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 Mad Doc Grotsnik wrote:
An unanswered question remains how long was the ship all upside down and buried?

If it was buried deliberately (having perhaps crash landed, killing all the crew. Or crashed because all the crew killed each other, or crash landing due to defensive fire, and any survivors being subtlety murdered to death by the folk living there), it may not be all that long.

But, if its distinct covering was the result of good old Mother Nature? Could be quite a bit longer.

Maybe all the inhabitants are descended from the ship’s suriviving crew, who found a community seemingly entirely at peace, in employment and happily going about their lives.

Maybe. Seems unlikely that such a crash would go unnoticed since we know it's within easy walking distance of what would seem to be the main population centre of the planet. But then it seems equally unlikely that a regular landing would also go unnoticed. The ship's presence on the planet itself, or more specifically how nobody knows about it, is possibly just as big a mystery as the other plot points so far.

The general vibe of At Attin does seem to include the possibility the ship was shot down or crash landed and then everything was covered up.

When Wim's dad is picked up in the forest, one of the security droids says he's in a restricted area. I'd take that to mean either the crash was detected by the authorities, possibly because they're responsible for it in the first place, or...

 ZergSmasher wrote:
I don't think the person in the hologram is going to be someone we've already seen in the show. If it was, that might be kind of lame.

Spoiler:

I'm wondering if it's going to be either Hondo Ohnaka or perhaps Darth Maul

Would be weird if it were an established character. Not that that's ever stopped anyone.

Also worth noting the vehicles in the town (village? City?) are on what looks like a slot track.

Makes me wonder what the underlying design is about there. On one hand? Could be so everyone benefits from communal power. No need to fuel up, the track way provides the power. But, also a handy way to ensure few off-roading options.

I’ll watch the first episode again, as we saw one other speedebike, and I didn’t clock if that’s also running off the grid. The riders were taking the mick out Fern’s bike though.

While we may suspect that everything we see of At Attin adds up to something sinister, a power network that covers all the citizens' needs fits the planet's model colony status neatly. Says the optimist, I know. But maybe it's just one of those little world-building details that's actually what it looks like on the surface.

I agree. There are sensible, benign explanations for what we’ve seen. A perfect Utopia if you will.

Certainly it seems to be at least a town/city of full employment and free, effective communication. And like Earth in Star Trek? When you live in a paradise, you’re just left with little drive to change that.

Catering to your every need isn’t necessarily a sign of an underlying, sinister reason.

Heck, if it is indeed one of The Republic’s Mint Worlds, there solely to make galactic currency? There’s a lot to be said to ensuring those responsible for running the world down to the lowliest have as few reasons to misbehave as possible.

Question; if it’s a mint, why does it need thousands of analysts? If “the great work” is “make lots of coins”, that’s just a production line, no complex roles required.

That’s a fair question. One possible answer is the analysts are required to gauge production, based on the wider galactic economy, and where it might need to be sent?

If they get the info over a secure channel, that would reduce incoming and outgoing ship traffic, helping to keep its location a secret?

Or, depending how long it’s been at it? It could be to ensure employment. Assuming the Bigwigs know the Republic fell, they can just pay the staff in minted currency and keep everyone sweet, hiding the truth?

There's always the possibility that the Great Work is some kind of quasi-religious view of the original purpose of the planet. It's clearly Galactic Republic in origin and if the whole point was to isolate them from the rest of the Republic maybe once the Republic fell the Supervisor and others in charge decided to keep up the pretence to maintain order. After several decades I could see how that may end up with something akin to the 40k Imperium, with people toiling away at pointless tasks because that's what they've been told to do and nobody actually knows the full picture any more.

Whatever the explanation, I hope there is one this season. Even a partial answer to the larger questions about At Attin would be good to help seed a potential second season.

Skellington Crew E6

Probably the best yet.

I teared up at one point. This is such a great show.

Realised that having watched the latest episode after I got home from New Years, I don’t remember much about it.

That’s some of tonight’s viewing sorted then, innit.


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Chapter Seven is, predictably, superb. This has been an absolutely top notch show from start to almost finish.

Genuinely a bit bummed next week is the finale. Really, really hoping for a second season, if the conclusion reasonably allows. As in, I don’t want or advocate a second season for the sake of a second season.

 Mad Doc Grotsnik wrote:
Realised that having watched the latest episode after I got home from New Years, I don’t remember much about it.

That’s some of tonight’s viewing sorted then, innit.


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Chapter Seven is, predictably, superb. This has been an absolutely top notch show from start to almost finish.

Genuinely a bit bummed next week is the finale. Really, really hoping for a second season, if the conclusion reasonably allows. As in, I don’t want or advocate a second season for the sake of a second season.

Yeah, E.7 is fantastic. This is a show that I have unexpectedly enjoyed far more than anticipated, and has given me some small hope for future Disney SW offerings. It's Andor-level good.

Can you imagine Jude Law doing a second season assuming he survives? He seems to sign on for one and done things, and this was 2 years ago. Also I am hoping there is no redemption for him. Need more and competent villains in Disney!

 Mad Doc Grotsnik wrote:
Chapter Seven is, predictably, superb. This has been an absolutely top notch show from start to almost finish.

Genuinely a bit bummed next week is the finale. Really, really hoping for a second season, if the conclusion reasonably allows. As in, I don’t want or advocate a second season for the sake of a second season.

I feel positive about the show ending next week. Only one more good episode and you can strike out that "almost", and we actually get a good show from start to finish. I think that's great.

And now that I jinxed it...

Also, I’ve loved the ship designs in this series.

The sequels mostly bugged me because instead of new designs, we got modernised classics. Granted that did spare us K-Wing type guff designs, but it still felt like a waste of opportunity.

Here though? The Pirate ships are superb. They scream Star Wars, contain some familiar shapes, but are otherwise new. The carrier frigate is a particularly strong design. So strong, I previously thought it was a co-opted orbital outpost from the Clone Wars era. But no, it’s a ship!

There are even nice little touches, like them just legging it from pursing X-Wings, showing discretion is the better part of valour, and suggesting that the New Republics pilots are feared and respected for their skills.

Though it could also be “but if we shoot one down, overstretched as their resources might be, we’ll only be attracting a sturdier response, and we can’t be bothering with that”.

Seriously. Any Dakkanauts on the fence for this show, for whatever reason? Tune in. It’s ace. And if you ask me, destined to be a beloved classic in its own right.


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Finally, at least for tonight’s wibbling? If SM-33 doesn’t get an Artois and Threepio polish job at the end of the finale, I’ll riot. On my own.

It’s Close Enough!

Just got caught this up. I may like this more than Andor....

ON reflection I hope it doesn't get a second season if it isn't already written (like Andor's was). Rather than a diminishing return I would prefer more world building fun shows. Get the team to make half a dozen fun star wars adventures and you rehabilitate it considerably (just try and steer them away from the awful ones...).

The_Real_Chris wrote:
ON reflection I hope it doesn't get a second season if it isn't already written (like Andor's was). Rather than a diminishing return I would prefer more world building fun shows. Get the team to make half a dozen fun star wars adventures and you rehabilitate it considerably (just try and steer them away from the awful ones...).

Giving A Star Wars Story type series another chance would be far from the worst thing to come from Skeleton Crew doing well. Provided the fine folks responsible for it realize why Skeleton Crew is good, of course.

Might be a good way of filling the space between the original trilogy and the sequel era without relying heavily on the Thrawn storyline. Not that we shouldn't have that as well, but it might be good for it to focus on its own thing without pressure to insert other things that don't really belong to it but are relevant story developments that need some place to appear. Looking at you, The Mostly but not Entirely Book of Boba Fett.

As an aside, I totally forgot that Book of Boba Fett was originally written by the Chronicles guy while he was shooting Fant4stic.

Some newly new news on Ahsoka S2.

Rory McCann, aka The Hound in Game of Thrones has been cast as Baylan Skoll, replacing the late Ray Stevenson.

Solid recast.

He's going to eat every chicken in the galaxy.

 Mad Doc Grotsnik wrote:
Some newly new news on Ahsoka S2.

Rory McCann, aka The Hound in Game of Thrones has been cast as Baylan Skoll, replacing the late Ray Stevenson.

Ray really nailed that role imo, so Rory has some big shoes to fill but think ole Sandor might be able to pull that off. Happy they did not just cut out that storyline and went with a recast that could perhaps do it justice, since to me Baylan was one of the best parts (if not the best) of season one.

He’s definitely got the screen presence for it, and is a solid actor.

Solid recast for one of the best parts of the Ahsoka series.

I’ve just stuck on A New Hope. Or Star Wars as I first knew it.

And I think I now understand why I’m enjoying Skeleton Crew so much.

Like A New Hope, but without the necessity, Skeleton Crew hasn’t bothered really explaining itself.

It stands on its own two feet, as an excellent, younger audience oriented adventure story.

You don’t need to have seen anything else of Star Wars and its ever expanding saga to just sort of get Skeleton Crew.

Now, that’s not to say relying on audience familiarity is a bad thing. If it was, no sequel or prequel ever would’ve worked, no matter the series.

Instead, I’ll argue that observation is a testament to the writers. I tuned in as a lifelong Star Wars fan fairly (but not completely) familiar with most nooks and crannies of the underlying narrative universe, and as you may have noticed I’ve thoroughly enjoyed it.

But I’ve also, from the same perspective, thoroughly enjoyed all screening Star Wars. Yet I’ll happily acknowledge a bunch of that appreciation comes from my overall appetite.

Skeleton Crew? It’s just good, entirely on its own merits. Whether you’ve never even heard of Star Wars, or have been around it for a long time like me, or have gone further than me and devoured every book and comic and net series ever made, it tickles the pickle.

More like this please. Ideally alongside somewhat more niche gubbins like Ahsoka.

Also, if your sole critique of Ahsoka is “look at her, folding her arms….the female canine”, maybe go watch Clone Wars and Rebels. As that’s where it started.

I'm glad they're recasting Baylan instead of trying to write him out of the story somehow. I don't think I'm familiar with Rory McCann. I haven't watched Game of Thrones.

Shame about Ray Stevenson.

 Geifer wrote:
I don't think I'm familiar with Rory McCann. I haven't watched Game of Thrones.

Shame about Ray Stevenson.

Have you seen Hot Fuzz?

Dude dominated and pretty much out acted an ensemble cast of Simon Pegg, Nick Frost, Paddy Considine, Timothy Dalton, Olivia Colman, Bill Nighy and Martin Freeman to name a few.

Look at this. Look at the range(or not, youtube links are being weird):





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He does show some acting chops in Alexander(2004), where he (as Craterus) begs Alexander the Great(Colin Ferrel) to go no further in the Irish conquest of ancient Persia. The youtube link is jacked though, so I’m not linking it. ‘Alexander Implores his troops for one more month”, if you care to view it.

'The Irish conquest of ancient Persia.'

I see what you did there, and agree we should never let that utterly bizarre decision be lived down.

Yeah, I watched Hot Fuzz, but only once and that was close to release. So my memory of it is very limited. I did remember the big henchman, though.

But none of what I said matters anymore. I happened to watch Jumanji - The Next Level last night, and guess who's in it in all his bearded glory.

Seems like a fitting replacement to me now.

And the finale of Skellington Crew?

Is bloody amazing.



As I said last week? If that’s all we get, I’ll be happy. But I could absolutely go another season, provided it’s done for the right, plot driven reasons.