I had a friend recently recommend the Obi-Wan Kenobi show to me, giving me the same spiel. I watched it, and was ALL THE WAY back out of Star Wars after watching it. It was awful. Truly abysmal. I like that he liked it, it honestly brings me joy when someone really likes a thing. But I just assumed Andor was going to be another Obi-Wan Kenobi.
Same EXACT scenario as me. My brothers were telling me Obi-Wan was high quality, after already convincing me there were parts of Boba Fett worth watching (there were not). They were both awful with basically no redeeming qualities. The absolute epitome of "we made these not because there was a good reason to, but because we think it will maintain subscribers between other content".
Andor is truly unique and probably the only Star Wars worth giving a shit about in the Disney era.
It's basically a space western / lone wolf and cub in Star Wars. I think the main appeal of it comes from it being the 1st SW TV show, and the mystery of how it will fit into existing canon, which is all very fan service adjacent stuff. IMO it is no where as good as Andor. There's a bit of world building around the Mandolorians, but that's mostly in the same category. Basically, if you were really into the KotOR games, you might enjoy enough. If you aren't into SW universe canon etc, probably not worth it.
Damn. If only they had andor level of quality for all of star wars. I really like the star wars universe as a backdrop for this, it's pretty great imo. Just so wasted on kids shows
I have a friend that likes to compare SW and Star Trek, saying that SW is more 'realistic' because it is less utopian. I really hope Andor cracks open a whole new crop of TV shows in the vein of David Simon style stuff.
I had a friend recently recommend the Obi-Wan Kenobi show to me, giving me the same spiel. I watched it, and was ALL THE WAY back out of Star Wars after watching it. It was awful. Truly abysmal. I like that he liked it, it honestly brings me joy when someone really likes a thing. But I just assumed Andor was going to be another Obi-Wan Kenobi.
Same EXACT scenario as me. My brothers were telling me Obi-Wan was high quality, after already convincing me there were parts of Boba Fett worth watching (there were not). They were both awful with basically no redeeming qualities. The absolute epitome of "we made these not because there was a good reason to, but because we think it will maintain subscribers between other content".
Andor is truly unique and probably the only Star Wars worth giving a shit about in the Disney era.
Have you seen The Mandalorian? I haven't watched anything else star wars but was wondering if it was worth it cause Andor was so good
It's basically a space western / lone wolf and cub in Star Wars. I think the main appeal of it comes from it being the 1st SW TV show, and the mystery of how it will fit into existing canon, which is all very fan service adjacent stuff. IMO it is no where as good as Andor. There's a bit of world building around the Mandolorians, but that's mostly in the same category. Basically, if you were really into the KotOR games, you might enjoy enough. If you aren't into SW universe canon etc, probably not worth it.
Damn. If only they had andor level of quality for all of star wars. I really like the star wars universe as a backdrop for this, it's pretty great imo. Just so wasted on kids shows
I have a friend that likes to compare SW and Star Trek, saying that SW is more 'realistic' because it is less utopian. I really hope Andor cracks open a whole new crop of TV shows in the vein of David Simon style stuff.
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