No nuance and characters are saying the obvious stuff, because viewers are looking at another device while watching. We’re so cooked.
No nuance and characters are saying the obvious stuff, because viewers are looking at another device while watching. We’re so cooked.
I’m pretty sure this is why andor flew under the radar/gets mixed reviews. Even with friends who are huge Star wars nerds like me, I get ‘but it’s boring!’ a lot, mostly because it builds up to the climax in each three-episode arc. There isn’t necessarily a huge, inexplicable ‘OK time for action’ scene in every episode just because. To enjoy it you need to be plugged in, absorbing the dialogue and connecting the dots scene to scene to understand how the plot got to the action and why it’s important, and if you do you understand the tension buildup. Otherwise it just seems like two episodes of babbling and then some stuff happens, while you’re still staring at your phone. At no point do any of the characters stop and explain what’s happening before or during an important scene, it’s all show-don’t-tell. One of my best friends is working on his PhD, super bright guy, huge Star wars nerd. Has all the baby yoda this, clone trooper helmet that. I finally understood when we were watching something on stream once and I’m like “what’s that? That noise?” It was his other screen on in the background watching a Twitch stream :( now I understand he’s never not had a second screen going with a stream lmao feel like I’m taking crazy pills. We might as well pipe video of that stupid railway running coin grabber mobile game directly to the cortex of every citizen atp
As I’ve gotten older. I have completely stopped using the phrase “To enjoy [] you need to []”.
It’s pointless
Anyone who needs to do it isn’t going to, and everyone who is going to do it - will do it anyways.
Andor may also simply be a bad show, and this person’s opinion an outlier.
Best use of the IP in decades. I don’t hate the other stuff but Andor knocked my socks off.
Is that your opinion? Or just devils advocate? I loved andor, I don’t go looking for reviews or what people say about media I watch, but, I would agree with the person above, I thought it was one of the best things that has come out of Star Wars. At least it treats you like an adult.
Didn’t realize people didn’t like it, but, of course, I don’t like things other people like.