What an absolutely perfect depiction of this universe. I’m starting the second episode of season 1 now.
It’s brilliant not only because it hits all bases on the little details (>!like the citizens of Ferrix making noise to make their police lose focus!<) as well as the bigger picture (>!the importance of fighting against fascist regimes, and how even neutral people like Andor was at first can and will get screwed over!<).
It is absolutely mind blowing to me that Andor, the least hyped up series of the Star Wars universe, turned out to be the single best offering from Disney for the franchise in decades.
It’s the best Star Wars since Star Wars
Andor does politics the way Lucas wished he could have.
I can’t want to have my wife watch it before season 2. I think she, the generally ambivalent to the Wars, will like it a lot.
Yea, I thought halfway into episode 1 this isn’t a good Star wars show, this is just a good show.
Brethren I thought it was going to be a 3 episode series, so when episode 3 ended I told my GF at the time “give this man ALL the Star Wars, I need moooore!” only to discover there were 9 more episodes coming!
The best Star Wars content in YEARS since Rogue One, which, ironically, was directed by the same guy.
Ironically? Nay, purposefully.
The only thing I really hate is they did the prequel nonsense again. Disney doesn’t trust that they can do anything original. So instead of a new character, they take a well received character from a previous movie and make a prequel which itself was a prequel. At this rate, they’ll take a character from Andor like Sirkis and make the next series a prequel for his character.
It diminishes the story if you’ve already seen the ending.
It also isn’t a formula for success, look at Ahsoka. No amount of nostalgia can save bad writing and directing.
I think that’s even more of a testament to what good writing, acting, and directing can do. And a harsh indictment of the Star Wars DU as a whole. Bad set direction and blocking in Obi Wan. Turning Ahsoka into a live action Rebels, complete with childish dialogue and an absolute lack of verisimilitude. Book of Boba Fett having complete tonal shifts, not just episode to episode, but scene to scene. Shoot, i wish Disney would finally film and release Episode IX, just so we could have a completion of the sequels.
Sorry to say, but the “second coming” that is Dave Filoni is a pox on the franchise. He took the worst of Lucas’s indulgent tendencies (world building over character building, crappy dialogue, aiming solely at kids, elevating Campbellian mythology into quackery like midichlorians and space whales) and somehow managed to take over the whole franchise. I simply cannot fathom the loyalty of the fan base to this guy, barring those who grew up with cartoons and the typical misogynistic knee jerk to Kathleen Kennedy. He has churned out 4 series of pure shite
Andor and TLJ were bright spots but I’ve more or less moved on from Star Wars. Let them earn back my interest. In the interim, I’ll continue to slay in the fantastic Dark Forces remaster
Harsher than I would say is necessary, but agreed that Filoni has created more issues than he’s solved in live action. Maybe it was partly still crawling out of the COVID mindset, but Ahsoka felt so oddly small, both as a story and a production. Give him twice as many episodes to let the characters breathe in between the world building, and the relative freedom from production restrictions that you get in animation, and it would have been better.
Gilroy told a smaller story, but somehow it felt more expansive. The money was spent in ways that made it feel right, and when they needed to dial it back? Boom: arc in a plastic prison, instead of traveling to a completely different galaxy only to film in one sand dune and one hallway.
Andor only gets better and better - savor it like a fine wine, scotch, cigar, chocolate, or delicacy - don’t binge it
Okay, I am settled in and paying excruciating attention to it right now haha.
I can’t promise anything about not binging it, but I’m definitely giving it the respect the production deserves.
Enjoy it :)