I’ve read so many comments online lamenting how the Sequels ruined Star Wars and all that. This is kind of funny to me, because I’m like, yeah welcome to the club. I don’t like the Sequels either but from my perspective, Star Wars was pretty much irrevocably damaged in 1999. Truthfully, at this point Star Wars is like 90% crap, with A New Hope and The Empire Strikes Back really standing out as the only truly great movies. But despite this, every now and then a small miracle occurs and we get something like Andor, which apparently was written by people from a different Universe where entertainment companies actually give a shit about story and writing. I still can’t believe that show is even real.
Pretty much my perspective, too.
I do receive some small pleasure that the supercilious PT/EU fanboys now get to experience what we OOT fans have had to feel since at least 2005.