I haven't watched Andor myself, but I heard it's not bad. I think there is two reasons it bombed.
1: Disney has destroyed a lot of the excitement and love people have for SW. The Mandolorian brought some people back after the awful sequel trilogy, but a lot of that goodwill was erased with the two following live-action shows, Boba Fett and Kenobi. Boba Fett was mostly mediocre outside of a few good parts. Kenobi was awful, and the company openly calling fans racists created a lot of
bad feelings in the Star Wars fanbase.
Nobody cares about this character. He was a forgettable character from a movie people have already stopped caring about.
This is why I think Disney's current strategy, just taking brands people already know and love, using them as nostalgia bait, and churning out half-assed content is short-sighted. Yes, they might make a lot of money in the short-term. But when the nostalgia runs out (and it will eventually), people will leave, and they have no new IPs to replace the ones they ruined because they've spent years just making crappy sequels, spinoffs, and reboots to actually good movies and shows.
I think SW is just the first, I and that Marvel and the series of live-action remakes will go this way too at some point.
Calling SW a dead brand is not a statement about the current product, it's a statement that the current product doesn't even matter because of everything that came before.
I haven't watched Andor myself, but I heard it's not bad. I think there is two reasons it bombed.
1: Disney has destroyed a lot of the excitement and love people have for SW. The Mandolorian brought some people back after the awful sequel trilogy, but a lot of that goodwill was erased with the two following live-action shows, Boba Fett and Kenobi. Boba Fett was mostly mediocre outside of a few good parts. Kenobi was awful, and the company openly calling fans racists created a lot of bad feelings in the Star Wars fanbase.
This is why I think Disney's current strategy, just taking brands people already know and love, using them as nostalgia bait, and churning out half-assed content is short-sighted. Yes, they might make a lot of money in the short-term. But when the nostalgia runs out (and it will eventually), people will leave, and they have no new IPs to replace the ones they ruined because they've spent years just making crappy sequels, spinoffs, and reboots to actually good movies and shows. I think SW is just the first, I and that Marvel and the series of live-action remakes will go this way too at some point.
The best star wars content was that short with a space samurai that they didn't even make.
I have not heard of this...
It's on disney+ there's a bunch of them all done by different indie studios
Calling SW a dead brand is not a statement about the current product, it's a statement that the current product doesn't even matter because of everything that came before.