Skeleton Crew's sixth episode managed to show that differences between two groups of friends aren't always different from the differences between two groups of pirates. Sometimes the one in charge isn't a good listener. Jod avoided an airlock execution and the kids managed to stay off a scrap heap and away from killer crabs. "Zero Friends Again" won't likely be called the favorite episode of the series, but it has plenty going for it. Just two episodes remain for the "core four" to get home and ...
Jan 01, 2025•11 min•Season 3Ep. 174
It's the end of the year and Disney and Lucasfilm hope Star Wars content will increase in 2025 with successful streaming and more coming down the pipeline. December saw Skeleton Crew off to a strong start in households that hold family viewing valuable. Will more movies suffer the fate of those that have been announced in the past only to fade from the spotlight because Disney and/or Lucasfilm aren't enjoying the vision of their handpicked creators? Ahsoka hasn't started filming a season two, bu...
Dec 31, 2024•14 min•Season 3Ep. 173
The Skeleton Crew might refer to more than just Jod, SM-33, and the "core four" on the Onyx Cinder. Many of the crew, as it so happens, are now skeletons. Some people try losing weight at spas, but Lanupa is built on a pirate's lair, so you know, there are those who really are just bones. The magic of a youthful journey in space is starting to wear thin for Wim, who misses home. Fern's attitude has finally cost her captainship, though ironically it's not really her fault when it actually happens...
Dec 29, 2024•1 hr 4 min•Season 3Ep. 172
Skeleton Crew's fourth episode brought us to the halfway point of the first season, but it didn't leave all young viewers with a feeling of anticipation and excitement. Episode five, "You Have A Lot To Learn About Pirates" starts off the downhill portion by solving riddles and puzzles and giving us what we didn't even know we wanted. Other Star Wars shows have given us Muuns before, but Skeleton Crew makes it feel right. Tak Rennod is even better than Dash Rendar, in my opinion, but maybe Lucasf...
Dec 27, 2024•10 min•Season 3Ep. 171
How many times have we heard "Can't Say I Remember No At Attin" through four episodes of the Skeleton Crew? It's almost like they wanted us to know there was something to it. While This is the Way Podcast made an educated guess to what would be the key to unlocking SM-33's memory, the planet name really was At Attin. The foreshadowing came from the "Jedi Mind Trick" or rather the "Fern Droid Memory Override" bit. Best to stand back when reprogramming murderous pirate sidekicks. Episode 4 of Skel...
Dec 21, 2024•50 min•Season 3Ep. 170
Tuesday night releases aren't great for parents who value school night rests for the kids that are supposed to be the target audience for Skeleton Crew. Oh, I know Rocky Mountain and Pacific "only" have a 7 pm or 6 pm stream release. Eastern is the one that should matter most because it's first. Disney Plus and Lucasfilm are really making it difficult to build the hype in this house. It was Wednesday night that This is the Way Podcast HQ had the debut for "Can't Say I Remember No At Attin" and o...
Dec 19, 2024•12 min•Season 3Ep. 169
Who made the mistake at Disney Plus and typed in "astrogRation" instead of "astrogation" and does it really matter? Is At-Attin the treasure planet from "Treasure Planet" or are the people of the last remaining "jewel of the Old Republic" just money changers? Is Jod a former Jedi? What was going on between Crimson Jack and Kh'ymm? Can we just call her an owlcat or is that too easy? Will Fern ever stop trying to be like her mom? Will Wim ever grow up? Will Nooma get Neel some nasal strips for tha...
Dec 17, 2024•1 hr 5 min•Season 3Ep. 168
This is the Way Podcast's special Skeleton Crew guest co-host once again gives her take on how the show looks and feels to a younger audience. We may not be able to call it "space navigation" anymore, after seeing and looking up the meaning of the title. It makes sense, except...should we be calling it navi-GRATION? Prepare to be amazed as we learn the new-old name (names plural?) of the pirate captain previously known as Captain Silvo, now known to us as Jod Na Nawood, but once upon a time or t...
Dec 15, 2024•17 min•Season 3Ep. 167
This is the Way Podcast's 166th episode is the Skeleton Crew season one, episode two recap and discussion cast. "Way, Way Out Past The Barrier" gets the deep dive treatment and theories about what might be hidden on At-Attin start to take shape. Is it "Atlantis" or "El Dorado" or a cloning facility or zillo beast laboratory? The second episode has an actual runtime 18 minutes shorter than the premiere, but it isn't burdened with introducing every character and gets right to piratey goodness. Our...
Dec 10, 2024•53 min•Season 3Ep. 166
ARRRRRRRRRRRRE you STILL looking for a pirate adventure in a galaxy far, far away? This is the Way Podcast has now watched both available episodes of Skeleton Crew (as of December 7th, 2024) and keeping a level head may get tougher if they continue to produce family friendly content. If you're looking for a full recap and discussion, that will come next. This is a general review of the episode with some input from someone representing the "target audience" for Star Wars, at least historically ac...
Dec 08, 2024•12 min•Season 3Ep. 165
I'm not sure if Disney and Lucasfilm expected Skeleton Crew to be a hit or not. I don't really concern myself with numbers and percentages. I'm only concerned with the reception inside my own home.This might have brought my oldest daughter from "I don't care about Star Wars" to "Hey, this isn't that bad. When is the next episode?" I DEFINITELY didn't expect that, but I'm here for it! "This Could Be A Real Adventure" has the elements of a good story. I have to temper my expectations, because Luca...
Dec 07, 2024•1 hr 8 min•Season 3Ep. 166
ARRRRRRRRRRRRE you looking for a pirate adventure in a galaxy that is not close to the Milky Way? You're in luck! Jon Watts used his time with Jon Favreau on the sets of the most recent trilogy of Spider-Man movies well, because that's where Skeleton Crew was pitched. Two episodes are now available on Disney Plus (as of December 2nd, 2024) and it feels like Lucasfilm finally avoided another strikeout and may have an extra bases hit on their hands. If you're looking for a full recap and discussio...
Dec 04, 2024•20 min•Season 3Ep. 163
It's the holiday season and Disney and Lucasfilm are on the verge of a new show's debut. December will see the start of Skeleton Crew and hopes are high that it will offer family fun, especially at This is the Way Podcast Headquarters. Andor is on the horizon, set for April 2025, but there isn't much news, just hype, which it really doesn't need. There is some video game news and a couple collectible offerings from the Gift the Galaxy Hasbro campaign. Are you gifting yourself or others tickets o...
Nov 30, 2024•13 min•Season 3Ep. 162
The 12th of November is the anniversary of Disney Plus. It's also the day (five years ago) that The Mandalorian started streaming on the service. It also happens to be the 5th anniversary of This is the Way Podcast. Sure, it's had a couple different names, but the host that started it all is still here and Star Wars has always been the main focus. From news updates to show recaps to collectibles to interviews, @thisisthewaypod has been steadily covering a galaxy far, far away with great anticipa...
Nov 13, 2024•14 min•Season 3Ep. 161
Sometimes Star Wars news is easy to find. Disney and Lucasfilm offer it up because it's part of a marketing push. Sometimes it's impossible to find. Disney and Lucasfilm don't want some things to get out. Sometimes news about shows leaks because Todd didn't realize Hasbro was going to release product information a month earlier because sales were down. This month we talk about Skeleton Crew characters and two possible place names. We talk Andor and some good news about that great show. We talk g...
Oct 31, 2024•34 min•Season 3Ep. 160
Vader is gone. The voice of Vader, James Earl Jones passed early in the month and it is by far the most newsworthy item on the list for this episode of This is the Way Podcast's Star Wars News Update. Jones is a legend and his work and the awards given speak to that. He will be missed, but remember, thanks to an agreement he made a few years back, his iconic voice can still be heard. Though the news of his passing loomed large, the amount of news notes is small in September. There's a small gami...
Sep 29, 2024•17 min•Season 3Ep. 161
The Acolyte will not get a second season. It's not the kind of thing to rejoice about, except...it is a little. Common sense and good content don't matter as much as actual money to business people that bankroll television shows and giving Leslye Headland $180 million turns out to be exactly the kind of mistake critics had been saying since news started leaking about the direction the show would take Star Wars. It's not really that Lucasfilm WANTS to admit it. They just accept it. If only some f...
Aug 30, 2024•24 min•Season 3Ep. 158
The summer of Star Wars is coming to a close now that The Acolyte's first and so far only season is also complete. You will have to go elsewhere for full coverage because this podcast decided if there's nothing nice to say, we better not say anything. Kind of like politics these days... Next up is probably Skeleton Crew, then Andor's second (and final) season, and The Mandalorian and Grogu movie. There's no earth shaking announcements out of San Diego Comic Con, at least on the visual media side...
Jul 31, 2024•30 min•Season 3Ep. 157
It's a summer of Star Wars? Well, not really, but The Acolyte started streaming this month and that's something new. Is this podcast covering the show? You could say yes or no depending on your point of view. What's more Star Wars than that? Gamers and collectors and Disney World parkgoers have something to listen to in the June news update and even if you don't like The Acolyte, you can get excited for Andor and the upcoming Skeleton Crew live action series! If you have questions or comments or...
Jun 30, 2024•27 min•Season 3Ep. 156
May 2024 comes to a close and This is the Way Podcast wraps up another month with another Star Wars news update podcast. The Bad Batch is done. The Acolyte is about to debut. Skeleton Crew has the same initials as "Santa Claus" and Tohan Lege is not that hard to say, especially if you're Stephen Stanton. Hot Toys are expensive. The toy Dejarik table is about as hard to get as a real one right now. Oh, and if you haven't played LEGO Fortnite, it's FREE TO PLAY, if you didn't know, and it has ligh...
Jun 01, 2024•22 min•Season 155Ep. 3
It's another very special episode of This is the Way Podcast. Make sure there's a tape in the recorder and you have the correct channel on the VCR. Two years ago it was my dad. Last year, my oldest daughter. This year, my youngest. "May the Fourth be with you" this year as the "baby" of the family gets a chance to speak her mind about Star Wars. Don't expect a marathon of an episode. The purpose isn't to exhaust the listeners with the host's own children, but to share how Star Wars is thought ab...
May 04, 2024•9 min•Season 3Ep. 154
The April 2024 Star Wars news update episode stars off with a "my bad" as a result of constructive listener feedback. That's not a joke or a set up for a punch line. I have become overtly negative in my criticism of The Acolyte. I'm not suggesting there's reasons for me to be positive, but the old adage about not saying anything at all if you can't say something nice does have merit here. Why turn off potential listeners who disagree by laughing and expressing my hope for failure? Collectibles.....
Apr 30, 2024•38 min•Season 3Ep. 153
March 2024's news update episode is available just before the end of the month, but it's Easter weekend, so it might be a slight gamble that something big doesn't come from Lucasfilm or Disney this weekend, but not as big a risk as The Acolyte action figures getting announced before anyone knows what kind of show it will be. Even the "Holocomm" collectibles seem a safer bet, but then again, it doesn't get much better than Darth Vader. Wait a second...are we LEADING the notes with collectibles? Y...
Mar 30, 2024•23 min•Season 3Ep. 152
This is the Way Podcast reached the 150 episode mark with the "Star Wars Podcast Day" episode earlier in February, but our news update for the month ticks in just before the close of the month on Leap Day. Carl, Cara, Cassian...video games coming and video games cancelled...hot collectibles and not so hot off the presses park news. February is a short month, but somehow we spent more than three and one half minutes more on the news this month than in January. The Bad Batch third and final season...
Feb 29, 2024•29 min•Season 3Ep. 151
It's that time once again! #StarWarsPodcastDay2024 and This is the Way Podcast is observing it with a background episode on the host. This episode was commissioned for Star Wars Podcast Day 2024 which this year is being observed by a record number of podcasts (more than 100 for the second year in a row). It happens yearly on February 7th, which commemorates the first Star Wars centered podcast debut in 1999. That means this is the 25th year of podcasting about Star Wars even if it's only the fou...
Feb 07, 2024•50 min•Season 3Ep. 150
New Year, same great news coverage from This is the Way Podcast! Disney Plus live action Star Wars shows aren't "coming soon" but January saw an official greenlight for a second season of Ahsoka and a new "The Mandalorian and Grogu" movie. Will there be a season four of The Mandalorian? That news would have to come in a future news update podcast. The Bad Batch third and final season is coming next month (February 21st) and finishes up before this year's May the Fourth. Star Wars Podcast Day 202...
Jan 29, 2024•25 min•Season 3Ep. 149
Disney Plus live action Star Wars shows have been on hiatus since Ahsoka wrapped and will be until 2024. Four shows await releases during the year. Andor's second season isn't one of them. There is a little bit of gamer news and some collectors items going on sale. There is no year in review because your This is the Way Podcast host has had an awful final quarter of the year. Here's hoping we're brought some Death Star plans. Help finish off the year with episode 148. It's not too long and we tr...
Dec 31, 2023•17 min•Season 3Ep. 152
Star Wars was dealing with two strikes, but there's a new count now that Dave Filoni is in creative control at Lucasfilm. No, Kathleen Kennedy didn't get fired, but it does seem like having one person in control will be better than the story group that has been making Star Wars awful. Will Filoni make it great again? We have to wait and watch. Disney Plus Star Wars content is still on hiatus and news isn't great for gamers. Collectors are collecting thanks to the holiday season, which reminds us...
Nov 28, 2023•29 min
If you're looking for a host that will put a positive spin on any criticism of Ahsoka and overlook the awful plotting, bad writing, and focus on only the highlights, then you may want to skip this episode of This is the Way Podcast. Disney's purchase of LucasFilm has finally "broken" the host and as a day one Disney Plus subscriber, cancelling the service felt like defeat. Hey! Something in common with Sabine and Ahsoka in the show! Thrawn is no military genius. That's not what we saw. Sabine sh...
Nov 12, 2023•1 hr 33 min•Season 3Ep. 150
One strike is over, another might be coming to an end, but Disney Plus Star Wars content is going on hiatus no matter what. It will be months before The Acolyte or Skeleton Crew appears on the streaming service, so I hope you like video game and collectible news! Yes, This is the Way Podcast STILL hasn't finished with Ahsoka, the series, but hey, do we need to rush? The host has a new outlook on life after a major surgery in the family. Prayers always appreciated. What's your Star Wars costume o...
Oct 29, 2023•18 min
