Well, it ended last night and, if rumours are to be believed, it had even lower viewer numbers than The Acolyte but the irony is that Skeleton Crew, the latest Star Wars TV series, was a lot of fun and well worth the time of fans old and new.
However, it might be that the damage Disney has done to the Brand is too great and even good shows like Skeleton Crew are dead in the water.
Whatever the case, creator Jon Watts is already looking forward to the show’s future and should it happen, he really seems to have story to tell and maybe, just maybe, the show will reach onto the wider Star Wars universe this time.
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Addressing the low viewership, Watts says that the show actually gathered momentum as it went on and he seems hopeful that the story may have a future: “We’re happy that people are finding the show as well. We’ve slowly been building viewers over each episode, so that’s a really exciting thing to watch that grow, and the word of mouth has been really positive.”
He goes on: “We have ideas in our heads for sure. We’re waiting to find out what everyone else thinks, but we’ve always had an idea of where this could go even before we made the first season. So there’s lots of potential out there and hope everyone sees that.”
Facing the Stranger Things problem, Watts says that they will allow the young cast to grow older in the show, rather than try to pretend they’re still kids: “We wouldn’t pretend like the kids are only six months older if we made more. It is fun to think of them growing up and where they would fit into the galaxy and how their world would be changed by the events of what happened in the first season.”
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Star Wars has, of course, a history of young characters from Anakin to Boba Fett, from Omega to Kitster, it’s a universe where the kids are as important as the adults very often.
But what about the bigger Star Wars story? While we got glimpses of the universe outside the show’s core setting of At-Attin, the story was primarily told from the point of view of the children, meaning it was pretty small and secular but by the show’s end, a whole new reality was opened up.
“Their secluded planet is now officially a part of the larger galaxy,” Watts says, “So what would be the ramifications of that?”
What indeed?
I imagine that even if we don’t get a season 2, we will see more of these characters in comics, games or somewhere else – maybe even in future Mando-verse stories or movies?
Either way, this was a very fun little slice of Star Wars and I really, really hope we see these kids again alongside Jude Law’s lost Jedi Jod.
Thoughts? I wanna hear them…
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