It feels like a Timothy Zahn novel
This is a great video essay, thank you for sharing, I’ve subscribed.
The video’s unavailable, but personally, I wouldn’t call Andor a masterpiece by any stretch. It was long, drawn-out, and a story that would have been better told in half the time. (Though the jailbreak was spectacular.) Not having K2 also robbed the series of badly needed comic relief.
Andor was Star Wars for Christopher Nolan fans, and without the Force, the Sith, the and the Jedi, it just didn’t feel like it had the magic.
I disagree entirely. It told 3 cohesive stories revolving around our main characters. It had the look, it had the feel, it had the production chops, the love and care of a team that wanted to make something IN the Star Wars universe.
The movies have always been about Jedi, space magic, etc etc. but not everything in Star Wars needs to be this. This show did so well and gained tons of fans BEACAUSE it did not have these things. Also they never pretended this show would be anything other than what it is. If you went into it expecting the force, lightsabers, jedi and sith, then you came to the wrong show.
I can see where @FlashMobOfOne@lemmy.world and @BigFig are coming from with their perspectives. I greatly enjoyed Andor for what it was, i.e. a mature show set in the Star Wars universe.
I agree with you quite a bit. I just don’t think Cassian is very interesting, nothing against Diego at all it’s just that he’s pretty flat and colorless. They certainly needed some comic relief, maybe not jokey like K but at least a little bit more color. There were some great moments but towards the end I was getting totally sick of all the under the breath scheming, descriptions of past events that we never really saw, and pretty much all the Kenari shit I just didn’t care about.
