The guy who did Clone Wars, the Boook of Boba Fett, and other memberberries StarWars media is rumored to have disliked Andor. He's also the guy taking over as co-president of LucasFilm after the evil SJW woman stepped down.
And Kennedy did give Gilroy the go-ahead for “Andor,” a series that charts the title character in the run-up to the events of “Rogue One” that saw star Diego Luna return. The series, a stark spy thriller about how tyranny takes root, is unquestionably the greatest creative triumph of the Kennedy era. It was also, according to an individual who worked inside Lucasfilm, a series that Filoni disliked. A Lucasfilm spokesperson denied this as inaccurate.
When we were talking about The Last Jedi a week or two ago, I said that after TLJ, "they" would make sure nobody ever challenges Star Wars fans with new ideas again. This just kind of cements it.
They are the people that fail to understand that Star Wars is only ever good when its stories are firmly depicting a leftist revolutionary story. Nothing the franchise creates lands properly without that grounding in reality. Even the prequels which were poorly executed land better than the slop Disney made until Andor because they're still built upon a foundation of leftist storytelling in which they're criticising how liberalism falls to fascism (and was shit before the fascism too).
season 1 of mando was good compared to the previous 25 years of movies and a lot of the books and games weren't directly about the rebellion.
lucas should've spent more time with his wife in the 80s, we could've had good prequels.
Yes but I put that down to Mando apeing space westerns so much that it mostly ends up feeling like Cowboy Bebop which is itself a criticism of space capitalism that is very leftist. Whether that was intentional or not I don't know. I'm not sure you can make space western at all without it coming off as a criticism of capitalism but I've not thought about the topic hard enough to put into words why, I just can't imagine space westerns without the subtle critique of the absolutely horrible setting they exist in.
yeah i think there's an inherent libertine element to the federal government being far away, even when a western is about a cop fighting bandits.
somebody could do a white man's burden or a "the railroad brings civilization to the frontier wilderness" but i'd debate that such stories would stop being usefully called westerns