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Skeleton Crew is a kid-friendly reminder of who Star Wars is for

Younglings take the lead in Disney Plus’ newest live-action Star Wars series.

The Star Wars franchise’s growth over the past five decades transformed it into a multimedia outfit so sprawling and focused on recapturing the magic of the original films that it has sometimes felt like Lucasfilm lost sight of who its target audience is. Much in the same way that Wim’s dreams of becoming a magical hero cause friction with his civil servant father Wendle (Tunde Adebimpe), hoverbike racer Fern’s (Ryan Kiera Armstrong) need for speed strains her relationship with her politician mother Fara (Kerry Condon). Whereas the most recent trilogy of Star Wars films and some of Disney Plus’ shows have felt overly fixated on appealing to older fans’ nostalgia for the characters they grew up with, Skeleton Crew is more focused on what it would actually mean to be a kid shaped by stories about the Jedi and Sith.

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