I’m far too young to make first-hand references to “How Ya Gonna Keep ’em Down on the Farm (After They’ve Seen Paree?),” but I like the sentiment of the World War I era banger, because it refers to something we ponder as viewers and critics.
After Disney+ and Star Wars proved the nuance and maturity possible in a series like Andor, how do you go back to shows that are just fun or cute or entertaining? It’s not a fair comparison! Andor was great, but Skeleton Crew mostly lived up to its own aspirations. Who’s to say that a serious-minded semi-Marxist critique of economic desperation and the rise of fascism in the Star Wars universe is somehow harder than transplanting the 1980s Amblin sensibility to the same universe? Or somehow better? It’s nice to have both, darn it.
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