I don’t ask a lot of TV Star Wars, and am typically just glad to have something to watch. And or has been a wonderful slow sizzle, and a welcome break from whiz-bang action and “I KNOW WHAT THAT IS.” It was refreshingly dull! It felt like proper television, and I embrace this about it.
I don’t expect all Star Wars TV to be the same. I just hope for something as interesting as the source material that sparked it. In this case, Rogue One. And something of above average quality. I felt there was a gem here hidden by too much excess. The last episode really showed this. The show shines when it is about Andor and sloggs when it becomes about others. Luthien is an interesting character who we don’t seen enough of. Too much Mon Mothma, too much time with Imperials, too much time on setup of the heist and too much time on the running of the prison before the breakout. The big payout on Ferrix languishes as we stray elsewhere.
Again, the one line from Rogue One that should inform a series named after Cassian Andor is “I’ve been in this fight since I was six years old”. Too much of this was him NOT in this fight.