Summer Streamin' 25 - Star Wars: Skeleton Crew - Season One

God I wanted to like, Star Wars: Skeleton Crew. However like the previous Star Wars trainwreck, The Acolyte, this was awful.

Like just plain awful. Streaming on Disney+, as part of the Star Wars franchise, which has now been flogged so hard the Melbourne Cup horses are already in pain in January, Skeleton Crew was a primary school take on the iconic franchise.

Taking place in the same time frame as the The Mandalorian series and its interconnected spin-offs after the events of the film Return of the Jedi (1983). Skeleton Crew tells a coming-of-age story about four children who make a discovery on their home planet, get lost in the galaxy, and go on an adventure to get back home.

Jude Law is one of few adults in the series, alongside Ravi Cabot-Conyers, Ryan Kiera Armstrong, Kyriana Kratter, Robert Timothy Smith, & Nick Frost. 

Skeleton Crew landed on Disney+ just in time for the school holidays, commencing at the start of December, with episodes releasing weekly, until this Wednesday. 

Tell me more about the eight episodes? Roughly five years after the fall of the Galactic Empire, four children end up on an adventure to make their way home after being lost in the galaxy following a discovery they make on their home planet At Attin while befriending a Force-user.

SPOILER ALERTS ahead for the average finale. One good thing is, the episodes are super short with super long end credits!

Jod continues to pose as the Republic Emissary and he orders Wim, Neel and KB confined to their quarters while he takes Fern and Fara to meet the Supervisor, which is revealed to be a massive AI droid.

When the Supervisor contradicts his claim about being a Jedi, revealing to have learned of Order 66, Jod is forced to destroy the Supervisor, causing a blackout in the city, as well as shutting down the safety droids. As the pirates invade At Attin with the intent of enslaving the populace, which includes Neel's and KB's parents, Wim, Wendle, Neel and KB race to the Onyx Cinder. 

As the ship is locked in place, Wim distracts Jod so Wendle can restore power, enabling KB to fly the ship past the barrier with a repaired SM-33 to call Kh'ymm for help, shortly before the Onyx Cinder is shot down. 

In a subsequent struggle with Jod, Wim and Fern separate him from his lightsaber while a reluctant Wendle and Fern destroy the barrier, enabling the New Republic forces to arrive to deal with the pirates enough to shoot down the pirates' ship, forcing Jod to admit defeat. Everyone then races to the Onyx Cinder crash site to find KB alive and well. 

The episode ends with Wim looking up at the sky to the arriving New Republic ships in amazement as power is restored to At Attin.

No season two has been confirmed yet, however this was scraping the bottom of the Star Wars barrel. As a massive fan of the space saga back in its hey day, some of these Disney+ series are really taking the piss. Like Marvel its high time, Star Wars take a bit of a break. That's just my opinion.