Working from a story about a rag-tag crew of makeshift pirates bouncing between solar systems, searching for home and adventure at once, Jon Watts and Christopher Ford's fantasy series can seemingly go anywhere and do anything.

How do you bring childlike wonder back to Star Wars, a franchise whose TV offerings are currently plagued with mindless fan service and unfortunate creative decisions? According to Star Wars: Skeleton Crew,

"Star Wars" has always been, on some level, for children. That's neither condescension nor criticism: George Lucas created a swashbuckling fairy tale set in space, and its mantle has been taken up by successive generations of filmmakers who encountered it at a formative age.