Why Star Wars Andor is GREAT - Andor Season One Review 

This is legitimately one of the best shows I've seen in awhile, let alone star wars. It made me fall in love with the on screen characters again and made me care about Cassian to the point where he's one of my favorites. It actually breaks my heart that we're most likely never getting a physical release of this show. I want to out it up there with all the other star wars stuff that is close to my heart

The dynamic between Cassian and Jyn has been elevated exponentially because of this series, Rogue One has been elevated, the Empire has been elevated as well. This series has done exactly what I wanted it to do and more. Enhancing the universe in the best way possible. Nothing felt random or out of place. Every character felt real and had a purpose. The show is so good that any problems I have are pushed to the way side. This story was very much Star Wars. No Jedi or Sith were needed to tell a great story. Showing that Star Wars can be done in this way if in the right hands.

This is not only the best Star wars show but it’s simple one of the best Star Wars things period.

Nina Gold is a casting genius. She knows talent. Also works for HBO, so some GOT alums and Chenobyl folks popped up and are fantastic. This was a great series.

“Tyranny requires constant effort. It breaks, it leaks. Authority is brittle. Oppression is the mask of fear. ” - Nemik

Andor's brilliance in that just having good characters, lacking superpowers, in the Star Wars universe just trying to make their way in a cruel galaxy is so entertaining. It was interesting in all moments 9.5/10

10:28 - I've heard from another youtuber speculating that there are fewer aliens because a lot of the focus in the environments were in Imperial controlled areas and there's a lot of xenophobia within the empire. You do see more aliens is less Empire controlled areas though.

I like that we didn't see the empire at all in the first 3 episodes and preox morlana was the villain fraction. I want more of that.

I think the finale did for Stormtroopers what "The Tragedy" episode of Mando did for Boba Fett. In this case, it was showing Stormtroopers as the ruthless, brutal, efficient military assets that they're supposed to be, as opposed to the cartoony, buffoonish "paper targets" that they've otherwise turned into, including in the aforementioned "The Tragedy."

The thing you said about cameos I am bummed Bail Organa wasn’t in it but I have a feeling he could be in season 2 since it will be in Yavin 4! And I think Tony Gilroy wouldn’t wanna do cameos for fan service but give a reason the character returned. Bail has a reason to be included since news was heavily involved in the rebellion. Palpatine would be a fan service type but if Gilroy could show the political side of palpatine, being all polite and manipulative at the same time, it could work. I can see Tony do it well but I can see him saying no. Overall 10/10 show! Also, I loved the empire not being buffoons but feeing like a real threat!

Say what you will but we definitely know people like Brasso(real ones) and Syril(weirdo’s who still live with their mom). The characters feel real and relatable. And of course let’s not forget Kino Loy. So many memorable characters that someone’s favorite for different reasons. That’s something remarkable and special in my opinion.

I love that Palpatine is not in this because it enhances that fact that the people in this world see them as a big faceless enemy.

It is one of the best TV Shows *PERIOD* of the past 10 years. Forget comparing this to Mando, this belongs alongside shows like Breaking Bad, Mad Men etc...

Its the best live action Star Wars stuff since the OT. Ive been yearning for something with this quality of writing and depth.

For me, the focus on and portrayal of Mon Mothma has been the most surprisingly enjoyable part of the show. She's gone from dismissed, passing character (in my mind) to I absolutely LOVE her.

Andor S1 is the best season of Star Wars period, both live action and animation. Acting, writing, cinematography, score, editing, everything fired on all cylinders. The story managed to endear us to multiple POVs that seamlessly wove together into the best cross section of the galaxy ever and culminated in one of the best finales on Television. The themes were potent and true to the heart of Star Wars, the world building was exceptional, and the characters fascinating and memorable. Andor is sublime. This is a new bar for Star Wars, not in mood but in care, talent, and ambition. Pulp does not equal bad but its too often an excuse for basic or subpar writing/acting/directing.

Something only older Brits might notice: Even bit part characters like the old man on the train are played by actors with impressive chops in the UK. That guy has starred in movies and here he is chatting to Luthan on a train for 3 short scenes. I could not love this show more. It's the Star Wars I've been waiting for all my life. I even started to write something like this in my teens about a Star Destroyer bridge crew who realised they were on the wrong team and wanted to defect. It's easily the most interesting period in SW history.

I definitely agree on the point of all Star Wars not needing to be like Andor. Star wars should still be able to have big, grand, and mythical stories. I do think however one aspect of the show all Star Wars does need to adopt is the writing. The story, plot, characters, and dialog are all phenomenal. Even the smallest of moments felt huge and important. Most small moments in other SW stories can be easily missed or over looked bc there just isn't as much thought out in and build up for them. Andor took the time to build real, believable, and complex characters and events that we cared about more than almost anything in the big grandiose stories and characters of the movies. We need more thoughtful and well designed stories from here on out.

Dedra Meero is one of my favorite imperial characters

I love that Andor is allowing Star Wars to branch out tonally and structurally Yet I’m so frustrated why Disney didn’t allow this sooner with Boba Fett or Obi-wan, boxing them into shallow plot-driven all-ages fare.

I really enjoyed getting to know Molly and you through livestreams during the season. Feels good to be part of a positive Star Wars community.

I am with you on Star Killer Base. It was by far the worst part of The Force Awakens which unfortunately was the best of the Sequel Trilogy, flawed as it is.

But what about the bricks and screws Alex? That has no place in a galaxy filled with hundreds of planets!

Q/A for the people: Now that season one is finished and Catalyst and Rebel Rising is in the books (pun intended) Would you do a rewatch and do a review of Rogue One and reinterpret the movie in a different light, or would it be better would be better to wait until season two to get the complete Rogue One experience?

This is a great review and summarizes most of my thoughts too. The thing I'd add is that the Karis Nemik character and his manifesto added some intellectual heft to the rebellion, providing a philosophical scaffolding for much of what occurred. I immediately thought of him as a Star Wars Thomas Paine and his manifesto and a combination of "Common Sense" and "American Crisis" in the American Revolution. The individual episode reviews were great too. Good work and keep it up.

the quality of the show was just stunning. so why can’t we get this kind of writing and directing from shows the majority of star wars fans want to see? i would love to see tony gilroy have a show based on jedi and sith. i genuinely think he’s one of the best to have touched star wars and he deserves creative freedom, if he desires more after season 2.

Oh come on Alex, Andor is not great. Andor is OUTSTANDING.

Very fair review! And yes - Star Wars is so large, many kinds of stories can and should be told. I love The Mandalorian and Andor, both for different reasons. My only 'demand' is - quality.

I like how this show adapted the various themes from The Last Jedi. Andor went from fighting for himself and not joining any sides to fighting to save what he loved (and those who fought to save him because they loved him). They contrast with some characters who stand against this ideal by fighting to destroy what they hate. Add to that the various sparks that ignite resistance and there were different points of view on how to do that (via manifesto, via action, or via making the oppressors oppress more).

You're right, the world of Star Wars spans a whole galaxy, so the stories in it and the ways of telling them should be accordingly diverse. But I have to disagree with you on one point: Andor made the importance of good writing very obvious. The screenplays of future series or films will have to measure up to this, and that's a good thing.

I love using the screaming of alien children as a sonic torture device; that’s something straight out of a 70’s sci-fi novel

(00:43) "It felt more like an HBO drama..." And THAT is exactly why this show was exceptionally good. Best SW TV series, and better than ALL of the Disney Star Wars movies. Am re-watching this show...which did not even happen with GoT: House of the Dragon, as good as it was.

I loved this show so much. Can't wait for season 2

They're cramming a 5-season story into two seasons; you're not going to get episodes that focus on side characters no matter how much we like them.

I think this review epitomizes what I have come to love about this channel. You can love a series and can accept that others might not like it. I personally love some SW films that others hate. And I'm fine w/ ppl hating it. What I'm not fine with is ppl who hate a movie not allowing others to love it. The prequels were not for me, but I'm completely fine with ppl adoring them. We must as a fanbase step away from the gatekeeping that naturally seems to happen with all fanbases. Alex & Mollie are so good at not becoming gatekeepers. A certain SW reactor is rightfully getting a lot of heat for their gatekeeping & this channel is a refreshing break from that sort of toxicity. I just recently binged all of The Clone Wars and Star Wars Rebels so I could be more away of Ahsoka's history. Your older videos on TCW & SWR have been a joy to check out. I look forward to catching more of your videos as I look to watch S1 of the Bad Batch. Enjoy your vacation; you definitely have earned it.

Best Star Wars show, period. Best SW content in general since ESB. I have a feeling awards season will be generous to this production.

I love how much of what went off screen left us the viewer the time to figure things out ourselves, even if we don't always get the full answers. I liked this around the main character deaths of Marvaa and Salman Pak

Just watched the entire series over the weekend. Best things Disney's done with Star wars.

The moment when B2EMO was knocked over by the Imperial officer is the single most pivotal point across the arc of the Star Wars narrative. Andor gave the franchise desperately needed depth, which certainly at the very least should broaden audience appeal. It allows people to find their own comfort level.

Speaking as somebody who loved Andor from start to finish, I too was hesitant about a show about Cassian, not simply because he was a character who died, but one who died in his first appearance. Darth Vader gets to pop up over and over despite dying in RotJ because he was such a big character in three films already. He's a pop-culture icon, whereas Cassian most certainly wasn't. This isn't to say Cassian is a bad character in any way, but if you show a random person on the street a picture of him I'd bet big money that they wouldn't be able to recognise him nearly as easily as they would a picture of Vader. I agree that we could use more alien _characters_ rather than simply having alien set dressing. It doesn't quite follow to me that aliens have to equal pulpy, I really think that this team could pull off strange alien characters in a serious way. And ultimately, I wholeheartedly agree that Andor is great, and Mando is also great in different ways. It's frustrating to see people start ripping on Mando, as if quality in Star Wars is some bizarre zero-sum game, and a show can only be good at the expense of every other show. The two shows are doing different things, neither one is an inherently better idea than the other IMO, and it's perfectly fine to like both. Or to like one and not the other, whichever way around that goes. I just wish some people didn't seem to think that it's _required_ to like only one.

On re-watch I've noticed that areas where the Empire has influence has less aliens and places where it doesn't has more aliens. I think this is to point out the xenophobia of the Empire. If y'all make a deep dive video exploring that Imma watch the hell out of it ❤️ Thanks for all the videos/interviews/streams during Andor, they have been fantastic!

I hope in season 2 we finally get to meet the famous Uncle Harlo that Syril's mother keeps mentioning 🤣🤣🤣

Deserves an Emmy nomination in my honest opinion

I still desperately want a Mon Mothma spinoff.

This is the Star Wars that I'm looking for nowadays. They can keep making that other stuff but I'm not really interested in it anymore. I'm a long time anime fan and I've drifted away from stuff that I found really cute and goofy and fun and have gravitated towards series that have more interesting and unique storytelling and characters. But not to say I don't have some new series that are cool and cute now. Andor just really hit it off for me because it's a side of the universe that really didn't get attention. And that's the plight of the citizens who were oppressed by the Empire and have risen up to fight it.

*The show in its entirety is such a great show! Had me running back every Wednesday getting up at 2:30am to prepare to watch the show by 3am. A few of the episodes had some stuff that I didn't like this season. But, the show as a whole was great writing & great acting & visually nice! I can't wait for season two in a couple of years.*

This show made the galaxy feel small, but in a good way. It presented from more of an individual-level in a way the movies and even other shows like The Clone Wars don’t

Probably the best thing to ever come out of Disney Star Wars only rivaled by The Siege of Mandalore.

I agree. Andor is personally my favorite installment in Star Wars EVER! But I also love the Mandalorian and I don't want ALL shows made in the mode of Andor. I do wish that shows like Obi Wan and Book of Boba had a much "care of story" as Andor. But I am fine with the tone being different and the style being different. But lets get good writing, story and scene design in ALL the live action shows. Then if you want them to episodial, campy, funny, what have you... so be it. There is a place for that. Andor has just showed what care and attention looks like. Hope Disney takes notice.

My only criticism is that there are only 2 seasons of this show with so many great character arcs, it rarely occurs that ALL characters of a series are great and acted phenomenally. Probs to this heavily underrated show

Arguably the greatest Star Wars content, EVER. Better than Mandalorian, better than the movies, better than all the shows. Every episode, every actor, the dialogues, and choreography, it was all phenomenal.

The lesson of andor is use the WRITERS in every future starwars project. I don’t understand how people think; “ohh so andor everything?” No your squirrel brained person. I want the quality WRITERS. Make them in charge of all future projects. Make a new show with lightsaber/ explosions every episode. I don’t care- just have the same level of writing. The writing is gods work compared to the sequels.

Whether u love Andor or hate it, u have to admit using real world locations and sets was SO MUCH BETTER than always using the volume or vfx. Just visually, this show blew Obi-Wan outta the water, although I'd argue it also did overall too

“You have criticisms”… and you ended up saying… “fans said in the comments.” 🤔

Too many bricks and screws 6/10 /s

I did not like the first 2 episodes. They could’ve been 1 I think. Even though the first 3 dropped on the same day it took me a couple of weeks to watch # 3. 3 was decent. Every one after that though has been outstanding. Can’t wait for season 2.

I can understand why Andor hasn't gotten the kind of audience of other Star Wars shows like The Mandalorian. It's not as fun as most Star Wars productions, and it's not quite as smart as the more adult shows and films it's emulating. However, I enjoyed watching it, which surprised me, since I was not particularly interested in a show about Cassian Andor (not because I knew he died, but because he wasn't very interesting in Rogue One). All the performances were great, and it looked terrific.

If you guys haven’t been listening to Tony’s interview on “The Watch” podcast with Andy Greenwald and Chris Ryan, you definitely should. It’s great to hear Gilroy’s thoughts and some of the inside baseball talk on making the series. It also kinda helps cleanse the pallet of just “Star Wars Slog” and allows you to appreciate this as just good television regardless of its connection to a greater universe and lore.

My honest and frank opinion: Andor is the best thing to happen to the Star Wars franchise in many years. No disrespect to the Mando series, but Andor is on another level. It's a different flavor of Star Wars that some people may not be use to. And I like it that way. Just as Rogue One, the Andor series takes us out-way out of the Skywalker family saga and shows the true brutality of this galactic war. It's not a simple plotline of good guys vs bad guys. It goes deeper and causes viewers to think in order to understand why Andor and the other characters are they way they are as well as why they do what they do. The galactic war itself isn't about jedi vs sith and lightsable duels, and laser blaster shootouts. If that's what you're looking to see every 5 minutes, this show is not for you. Andor is for fans who desire to see this saga from a much more realistic perspective which mirrors our own real world today.

I loved Andor, looking forward to season 2

I think this show is up there with A New Hope, Empire Strikes Back, and last couple seasons of Clone Wars as the best the franchise has so far. I loved Andor so much, and it is partly because it is different than everything else and uses the galaxy established to tell a great story. If everything were Andor, it would get old eventually. So keep on making different and creative things in the galaxy far, far away, and I'll keep loving it all

I find it hilarious that some people don't like that we get backstories of characters we see once or not very often in a media source. I was on the fence about seeing Captain Pike in Discovery season 2, but I quickly lost those feelings when I saw how awesome Anson Mount was in the role. I wasn't too thrilled about the Fantastic Beasts movies but I really did a 180-degree flip after watching the first movie three or four times. Just because we don't get much info of a character when we first meet them doesn't mean we can't get more info and like the character more as the lore progressively increases! Just look how much the fan-base exploded after getting the Mandalorian Wars comics or the Revan novel after Kotor finished.

Wow.. What a first season. Mr Gilroy take a bow sir

Fine. Let's make our peace with there not being a third season of Andor, but now I want a Mon Mothma spin-off!

I agree. No gatekeeping in Star Wars. I personally feel that Andor is the best thing Star Wars has ever done. It's like they literally made the show for me personally. 🤣

At first I was on the fence about watching this show as I was rather indifferent towards Andor as a character after seeing Rogue One. But thanks to this series, I have changed my thoughts on him now which will make the moment I re-watch Rogue One have more impact.

What I find interesting is it seems to me that the hyper efficient writing came about due to budget. Throughout the series, it felt like the show was really pushing on the budget, and it felt like they knew it and designed the show around it. We should have felt exasperated seeing the same Ferrix sets over and over, but insteaf they made Ferrix feel like a community, and rix Road felt like a high street, so of course we see the same stuff a lot. They made the cuts in the right places, cutting unnecessary scenes, like the dinner party and Anto Kreygers attack, but hopefully disney is motivated by the positive reaction of s1 to allow s2 to stretch its wings a bit more.

Imo Mon Mothma and her acting was the hidden powerhouse and pleasant surprise of this series (among many…like, I knew Skarsgaard would be good … if THAT good?!?). How she rises to the top of the military chain in the rebellion will be fascinating. Took a vanilla character before and made her come alive!

I loved the show. I agree that every episode really built upon the previous ones to the point that episode 12 just knocked it out of the park. I really hope that more people come around to it's greatness.

To your point of the pulp-ness of Star Wars, I respectfully disagree. Let's all be honest: one of the biggest issues that the average movie watcher or show consumer has always had with Star Wars is that became TOO pulp. Meaning that element alone will turn off a person who respects Game of Thrones, Power, or even say The Godfather. You have to own the pulp in order for it work effectively, if not it comes off as goofy, childish or just made for kids. And let's not forget: the genius of Empire Strikes Back is that is took a puppet, played into the pulp with Yoda then totally flipped it and became motif, and philosophically driven in a time when people weren't expecting it. I think Andor is getting back to the root of what made Star Wars exceptional. It takes laser swords and space wizards and puts real world depth, meaning and relevance behind them.

As someone who long ago gave up on the franchise, Andor was a very pleasant surprise. I loved it in a way I haven't enjoyed anything Star Wars related since Empire. That said, I agree that its more mature, darker and deliberative storytelling won't and probably shouldn't become the new norm. I only hope they keep this tone and high level of quality for the duration of the series.

I’ll be honest: I was hoping Star Wars andor was gonna be a show that gave a focus on the various rebel cells like the Partisans and Cloud Riders. Then we have some of the newer ones like Maya Pei, the ghorman front, the partisan alliance and more. But for what it was, the story of a community and revolution was great. Could’ve used a few extra blaster fights as those are my favorites. But I can say for certain Luthen is my favorite character.

This show actually made me want to rewatch Rogue One, which I remember enjoying (as much as one can considering how dark it was) but not latching onto very much.

I think the apparent scarcity of aliens could be a budget thing. Alien makeup and prosthetics costs time and money. When you leave the studio to film in the real world, then you have to bring as much of the studio with you as you can afford. Bringing an alien makeup department is almost certainly a significant expense. I’m guessing one of the decisions that had to be made was film in The Volume with lots of aliens, or film in the field with fewer aliens.

Truly excellent show with shockingly first rate dialogue+action for a SW series. My only really complaint is that Syrill and Motha don't do anything at all. Their progression is overall like very small baby steps forward. It looked as if Syrill was gonna progress or had more stuff to do like Dedra after episode 3 but instead he just sits around, while Motha talks around. Pretty sure more than half of those dull scenes with Syrill's mom at home could've been cut. Same with Motha having way too many talky scenes in all those white halls. Great dialogue no doubt at all but man her 'arc' moves really slow. Andor and Luthen are the main highlights of the show as far as I'm concerned. Kino of cos was the absolute best 'guest' character of the season!

Andor is my favorite Star Wars Disney+ Show alongside The Mandalorian and The Bad Batch and I also love Bix Caleen from the show and Adria Arjona in general. I know she didn’t get a lot of screen time in the episodes before we get to the scenes where she was taken into custody and getting rescued by Cassian in the last episode, but I know she will play a bigger role in Andor Season 2 and I can’t wait to see more of her in future Star Wars Projects and I’m also down for a Bix Caleen Spin-Off Show!

Andor did the grim and gritty seriousness that Star Wars fans always felt was possible to do well in the setting perfectly. For “pulp”, Mandalorian season 1 was great. I think the key value between both was a feeling of doing something grounded and new; the sequels didn’t feel new and relied on so much nostalgia for appeal and the prequels didn’t feel grounded as the writing and acting made the characters’ struggles and arcs feel very wooden and without a sense of humanity. Both Mandalorian and Andor nailed their themes perfectly and were well written

This series definitely deserves 5 seasons. Such a flawless show goddamn

It's been a great show, but I've also really enjoyed your insights into every episode. You've provided excellent analysis, commentary and opinions. I'm new to your channel but look forward to seeing what content you do between now and season 2, and of course taking us through S2. Thanks

I wish they would stretch the series out to a couple more seasons

Great slow burn. Doctor Zhivago meets Cold War type spy thriller. How did the rebellion start with regular ppl? How did the spies become spies. How did the Empire’s spies work against the growing dissent? So well done. Don’t even get me started on Andy’s Kino. His end was crushing and poetic. This really brought a lot of Star Wars home. No Jedi and no force powers. Regular people oppressed, unhappy and fighting back. Watching Cassian grow, seeing Mothma working and struggling. Luthen, what a great, new character. A good man who will sacrifice it all for the cause. It’s not straight good vs evil, but those horrible shades of grey. What trade offs and sacrifices need to happen for success. This is the great writing Star Wars needs. I can’t wait for season 2.

Andor reminded me of both Blade Runner and Dark Knight stylistic. Its human, grounded and immersive. Star Wars critics always sound like Star Wars is a catered affair where all consumption is made special for them. You suppose to view Star Wars a little bit of prep and with fresh eyes to enjoy the series and movies.

I think the most important part of andor was the writing. It was so well done. The production quality has always been high fo star wars but the writing has not. I don't want everything to be like andor going forwards but good writing is absolutely essential

"wHy Do We NeEd A mOvIe AbOuT a ChArAcTeR wE kNoW iF gOiNg To DiE" Why do we need Star Was prequels and Clone Wars when we know the republic and jedi die? Why do we need WWII movies when we know Germany and Japan lose.

As great as Andor is, I would compare people saying “Andor is what Star Wars should be forever” to somekne saying “CoD is what FPS games should be forever.” Like yes, it’s good, but if the form of Andor was the rule rather than the exception for Star Wars, the franchise would be shedding so much of it’s identity.

My assessment ANDOR has been some of the best writing & acting for a series of any kind for anything. The Big Head trip for me is we're talking Star Wars. "Right" ? Could you ever imagine that. After the years of trash that's been on the screen for Star Wars. 👁️

Can we just acknowledge that while Star Wars has always had aliens, with the exception of Yoda, they've had little substance. They haven't been complex characters in any way, shape, or form, if they were characters at all. The Mos Isley cantina was full if aliens, but most of them were just glorified decorations. It's not Star Trek. Any character with anything much to contribute was human. Andor is a purely character driven show, and putting more aliens front and center would have been a distraction. This complaint is silly and overblown. Could Chewbacca have contributed to this show at all? No. And he's the most prominent non-human in SW.

Luthen is the spymaster, Mothma the politician & Bor Gullet the brains behind the Alliance

Are you a Respawn Dev? And Andor is not slow, it's intricate. Breaking Bad was intricate with interweaving plots and a lot of flushed out characters - all while maintaining the human element throughout.... that's why it's the best show to ever be. Andor implements A LOT of the same features. That's why it's so good. Those that didn't like it are the ones that prefer the Marvel type of story -overblown moments of expression being centralized. I do say that if Starwars were to evolve, Andor is the ideal way. There's no mistaking that it has that lasting effect on you after you've seen it. Just like the OGs. The music, the theming, characters, their interwoven fates, it's all golden.

I’m glad everyone loves this show so much. Unfortunately, it wasn’t for me. I didn’t like the constant build up to an event. There was only about one thing that happened every 3 episodes. It just didn’t work for me. Add on the lack hope, levity, and aliens, and I struggled to get through most of the episodes. I’ve rewatched the whole thing and seen most of the episodes 4 times. It will be a long time before I can sit through it again.

What I loved about Andor is that it reminded me of One Piece... No no no, hear me out! Let me explain in what way it's similar to a goofy-looking cartoon about a rubber pirate. (and it's not just the anti-authoritarian themes and the amazing prison break arc) It's about how it handles set-ups and pay-offs. How seemingly random actions have consequences down the line. Like a string of dominoes. How even the most minor characters impact the story in ways that make you feel like if at any time anyone had done anything else, things would have turned out a lot differently... for better or worse.

Truly great! What I always thought Star Wars could be. Ótimo Canal, abraço do Brasil.

I very much agree that in general, any type of genre can be utilized under the Star Wars umbrella if the story and characters are well thought out... Andor and The Mandalorian have proven that you can play in the sandbox (as cliche' as that saying is) and continue to build out the world while still adhering to what came before it. Even the crazier one off episodes and story arcs of The Clone Wars proved that. And though I have yet to delve into any of them, the Doctor Aphra comics and the recent trilogy of comic stories centering around Qi'ra seemed to have proven that too. People championing Andor (and The Mandalorian) saying "this is how you do Star Wars right" while hating on Book of Boba Fett and Obi-Wan Kenobi at the same time just seems the wrong avenue to go. Not saying people can't criticize or dislike shows (or aspects of those shows) or like certain shows better than others, just that the Star Wars world is an open world and not everything is going to appeal to everyone. I personally can't seem to get into Star Wars: Visions, I like the idea behind it and I really liked The Duel episode quite a bit, but some of the other episodes are just ok or so-so too me and I am not itching to watch them again... but I'm not going to tell someone else who enjoys that series more than me that their opinion or enjoyment is wrong or proves they aren't "real" fans because of it. I just like that we are getting more Star Wars on a regular basis.

This is the most interesting Star Wars ever been to me after I finished Knights of the Old Republic II in 2013. Also, not all Star Wars has to be like this. If anything, it'll be boring. But it's very refreshing that for an entire twelve episodes we have nothing about the Force in Star Wars and focused on something we rarely see outside of the novels and the games.

In terms of Andor’s more grounded feel, I think the next series to get that treatment will be the Acolyte. I don’t think it’ll be a fun romp, it’ll have nuance and detail similar to what we saw here. The future of Star Wars is looking great with this much variety!

I don’t think you’ll find fans of Andor are saying ‘This is the only thing Star Wars should be…’ but there are plenty of toxic comments saying it isn’t Star Wars. It is a false equivalence. I love all of Star Wars in all it’s forms and they all amplify each other. Fans know this. Andor has made all the classic films better by telling us what life under the empire was really like.

I agree. Andor is the best story after the original trilogy if not on par. Finally some good character writing. Honestly, I know Diego Luna's a good actor but he's killin' it this series. Love Cassian's arc so far. I hope season 2 is not a let down and obly keeps building on season 1 success. And the senator wow I love her character.

Imo. I like it. Its "mature" gritty. Based in a sense of logic and realism. Dosen't try to feed down anyone's throats some particular bias. Has continuity and reasoning making the universe more than believable.

Honestly this is by far my favorite live action Star Wars series, honestly to go one step further this is my favorite Disney+ original series. I can’t say I like it better than The Clone Wars and Star Wars Rebels, those two animated series are still my favorite Star Wars series of all time but Andor by far is the best live action one. And I’ll be honest I wasn’t really very excited for this show, I knew I was going to watch it but I didn’t have the excitement that I had for Obi-Wan Kenobi or the Boba Fett series. And of course there are people out there in the fandom who I wish if they had already made up their mind that they’re just going to hate everything under the Disney umbrella that they would just leave the fandom then. Not saying anyone must like everything Star Wars, there have been hits and misses both when George Lucas was running it and under the Disney umbrella I think but I think the people that pick one error and see that’s a perfect error of Star Wars and nothing was done wrong and the other era is just a dumpster fire, I can’t take they are criticism seriously because they have an agenda. But this show blew me away and took me by surprise I forgot a couple of times this was a Star Wars show because it got so good. And honestly it’s going back to really what made the original trilogy great and that is focused on storytelling first and then put the Star Wars stuff around it. I think that’s where other series like Obi-Wan Kenobi failed to live up to the expectations, not saying I didn’t like that show, I love the first episode and I love the last episode and I like some of the in between episodes but that Siri should’ve been epic and it didn’t feel that way because they were just thinking Obi-Wan Kenobi, Darth Vader, light saber fights, and it feels like the story was an afterthought. When you just start with a story first like imagine the movie tombstone tell that story kind of but then move that story into the Star Wars universe. Instead of horses and carriages they’re starships, instead of pistols there’s blasters, instead of a small western town it’s a planet out on the edge of the galaxy, and that is exactly what this series did they just told a great spy story and then they put the Star Wars around it and that’s exactly what George Lucas did with the original trilogy. This is the formula I want Lucasfilm to use going forward

Could not disagree more about your final criticism. The Narkinians were just the right amount of "Star Wars weird" for a show like this. Any more than the few instances we got would have just been a distraction from what we should really be focusing on. It would have ruined what, in my opinion, is the greatest storytelling ever in the Star Wars universe.