Spoilers Star Wars: Andor season 2

chuckdee said:
Personally, I liked it. I thought that it and the inanity of it should have affected Dedra more. It seemed to at the time, but then after the time jump, there seemed to be no development. That was the only thing that it missed in the payoff. And Syril's character development also helped to develop Dedra which I thought wasn't wasted time.
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I would argue that there was no real character Development for Dedra. At the end of the day she was what she was...its just that her house of cards ultimately came crashing around her at the end.

I mean she was still the same arrogant relentless "I have to do it myself" individual in the second season she was in the first. Syril's relationship with her showed she at least had the potential to care for someone...though it also showed she had no issue manipulating him as well. And I don't see how his death really changed her actions. She was always obsessed with axis and getting the credit for it, heck they even commented after the botched work that had been warned about overstepping on other people's assignments. Syril's death didn't change her character in anyway I could really detect.
 

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chuckdee said:
They were trying to build that Era, and have had several of the characters referenced during those novels and comics, including the incident that cut the planet off that they referred to.
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That kind of explains the "younger audiences" interpretation, since the High Republic is largely marketed at younger audiences. And, being largely terrible writing, explains why no one is familiar with it. I barely survived the first novel with my sanity intact. Fortunately, I was able to call on my knowledge of the Old Republic era and Tales of the Jedi comics to understand what was going on. But that's not stuff my partner is familiar with.

As @Ruin Explorer says, there was a failure of storytelling in onboarding people unfamiliar with pre-movie milieu.
 

Paul Farquhar said:
That kind of explains the "younger audiences" interpretation, since the High Republic is largely marketed at younger audiences. And, being largely terrible writing, explains why no one is familiar with it. I barely survived the first novel with my sanity intact. Fortunately, I was able to call on my knowledge of the Old Republic era and Tales of the Jedi comics to understand what was going on. But that's not stuff my partner is familiar with.

As @Ruin Explorer says, there was a failure of storytelling in onboarding people unfamiliar with pre-movie milieu.
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I don't think high Republic is overy popular with Disney Canon fans either.

They like Vader comics. Thrawn books and Lost Stars books it seems.
 




Paul Farquhar said:
As with all IP based fiction, a huge amount of it is of poor quality shovelware, with just the occasional bit of good stuff.
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Yeah old EU EU was 10 10 great, 10% terrible and 80% various shades of mid.

On an EU forum NJO seems popular for sone reason. Turns out most if them are younger (under 30 being young).

They're reading curated lists if old EU. They think it's great but it's cherry picked good stuff and not consumed over 20 years
 



Older Beholder said:
I thought one of the many interesting things about Dedra and Syrill was that under different circumstances they could have been a part of the rebel alliance. At least, that's what they show hints at.
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Syrill was an idealist, who wanted to do the right thing. He is killed just as he is changing his opinion about what the right thing is.

Dedra is like Luthen. She is willing to sacrifice morality in serving her chosen side, and in the end it is her own side that turns on her.
 
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