A Long Time Ago In a Galaxy Far, Far Away.... - Star Wars General Discussion
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Started watching Skeleton crew. I got as far as them getting to a station, and just gave up. I might try to watch it again later, but for now, I think I will watch something else first.
When you only get 1 1/2 episodes into a show and give up, you are talking about yourself, not the show. But I get it. I've got stuff going on too.
Well, honestly, I hated the kids. I liked the city that they were in, being a neat look at a futuristic city, but then it turns out to be some kind of cult planet.
I don't know how much longer I am to give a show just because it's in one of my favorite universes.
Perfectly possible it isn't for you. The kids are going to be in it the whole way through. But I liked it better later than I did at the start, if that helps.
I dig that the show is going for "80s Kids Adventure but in Star Wars."
Stranger Things really milked that specific corner of nostalgia dry so I understand if someone finds Skeleton Crew kind of treading on well-trod ground, but I enjoyed it.
The thing is for a long, long time people have said that Star Wars' strength as a fictional universe was that you could tell any kind of story in it. It doesn't have to be tied to the Skywalkers, or the Jedi, or the Sith, or Galactic politics. Mandalorian gave us Star Wars but It's A Western. Skeleton Crew gave us Star Wars but It's The Goonies. You can't say they aren't giving us choices.
Of course part of that is an admission that not everyone will love Space The Man With No Name or Space Goonies, but that's ok. More people need to be ok with going "this wasn't for me, but that's just fine."
Stranger Things really milked that specific corner of nostalgia dry so I understand if someone finds Skeleton Crew kind of treading on well-trod ground, but I enjoyed it.
The thing is for a long, long time people have said that Star Wars' strength as a fictional universe was that you could tell any kind of story in it. It doesn't have to be tied to the Skywalkers, or the Jedi, or the Sith, or Galactic politics. Mandalorian gave us Star Wars but It's A Western. Skeleton Crew gave us Star Wars but It's The Goonies. You can't say they aren't giving us choices.
Of course part of that is an admission that not everyone will love Space The Man With No Name or Space Goonies, but that's ok. More people need to be ok with going "this wasn't for me, but that's just fine."
"The Spaceman With No Name" was right there.
The Mortis Gods are something I've always preferred not to think about and the idea that Anakin could just take over a God's job too.
I just saw a Facebook meme that said Ahsoka Season 1 implied that Ahsoka was going to become the daughter. Well, ok, it did no such thing. The speculation trail to get there is perfectly reasonable, but no implication of any sort existed. But it got me thinking about the Mortis Gods again, which is something I don't really like to do, and it occurs to me that there is a different way to do it than I have been doing. Maybe they aren't really Gods in the sense I have thought and never were. Maybe they are always former mortals that got promoted when there was an opening. A Jedi council on a grander and broader scale.
I just saw a Facebook meme that said Ahsoka Season 1 implied that Ahsoka was going to become the daughter. Well, ok, it did no such thing. The speculation trail to get there is perfectly reasonable, but no implication of any sort existed. But it got me thinking about the Mortis Gods again, which is something I don't really like to do, and it occurs to me that there is a different way to do it than I have been doing. Maybe they aren't really Gods in the sense I have thought and never were. Maybe they are always former mortals that got promoted when there was an opening. A Jedi council on a grander and broader scale.
That was how the old EU did it; The Ones (i.e., the Mortis entities and Abeloth) were what the Celestials evolved into.
The Celestials were the first galactic civilization, who are said to have "invented" the Force(*). They were eventually overthrown by the Rakata (having "hacked" the Force to create what we call the Dark Side). Later EU material established that some of the evolved-Celestials escaped the Rakata purge by taking shelter inside the Mortis monolith.)
(* My crackpot theory; the midichlorians aren't "symbiotic organisms" at all; they're bio-engineered nanotechnology, created by the Celestials as a "user interface." It would explain how they're able to survive in so many different biochemistries.)
(I have another crackpot theory that the Mortis/Celestials are also the ones who finally destroyed the Rakata's Infinite Empire; the "virus" that severed their connection to the Force [leaving them unable to use their technology] was a master kill-switch that shut down the midichlorians everywhere except Tython, where the Celestials had set up their backup plan, making the Jedi their legitimate inheritors.)