S01.E01: This Could Be a Real Adventure

[Mr. Sparkle]

December 2, 2024 on Disney+

Kids from an ordinary planet discover a surprising secret.

[MrWhyt]

definitely more kid oriented than other star wars stuff but entertaining.

[Fool to cry]

I want a hoverbike.

[Sarah 103]

I thought it did a good job briefly sketching the who the characters are and giving some idea of where they come from and what their home life is like, except for KB. 

[tennisgurl]

This certainly has a very Goonies/Stranger Things kind of vibe, its certainly a lot more of a family show than the last few Star Wars productions. Suburban Star Wars is cute so far, I am interested in seeing more. 

The kids are all quite cute, especially the little elephant kid. His little trunk!

[Morrigan2575]

Reminds me of The Goonies...Fern is totally Mouth and KB is Data.

Yep Win is Mikey and Neel is Chunk

Edited December 4 by Morrigan2575

[Sarah 103]

20 hours ago, Morrigan2575 said:

Reminds me of The Goonies...Fern is totally Mouth and KB is Data.

Yep Win is Mikey and Neel is Chunk

I agree with you but I could also make a case for Fern as Brandon. She does not want to be part of the adventure and sees herself as a bit above it all. 

I wonder if Fern and KB being a year older than Win and Neel will be important at some point in the story. Fern and KB have already taken their big test. 

[Morrigan2575]

2 hours ago, Sarah 103 said:

I agree with you but I could also make a case for Fern as Brandon. She does not want to be part of the adventure and sees herself as a bit above it all. 

I went with Mouth because she was always lying to be hurtful or scare Win.  However,  I can see Brandon as well, except she just wants to get home so she can race her rival instead of go on a date with Andy 😆

[KeithJ]

I know this is meant for kids so I’m not really the targeted audience but …

The cool “bad boy” is a girl?

The “shortcut” seemed to take a lot longer than the regular way.

You can fail the assessment that says what job you’re going to have for the rest of your life?

How did the girls know exactly where the ship was?

How does nobody recognize it’s actually a ship once they’re inside?

Wizard!

[thuganomics85]

The suburbs exist in the Stars Wars Universe!  Definitely a question I always wanted answered!  

Going to be an interesting watch because while the franchise has always been geared towards families, this feels like the first Disney+ show that is really aiming more towards kids.  The Goonies/Stranger Things comparisons are very accurate, but it also feels closer to shows you would have been on the Disney Channel back in the day instead of, say, Andor of all things.  So, I'm curious to see how it will play out with me.  As of now, I can see that is is good in a lot of ways, but I do feel like I won't enjoy it quite as much as I would have years ago.

The cast playing the young kids were all good.  Happy for the actress playing Fern, because I remember the whole thing where she was in the awful Firestarter film years ago, got nominated for a Razzie, and then it was revoked after they organization rightfully got backlash for it.  Just felt cruel on their part.

Neel must be protected at all cost.

I'm assuming Fern's mom will come back into play since they wouldn't waste Kerry Condon for one episode, one would think.

Masked criminal in the opening was totally Jude Law, right?

Adventure time!

[tkc]

That was fun! I’ve actually never seen The Goonies, but somehow this show reminded me of it anyways!

It’s high time we had a Star Wars show without the pretense of having to be “about something”. Just kids having fun, getting into trouble, and becoming companions, if not friends.

Time to be a ten-year old kid again!

[Raja]

13 hours ago, KeithJ said:

You can fail the assessment that says what job you’re going to have for the rest of your life?

As a city that feels like our world a whole lot more than anything I've seen from Star Wars getting tracked to a career isn't much different from the social class who has to get their kids into the proper preschool through graduate school. A process that has led to multiple murders on Law & Order

[Orbert]

I think the point was that the assessment was originally presented as something that determines your career path, based on your responses and aptitudes.  You're more suitable for this kind of work, or that kind of work.  But Wim's dad came out of the office and said that there would be a 50-point penalty and Wim would have to get every question right just to pass.  So now it's a pass/fail test, not an assessment?

The question is still open.  What if you fail?  You don't go into any career at all?  It's like the old joke "He took an intelligence test, and failed."

[Sarah 103]

12 hours ago, thuganomics85 said:

I'm assuming Fern's mom will come back into play since they wouldn't waste Kerry Condon for one episode, one would think.

My prediction is that there is going to be a plot line with the adults back on the home planet trying to figure out what happened. 

4 hours ago, Raja said:

As a city that feels like our world a whole lot more than anything I've seen from Star Wars getting tracked to a career isn't much different from the social class who has to get their kids into the proper preschool through graduate school. A process that has led to multiple murders on Law & Order

And an assault on Barney Miller. I was surprised that sort of craziness/nuttiness went back as far the late 1970s/early 1980s. 

1 hour ago, Orbert said:

I think the point was that the assessment was originally presented as something that determines your career path, based on your responses and aptitudes.  You're more suitable for this kind of work, or that kind of work.  But Wim's dad came out of the office and said that there would be a 50-point penalty and Wim would have to get every question right just to pass.  So now it's a pass/fail test, not an assessment?

This is a guess based on pure speculation. I don't think it's pass/fail. I think it's more like traditional grades. There are higher grades and lower grades/a range of passing grades and failing grades. In the American system of grading, an A is better than a C, but both are passing grades. You can get an F and fail. The grade/score you get determines what kind of career you will have. 

I have no idea what a failing grade would mean career wise. 

[SnarkShark]

I like that the writers were willing to risk Fern being mean.  Obviously it's a setup for character growth, but it's inherently a risk in a kids show to have a non-villian character be a jerk straight off.

And on the flip side, Win clearly has an arc too.  This type of show is bound to validate his thirst for adventure rather than drive it out of him, but there's still clearly an arc about him being unmotivated/irresponsible.  Sure that structured society where one test for young kids seems to determine their whole lives is being criticized by the show, nevertheless they're also making the point that he didn't study (and was the major cause of those kids getting launched into space).  

On 12/6/2024 at 12:30 AM, thuganomics85 said:

Masked criminal in the opening was totally Jude Law, right?

Zero doubt, even if we hadn't heard him speak.  The moment we saw the closed helmet it telegraphed it had to be him.

On 12/5/2024 at 2:39 PM, Sarah 103 said:

I wonder if Fern and KB being a year older than Win and Neel will be important at some point in the story. Fern and KB have already taken their big test.

To me it just felt like them pushing even harder on the idea that girls mature faster than boys.  They made it literal here so nobody would even question Fern being bossy. That shouldn't be necessary, yet I think they did it anyway.

[SnarkShark]

17 hours ago, Sarah 103 said:

My prediction is that there is going to be a plot line with the adults back on the home planet trying to figure out what happened. 

Yes.  But the show will have a challenge keeping that from being boring.

[Sarah 103]

9 hours ago, SnarkShark said:

Yes.  But the show will have a challenge keeping that from being boring.

I'm thinking of Stranger Things. Joyce and/or Hopper usually have something/some aspect that they are investigating which is usually not boring.