• blitzen@lemmy.ca
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    2 days ago

    Forget that it’s Star Wars. Watch Rogue One then Andor. I’m not really a SW fan, but this combo is legitimately great.

    • 🌞 Alexander Daychilde 🌞@lemmy.world
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      2 days ago

      Watch Rogue One then Andor.

      What is it with Star Wars people always going backwards?

      Joking aside, Andor is absolutely one of the top series of all time, no matter the category. It is excellently done.

      Also, joking aside… I liked Rogue One alright when it came out, but it’s jarring to watch after Andor imho.

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        11 hours ago

        I can’t fucking stand Andor, will never understand why such a terrible show gets praise. Gave up after the Heist Arc, which was nothing but a bunch of unlikable twats bitching that Cassian Andor wasn’t one of the cool kids, then they do a long ass marching scene, then they all die. I should have liked their deaths because of how truly disgusting they were, but honestly I felt nothing.

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          8 hours ago

          Same. I never got past the first half of the season just because of how boring it was. Everything is slow and nothing happens.

          The ending could be amazing, but I am not going to bother if I have to claw myself to it. I got better shows to watch.

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            7 hours ago

            I expected to get down voted into oblivion. Instead I find a kindred spirit. That’s good.

            Andor did nothing but waste my time and the fanbase is incredibly toxic, unable to accept any criticism of the show without resorting to insults about how “Oh you can’t pay attention without lightsaber fights.”

            Nothing happens in this show. I really tried to pay attention but the dead air had me reaching for my phone.

            Just 30 plus minutes of people complaining about Andor being on their team and doing nothing to endear me to them. One of them wrote a book… woo…

            And on the episode with the heist actually happening, it opens with fifteen minutes of marching. No dialogue, nothing of note. Just marching. Why?

            And the show doesn’t even seem to be made by someone who actually likes Star Wars. Why do they have realistic guns? Why are there dudes in military uniforms instead of Stormtroopers? Are they embarrassed by Star Wars imagery?

            Andor is a snoozefest that excells at wasting the audience’s time. I wouldn’t mind the talking scenes if people talked about anything of substance, but it’s always Empire Bad. I get Empire Bad, it’s the premise of the setting. I don’t need to be reminded Empire Bad.

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        20 hours ago

        Serious answer: because the point of a prequel is that you have the knowledge of what comes later from having seen the precursor movie(s).

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        2 days ago

        I certainly understand the logic behind watching things chronologically. But, I believe watching them in release order is much better.

        Take, as an example, ::: spoiler K-2SO (spoiler below) Doesn’t it make it better you know who K-2SO is when watching Andor, and it’s introduction in S02E08 of Andor hit that much harder already knowing the character?:::

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          2 days ago

          My friend told me to watch Rogue One but I didn’t. Then he told me to watch Andor and I did. It was amazing. So I went ahead and watched Rogue One.

          If I had watched Rogue One first, I would absolutely not have watched Andor. It was…ok. The pacing kind of sucked. Way too many characters and you hardly got to know them. Basically all the parts about Star Wars I didn’t like but more serious.

          Andor is just a fantastic show in pretty much every way. You can forfet about the Star Wars connection entirety, you don’t need any knowledge of the franchise going in. I highly recommend it to everyone