What if The Plan™ is bad? Then you’re just recreating the same shit again when the course inevitably needs to be “corrected”. Well easy, they just have to Be Good™, right? The irony of “commitment” being the only quantifiable thing in this pitch is that people were soo happy The Acolyte was never given the opportunity to find its legs.

Either way, with Chapek’s ousting, they’ve already decided to slow down! We are years behind in terms of decision making. There is only one Star Wars show coming out next year, and after that, the only somewhat sure thing we have is Filoni right now building towards an Heir to The Empire movie.

So they literally came to the same conclusion, and I know everyone’s still going to hate it. The problem with making this out to be a no-brainer “just find talent” thing is that the suits agree with you! But what does that mean, really? It means The Mandalorian and The Clone Wars was financially successful and uncontroversial, “proven” in this franchise.

anyway Andor >> literally all of Star Wars, the Michael Clayton director doing Star Wars is the kind of thing I’m going to miss in this bleak future