Not as much "turned off", as indifferent.
A Star Wars version of "Goonies" isn't really a selling point for many of us.
A cast of kid actors doesn't exactly excite.
Disney's SW has proven its not worth our time- over & over.
"Turned off" is the same as being indifferent. i.e., disinterested, fatigued, tired, etc, as the synonyms go.
A lot have been "turned off" in general from Disney's Star Wars. The sequel trilogy did a lot of damage. The damage has been compounded by the lacklustre TBOBF, OWK and
Acolyte.
Andor and
The Mandalorian are highlights though the latter is patchy, with a definite decline in the third series. While
Ahsoka is divisive I rate it highly.
Skeleton Crew is up there. There's a lot of influences behind its creation, '80s movies being a large part of that along with the earliest Marvel Star Wars comics.
The Goonies was a major inspiration, of course. Beyond the obvious similarities the creators made sure to cement the connection with
Rennod being an anadrome of
Donner.
The Goonies was inspired in part by
Raiders of the Lost Ark, which in turn was inspired by the cliffhanger serials from the 1930s to early '50s, which also gave rise to
Star Wars.
The creators of
Skeleton Crew are on record saying that they didn't look to the EU for ideas as much as old pirate movies. The AI overview for
The Goonies says it was inspired by the Santo Cristo de Burgos, a Spanish galleon that sank off the coast of Oregon in 1693, but the production design team also drew inspiration from the 1940 Errol Flynn film
The Sea Hawk.
The whole thing may sound like madness, and it can be if you don't accept the very 'piratey' designs and influences that are everywhere in
Skeleton Crew, though everything slots neatly into the Star Wars universe, which has been derivative of our own world since the start.
Skeleton Crew manages to pull the influences together and tell a story and show a way of life that's been neglected in favour of the bigger picture, though it'll likely be connected in some way.
I like the seamier side of Star Wars - the world of smugglers and pirates as opposed to the Jedi/Sith - and the more 'down to earth' elements of normal protagonists living seemingly normal lives that we can relate to, until they're thrust into a world of adventure.
Luke had a normal, dull life too, though his relatable world was a desert with danger posed by 'Bedouin' raiders, rather than an apparently safe if unnervingly cloistered suburbia.
My concern is that it'll link directly to the sequel trilogy as another way of trying to force that abomination on us again.
