You should definitely watch Andor, it’s perhaps some of the best Star Wars content ever made. It is the only piece of the Disney content that can stand beside the original trilogy and, perhaps, has more to say. It’s very good.
I haven’t bothered with Mandalorian season 3, but seasons 1 and 2 were good in different ways. Based on initial responses, I don’t think I’ll ever watch season 3.
You should definitely watch Andor, it’s perhaps some of the best Star Wars content ever made. It is the only piece of the Disney content that can stand beside the original trilogy and, perhaps, has more to say. It’s very good.
Mando season 1 and 2 yes, 3rd season not so much. Andor was fantastic, Ahsoka was ok, Rogue One was fantastic. Clone Wars S7 wasn’t technically Disney as it was mostly just finishing the animation with a few changes. I enjoyed Bad Batch, but it’s no clone wars and Tales of the Jedi was very good.
Am surprised Rebels isn’t on here, I know it’s not everyone’s cup of tea but I’ve been rewatching it with a friend and it’s very enjoyable
Bad Batch is really that. Rebels is its own thing, unless you wrap it with Ahsoka. Rebels had a mediocre first season but after that it’s definitely top tier material.
As the other comment said, it’s not really a follow up. We do get characters from the Clone Wars appearing in it that you really need to have seen Clone Wars for but for the most part it is a seperate thing. Bad Batch is really the Clone Wars sequel, with lots of familiar characters and continuing the story of the clones as a whole
I have to be honest, I forgot about Rebels. By the end of Season 2 it started putting out some real bangers. Don’t blame anyone for not being into a kids adventure staring a brat with a laser slingshot, but I enjoyed it more than I did the Bad Batch.
I consider Andor to be in a class of its own in quality. The cinematography & writing are simply amazing; it’s very clear that the show runners have something to say, and went to great lengths to bring that vision to the screen. Criminally underrated by the wider audience, I consider s1 to be in the ranks of the best tv shows I’ve seen, period, never mind just as star wars material.
I don’t want to oversell it but I honestly think Andor is the best thing to come out of Star Wars in decades. It’s like the last flower of the franchise.
I don’t know how it could ever be topped. For me, it’s the peak of it all.
Or I just like enjoying a well told story without the need to previously see dozens of hours worth of content which is remotely relevant in order to understand every reference and know each character’s backstory.
None of it is good except for parts of season 1 of The Mandalorian.
Ewoks in ROTJ were right up against the line, but didn’t cross it because the way they looked also served a narrative purpose in addition to their primary purpose of being a toy.
Special Edition ruined the franchise in 1997, and everything since then has been shit on top of shit.
…Either that or I’m so sick of Star Wars I just couldn’t stand it. I tried three times to get more than 15 minutes in without falling asleep or zoning out, couldn’t do it.
It’s a slow burn. I was not enamored with the first few episodes but by the end I was in agreement - best Star Wars since the OG trilogy. The acting is powerful, the writing is tight.
It’s important not to speak about the star wars universe as a monolithic detached entity that formed itself. It has been and is comprised of the contributions of many writers. It is possible to love the universe but object to some of the contributions to it, as long you bring it back to the writers. So instead of saying “the sequels suck”, say, “JJ Abrams contributed to fucking up post OT canon beyond repair”. Fans complaining about the star wars universe now being fucked up beyond repair are a good thing because it shows how much they love the universe and how much potential it had before the writers fucked it up beyond repair. In short, complaints mean they care. The more people that openly complain about star wars being fucked up beyond repair the more that studios may be compelled into hiring better writers that wont fuck up our beloved universes beyond repair.
To add on to this, having people complain, while not good exactly, is a state that can be worked with. It means that the engagement is still there. Like, to put this in the context of D+, it means that people are still watching the shows to know what to complain about. You won’t see me complaining about Star Wars anymore, for instance, because I stopped caring at all after TLJ. There’s so much other stuff out there that I don’t see any point in signing up for D+ to watch Star Wars, and ultimately that hurts Disney more than me continuing to watch while bitching about it.
Yep. A wildly unrealistic part of me was hoping that they were setting up a branch to split the timeline away from the sequels or just ignore then with the series. As that become pretty clearly incorrect with the most recent season of Mando and I presume Ashoka I just stopped watching. I am not really interested in seeing them try and make sense of the stupid stupid lazy premise of TFA and I don’t want to see my childhood heros fail and give up. I will watch season 2 of andor because the first was awesome, but I am basically done with the franchise now.
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