Andor actually feels like 4/5/6 Star Wars in long form. It's got some slow stretches, but most of why they are boring is because you're just waiting for another scene with Stellan Skarsgard.
Skarsgard has got a great character and interesting dialog, but he's also a really good actor. I remember first seeing him in Aberdeen, where he played a convincing drunk; he didn't look like an actor acting drunk he looked like he was actually a chronic alcoholic. There's usually some little movements or stance that belie the act.
I'm starting to feel like some of it is a ploy to draw you in, then like the Mandalorian it will turn to shit. If it turns out it's a single season show and it has a story that is appropriate as such, I'll watch it someday. For now, I just don't want to offer time to something they will screw with me later on.
I do think the others are right too, the bar has been lowered. I was sitting around with my Dad over the weekend with some old TV shows on, and I can't stop thinking watching them "can't say that anymore", "could you imagine a show today letting them do that", etc.
In a lot of ways it comes down to I have enough to watch anyway. They cut my interest by making crap to the point that I cut TV out so much and they will never get that time back.
I cancelled d plus in 21 and just read the old EU books and comics at this point (have 1-6 on dvd), but I’ve heard Andor was good and I think it would be a massive ratings hit had they not run off so many fans like myself
Pretty much sums up my feelings on the show too. to add, most of the good Star Wars stuff to come out of Disney is stuff that only loosely mention Jedi and sith. Andor, Rogue One, and Mando are the only good Star Wars things Disney has produced. Rebels and Bad Batch are decent.
but everything related to Jedi and sith that Disney has produced has been utter garbage. my guess is their focus groups identified lightsabers as being the coolest thing from Star Wars that everyone likes, so their marketing team says "do whatever but put lightsabers in it!". the result is some of the most uninspired "fan service" I have seen in a long time.
Rogue One was supposed to be an episode of a series that was in production and then on hold prior to the Disney acquisition. Then it got re-pitched afterwards and ended up as a standalone movie. It kind of straddles both eras. I wouldn't give Disney credit for it. At least not full credit.
There are rumors of a season 2 coming next year that will connect it to the Rogue One movie. I also only recently watched it and was pleasantly surprised, I had thought Star Wars a lost cause.
Was it really that good or did you lower your standards to such a degree that you've started to look away from all the DEI crap?
Hyper security prison meets leaky water pipe.
Andor actually feels like 4/5/6 Star Wars in long form. It's got some slow stretches, but most of why they are boring is because you're just waiting for another scene with Stellan Skarsgard.
Skarsgard has got a great character and interesting dialog, but he's also a really good actor. I remember first seeing him in Aberdeen, where he played a convincing drunk; he didn't look like an actor acting drunk he looked like he was actually a chronic alcoholic. There's usually some little movements or stance that belie the act.
I'm starting to feel like some of it is a ploy to draw you in, then like the Mandalorian it will turn to shit. If it turns out it's a single season show and it has a story that is appropriate as such, I'll watch it someday. For now, I just don't want to offer time to something they will screw with me later on.
I do think the others are right too, the bar has been lowered. I was sitting around with my Dad over the weekend with some old TV shows on, and I can't stop thinking watching them "can't say that anymore", "could you imagine a show today letting them do that", etc.
In a lot of ways it comes down to I have enough to watch anyway. They cut my interest by making crap to the point that I cut TV out so much and they will never get that time back.
I cancelled d plus in 21 and just read the old EU books and comics at this point (have 1-6 on dvd), but I’ve heard Andor was good and I think it would be a massive ratings hit had they not run off so many fans like myself
Pretty much sums up my feelings on the show too. to add, most of the good Star Wars stuff to come out of Disney is stuff that only loosely mention Jedi and sith. Andor, Rogue One, and Mando are the only good Star Wars things Disney has produced. Rebels and Bad Batch are decent.
but everything related to Jedi and sith that Disney has produced has been utter garbage. my guess is their focus groups identified lightsabers as being the coolest thing from Star Wars that everyone likes, so their marketing team says "do whatever but put lightsabers in it!". the result is some of the most uninspired "fan service" I have seen in a long time.
Bitch, Kyle Katarn did all of that shit simply as his FIRST mission as a merc hired by the Rebellion.
Not saying it was better than EU, but it was a well-written story that slotted well into the original trilogy in a vacuum.
>Rogue One
>Disney
Sort of. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Star_Wars_television_series#Underworld
Rogue One was supposed to be an episode of a series that was in production and then on hold prior to the Disney acquisition. Then it got re-pitched afterwards and ended up as a standalone movie. It kind of straddles both eras. I wouldn't give Disney credit for it. At least not full credit.
that explains a lot
It’s because they were using Space AKs aka RayK47s :
https://nypost.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/08/andor-ak47-weapon-99.jpg?quality=75&strip=all
There are rumors of a season 2 coming next year that will connect it to the Rogue One movie. I also only recently watched it and was pleasantly surprised, I had thought Star Wars a lost cause.