Andor isn't nearly diverse enough though. Why are you setting a story in space with so many different species and only having human characters. Booooring
The reason according to the showrunners was that they decided that if they were going to give focus to aliens, they would only do it if they could give the same justice to the racial politics of star wars that they did for the other politics within Andor. Then when they looked at the time they had to tell the story and realized there simply was not enough space in the runtime to do it well. Perhaps if it got the original 5-season run that was in discussion, things may have been different
Andor isn't nearly diverse enough though. Why are you setting a story in space with so many different species and only having human characters. Booooring
The reason according to the showrunners was that they decided that if they were going to give focus to aliens, they would only do it if they could give the same justice to the racial politics of star wars that they did for the other politics within Andor. Then when they looked at the time they had to tell the story and realized there simply was not enough space in the runtime to do it well. Perhaps if it got the original 5-season run that was in discussion, things may have been different