it's not the, it's not, it's not help, it's not the cavalry, they're her goons and they're coming to get you right.
Speaker 1:So as far as the kids knew, those x-wing pilots were the bad guys. Right and they were. They were about to get you right.
Speaker 2:So as far as the kids knew, those x-wing pilots were the bad guys, right and they were.
Speaker 1:They were about to get sauced, so very interesting. I love this.
Speaker 2:This show one little easter egg before we go. I don't know if you guys picked up on this. Uh, anthony melina played that. Uh ishtib in the droid. Know the scrap room where they were looking for Smee the droid? Yeah, his name. I looked it up Benjar Pranic. You know that's his name, you don't. As soon as you heard his voice. And the best part is, you know you've heard of the Mignot hat trick, where she's been in a Disney, a Marvel and a Star Wars show. Yes, melina is now completed the hat trick. He's played uh, elsa not his father in the frozen to doc in the Sony and then later in, you know, the no way home. So it's part of the MCU and now star Wars. So he's completed the hat trick.
Speaker 1:Nice. Yeah, I love that stuff. I love that stuff. Tony, predictions for next week. What do you think?
Speaker 3:well, my biggest prediction, my biggest thing for next week's episode in particular, is that we're almost going to have a reverse of this episode, where in this episode we had maybe a minute and a half with the parents and actually being on at, and then the entire rest of the episode with the parents and actually being on ad Atten, and then the entire rest of the episode was the kids and John.
Speaker 3:I think this next episode is going to be almost the exact opposite. Okay. Okay, because I mean at this point you know they've got supposedly they've got the coordinates to get home, at least as much as Kim thought that was going to be the right place. So, like, consider you're going into hyperspace Unless the ship breaks down, or something like that, like there's nothing stopping them from just going straight there. I mean, obviously you have to deal with the barrier whenever when you get there, but I think we're going to have like, if we're going to drag this out for eight episodes, we've got to focus more on the B-plot of the parents, and I think that's going to happen in this next episode.
Speaker 3:Fair, fair the other thing that and I don't know that I call it a prediction, but just my sense of it lately is that when this show first started I thought that when was going to be the audience conduit? Now I'm thinking it might be not going to be him, it's going to be the girl.
Speaker 1:Which one KB or.
Speaker 3:KB.
Speaker 1:Okay.
Speaker 3:In particular the fact that she was the one that kind of stuck behind it to make sure Kim was okay. Kim said you could reach out if you need anything, although I don't know how she's going to do that but.
Speaker 1:Did she give her a cell or something?
Speaker 3:Yeah, so that's my thoughts as far as future is concerned. I did also have one potential Easter egg. I'm not sure about this because I've only seen it a couple of times in the cartoon, but I'm pretty sure that when they were leaving, when they were tied up and trying to get out of that port, I'm pretty sure I saw Hondo's ship there, really, yeah.
Speaker 2:Yeah, that was Hondo's ship and other people picked up on that. Everybody's scanning the scenery for any little Easter egg and Hondo's ship is, I guess, very prominent in this. Whether we'll see him make an appearance is another story, but just seeing his ship kind of implies that he was there.
Speaker 1:Oh, I'll have to look back. I missed it. I didn't see it. I hope we see Hondo. That would be so cool. That would be great. I would love Hondo. That would be so cool, that would be great. I would love honey, he is, he is. He is the bad guy that you love to hate. I mean, he really is I, yeah, all right. So, oh, oh, I can't wait to see where this goes.
Speaker 1:So that's going to do it for us. We are going to be, uh, off, we are going to be off the radar for the next two weeks because of the holidays, so everyone's going to enjoy holiday time with the family and all that. So we are going to be back after New Year's. And let me look at a calendar, because I probably should have had this written down already. A calendar, because I probably should have had this written down already, because today, oh no, no, we'll be back to discuss episode four next week, but then we'll be taking off Christmas Day and New Year's Day, of course, and then we'll be back on January 8th to talk about, probably, five and six, but I think the series might be over or close to being over by then, but anyway, so that was really pointless everything that I just said, because I didn't know what today was and that's kind of how it goes in my world. So that is going to do it for us this week, looking forward to episode four next week.
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Speaker 1:no, just really enjoying this wait, wait, what, what, what, what? You gotta pimp the merch. Oh yeah, that's right, I gotta pimp the merch. So, uh, head on over to our website, circleofnerdscom, slash merch and uh, pick up some stuff. We don't have any merch for this show though yet, but we've got. We've got merch for our other show, which you should be listening to as well.
Speaker 1:Uh, because on that show, if you're not familiar, if all you're familiar with is what we're doing here on skeleton crew review. On our other show, star wars, safe space, we're going through all of the star wars, all the tv shows, all the films, in chronological order, and then discussing. So if you're kind of new to star wars, that's kind of what we're, what we're geared towards. That way, each week, we give you homework, you watch it, kind of watch it along with us, and then we discuss, maybe connect the dots a little bit and have a good time. That comes out every Tuesday. You can check out new episodes of Star Wars, safe Space every Tuesday on your favorite podcasting platform or, if you like to watch, you can check us out on YouTube.
Speaker 2:Thank you for reminding me, tony. I appreciate you. Uh, crash, did you have something else? No, just really, like we've been saying all enjoying the show, uh, I was at steel city con last weekend and got to talk to bryce dallas howard. She's excited for this show and and she's that old school hollywood where she's like trying to express her excitement for it but without actually saying which episode she's directing, even though Disney's already announced the whole slate and they've told you so we know. But I like the fact that even the people working on this show are excited about the fun of this show, and that's really the word that keeps coming back to me is star wars gets to be fun again yeah, yeah, it's been.
Speaker 1:It's been pretty heavy. It's been pretty heavy. It hasn't been bad. Other you know, people say it's been bad and that's your opinion. Everybody's entitled to your opinion. Um, but star wars has been very, very heavy, even the clone wars and rebels. Although they're animated, they're just cartoons man they get heavy, get heavy.
Speaker 1:They get really really emotionally heavy. The sequels very heavy. Rogue One, obviously, is a heartbreaker, and or it's like, oh my god. It's like, yes, this is. Skeleton Crew is the breath of fresh air that we really needed. In Star Wars. Crash, like you said, it's getting the the fun and the excitement and you know all these things that that George wanted in star Wars, you know.
Speaker 1:I mean this is I really really hope that George is watching this with a big old smile on his face. I, I, just, I really do hope that he's just somewhere sitting on the couch with his family together watching this beautiful, beautiful show and just grinning from ear to ear Cause he hasn't always been smiles about some of the other properties that have come out. But I really do. I mean this. I mean this could have been written by George himself not directed, because it's way better than anything that he's ever directed, but written. Yeah, George could have written this himself. He couldn't have done any better. This is great, all right, so that is going to do it for us again. Thank you all for joining us and we will see you next week to discuss episode four of the skeleton crew and in the meantime, follow us on all the things. So crash, tony. Thank you guys so much for joining this week and are we going to see you next week, maybe All right cool See if we can rope some more nerds into this along with us.
Speaker 1:So, all right, that's going gonna do it. You guys. Have a good one and we'll see you next week. Thank you.
