I think your last sentence is nearly certain.
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The largesse he had inside and his lifestyle outside are much greater than that of other severed employees (sans Helly).
Pumped.
Spoiler
As may be somewhat obvious from the trailer, this season will Rogue One “Rogue One”.
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I don’t really have the words to describe my excitement. I was doing okay with the wait, but having seen the trailer, I’m not sure how I’m supposed to go another two months until the release.
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As someone not currently subscribed to Disney+, the big decision is going to be when to re-up. I want to re-watch Season 1 before starting Season 2.
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ANDOR has me as excited for a show as any in a long time, it looks incredible.
Also, I read that this season is 12 episodes, and they will be releasing 3 episodes a week over 4 weeks. I hope this remains the case!
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That is amazing. Basically we’re getting an Andor movie every week for a month.
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Am I defective for thinking that Andor wasn’t all that?
Yes. Yes you are.
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Very much so. Lol.
Yes.
I’ve watched it twice through and may do so once more before the next season starts. And I never really rewatch stuff.
And, it’s worth watching just to listen to the score by Nicholas Brittel
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News is leaking that Kathleen Kennedy - the target for fanboy bile since the Disney takeover of LucasFilm - is retiring from her role as head of LucasFilm at the end of the year.
While there is soooo much to criticize about Star Wars under the Disney banner, how much of it is down to Kennedy’s decision-making and how much of it is down to Disney trying to recoup as much of the money it shelled out as quickly as possible will likely never be known to us mere mortals. It is a mix of the two for sure, we just won’t know how much came from Column A and how much from Column B.
What I do believe to be true is that the vilification of Kennedy for making Star Wars - a story about little people fighting space nazis - “woke” is just raging internet nonsense from people who we now know to be actual nazis.
The reality is that the program to release a Star Wars movie every year for a decade while simultaneously making TV spin-off shows to bolster the streaming service was an insane plan that was only going to lead to what it actually lead to: a massive drop in the quality of the offerings.
Kennedy had a solid resume coming into the job. Maybe someone else could’ve done better but that is always a possibility in every situation. What is for sure is that no one was going to succeed when being thrown onto a treadmill that Disney had cranked up to 11.
The fanbois may well come to regret celebrating Kennedy’s departure. Not that they’ll ever admit it.
I’ve been amazed she’s kept the job this long. They’ve announced so many projects that have just never materialized. The lack of organizational capability at the high levels of Lucasfilm is plain to see. Other Disney studios haven’t had that level of dysfunction. Whether it’s chiefly her fault or just something she couldn’t correct, it’s a sign that a change has long been necessary.
And let’s be honest about this: everyone involved with The Rise of Skywalker should have been fired the moment it was released. There are some failures you shouldn’t be able to recover from.
I don’t understand this thinking. Kennedy has been at the helm for some duds but so was Lucas before her. Both had absolutely wonderful content creation under their watch. To wit in SW universe chronological order:
- The Acolyte (2024)
- 8 episodes, C grade
- Star Wars: The Phantom Menace (Episode I) (1999)
- 2 hour film, B grade
- Star Wars: Attack of the Clones (Episode II) (2002)
- 2 hour film, D grade
- Star Wars: Revenge of the Sith (Episode III) (2005)
- 2 hour film, C grade
- Solo: A Star Wars Story (2018)
- 2 hour film, D grade
- Obi-Wan Kenobi (2022)
- 6 episodes, C grade
- Andor (2023)
- 12 episodes, A grade
- Rogue One: A Star Wars Story (2016)
- 2 hour film, A grade
- Star Wars: A New Hope (Episode IV) (1977)
- 2 hour film, A grade
- Star Wars: The Empire Strikes Back (Episode V) (1980)
- 2 hour film, A grade
- Star Wars: Return of the Jedi (Episode VI) (1983)
- 2 hour film, C grade
- The Mandalorian (2019)
- 26 episodes, A grade
- The Book of Boba Fett (2021)
- 5 episodes, C grade
- Ahsoka (2023)
- 8 episodes, C grade
- Skeleton Crew (2024)
- 8 episodes, B grade
- Star Wars: The Force Awakens (Episode VII) (2015)
- 2 hour film, A grade
- Star Wars: The Last Jedi (Episode VIII) (2017)
- 2 hour film, C grade
- Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker (Episode IX) (2019)
- 2 hour film, D grade
Those grades are 100% my subjective ratings for the shows/content. Stalin was right when he said that quantity has a quality all it’s own. Even the worst content in the franchise is still marginally entertaining and better than watching a blank wall. And, under her watch, the franchise created hours and hours more of high-quality content in her 9 years of releases than Lucas did in his 28 years of releases. I am super grateful to her and the creative teams at Disney+. To simplify this a bit:
Lucas Era:
12 hours of content over 28 years
- 12 hours of film
4 hours of A grade material
2 hours of B grade material
4 hours of C grade material
2 hours of D grade material
Kennedy Era:
83 hours of content over 9 years
- 10 hours of film
4 hours of A grade material
2 hours of C grade material
4 hours of D grade material - 73 hours of TV
38 hours of A grade material
8 hours of B grade material
27 hours of C grade material
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I think your grade for Jedi is off. It was the worst of the OT, but that’s because the first two are legendary. Still, the throne room duel between father and son was as epic a moment as the Star Wars universe has offered. It had true stakes on both the personal and galactic level.
Conversely, you rate TFA far too highly. I was as jazzed as anyone that Star Wars was back and forgave them for basically remaking ANH for a new audience. But it does not hold up to repeat watching, perhaps tainted by what we now know comes next, but a flashy remake is still just a flashy remake.
As to the rest of it, does the familiarity of non-stop Star Wars breed contempt? Possibly. But it was Disney’s choice to flood the zone and it was Disney failure to course-correct when everything coming out was shit.
I know how DAS is answering his email!
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Imma stop you right there.
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I was 10% sure that the replies to my post would be people calling me a big, fat nerd. Which I would wear as a badge of honor. I was 90% sure that the thread would immediately descend into people second-guessing my clearly stated subjective ratings of the various shows.
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I haven’t had time today to actually sit down and rerank the entirety of the Star Wars franchise - that is, what’s worth ranking in the first place. But I fully intend to.
And judging by the content of what most folks post here, myself included, we may as well be the Adams College chapter of Lambda Lambda Lambda.
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I have no idea how fat you are
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