Spoilers Star Wars: Andor season 2

[briggart]

While Rogue One and Andor can be tough viewing and are certainly different from our usual Star Wars style storytelling . . . this is what I love about both shows. They don't pull many punches.

I feel this would be a much more depressing show if we didn't already know how it all ends. In universe, this is sort of the low-point of the rebellion. While more people and resources are being invested in the cause, it feels the Empire is consolidating its power at a much faster rate.

I expect the show to end on a very somber note.

 

[Dire Bare]

Including the ones who survived. One reason I had trouble getting into the old EU was that, much as I understood that people wanted to see the further adventures of the main characters, I always felt that they'd earned their happily-ever-afters, and it pained me to see them put through further peril and heartache. The sequel trilogy showing the aftermath of the not-so-happy lives of Han, Leia and Luke had much the same effect.

Heh, I just watched a "history" of the Star Wars galaxy (old EU) . . . and yeah, it reminded me of the same thing. Super convoluted and our heroes of the rebellion could never catch a break!

 

[Dire Bare]

Exactly! Yeah, sure, it's realistic in that no one really gets a "happily ever after" ... but that's one of the reasons we have fictional stories ... so that we can pretend that people can have happily ever afters.

I wouldn't say the old EU was "realistic" in that way . . . Luke, Leia and crew all had extremely bad karma they were paying off post-rebellion . . . in both continuities I suppose.

But that's nothing to how many times the Sith Empire was defeated . . . only to rise from the ashes a couple of thousand years later . . .

 

[pukunui]

I wouldn't say the old EU was "realistic" in that way . . . Luke, Leia and crew all had extremely bad karma they were paying off post-rebellion . . . in both continuities I suppose.

But that's nothing to how many times the Sith Empire was defeated . . . only to rise from the ashes a couple of thousand years later . . .

I think I would have been happier with the sequel trilogy if it had been set further in the future. Han, Luke, and Leia could have been dead and gone, and the New Republic could have had a longer life before a new evil (not necessarily an Imperial remnant, and certainly not Palpatine) arose to threaten the galaxy.

Kind of like the EU's Legacy Era, which IIRC was set more than a century after the OG trilogy.

 

[Dire Bare]

I think I would have been happier with the sequel trilogy if it had been set further in the future. Han, Luke, and Leia could have been dead and gone, and the New Republic could have had a longer life before a new evil (not necessarily an Imperial remnant, and certainly not Palpatine) arose to threaten the galaxy.

Kind of like the EU's Legacy Era, which IIRC was set more than a century after the OG trilogy.

I really enjoyed the "Legacy" story arc, at least at the beginning, but . . . the Sith Empire rises again! And only a Skywalker can save us!

But I really dug the more "gray" Imperial Remnant, the embittered smuggler Skywalker, and the slick Imperial Knights with their silver lightsabers!

 

[Kaodi]

One thing that I am almost positive about is that Dedra will be the reason Luthen and probably Kleya do not survive. Krennic is a villain but he is not the antagonist per se. It has to be Dedra.

 

[pukunui]

I really enjoyed the "Legacy" story arc, at least at the beginning, but . . . the Sith Empire rises again! And only a Skywalker can save us!

But I really dug the more "gray" Imperial Remnant, the embittered smuggler Skywalker, and the slick Imperial Knights with their silver lightsabers!

I'm only familiar with it via the SWSE Legacy Era sourcebook. I recall not liking that it basically reset the status quo to Jedi dead and Sith in charge, but at least it was farther into the future than Disney's sequel trilogy!

 

[Dire Bare]

I'm only familiar with it via the SWSE Legacy Era sourcebook. I recall not liking that it basically reset the status quo to Jedi dead and Sith in charge, but at least it was farther into the future than Disney's sequel trilogy!

Yeah, Star Wars storytelling seems to fall into the same patterns regardless if it's the Old Republic, the Empire, the New Republic, or the future "Legacy" Galactic Alliance!

I haven't gotten into the newer High Republic era, other than the TV show, "The Acolyte" . . . maybe that avoids some of the repetition? Of course in the TV show, the main villain is a Sith acolyte . . .

 

[pukunui]

I haven't gotten into the newer High Republic era, other than the TV show, "The Acolyte" . . . maybe that avoids some of the repetition? Of course in the TV show, the main villain is a Sith acolyte . . .

Yes, The Acolyte seemed to be trying something different (while also perhaps building up to be a prequel trilogy prequel vis-a-vis Darth Plagueis). It's a shame the haters got it canceled. I mostly enjoyed it.

 

[Zardnaar]

I really enjoyed the "Legacy" story arc, at least at the beginning, but . . . the Sith Empire rises again! And only a Skywalker can save us!

But I really dug the more "gray" Imperial Remnant, the embittered smuggler Skywalker, and the slick Imperial Knights with their silver lightsabers!

I liked that aspect as well.

Fans love the Sith. In universe you cant wipe out the Jedi or Sith even if you killed 100% of them. Unless you wipe out the force itself.