I get the what Octorox is feeling about Andor missing the escapism of Star Wars and Empire. The way I see it, I guess a more in universe perspective, but I kind of associate the fairy tale and space opera aspects of Star Wars with the Jedi and the Force. The Force is magic, and Jedi are wizards. During these dark times, the magic is dead and the wizards are all gone. It is bleak because that spirituality, faith, and hope has been snuffed out. While it might not have a great ring to it, this is why I think A New Hope works well as a subtitle for the original Star Wars film. With Obi-Wan and Luke, the mysticism is returning and the universe comes into form as a space fantasy.
For me, that is how I feel like you can have a more grounded show like Andor, as well as a fairy tale like the Original Trilogy, and they can coexist fairly well.
And to me, it adds weight to the importance of the Jedi, and they’re importance as a symbol of individuals who can make the impossible happen. Clearly we see this best exemplified with Luke Skywalker in the OT and ST.
I think you’re referring to me, and I never said I don’t think any of those things. I definitely do and tried to make that clear in my previous post - Andor is the thing in Star Wars I’ve been the most excited about in a while, and I’m in love with it. The thing for me is that, again, I just think Star Wars and Empire are better, and with recency bias + the way this is possibly the most mature storytellig in SW ever, it’s easy to jump out and say that this is actually better than those two movies, and I think it’s tremendously unfair to them, because while Andor is very, very excellent TV, they’re two of the best movies ever made, and I still don’t think it quite compares. The escapism bit was just me defending the more lighthearted nature of those movies in light of how much more serious we can go with the setting as shown here. Anyway…
Awesome show, loved everything, really absolutely every single thing… I think the only thing that got close to even remotely bothering me was Bix saying “caf” in that first or second episode, lol. Something out of 90s EU, which should’ve remained 90s EU.