Skeleton Crew is not really for kids...

[@Onemoretoke1]

I love that you keep messing with the audio every episode keeps me on my toes thinking I fucked somthing up 🤣🤣

[@matthemming9105]

Wait, who is Luke's father!?!

[@laughingowl7896]

Heh heh.

[@jamesbernald2850]

Watto is his grandfather

[@Vile.Amity.]

Father?

[@stephenthedude4383]

I heard Darth Vader killed him 🤷

[@Orgruk]

@@jamesbernald2850 Well whatta you know?

[@poketeach4495]

Lmao Schindler’s List!!!!! Great kids movie! Love you man!

[@LegoSnoopDogg]

My 7 year old stepbrother was crying of happiness by the end, so wholesome

[@hyperunboxing9304]

It's tragic but it's good for them. However nudity will have to be cut out

[@mathiasbartl903]

All his Star Wars movies are for kids accordingly to George Lucas.

[@neofulcrum5013]

Stranger things in space sounds about right

[@spiritfox6066]

When I first saw it's trailer that's immediately what I thought it looked like.

[@kevinarmijo2226]

So everyone has plot armor and no one relevant is going to be killed by the villain?

[@kamikazelemming1552]

​@@kevinarmijo2226 Just like the original trilogy.

[@dylancloud1469]

I just need Hondo to be in this. I’m sure it’ll be great without him, but Hondo would be an instant 10/10 for me.

[@e2myearly288]

I will scream if Hondo appears. He's my favorite character. Let's just hope that that day, he likes children.

[@thecatfather857]

@@e2myearly288 Probably could've worded that a little better...

[@lockedongamingak]

@@thecatfather857 that is a direct reference to Hondo and the Padawans, as well as THE "Lando Calrissian"

[@jamiewalsh3349]

He would perfect for a show like this. The kids like Hondo. There's pirates in this show so yeah.

[@Klaital1]

Taking in this takes place like after RotJ, I doubt Hondo would even be alive anymore. He was already an old dude back in Rebels, which I believe is the chronologically last time he has been seen.

[@Jurassiccanonking]

4:37 what’s imprinted in my brain is Alan saying “Skibidi Toilet” (Also Amblin is the GOAT and it saddens me what it is needs to be explained.)

[@X-Warrior.1119]

Once former producer of the X-Men 90s Said This... Don't write it for Kids, Write it for Adults!...

[@agaperion]

5:37 Yeah, great adventure films like ... Schindler's List ...?

[@RainbowQueen23]

I think part of the issue now adays is that echo chambers are like holes in the ground and they are very easy to fall into because they make us feel safe. I've been in several and had to really swallow my pride and admit I was wrong or arrogant about things I thought I knew all about, it's tough to really know how fragile but also how tough the world we live in is.

[@Ian501st]

Happens to us all, but its indeed for the best we learn of it

[@eds1942]

@@Ian501st. With echo chambers, it is really hard get out of and learn from our misconceptions. And when you do, it is too often such a hard break that it is extremely easy to fall into another echo chamber that holds to the exact opposite position. So sadly, we don’t really learn much.

[@sirelfinjedi]

We're all susceptible to the dark side. I'm glad it didn't get you.

[@sensaiuriah5440]

@@Ian501st it doesn't happen to everyone 🤣

[@Ian501st]

@sensaiuriah5440 true, some are just raised better or get lucky

[@troymathis9930]

"Table full of narcissist, in a good way, because you have to be a narcissist to be a content creator..." 🤣🤣🤣 Love your videos man! BTW, I'm adding Evil Dolphin race to my Star Wars campaign. How do they not exist in Star Wars as villains??!!!

[@raininglogic]

The standing, widely accepted by a handful of people is that the Kiminoans are the ancient ancestors of dolphins that fled the Star Wars galaxy after the destruction of their home planet. The trip was exceedingly rough on them and they began to devolve and crashed into earth where they were fought by Neolithic warriors and pushed back into the sea. There they wait, biding their time, filled with a hatred for humanity.

[@Onemoretoke1]

As a man in his mid 20s I watch people plays games for 2 reasons the first is I wanna see how someone else experiences a game I love the 2ed reason is if I don’t wanna pay 70 bucks for a game but I am really interested in it I will watch a play threw on it

[@0num4]

Modern society is absolutely crazy. We're living in the safest, most peaceful times which have ever existed in human history...yet increasingly kids are expected to have their parents hovering over them 24/7. Kids now have GPS navigation & instantaneous messaging, two of the most useful technologies to have ever been developed--they should be *more* independent, not less, because of this!

[@SplashOfOrange]

Holy smokes, this was surprisingly insightful. Love your insights and perspectives, eye opening for sure. I hope this show does well, I feel like Star Wars could use a definitive win.

[@fakshen1973]

"Cop Car" was great. The casting was excellent. The child actors were fantastic. So I'll give the showrunners for knowing how to cast just the right people. I'd assume that it was made on a small budget since a lot of the movie takes place with a car in the middle of nowhere. As long as KK doesn't go all heavy handed in the series like season 3 of Mando, they might be okay.

[@mikolaykuka9759]

I'm so glad you mentioned child neglect when playing alone! That's an irreversible gap between old and new generations

[@SurrenderNein]

Personally, I am hoping for Goonies: Space Edition. And if they could get Corey Feldman as a bizarre alien in there somewhere, that would be great. Wouldn't even need to act. Just let him be himself. (It would be glorious.)

[@ahorsewithnoname773]

Just don't let him be part of a cantina band.

[@jimking8342]

Now I can't unhear a wookiee trilling HEYYY YOU GUYYYS

[@badonkeykong7506]

They need the whole suriving cast from Stand by Me, Will Whedon, Corey Feldman and Jerry O'Connell.

[@F0XD1E]

I'm probably about the same age as you. Found a discarded porno mag in the woods once. You do remember that. It was a special time.

[@GenerationTech]

hahaha

[@LucasDimoveo]

Growing up in NYC allowed me to have more independence (even with an abusive home life). I can’t imagine growing up in a suburb where I couldn’t get around on my own

[@jimmysmith2249]

I am confused. I trained for cock-fighting extensively, but when I showed up they kept talking about roosters. What did I miss?

[@Carrie449-xyz]

Thanks for making a point about the “ gatekeeping” of content, you have proved that everything 20th century is exceptionally better. Cool, just don’t give your kid a phone till 10.

[@High_Key]

I always love how you manage to break it down into reality. We’re about the same age and you and I think so much alike

[@colinvawter512]

Love you Alan!

[@ryanthunder3247]

10:30 cost also comes into it. If you don't already have a console and want to play a game, that's a few hundred dollars just to start.

[@kirkdarling4120]

It's an old writer's rule: Write what you'd want to read. As adults, they can't really know what kids today really like. Whatever they produce in assumption of what kids like, they will be wrong. But if they produce what they like and liked, from the viewpoint of themselves as children, at least it will be what _someone_ truly likes...and they're probably not unique.

[@spiritfox6066]

I definitely remember not having as much content like we have today. I would rewatch a lot of old cartoons and movies. Then when KZbin really started being popular you could see ANYTHING... I have some bad memories from early KZbin. But it was also pretty wild to have so much to see at that time. I take it for granted sometimes.

[@AuntyKsTarot]

My ten year old likes ambling films, we watch them. He also does have adventures they used to be in forests and fields but now a small town

[@michaeltribou4261]

Raising a free range kid is a beautiful thing. The kids grow up to be far stronger

[@lorigoshert6667]

I'm a Gen-X parent of a 12-year-old, and I just checked out Goonies from the library so she can watch it before Skeleton Crew comes out. She watches a lot of older movies, so I'm guessing she'll like it, but I'll have to report back. We're both really looking forward to this show!

[@deewatsoon6036]

"It" has kids... Cujo has a kid... Pet Semetary has a kid... Definitely not for kids!!

[@paradoxworkshop4659]

Reading comments over the last few years, it seems that the kids are the ones who "get it" and it's the adults who just want simple plots and flashy laser sword battles.

[@TrepidDestiny]

Can confirm. I'm a grown man who loved Stranger Things, and even went above and beyond to dress up for the Stranger Things Experience in Seattle. This show is right up my alley.

[@emchamberlain]

On your point about modern kids (and not boobs) I got x2 nine-year-olds and they love Home Alone. I think this old-school stuff from my youth (as a 46-year-old) can still work if you get them young enough.

[@jacobleroux96]

7:38 that’s exactly how I felt seeing Spider Man 😂

[@nickr831]

man you got real about the pron and limited options. I cant imagine growing up today.

[@claymclaren5788]

Weird and desperate is what made it great. Always on edge about your mom finding your stash. Who remembers the Sears Catalogue? Sport Illustrated Swimsuit Calender? Buttweiser Posters? 1980's Autoshop Calenders and Easy Rider Magazines your dad "misplaced" and couldn't tell your mom he'd lost? *Sigh* Goodtimes. Had to be clever, sneaky, and alert. Sometimes just cheekily leaving the Sears catalogue out on the floor open to the toy section with the Lego's Medieval Castle and Knights sets circled just in case mom found it.

[@natedoog7056]

Cool vid Allen

[@biglawngnome]

I think James McAvoy in His Dark Materials will have and has done the best job in the absentee father role🎉

[@andrewlim9345]

I think it is good that the creators of Skeleton Crew are aiming at both children and adults.

[@VacomaTeParjila]

Tbh I've kinda checked out of starwars, I'm tired of blank checks and endlessly hoping things will change. Maybe I'll check back in a few years or so

[@mariapolternest7993]

Me too because Xenoblade is better

[@kevinarmijo2226]

I’ve been hurt like this before, so I’m going to wait for the reviews.

[@joeylindeman2842]

You know who also loves Amblin entertainment?... J.J. Abrams. ...Nuff said

[@barkerstrains8065]

Great video, Alan! Maybe wait to crush the bong until after filming next time, though…

[@cjp1599]

Shindlers list is far from a kids film... and a fun adventure...

[@TheMimiSard]

Amblin - Oh, so ET. This is recalling the whole Lucas-Spielberg back-and-forth? I did recently think that maybe the suburbia the kids hail from may be inspired by Elliot's neighbourhood.

[@pstandlee]

I grew up in Colorado and would go hiking by myself all the time. My dad wouldn’t even notice as long as I went to school

[@whafrog]

Honestly this sounds a lot more promising than I would have expected...rare to have a crew that actually has some successes under their belt

[@kropianimation1774]

When in the past 10 years have we had crews working on StarWars that didn’t have successes under their belt? Who are you talking about?

[@michaelinterbartolo3]

We used to spend a week in Maine with two other families and all 7 kids would explore the woods on goonies adventure pretty much every day we weren't at the beach.

[@Robisme]

Are there really no good directors and producers signing with Disney?

[@TheChristianPsychopath]

Honestly several of the directors are good directors, but they keep letting them write and that's been a huge mistake. Writing and directing are different skill sets and very few people do both well.

[@luisserranoxd2686]

whoa got a lil freaky there ahha much respect tho love the channel 4:45

[@robotmonkeys]

Just casually dropping Schindler’s List in the middle of those kids shows. 😅

[@jacobleroux96]

4:45 Bryce Dallas Howard’s fake laugh is imprinted in my mind

[@badonkeykong7506]

Kids nowadays can't leave the house, and in the 80s we weren't allowed inside until the sun went down. Can't even imagine how many miles I put on my bike back then.

[@chromacypher8409]

I was raised in Colorado in the 80's! What the hell is going on now? A law had to be passed, for kids to do what we did 40 years ago?! Our timer was streetlights! Damn we got soft, and ridiculous...

[@clarkmichaels822]

If you're 40, aren't they your kids? Aren't you raising them soft? Isn't that you doing that? Who are you angry at here? If there was a law stopping that, who passed that law? It wasn't the kids of today, it was your parents, the 'tough generation'.

[@tyshekka]

​@@clarkmichaels822that is real. There's a recent story about a mom who had to run a couple of errands and told her son-- age 10 maybe, to stay home and wait for her to come back to take him on his errand in town. The son decided that it wasn't a big deal if he went into town anyway while she was out. No note. The mom came back, saw he was gone, but figured he would be fine because he's smart and wise enough to handle himself. A woman in town called the police because he was alone in town. Now the mom either has to agree to a contract the city wrote, on how she'll deal with her son, or she has to agree to have a tracking device on him. She's trying to fight against both.

[@chromacypher8409]

@clarkmichaels822 I had a long reply for you, but I decided against it. It isn't worth it, if you don't understand.

[@station7thedoor]

Trump will fix. Hopefully.

[@knightmare5097]

And you know every kid’s life? Who are you to judge them? And isn’t it the parents, you know, you guys, making them soft?

[@midoribushi5331]

I definitely thought about Stranger Things in Space, but also ST meets the Goonies meets Explorers.

[@whysoserious2k3]

I agree with you about having stashes and seeing a boob. You're 100% correct it imprinted in your brain and the clippings although I was never a national geographic kinda guy. Good times though. Thanks Alan!

[@CodenBahn]

Whoah. Anakin wasn’t killed by Darth Vader? He IS Darth Vader? Those damn Dolphins man

[@mikolaykuka9759]

Sad adults trying to re-live what they remember from childhood - that's perfect summary. And once Stranger Things captured it perfectly and was original - Skeleton will be disastrous

[@michaeutech9201]

hello from colorado! robot & frank was a good movie. cheers.

[@Silvertinge291]

Alan Don't buy into the sad adult BS. Embrace the nostalgia and be happy in the fact that you are one of the ppl who truly "get it" Cheers 🍻

[@blacktiger0393]

They have to know and like each other, as well as know and like star wars to make good content for the fans

[@wolfman1734]

This episode makes me feel old.

[@sundragon7703]

This is the 183rd comment. Yet the comments section is practically absent of the nugget that is Amblin Entertainment was and is a direct competitor to back then 20th Century Fox (classic Star Wars) and now Disney (current Star Wars). How the Skeleton Crew panel's interview got past the Disney gatekeepers is a mystery of the universe.

[@Superpup570]

Well it's def an...interesting-looking show 😂😂

[@tonykono5225]

And Shaw Brothers movies should be on childhood movies haha

[@captiannemo1587]

Robot and Frank was fantastic.

[@PsychotoasterProd]

4:46 - My god that Photo spread that Rolling Stone did with Carrie Fisher in the Slave Leia costume at the beach was perfection. Many a boy became a man to that cover. 4:57 - Surely I was not the only one who was able to get the knob of the cable TV selector box to sit JUUUUUUUST right, between two stations, descrambling it, so I could get free Playboy Channel. My god, boobs for days!!! 5:40 - While LFL and Amblin films were in regular rotation at my house, I would go out of my way to see a Canon Film. The movie being good was irrelevant. You knew you were in for a good time with the Go-Go brothers! Carolco, too

[@Aaron-fb6mb]

Can you guys please do a video about what would happen if Padme had snitched on Anakin about his Tusken massacre?

[@notmephisto1375]

Behind our bus stop we had some moldy old porno rags and a busted up Hungry Hungry Hippos. It was enough to get you out of bed in the morning.

[@royceffus5814]

What's with the audio on this video? Sounds like a blown speaker in a '96 Civic.

[@wyattguilliams5325]

I just hope it's a decent story

[@sirelfinjedi]

I'm so excited, and I know it's because they nostalgia-baited me with the trailer, but I don't care.

[@devo1977s]

Every summer I take my son and my neice up into the mountains in NC and we rent a farm house in the middle of nowhere so they can experience how it was when I was their age. We were walking through the feild near the woods and my Neice goes look at the deer in the woods, I look and go sweetie deer are brown that's a black bear 😂😂😮😮

[@MrBalonko]

We need some serious starwars besides Andor.Also you are right,there is overload of everything these days.

[@BenBootKHTwo]

Georgia needs a law like in Colorado. They are trying to put a mother in jail for letting her 11 year old walk home alone. I know we are supposed to be our brother’s keeper. Not their jailer!

[@janwitts2688]

For Christmas and new year I will be watching the second 3 movies.. then rogue one.. then the first 3 movies... and that's quite enough..

[@Himmiefan]

To normal people, that's all there is. The true Skywalker Saga is 4-6 and 1-3. Disney did some bad fan fiction, but it's just best forgotten. Rogue One is awesome!

[@P4Tri0t420]

5:44 (5:47) Schindlers List a child Movie?

[@Capt.Thunder]

I hate a lot of the aesthetics from a purely Star Wars perspective, but at least it has something approaching a creative vision. It certainly won't be the worst thing, I predict, there's way too much competition in Disney Wars for that to be the case.

[@desperado8605]

This is going to be good

[@camelxravennova]

We want Star Wars for adults not kids. I’ll wait for Andor Season 2 and Ahsoka Season 2

[@johnsieverssr8288]

Can't wait😊

[@DADNOIZES]

The incest hate needs to stop. Some of us have hot sisters.

[@kdusel1991]

This actually looks kinda fun ngl

[@iamawesome4026]

I hope that some people like this and it sounds cool. I haven’t watched any ads and I don’t have Disney plus but anything Star Wars sounds fun.

[@kineuhansen8629]

i remember watching the d23 i think way back i think in 2020 and skeleton crew was on of the shows that was one i was most looking forword to watch outside ahsoka and i dont know if its still the plan that the crew will end up in that mando verse endgame style movie

[@breakevenmonkey]

People who think the quality of content was consistently better in the 80's aren't remembering all of the stuff that didn't work. For every E.T. there's a Mac and Me, or a Howard The Duck.

[@monkofbob]

Schindler’s List, the beloved children’s classic. Equal to Lion King

[@Anon33467]

I'm 40 and have never heard of Amblin

[@wtfamiactuallyright1823]

Dude, it is for kids because, I can almost guarantee the kids in it won't die, I'll be shocked if any of them do, it's Disney. But if what they say is accurate/true, it will be a hit and what kids are being starved of, adults should still like it tho.

[@xxvaltielxx1789]

Idc if it's for kids or not, I'm gonna watch it and see how it does, it looks interesting.

[@RandomJoeseph]

It wasn’t?! My sister and I need to apologize to our parents for something…

[@beaufryer2042]

Star Wars walked so Game of Thrones could run

[@sammy-ix3eh]

you look like you live in one of those cyberpunk memes.

[@Silvertinge291]

I have high hopes for this show and yes it's marketed for ppl who grew up in the 80s and 90s and I am happy about that.

[@SaltyBob355]

Was all going well till Bryce Dallas Howard got involved.

[@TheChristianPsychopath]

I was really bummed to find out Skeleton Crew was PG-13. I don't think it's really the taste of modern audiences but what hollywood has convinced themselves those audiences want. I think the biggest mistake Disney keeps making is not making SW family friendly. It's a big part of why the toy sales suck.

[@samryan180]

Dude just put schindler's list as a kids movie

[@biglawngnome]

Here we go again. No Fraidy.

[@clarkmichaels822]

Star Wars always had a demographic issue. You approach it seriously? 'It's just for kids, don't take it seriously'. Say it's just for kids? 'It's actually adult and has a lot of depth'. Comfortably sitting on the fence and shooing anyone off that has criticism with either approach. So Skeleton Crew can be doing the same thing. Get some kids in there to appeal to the families, then have the talking heads go 'it's not for kids actually' to draw in the idiot adults that will jerk off over Star Wars until the day they die.

[@eds1942]

You know, it’s interesting how many of the X’ers (and some Millennials) that have become directors and producers seem to have this 80’s nostalgia. As a member of Gen X, aside from a handful of movies or music videos, I very much disliked the 80’s. For me, it was the 90’s. And I think that some of this has to do with the industry still trying the milk the Boomers, since the broader economy usually skips marketing to Gen X. The 80’s is a compromise.

[@paintballercali]

I want to be excited but I'm tired of getting my hopes up.

[@NatHazel]

It sounds like a good and solid project that will go well, in theory. In actual practical execution, still leaning towards no for me. Mostly because even if it does turn out objectively good and really rallies a gathering of people who like it… it still doesn’t do much in my opinion. The entire timeline has been shattered by every show previous to this one. All the breadcrumbs are leading to the sequels. And again, the sequels shattered any potential for a future. They destroyed the new Jedi order, they killed Han, Luke, Leia. Completely broke their characters. Wasted the big bad villain that was Snoke,somehow brought Palpatine back, and self sacrificed the last descendant of the Skywalker’s. Nobody had any kind of character growth or deep and meaningful change. For crying out loud they were literally skipping through and speed running most of the last movie! So forgive me if I don’t take these guy’s word for it. Again, no doubt it will be good, but just not good enough to course correct. In fact I guarantee they shoehorn in some other breadcrumbs to sequels.

[@TheChristianPsychopath]

I think it's good for them to take breaks from the main storyline, but yeah, they need to completely retconn the sequels to really save Star Wars.