Thankfully, this Disney+ series has a solid story to tell, even as it leans into the Reagan-era Easter eggs and borderline fanfiction territory.
, we meet our young hero, Wim . He is in a bedroom that looks an awful lot like one you might have found in any suburban house here on Earth in the Eighties, and he’s playing with a pair of dolls that are roughly the size and design of the action figures that Kenner released around the originalfilm trilogy. Wim and his best friend Neel have mock lightsaber battles while waiting for the bus to school.
Like suburban tales from any era or star system, the kids come from a variety of household types: Wim is a latchkey kid raised by his overworked father Wendle , Fern is a troublemaker who has to act squeaky-clean in front of her politician mother Fara , and Neel has a huge supportive family.
The early scenes do an effective job at establishing the temperaments of the four kids, and the sheltered nature of the world they inhabit. Butdoesn’t really take off, in either a literal or figurative sense, until Wim inadvertently gets the quartet stranded a long way from home, with only an abandoned pirate droid, SM-33 to help them survive territory far more hostile than anything they’ve even imagined, let alone experienced.
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