Star Wars: Skeleton Crew - Disney +

[jvmacross]

19 minutes ago, Seto Kaiba said:

Have a "senior moment" there, mate?

You launched into this tangent by arguing that Star Wars isn't being produced for kids.  I pointed out that George Lucas is on record as saying it has always been for kids first and foremost.  You asserted that Disney Star Wars is totally separate from Lucas's so Lucas's opinion doesn't count.  I pointed out that practically everything in the catalog disproves that claim directly because all but two of the shows are direct extensions/continuations of Lucas-era stories that were developed for kids, and that even the two titles that aren't direct continuations of Lucas's work are still explicitly developed and marketed as family friendly kids shows per Disney itself.

 

 

Nope....but you are hitting the sauce hard tonight professor....I just said Star Wars is no longer just for kids as Lucas had originally purported it to be....you then went on a long manifesto that had nothing to do with that....

[jvmacross]

50 minutes ago, Seto Kaiba said:

Or maybe your opinions of these shows are not universally held and people actually like titles like Skeleton Crew?

Just a thought.

Again....another nonsensical statement....my like or dislike of this or any show has no bearing on whether or not other people may actually like it....good for them if they do!

Which is funny you even bring up "reviews and viewership data" as you were just hell-bent on your assertion that D+ is hemorrhaging subscribers....it's not...at worst it fluctuates based on the shows non-core subscribers.....which presently have apparently zero impact on Disney's willingness to create Star Wars content that will be guaranteed hits everytime...

Anyways.....I have to call it a night...sweet dreams Mister Bassett....

 

Edited Saturday at 04:50 AM by jvmacross

[Big s]

2 hours ago, jvmacross said:

Nope....but you are hitting the sauce hard tonight professor....I just said Star Wars is no longer just for kids as Lucas had originally purported it to be....you then went on a long manifesto that had nothing to do with that....

Honestly, I haven’t really seen anything on D+ that’s not really for kids other than some odd additions like the Deadpool and Alien stuff. Andor kinda sits on a line that’s more like young adult, but still kinda kiddish

[Seto Kaiba]

14 hours ago, Big s said:

Honestly, I haven’t really seen anything on D+ that’s not really for kids other than some odd additions like the Deadpool and Alien stuff. Andor kinda sits on a line that’s more like young adult, but still kinda kiddish

Disney makes no secret of the fact that they, like Lucas-era LucasFilm before them, tailor the Star Wars franchise's content to maintain a PG-13/TV-14 rating at most.  Even Andor, which has a more mature story than usual, is TV-14.  (The OT are rated PG, but that's because the PG-13 rating didn't exist until 1984.)

Kids aren't the only audience, but they are the PRIMARY audience for Star Wars and always have been.

[Big s]

3 hours ago, Seto Kaiba said:

  (The OT are rated PG, but that's because the PG-13 rating didn't exist until 1984.)

Pg was definitely a much lighter rating than it is today. I remember Clash of the titans as a kid with odd mixes of nudity and gore that was the stuff of nightmares for a young kid.

 

3 hours ago, Seto Kaiba said:

Kids aren't the only audience, but they are the PRIMARY audience for Star Wars and always have been.

I’m a little iffy on who the primary audience is, but it’s definitely the target audience for sure. I am sure that there are a lot of kids watching though and it’s probably gonna be one of those franchises that will be passed to the younger generations for a while 

[Seto Kaiba]

31 minutes ago, Big s said:

Pg was definitely a much lighter rating than it is today. I remember Clash of the titans as a kid with odd mixes of nudity and gore that was the stuff of nightmares for a young kid.

There's a good reason for that.  Prior to 1984, the PG rating in use was effectively equivalent to the PG-13 rating we use today.  The MPAA split it into the modern PG and PG-13 in 1984 based on audience feedback to make separate categories to denote films not suitable for small children vs. films not suitable for pre-teens.

 

31 minutes ago, Big s said:

I’m a little iffy on who the primary audience is, but it’s definitely the target audience for sure. I am sure that there are a lot of kids watching though and it’s probably gonna be one of those franchises that will be passed to the younger generations for a while 

Depending on if you ask Disney or George Lucas, the target age group is either 9-14, 10-14, or 12-14.

Probably not coincidentally, the cast of Skeleton Crew are 13-14 and their characters are written to be around the same age.  Relatable protagonists for the target demographic, I guess.

[Big s]

5 hours ago, Seto Kaiba said:

There's a good reason for that.  Prior to 1984, the PG rating in use was effectively equivalent to the PG-13 rating we use today.  The MPAA split it into the modern PG and PG-13 in 1984 based on audience feedback to make separate categories to denote films not suitable for small children vs. films not suitable for pre-teens.

I kinda feel like they should go back to the pg setting and just have the pg13 stuff there since most of the g rated stuff is more like 80’s pg stuff these days. Finding Nemo still has one of the highest kill counts in the first few minutes and leaves a child mutilated and motherless