What an incredible series. I just watched the full second half, followed immediately by Rogue One. Excellent to the last.
The plan:
- Season two is an easy fix. Some extremely light restructuring at the break points will be all that is sufficient. The only thing I thought might be slightly tricky is I think between episodes 8 and 9, which both had Cassian at his Ghorman plaza window but with slightly different tones, and between episodes 11 and 12, which both featured the assault on the safe house but also a lowering of tonal energy in the episode break. But I’m sure there’s an answer.
- I’ll put a bit more work into Rogue One. I’d like to use NFBism’s idea of Rogue One’s music over the most Andor-compliant version of the movie. That’ll probably be Hal’s version (no Bor Gullet, yes most franchise links) plus the Rings of Kafrene, with NFB’s Andor music, potentially with further polish and new music from Andor season two, depending on how much he’s up for that.
- I think it’s probably not sacrilege to make small changes to Rogue One, unlike how it would have been for Andor. I might take this just a little further, and make a few more tweaks to keep Rogue One as movie #9 of Andor Omnibus. One of these would be slightly making Jyn less of the main character. This would be extremely light touch, but I’m thinking of scenes where Jyn arrives on Andor and kind of immediately becomes the Rogue One leader - I don’t think Cassian should say “I volunteer” when he’s comfortable just outright disobeying rebel command and leading a team. I really don’t want to take anything away from Jyn’s character here - I really enjoyed how she actually comes off as a bit overzealous and undercautious compared to Andor’s more cautious combatants, which can now be justified as her being trained by Saw - but I just want to keep the tone a little more consistent and respect as much as possible of Andor’s new characterisation from the Andor show.
- I might also release two additional versions of two of my movies, for age appropriateness in different directions. The first, for adults, would be the “fuck the empire” version of the last movie of season one. The second, for children and those for whom it would be a step too far, is a version of the first movie of season two which removes any references to the attempted assault on Bix. I don’t want to deny the horrors or reality of sexual assault or its genuine association with authoritarian regimes, but I can understand people not wanting to have to face that in their Star Wars and would like to give them the option.