Star Wars: Andor (September 21st, 2022)

[TurdFurgusonsHat]

Is this their new form of damage control for this show in case people start complaining about it? It's like telling legacy fans to prepare for a show they might not like. Gilroy could care less about Star Wars. He made that quite clear with his rounds over RO, and how they were lost without him and how he saved the terrible movie.

Well, at least they are not doing a pre-emptive strike and attacking unhappy fans with using certain terms like the Kenobi crew did.

They are already using the same tactic with She-Hulk. And ditto with Amazon and their faux "Lord of the Rings".

 

[TurdFurgusonsHat]

I bet there's no Reva in this.

Lol she probably saves Cassian's life, with Lucasfilm implying she is now the true hero of ANH.

 

[Wor-Gar]

Lol she probably saves Cassian's life, with Lucasfilm implying she is now the true hero of ANH.

 

[JAWS]

Every Trailer for this makes this look like the first truly great SW show.

If the show ends up coming out like the trailers it will easily be the best.

But Disney being Disney. I am not getting my Hopes up.

 

[TurdFurgusonsHat]

So Lucasfilm themselves expressly state in no uncertain terms that they are introducing real world politics into a Star Wars show and we are prohibited from noticing? Yeah ok.

 

[Asta]

Regardless of the views of an actress in the series, the rules haven't changed.


E. Controversial Topics (Religion and Politics). Because they are so detrimental to the cohesion of any community, we do not allow the discussion of political/religious views, religious/political figures, or social issues that will inevitably draw members into a heated debate...

 

[The Buffinator]

Regardless of the views of an actress in the series, the rules haven't changed.


E. Controversial Topics (Religion and Politics). Because they are so detrimental to the cohesion of any community, we do not allow the discussion of political/religious views, religious/political figures, or social issues that will inevitably draw members into a heated debate...

Good thing we're not a community but rather a bunch of complete strangers espousing wildly divergent views while hiding behind avatars lol...

 

[xipotec]

Wishful thinking.... This IS Disney we are talking about. They find a way to put comedy in everything now a days. It's really getting disheartening. I enjoy comedy/satire, but it's getting ridiculous.

When I watch a serious movie/show with no forced situational laughs or comedic relief now a days, I feel like I hit Cinematic gold.

Loved the Terminal List on Amazon Prime. And The Old Man is great too. Don't believe I ever laughed once during any of either show's episodes..

You keep forgetting thier target audience is children….they want new viewers and are not all that concerned with the old fartz opinons.

They will throw us a bone every now and then to keep us coming back.

This may be one of those bones….

then again….

No one hates Star Wars like Star Wars fans.

 

[TurdFurgusonsHat]

Good thing we're not a community but rather a bunch of complete strangers espousing wildly divergent views while hiding behind avatars lol...

At least we aren't Twitter or Facebook. You really want to see my mullet, popped collar, and sandal socks?






Just jokes.

 

[The Buffinator]

At least we aren't Twitter or Facebook. You really want to see my mullet, popped collar, and sandal socks?






Just jokes.

As was mine.

 

[Prime Clone]

But has the RO hype ship sailed...?

 

[Wor-Gar]

In a world where Disney's Star Wars Lego Summer Movie is hotly anticipated, this show seems like a breath of fresh air.

 

[TurdFurgusonsHat]

In a world where Disney's Star Wars Lego Summer Movie is hotly anticipated, this show seems like a breath of fresh air.

I didn't know there was going to be a Lego Star Wars movie but it will probably be better than Kenobi.

 

[TaliBane]

Yeah...stormtroopers get humiliated like this far too often. At some point I want to see a character who thinks he (or she) is all that try to take out a squad of stormies with a stick - and get shot the hell down.

I'm sure LFL thinks that making the Empire and stormtroopers in any way competent means they have to be presented as PT battle droids in a Benny Hill chase.

Unfortunately that choice defuses the stakes (you wait bored, over and over, as the legion of stormies is decimated effortlessly in 45 seconds with heroes uninjured) and makes the heroes seem like idiots that they can't prevail in a wider war if they win every battle so laughably easily.

Stormtroopers are supposed to represent murderous authoritarian regimes, and just like in the real world, they are supposed to be not just difficult adversaries, but a force that could win.

Portraying them as goofballs in armor made of white marzipan de-fangs and dumbs down the whole thing and renders the shows about nothing more than nostalgia and merch sales.

 

[Wor-Gar]

nothing more than nostalgia and merch sales.

Now that's interesting.

 

[TaliBane]

You keep forgetting thier target audience is children….they want new viewers and are not all that concerned with the old fartz opinons.

They will throw us a bone every now and then to keep us coming back.

This may be one of those bones….

then again….

No one hates Star Wars like Star Wars fans.

This show sure looks like catnip for the kids.

I'm not sure Diego Luna has ever smiled or done anything that could be misconstrued as "heroic" in his entire career. And Stellan Skarsgard getting de-armed and smashed through a giant window by a shark in Deep Blue Sea is the closest he's ever gotten to "fun."

But it's true that no one hates Star Wars fans like Star Wars fans. That's just how Disney and LFL wanted it.

 

[TaliBane]

Now that's interesting.

Hmm, maybe I was mistaken but I do believe the OT utterly bullseyed the religio-cultural, political - and generational - upheavals that followed WWII and exploded in the decade before ANH. While also yes... mining nostalgia and driving merch sales.

It's a fine point to be sure, but a key point nonetheless. One that was totally missed by Disney from day one, right up to today.

 

[Wor-Gar]

Your reward sig is funny because the criminal being sought bought 20th Century Fox.

 

[choombaz]

I'm not sure Diego Luna has ever smiled

You obviously haven’t seen Y Tu Mama Tambien

 

[TaliBane]

You obviously haven’t seen Y Tu Mama Tambien

Sorry, I said entire career but I meant within the last two decades.