Mmm, mint chocolate Cocoa Puffs cereal.
The problem is they aren't showing the nuts & bolts of the development of the rebellion. You see Mon Mothma has family issues since she is never around. Guess what? She's a Senator. No wonder she doesn't have time to hang around her bratty teenager or prototype Obi Wan. You see Andor being recruited for a heist that no one really knows what for. There isn't even any espionage going on. The corporate security guys have been cut out of the picture entirely just because they let Andor escape. The Imperials seem to have no clue what is going on. At least there is real scenery.
Most of the big Star Wars fans I knew growing up in the late 70s and 80s watching the OT created their own backstories and adventures to fill-in the gaps before, between, and after the movies. And so LFL story teams are basically run by those same type of kids all grown up.
You hit the nail on the head there. New content creators can never win.
Not that I think they will erase the sequels, because I don't think they will. But the planets aren't what they would erase. Mentioning Jakku wouldn't be any indication even if they were. If Disney was going to try and do anything, it would be retconing some story elements using the world between worlds or something like that.
Of course they can win. Mando was a win and so was Rogue one. The vast majority of people are extremely happy with them. Baby yoda was the biggest thing in star wars since the OT. Tell good stories and people will enjoy them.
But we don't care about Mon Mothma keeping up appearances. That is about as boring as the Senate scenes in the prequels.
Mando was a win because it followed the classic Japanese RPG where Mando had a quest but had to do a series of side quests to get to his ultimate goal. Each episode was a quest with an end boss. Baby Yoda was just a gimmick that just happen to take off.
Mando had everything people wanted in a star wars show. A mix of old and new, action and adventure with cool characters. I think calling baby yoda a gimmick is selling it a bit short. If done wrong, it could have been awful. But the mando/grogu relationship was perfect. If you told me before the show came out that it would have a baby yoda in it. I would have said that's the dumbest thing I've ever heard. But Jon knocked it out of the park.
Right. The Mandalorian actually used an episodic TV format and was much better off for it. The other SW and Marvel shows on D+ have largely felt like long movies they just arbitrarily cut up into parts (though I will give a shout out to She Hulk which also has done great with its episodes). I don’t really understand it because it isn’t like Disney has never made TV shows before.
He should stick to his grindhouse spy kids.
Then he gets nagged by his Jewish mother. Poor Andor.
Who are you talking about? Because that wasn't Andor getting nagged.
Is that a real think that sounds really good actually
