Not sure about this one, they certainly seem to going all in on basically doing live action continuations of the animated series. Kind of expected with Dave Filloni's overseeing so much.
Loads of people going crazy over the mention of the first Timothy Zahn book title as a line. Just makes me sad we never got a version of that trilogy as films.
@nessisonett It really is. I take great comfort in knowing that it's getting easier to ignore the vast majority of it because the quality has just nose dived.
@JohnnyShoulder Imagine if we were being bombarded with "Andor" and Marvel Phase 2 and 3 quality product month after month - it would be impossible to keep up. Judging by what's been announced at the convention today there's absolutely no danger of that happening - I genuinely can't believe that LucasFilm have done their market research and discovered an overwhelming demand for a new Rey Skywalker led Jedi Order film.
I have not said anything about both The Mandalorian and Boba Fett soundtracks. That was a mistake on my part! They're both amazing; probably the best Star Wars soundtracks have ever been.
Thank you for highlighting the soundtracks! Music is such an important ingredient in good Star Wars, and I wholeheartedly agree that both shows have been boosted by the perfect musical accompaniment that 100% suits their tone and style. In fact, I seem to recall making a post earlier in this topic asserting that, no matter what, Disney's Star Wars output has always gotten the music spot on.
"We want different things, Crosshair. That doesn't mean that we have to be enemies."
After the deluge of crap/stream of exciting news (delete as applicable) coming from the "Star Wars" cult retreat celebration convention, I decided to watch the pre "Episode IV:A New Hope" branded, untampered with version of the original film via the bootleg "4K77" blu-ray. It's still technically bravura, still directorially and performatively naive (pick an accent, Carrie!), still paced, structured and scored to perfection, still utterly bereft of cynicism and still completely wonderful.
Does anyone know when the final episode of The Mandalorian is released? I want to watch the whole series at once and avoiding spoilers is almost impossible these days, hence why I haven’t used the internet to find out.
I started watching Andor, since I still have the Disney subscription for a few weeks. So far it's writing is brilliant, direction and acting is top notch as well and I can see why it got rave reviews too. And still only completely ok so far (paraphrasing LN87 here).
Maybe it becomes better and better, let's hope so, but I can't see it exceeding Mandalorian so far. While I think Mandalorian sometimes does a bit too much fanservice, I just love how the series embraces how fully weird Star Wars is through its weird story structure. Andor so far could also be a Mass Effect spin-off or any other space opera. But that all might still change, I'm looking forward to the rest of Andor all the same!
Yeah, I know exactly what you mean. Sometimes when I'm watching mediocre, cartoonish, fan service infused, CGI saturated claptrap I often think to myself "thank goodness this show doesn't have brilliant writing, acting and directing - that would totally ruin it for me". 🙄.
@Kidfried I’m 10 episodes into Andor and I sort of feel the opposite to you. I think it’s great that they’ve got this series that uses the Star Wars universe to do something completely different; it’s great that it doesn’t have to all be Jedis and blaster fights.
But once I realised that there has been pretty much zero aliens in it, it’s almost been a bit of a running gag for me (I can only think of a super tall alien from one of the first episodes that someone tries to use to intimidate Andor). That said, I don’t think it spoils anything at all.
The series also has the most ridiculously long opening ever. It’s easy to skip the recap snd “title” but then have to fast forward 40s of the slowest ever zoom on the work Andor too 😁
@Thrillho Haha, yeah, the first thing my partner and me said to each other is that the opening sucked. The logo is also pretty eh...
Compared to The Mandalorian the music is also lacking a bit, though it's not bad in any way.
I'm also very happy to watch a series that does something completely different. Jedi's and the force were never my favorite part of Star Wars anyway, so I don't miss that. I do miss some of the charm of the universe though. The bodyguard from the first episode still stands out to me as one of the series' best moments so far. Without stuff like that the series becomes more of a generic tv series. It's very unique for a Star Wars story, but less unique compared to other stuff that is out there.
I really like what I'm seeing though, so don't get me wrong. I really like how the story is about resistance, but on a smaller scale than "the fate of the universe". I also like parallels with real word oppression ans resistance, so I'm definitely enjoying my time.
I really like clunky charm though, so I keep coming back to The Mandalorian. Just a few days until series finale!
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