Yeah. Tbh, I gained more respect for Bill Burr in that episode in a single viewing than I have through all of his comedy. And he's arguably one of the greats.
That conversation he had with his former commander? That was peak Star Wars. We didn't know it at the time, but it was like a sneak peak into how good Andor would be. Who knew modern Star Wars could have serious tension and drama.
They absolutely knew where they were going with it, they just rushed it, presumably because execs are pressuring them to get to the big ensemble movie.
Like, I know a lot of the fanbase was pissed about giving Bo the Darksaber, but the story has been aiming at that for a long time. Favreau has been closely following an Arthurian story arc about the pure knight who helps the rightful king retake his throne. Din is basically Galahad. The issue is they didn't take the time to actually establish Bo-Katan as a proper Arthur and just tried to shove the whole transition arc into one season.
See above mentioned executive meddling. The expected arc would be to have Grogu commit to his training and then show up after considerable time has passed to save the day when all seems lost.
But having your merchandise cash cow off the show for even a few episodes was apparently a no-go.
Solo was a great movie that suffered the fallout from The Last Jedi. Approach it as a fun sci-fi action adventure and not as Star Wars and you'll have a good time.
Solo was okay. Great for world building outside of the bog standard "how many lightsabers can we show off?" not so great for being able to tell what's going on in any scene not shot outside.
There was way to much "memberberry" stuff crammed into it - it tried way to hard and spent way to much time trying to to explain and give a backstory to every single small detail about Han.
It's like some Disney employe made a freaking Excel spreadsheet about every single detail we know about Han Solo from the OT, and then forced the writers to use it as a checklist, with a demand that they better check at least 80% of the boxes...
Oh yeah, "great" was purely subjective, being packed with details is that movies strength and most of them are shoehorned or entirely pointless altogether. Its all window dressing to a poorly lit cash grab.
It's the Kasdan's and Ron Howard's homage to Harrison Ford's career. Not kidding. There's bits from every movie Ford has ever done in that movie from Hot Rods to being a Fugitive. Next time you watch it, keep that in the back of your mind. It'll click.
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u/ZincMan Jun 15 '24
Only good Star Wars show is Andor and only good modern movie was rogue one