The creator of Disney’s canceled Star Wars series believes fan-driven commentary now shapes the franchise more than the movies themselves.
The creator of Disney’s canceled Star Wars series believes fan-driven commentary now shapes the franchise more than the movies themselves.
No, don’t worry, not as bad as Mando. And again, plenty of people praise Andor S2 even beyond S1, so, don’t get discouraged by just my opinion.
For me, the first arc was just… Bad. For multiple reasons, which you will discover. The second arc gets a lot better, the 3rd I actually really enjoyed and the 4th was… Ok.
Again. To me.
Discussing this without spoilers is difficult, but in very general terms: I feel like they threw overboard too much of the gritty realism for “cool” character moments. Instead of logically motivated decisions, things happen because plot. Chances for character development are squandered left and right. Everything is rushed (because apparently this should have been 4 seasons, not 4 arcs?), except when it is super dragged out for no reason. This deals a blow to the impact of scenes, because characters have no time to react to devastating occurrences. And, while petty, I have to mention it: the set design got way worse, esp. in arc 1, but also sometimes later on. Extremely obvious greenscreen/the volume scenes for scenes where it would have been trivial to find onsite locations.
It is still the best star wars out there, just… A 6.5/10 instead off 11/10.
In my personal opinion.
Thanks for this. I’m happy to know it’s still passable for you. Just sad to know they couldn’t keep it up. Unbelievable that they wouldnt approve 4 seasons or front the cash for good set design.
I thought it was better than passable. It just kind of wandered around for the first few episodes, which they would have been better off not doing to make the most of the few episodes left. But, I loved how theh wrapped it up and then I went and found a fan edit of Andor that edited Rogue One in the style of Andor splitting it into episodes and changing the ost to one less campy sounding to finish it out.
Yeah… But at the same time, they didn’t HAVE to do 4 arcs and to catch up to Rogue One. They could have just made one arc into a season and given it the room to breathe.
Edit: there are seriously great sets in the Season, which just makes the… Suboptimal… Ones stand out.