Nice background, but we can see why those scenes were cut from ROTS.
What the hell are you talking about?
The political stuff on Coruscant. None of it adds to Cassian’s journey.
None of it was cut from ROTS though.
You are absolutely entitled to your opinion, but this is baffling to me. Mon Mothma’s storyline intersected with several other characters, including Luthen, Vel and the ISB. It is clearly meant to collide with Andor’s journey in the second season.
You haven’t watched the ROTS deleted scenes recently, have you.
Of course I have. But if you mean to suggest those were cut because of Genevieve O’Reilly’s performance, then that’s both asinine and factually wrong. And apart from being set on Coruscant, those scenes have very little in common with what’s in Andor.
What makes you think I have a problem with her performance? No, it’s not her performance, it is the political intrigue of her role in founding the rebellion that lacks. It is the same slow pace as the cutscenes from ROTS. Most people agree that the political backstage that featured in the prequels is part of the problem with the prequels. They kept it to a minimum in The Clone Wars and is largely absent from Rogue One, and it doesn’t really work here. Not for what was advertised as an action packed series showing the rise of Cassian Andor.
It is a slow moving collection of character backstories for characters who later become important. Only the episodes on Farrix and the prison escape really pack any punch. This series really does not follow George Lucas’s “faster and more intense” editing style. Not even close.