The best version of Star Wars probably exists inside the mind of a child. When kids in 1977 wanted Star Wars action figures for Christmas, they couldn’t get them (yet), so an empty box could be purchased instead. By many accounts, kids relied on their Star Wars imaginations — and the box became a hit. When Obi-Wan Kenobi casually mentioned to Luke Skywalker that he “fought in the Clone Wars,” the hazy version of that conflict wasn’t necessarily better than when we saw that onscreen two decades later, but it was purer. Whatever you dreamed could be happening at the fringes of what was seen in Star Wars was not only cool as hell, it was cool precisely because it was hidden.

The latest Star Wars TV series hitting Disney+ — Skeleton Crew — is the most valiant effort on the part of the franchise to capture this exact paradox. The show aims to give us all the Star Wars toy box, but also leave us longing for more. The trailers have not conveyed the true Skeleton Crew vibe, probably because the show is trying to keep a few secrets close to its space vest. But here’s why Skeleton Crew is better than anyone expected and why you should be excited to watch it with a Star Wars newbie. It feels like you’re playing Star Wars, only this time, with pirates.

DC is weird. Of the two big comic book publishers, DC’s most famous heroes are older than Marvel’s; DC’s Superman predates Captain America by three years, Batman has 23 years on Spider-Man, and when Wolverine first showed up in 1974, Wonder Woman had been around for three decades.

But again, DC is weird. Even though the newly rebooted DC Studios has the most venerable, beloved, and established superheroes in the business, its first offering is a group of rag-tag anti-heroes that nobody has heard of, aren’t remotely aspirational, and feel like benchwarmers for The Suicide Squad. The show is the new animated HBO Max series Creature Commandos, the first official installment in the new DCU, created and written by James Gunn.

And if you’ve seen other James Gunn superhero stuff, namely Guardians of the Galaxy and the 2021 film Suicide Squad, then you know exactly what this show is like. Snarky characters, depressing things happening to outcasts and mutants, amoral government organizations, violence, violence violence, and a one-liner every 30 seconds. It all works, mostly, and Creature Commandos is certainly a must-watch series for DC diehards. But if this was supposed to be such a big reboot for the entire DCU continuity, why does it feel so familiar?

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