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Funnily, both starred Ben Mendelsohn.
So what we know is that when Ben Mendelsohn plays the villain, it’s a success!
So what we know is that when Ben Mendelsohn plays the villain, it’s a success!
Freaky Tales doesn’t buckle that trend either. He’s a great villain!
For someone totally out of the loop, what does this mean?
It means Andor was excellent and Secret Invasion was hot garbage.
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I mean they did have to accelerate to Rogue One in the number of episodes they were given.
The last episodes were done very well in my opinion. It covered the rest of how much tyranny harms itself and creates the links necessary for Rogue One and a New Hope.
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https://comicbook.com/tv-shows/news/andor-season-2-creator-tony-gilroy-scrapped-five-season-plan/
He tells the story quite differently. Sounds to me you heard it was supposed to be 5 seasons and started looking for problems. The entire series had tons of nothing side characters given unusually deep characterization, it’s been a hallmark of Gilroy’s style. I genuinely have no idea what you’re talking about with the production quality of the last episodes.
They had 5 seasons originally?
Goddamn bullshit we got fucking robbed. That is so much story there they could have done.
I thought they did the giant jumps in time in the series because they didn’t have good stuff, but it’s because Disney fucking sucks. Yay.
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So wait, is Andor still worth a watch? If the ending is broken like you describe, is it still satisfying to watch until the end?
The ending is great, don’t listen to the haters. The decision to stop after a second season wasn’t some penny pinching assault on creativity. Even when the plan was 5 seasons, some actors said they wanted their characters to be done after 2. Diego Luna was on Kimmel recently talking about his lack of desire to stay comitted to 5 seasons of a show that takes so long to produce a single season.
So instead of the typical stuff where streamers string us along with short 6-7 episode seasons, we got 12 total episodes that basically played like 4 small movies.
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Very much so. It’s the most gritty Star Wars since Rogue One (unsurprisingly since it’s the same story).
I went back to watching the Mandalorian after finishing Andor and it isn’t as good in comparison, it’s too Disneyfied (I maintain that the show was created for the express purpose of selling Baby Yoda merch).
The first season of Andor is some of the best TV I have ever watched. Its incredibly well done.
The second season is still good, just not great. Apparently there were originally supposed to be 5 seasons, and it kind of shows that they compacted it all into two. The highs of season 2 are on par with season 1, but its just not as consistently excellent.
The ending isn’t a grand finale, but it can’t be. The grand finale is Rogue One. I didn’t have a problem with it because I always had RO in mind as the last, extra long episode.
1000% still worth a watch. Easily the best Star Wars content to have come out in the Disney era by a mile.
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what is “GoT’d”?
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I don’t think it’s anywhere near that bad to be honest.
Game of Thrones’d.
Just to expand on the concept, Andor was a quality show that demonstrated the IP still has life. It is compelling and well-made, bringing viewers to Star Wars at a time when most enthusiasts are tired of terrible movies.
There are many parallels between Star Wars and the MCU.
that demonstrated the IP still has life
By making a completely out of the norm series, focused on a side character from an non-main movie, and not using anything that identifies the universe.
It demonstrated that even Disney can make something good once in a while, but it didn’t do anything to the Star Wars IP.
I’m indifferent to whether or not Disney can revive Star Wars (or Marvel for that matter). I’ve enjoyed the nostalgia and the excitement of it all, and the disappointment of watching a crappy movie (or four) doesn’t outweight the fun of Star Wars for me. We’ve seen all the things we could have imagined when we were kids and full of imagination. Heroes fought villains. Characters matured and died. Villages were destroyed, universes saved.
The thrill of seeing those stories come to life is gone.
So the question remains, is there any point to Star Wars anymore? Are there stories worth telling beyond skweeyoosh fwoom fwoom kszzrt? Or is every new story a retread of the original? The sequels strongly suggested the latter, but Andor proves that it’s still all about the writing. Good writing cab cover a lot of deficiencies. Andor would be a good show even if it wasn’t connected to Star Wars, because it is made by people who want it to be good and know how to make it good.
But it is a Star Wars property, and it does add to the universe. It does make me want more shows like it, more Star Wars. As long as it’s good.
and not using anything that identifies the universe.
Well, to be fair, it does have stormtroopers and they do say “may the force be with you” to each other.
Aged like raw sewage.
