I didn't watch it when it came out because I was already souring on Star Wars and I pretty much forgot about it, but I've been playing a Star Wars EU based custom DND style tabletop with some buddies for a few weeks and one of them gave me a thumb drive with Andor on it.
It was pretty fucking good. And that's what leads me to being disappointed. It's like having a glimpse of what could have been but wasn't. Even at its "height" of Mandalorian Season 1, Disney Star Wars tv shows were nothing more than normieslop, and got progressively worse from there. I stopped watching after season 2 and only dipped back in to watch Ahsoka because I liked Rebels, and it was the worst thing I've ever seen. All of this was on the high seas of course.
But the here's this relatively obscure show that most people didn't even watch ending up having the best writing out of anything Disney Star Wars produced. And of course it's ignored in favor of more DEI slop like Acolyte. Andor will probably never get a season 2, if it does they'll almost certainly fuck it up, and the entire Star Wars tv show experiment will be remembered like a wet fart during a job interview. All the while, Andor shows that there was at least at one point, a chance for it to have been more, but was deliberately steered away from that by malicious actors at the top.
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
>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