Andor Was A Show ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

Andor doesn’t feel like Star Wars bc Star Wars isn’t the focus. The force, Jedi, Clones, everything we’re familiar with isn’t the focus of Andor. Andor is about Andor and the ‘Star Wars’ aspect of Star Wars takes a backseat. It exists to the view of Andor and how it relates to him.

The fact that we don’t get an action scene every episode with TIE-fighters and stormtroopers doesn’t make it less “Star Wars”

While it does not feel as starwarsy as other media, thats becuase Star wars is generaly show on a grand scale with very little attention given to characters and more attention given to entites as a whole such as the rebels or the empire or the jedi. This is where andor shines, it shows how the people in the rebelion have to live to start something that will end up taking down the empire and what characters have who dont have the force or dont have plot armour have to go through on a daily basis to survive. When we get star wars show that feels very Starwarsy we get somthing like the book of boba fett or kenobi which instead of creating new things they just relay only on what we know about the character and I think we all see how those shows turned out. Just very uninspired and too afraid to add new things to the universe

Amazing. Everything you just said was wrong.

Star Wars movies are at the end of the day Hollywood blockbusters that aim for spectacle over all else. Thus all 9 Skywalker Saga films focus on the idea of space wizards fighting each other with light sticks and magic. Worldbuilding has always been a part of it as well just never taking center stage. Andor can as it is a 9-episode show and does it wonderfully. It shows the lives of ordinary people surviving in a galaxy shaped by greater powers than themselves. It also takes place during the "dark times" not many jedi running around so idk what you wanted.

Andor was great!

Sorry but I just don't understand at all why you keep saying it's not "star wars" the world is so well thought-out and the characters are excellent. Actors are giving it their all and I love it. Andor is different but I don't want all Star Wars projects to be so similar. I mean you're ok to have your own opinion but also your Andor reviews have totally lost me

Good lord these comments 💀

Holy shit is this take bad. It basically sounds like "blah blah not enough pew pew, therefore not feelin like my star wars" most of the time, while completely missing how this show expands the setting in more subtle ways.

Can you do a 1hour edit 8f best moment for andor please

I agree with most things you said, but if I had a choice to choose between more Andor or more Mandalorian or Kenobi, I would pick Andor for sure. My main complaint is also that it didn’t feel and look like established Star Wars half the time.

Yeah, me and the rest of the comments seem to disagree. And if that makes you mad, stay mad.

I was hoping for more concrete and specific description of the "less star wars" feel. Bacause that is a opinion that comes from many directions. I quite agree that it basically isnt even a star wars. For example Mandalorian IS star wars very much so. That said I loved it, seen it twice and its so fucking delicios to watch. And I looove the different view of the rebelion, very similar to rebelion in R1. Andor was amazing for me.

I bet you loved the sequel trilogy didn't you

Agreed. It's a filler inside a filler upon a filler. Almost nothing is happening and the pacing is horrendous. Phone Booth(2002), Man from Earth(2007), Oppenheimer - just a few examples of movies with zero to no action scenes, it's just people talking almost all the time. Yet there is tension and story progression. There is none of that in Andor. Just a movie stretched to 12 episodes. Or a mini-series stretched to proper 12 episode format. Andor is the most boring show I've ever watched.

Andor is boring and is not Star Wars. Great review. George Lucas created Star Wars as his take on swashbuckling, Buck Rogers, Flash Gordon type hero with a thousand faces stories. Who is the hero of Andor? I can’t root for Cassian who coldly killed those two security officers at the beginning then never gives us anything to make us care about him. What is the general quest of this story? Where is this taking us? It doesn’t need to be all “pew pew slash kaboom!!!”that’s not what we’re saying. Yes, Andor has great visuals and quality, but it’s like taking “Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory” then doing a high quality documentary on the production of flour that’s used for the candy, and then telling Willy Wonka fans they aren’t educated enough to also enjoy “Flour Factory”.

Andor is a good sci-fi series, but it doesn't feel SW. The style, the costumes, the music, the characters, the tone,..., everything is different. That does not detract from the quality of the series. But, for that, Battlestar Galactica or any other series like that is worth the same to me.

I agree Andorr took the fun out of Star Wars. Set ups that doesn't pay off. What happen to Andor for looking for his sister? What happen to the heist money? What was the prison break and how did it add to the story? What up with the storyline with Mon Momotha bad family problems why do we need to know that.. I'm out. Andor does not add to the Star Wars lore.

I also didn't like this show.

Yes, it is not star wars. I forgets the main rules of making star wars - make everything look both alien and lived-in and do not use mondane objects from real life. It has noodles, paper, AK-47(if they realy wanteda soviet/russian blaster, they should have used some kind of rare and cool/intresting weapon). Star Wars should look absolutely unlike real life, and it is where this show fails.