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.
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