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Skeleton Crew 1x04 Full Reaction! (Patreon)

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Thomas Corp

No apologies are necessary. I know you said about your holiday travels this week, hope all of that is festive and wonderful. Appreciate the head’s up on roughly when to expect the next reactions, and we shall be patient, Jess. That’s a lovely necklace by the way. This is a nice episode to leave things on before the travels. Briefly talk about the score of this show. Mick Giacchino is doing outstanding, wondrous work, and making his dad, Michael proud. Reminds me how it’s twenty years ago since being introduced to Michael Giacchino’s work, and how now father and son have scored Star Wars, paying lovely tribute to John Williams. Speaking of John, evidently John’s music was something everyone in the show bonded over. This has come up in interviews, and has lead to the cast and crew speaking very highly of John. For instance, Jude Law got asked where Star Wars sits in his ranking of John’s work, and Jude said, “Oh, wow. And I just watched the documentary, Music by John Williams, which was just incredible. Another reminder of the canon, and the greatness of that individual. What music. Gosh. Okay. That’s a really good question. And this’ll make you laugh, but I'm sitting here for some reason today singing the Superman theme, you know, *sings the opening notes to the Superman March*. But Star Wars. I mean, and then you’ve got E.T. It’s top three, for sure...Wow. Wow, wow. I mean, that little Harry Potter, *sings Hedwig’s Theme* is iconic. It’s phenomenal. Um, okay. That’s an impossible question to answer. I will only do it; I will only answer it under serious duress. I can’t, otherwise. It’s impossible.” We both had a similar surprise that the kids would get home this early. Turns out they aren’t home yet. Instead, they arrive at a planet that looks just like theirs, albeit where the former occupants took a powder and didn’t leave a forwarding address. One observes how it’s all a bit creepy. I admit it’s kind of eerie, yes. But it proves your chaos theory, Jess. Or, well, maybe not proved, but it seems we are on the right track as we’re off the edge of the map. And I do hear you on just letting the mystery unravel, and just being along for the ride. You get the lack of trust in Jod, but by the same token, having the adult with you would be smart. Love how Jod finds the Christmas Special puck and makes a face at it. We both had a big laugh over him just asking the one group to just shoot him. Some days at work have incited that feeling. Quite the predicament of the kids getting caught up in this war. I got some slight Red Dawn vibes from it. KB taking to sharpshooting like a duck takes to water. We love to see it. It leads to Neel getting good focus and solidifying his beloved status amongst the fans. Neel proved a sweetheart by being a precious, beautiful soul, as you described in his desire to not fight. He doesn’t want to fight. Sincerely. And with his being such a sweetheart with a precious, beautiful soul, it strikes him as just wrong that there would be this endless cycle of violence and war. As they say, “La haine attire la haine”. Rather fitting, considering the guest appearance of Mathieu Kassovitz. Gets a man right square in the heart seeing your reaction to Neel’s Aladdin gesture of kindness. I know how you express pride in the bravery that Neel exhibits, like how you have in the past with say Glenn in The Walking Dead. As such, I knew you’d appreciate the scenes here. Nice of Jod to get them out of the mess. Sure, some of his actions are largely motivated by the promise of treasure, yet I suspect the kids’ chutzpah is starting to endear them to him, and he’s getting a soft spot for them. Sweet how Neel just rushed to hug him. In terms of the theft of the credits, Jod can defend himself by saying about the credits, “BORROWED. Borrowed without permission. With every intention of bringing them back.” Very sweet your reaction was to Neel having a little puppy love. Or, uh, aardvark species love? ...Ignore me. The mystery really gets going when they find the coordinates destroyed, and 33’s verbal tic proves too much. Love how KB just sets to brainstorming on how to get his memory back. Fern breaks a man’s heart a little bit when the chains of command overwhelm. Like you say, the kids are all going to have the group effort. It’s then very sweet how Wim encourages Fern. I offered my own encouragement as Fern can’t just give up. None of the kids can give up. No one’s folding. Nobody’s throwing the damn towel on this fun, old-fashioned Goonies adventure! No, no! We’re all in this together! We’ll fight our way through this full-blown, four alarm, perilous journey! And the kids will be back home and be celebrating Life Day before they know it! That’s the endgame for the kids! Press on, fight, win, then head back home to have the hap, hap, happiest Life Day since the Tatooine cantina patrons got serenaded by Bea Fucking Arthur! And when the Wookiees in their Thuggee cult robes get their hairy asses down from their treehouses, they’re going to find the jolliest bunch of assholes this side of the nuthouse! Haha! Fern then has the idea which works. Now we know that 33 was on the planet with his old captain, Captain Nathaniel Flint, presumably. And we learn that 33 got tampered with like B.E.N. in Treasure Planet. Man, Disney is really liking reminding us of that movie lately, I love it. Rather terrifying how he got programed with a Biff Tannen sports almanac order to kill, though Neel came through, love your reaction to that. And even Jod had the expression saying, “The little blue fella’s got balls.” Good that 33 didn’t tear Neel limb from limb as yes, that would put just a smidge of a damper on the proceedings. Hopefully, KB can get 33 back so he can fill the droid void. Bringing me to two small things. First, your valid concern on the leading comments on youtube. I do remember you saying about trusting 33. I just didn’t say anything really about that for that very same fear; I simply said we do need him as Chopper and HK-47 prove that murderous droids are handy, which I suppose could have been leading, but there was the effort to try not to wink or hint about that. I’m just glad this is up before the next episode, so the fear’s not there, and I’ll do my best to be shtum on the next two episodes. Another thing, I saw your comment on youtube about mispronouncing Jod’s name. We’re all human. These things happen. Hell, everyone gets my name wrong, more specifically, my last name. I did have a wiseass moment when you said Jod’s name wrong, as I quipped, “Joad? Wait, whoa, whoa, whoa! I didn’t know Henry Fonda was in this show!” All in all, another fun Skeleton Crew reaction, and it’s great to see you’re really loving the show. Thank you for the fun reaction, and again, all the best with the holidays, Jess.

Ryan
>>159138904

I had Hook as the big iconic Williams theme of my childhood, and it was lovely to see it over the documentary's closing credits after it hadn't been mentioned at all (which I totally get, as it's such a vast body of work that a movie twice as long would have trouble giving it all the proper attention). Hallelujah, holy shit! Where's the death sticks?

Thomas Corp
>>159138904

Hook is a big one, yeah. John’s music for that is superb, as is the whole film. One I didn’t catch mentioned or heard was The Witches of Eastwick. Like you say, the body of work is that vast, some stuff was going to get overlooked. Star Wars and Indiana Jones aside, I think my favorite score of John’s was the score for the John Badham directed Dracula starring Frank Langella from 1979, which a bit of that is played during the documentary which made me happy. As to the death sticks: Ryan that’s the gift that keeps on giving the whole year.

Ryan
>>159138904

I was also kind of hoping they'd mention one of his very first film scores in Daddy-O got an unexpected bump for a new generation on MST3k.

Ryan

Well, I've had a nasty last few days, with one of my favorite TV shows of the last two decades being ruined forever by one of the lead stars pulling a Weinstein, so it'll be nice to go back into this warm, loving show...where this week they're stuck in a bleak warscape full of child soldiers. And there isn't even Tasha Yar to pull me through. How do you follow up the most awarded movie ever made? Apparently by doing an episode of this show, which maybe more than anything else had my hopes big going in, which it's thankfully lived up to so far. And while there isn't really anything here that feels distinctly like the Daniels, they still create a great atmosphere and know exactly how far to push the anti-war message without getting annoying about it. I was very worried when Neel started on that, saying "Okay guys, Doctor Who can get away with an occasional big speech about all violence being wrong, but Star Wars can't. It's kind of right there in the name." But luckily they don't go that far, and Neel's child perspective where he genuinely thinks a simple apology could fix everything helps a lot in keeping it from feeling like a condescending lecture like these things usually do (hello, Rose from Lost). And I definitely would love to see more of Unnecessary Parkour Girl, with their bond being surprisingly believable in just this half hour. It's also nice that the whole thing is tied so tightly to the ongoing mystery of the At Attan myth (yeth?), and the set people must have loved getting to go full Portal 2 on these buildings after the scenes in the regular versions were done. Which makes it quite fitting that 33 has a very minor case of serious brain damage, another of those times where they may have pushed it a bit too far before acting like the answer was some huge impossible brainwave, but I have to keep reminding myself this is mainly for kids who probably haven't experienced enough of these kinds of stories to put the pieces together on their own. And fixing it turns him into Judge Judy and executioner, in an extremely tense moment where I really had no idea where it was going, plus POV shots that feel the most Daniels of anything here (just imagine him biting a Chapstick after that menacing rise; it fits a little too well). It's shocking to realize we're already halfway through this show, and it still feels like the possibilities for where it can go are endless. After the severely mixed results of Star Wars live action over the last couple years, it's amazing to feel this way again.

Thomas Corp
>>159150629

Yeah, I caught the Daniels directed this episode. I’m keeping my eye out for their future work. They did set a good atmosphere on the planet. They do walk that tight line of an anti-war message without being too much. As you observe, Neel’s child perspective helps with that a lot, and also shows how sheltered all these kids have been on their homeworld. The dig on Lost, I take it that this Rose tended to chatter away in quite a condescending manner somewhat often on that show? Unnecessary Parkour Girl was cool. Surprising to see Mathieu Kassovitz as her dad. She and Neel did have a good spark, yes. The 33 having brain damage reveal felt well done. Steadily organic for the adults in the audience, whilst being more surprising for the kids. It is this episode that you start catching he says his repeated phrase when asked about it. Clever with the wordplay of he can’t say he remembers it. Him going all Judge Judy and executioner is probably a holdover from working with his earlier captain. One would imagine he was always on top of that before he and the crew were knee-deep in troubles like those crusty jugglers. (“Crusty jugglers.”) That POV shot was effective. Yeah, halfway through and this is a blast with no real idea where this is going. It’s great. As to the days you said you’ve had, I’m sorry to sound stupid or ignorant here, who pulled a Weinstein ruining the show that they starred in?

Ryan
>>159150629

Justin Baldoni from Jane the Virgin. He pulled a ton of crap while directing and starring in It Ends With Us, most of all to Blake Lively who has him completely nailed by him being stupid enough to write a bunch of text messages bragging about it.

Thomas Corp
>>159150629

Oh. Ok. I had heard about him getting sued by Blake Lively. I haven’t seen Jane the Virgin, hence my confusion on that one. Well, shit, I’m sorry the show’s ruined forever for you now.