Gtfo of here with this. The franchise has never been bigger and has never been accepted by a wider audience. You see Grogu merchandise in every little place all over. The Mandalorian exploded the fan base.
Guarantee you ask the average kid which they prefer between Marvel or Star Wars and it won't even be close.
I’m struggling to get my 5 year old to care. She loves Spidey and Hulk, though. I’ve got two more under 2. Maybe by the time they’re old enough to care someone else will be running things.
Only the tv shows are good. The market isn’t oversaturated with Star Wars content, but Solo was boring, ROS was shit, and there’s no coherent vision for the future.
They're not even moving the story forward. They are bouncing around in a time period that can't possibly do much for the story. Imagine if marvel was only telling stories that happened before End Game. How much would people care?
Guys, Rise of Skywalker made over a billion dollars. A good Star Wars movie would make 2B at this point. The problem is getting coherent movies made, which Kennedy has failed at. Anyone competent could release a $1.5B SW movie every couple of years. They just have the right people in charge of the TV shows and the wrong person overseeing the movies. My kid once said he wasn't a Star Wars kid - he preferred Marvel. After Mandolorian and Obi-Won, he chose Rogue One over Thor: Love and Thunder last night. Don't overthink this in your need to complain.
Considering he said tv shows that only matter to hardcore fans, I think he most certainly is not proving that point
Haven't watched Andor yet. Any quick reviews from anyone here? Big thumbs up? Tepid thumbs up? Thumbs in the middle?
Everything I've read about it sounds great. A more mature Star Wars that doesn't rely heavily on fan service. Sounds like what I've been wanting. Just a bit unfortunate it's not really moving the overall story forward in any way. But I'll still take it.
Watched all 3 eps tonight. Loved the tone. Very serious and not a single corny ass Disneyfied joke. Definitely took ~1.5 episodes to get going but once it did I liked it a lot. skarsgard was very good. Bix is heavenly fuck that snitch
I like the moving images and sounds I encountered through the first three episodes and hope to experience more soon
I challenge everyone to spend 5 hours watching Empire and Rogue One back to back just like we did. Yoda and Lando are great but RO is better.
Rogue One is too weak in the first half to compare to Empire, which is pretty much a perfect movie. Rogue One is a ton of fun, especially the back half, but Empire---setting aside what it meant for the mythology of Star Wars---is a masterclass is storytelling, tension-building, and pacing. It's not just heralded because it's a great Star War; it's a fantastic film, which, in terms of Star Wars movies, is something only ANH can say beside it.
Andor talk: That ship that crashed on Kenari, did anyone else think it looked like the Pillar of Autumn?
I’m on episode three of Andor and honestly couldn’t tell you what the hell has been going on this whole time. This show is failing to hold my attention in the slightest. Am I in the minority here?
Yes But to be honest I don't know. I personally love it but definitely seems to be others with your complaints.
It’s an extremely slow moving show. I’m liking the world building but it literally took them 3 full 40 minute episodes to get to the meet up with the rebellion.
So far, it has been my sleeping aid. I don’t mean to fall asleep but so far I have done so three times through 1.25 episodes.
I think my biggest gripe is this could be set in any universe. There’s almost nothing uniquely star wars about it. The Empire could be a stand in for any authoritarian government ect. The show is good and compelling. And I know all the Star Wars stuff will come. But it is a weird thing in the back of my mind while watching
I think it’s okay for this show to do that as long as it does so well. If nothing else, perspective on Cassian and Mon Mothma (who is incredibly underdeveloped given her role in the Rebellion, although I’m sure there’s some shit in books I haven’t read) is a useful contribution to the universe
Andor is legit very good. A methodically paced spy/espionage drama but with a SW skin. Something different and new and not a bunch of ‘member berries - what people have been begging for.
The structure of Andor is 3-episode mini arcs so the attempted heist should happen next episode and maybe that’ll feel more Star Wars-ey
I just watched all 6 Andor episodes and while slow to start I thought it did it well. You need a good foundation to understand the characters which I think is an issue with some SW content. Can't just throw people into laser battles and expect us to have real ties to those characters. I love the gritty, man on the ground aspect of this, something tried and failed in Solo, I think they got right here.
Similar to how Andor just straight up murders his source in the first ten minutes of Rogue 1 to keep the info to getting out, I really like how it doesn't hold up the Rebellion as a paragon of virtue and shows that revolutions get messy as fuck.