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I’d hope so, the difference in hours of content is…a lot.
For once it makes sense. Andor is the only good thing to come out of this license since Return of the Jedi… (Not counting video games)
I maye have a soft spot for The Last Jedi, but a shit sandwich with a thin layer of caviar in the middle is still a shit sandwich.
(Also maybe Rogue One, I haven’t seen it yet)
Rogue One is gritty like Andor. We didn’t need more of the hero’s from the Skywalker storyline, we just needed new characters in the same universe.
Worth every penny. Andor was peak. Ig it also explains why it felt so real compared to the weird plastic feel the SW sequels have (apart from VIII on the island) have.
Andor and Rogue One are some of the best Star Wars stories yet, and they flow so great together.
They put Mon Mothma at a rave… and it was great!
Eh, idk, but to me rogue one is still whatever honestly, that movie is peak nostalgiabait for the most part with a serviceable plot that keeps things moving like a series or short levels of Jedi Knight or something so you can keep munching popcorn, and the cinematography and setpieces are actually really good.
Sure it’s now even more fun because the characters are fleshed out in a primetime TV drama that came out years later and I do rewatch it more often because of that, but it’s like saying revenge of the sith flows well with clone wars S7, nah, not really, there’s an island of quality between the two.
I think I should watch that show at some point
I just got completely burned out on Star wars. And I say that as someone who watched all current trek series and even most MCU stuff
The SW stuff just was so… Bland
Sure, but the Andor series is like 20 hours long, vs a two hour movie
Yeah article is dogshit, it’s headline is about the cost but the rest of it they talk about the ratings.
Yeah they spent 705 million on 20 hours of TV. They also spent 639 million on The Force Awakens alone.
Wow those numbers are way closer than I was expecting. I mean just with the marketing of two separate seasons of TV I expected there be a way bigger difference than 65-ish million dollars.
No matter how good Andor might be, Disney is a fascist magat organization beyond redemption.
It’s a spoon-fed plot TV show IMO
It was an amazing show with high production quality. The sets alone were incredible. I would have been surprised had it not cost a fortune.
Good.
Andor may have been the only actually good Star Wars anything. It is so weird that they made a show with good writing and no pandering only to have douchebags complain that the series was more expensive that their crappy 2.5 hour movies.
The first season of The Mandalorian was art. Real minimalism in the cinematography that felt like a nod to Sergio Leone, focus and real intent to every scene, sparse dialogue.
It became just another Star Wars show after that, unfortunately, but it had a really solid start.
Rogue One didn’t measure up?
Personally I thought Rogue One was ok in cinemas, but I found it hard to care very much about the characters, so it wasn’t any better than “ok”.
Rewatching it after Andor really lifted it for me, because now I did have an investment in the characters to a much greater degree.
Absolutely. That’s something I couldn’t quite put my finger on. I thought Rogue One was great. It really filled in a lot of the missing Star Wars movie lore (if one didn’t read any of the books), and it was a darker movie in the vein of ESB.
Then I watched Andor.
You really get a much, much deeper take on all the characters and the story gets far more detail.
And as soon as I watched the last episode of Andor I watched Rogue One again and it really feels more like assembling disparate parts into an action film.
But that’s the price of having to assemble a big story and see it all in ~two hours.
Yeah Andor really highlights how light on character development Rogue One is. It’s just action scenes stringed together with a bit of traveling and dialogue. Like I didn’t care for most of the deaths in the movie or even feel sad for Jyn because the movie didn’t make me feel invested in the characters.
The same problem is there with Gareth Edwards other movies like Godzilla and The Creator. Lots of action, lots of characters, but not enough time spend on the characters to feel emotionally connected to them.
Yeah, people claim Andor is a great movie. But to me it doesn’t hold up. It looks like a great movie. What I always imagined and hoped for in a prequel/sequel as a kid.
But… All the main characters died at the end and I didn’t care at all. In contrast the bloody robot died in the middle of the movie and I was very sad.
To me it totally falls flat on its protagonist. Which is kind of critical for a movie to be “good” in my books. At least it had a protagonist, I guess, unlike the Phantom Menace,
Eww, Red Letter Media? I thought we had collectively finally agreed that their low-effort nitpicking style of media criticism was crap back around the time Nostalgia Critic and Cinema Sins got cancelled. I honestly can’t believe RLM was ever popular. Beyond the fact that it agreed with the then-consensus of “perqels bad!!!1!1!!!”, I’ve never been able to see any redeeming qualities to it. Asinine attempts at comedy, shallow analysis, wilfully misinterpreting the text. I’ve not watched it since the first time I saw it over a decade ago, but all it did was harden me in my stance that the prequels are actually not that bad, and the haters are just morons who hate anything different from exactly what they were already expected. (I’ll admit, I have since softened on that stance and can recognise the many flaws in the prequels, but they’re still a lot better than RLM gives them credit for, and their approach is certainly not good film criticism.)
I watched Rogue one after Andor season 2 and no, Rogue one does not measure up. It’s a good star wars movie, but comparing a 2 hour long action movie to 2 seasons of TV series is not faire. Character development and suspens are just on another level in Andor.
And it showed, some of the best content in the SW universe, along with Clone Wars/Bad Batch which I thought would be rubbish & ended up thoroughly enjoying more than nearly any of the recent films!
I was wondering how the episodes were so long and well done. I kept thinking, “why can’t all new Star Wars be this good” and I’m guessing it’s the cost. Andor and Rogue One are easily my favorite Star Wars experiences.
You can make good quality shows on a shoestring budget if you really want to. Even something fantasy/science fiction themed. It’s more about intent and ability than it is budget. Plenty of high-budget productions still look like shit.
You can make good quality shows on a shoestring budget if you really want to.
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