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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Celebrim" data-source="post: 9663999" data-attributes="member: 4937">To be fair, it's reasonable that a droid be virtually immune to anything short of a military grade blaster rifle.What's not reasonable is that the Ghorman front at this time didn't have heavy weaponry including military grade rifles and carbines.  That they were still armed with light pistols and the like despite being armed by Luthen's "Axis" network just a year before Endor was hard to believe.  This late in the game they should have star fighters, repeating blasters, anti-vehicle missiles, etc.  The Ghorman front by this point is tens of thousands of partisans.   The scale of the conflict being barely bigger than Ferrix on a core world that had been in rebellion for years was disappointing.  Andor's budget not being able to support its epic story got more and more distracting to me the longer the show went.  That Aldani was a small-scale mission was appropriate.  But it didn't build up like it should.  The climax of scale was probably the prison breakout from Narkana 5.  Ferrix being small as a backwater world I could largely accept, but I was disappointed when Anton Kreeger's death was handled entirely offscreen.Palmo should have had hundreds of thousands of people packed into a plaza the size of Tiananmen square or the national mall in Washington.  This is the planetary capital of a world with like an 8000 year history.  There should have been a few legions of troopers involved in the massacre.  We should have seen the gouge mining.  We needed a call back to young Cassian seeing his scarred world and the massive mining machines gouging out holes into Ghorman.  But so many things were constrained obviously by budget and not the needs of the story.  This really was felt when I followed up the show with Rogue One which did have a suitably big scale (except for how it deals with the size of the galaxy in terms of how fast you can jump from A=>B, which I can overlook for the sake of the movie).I probably wouldn't care but the show did such a good job at times of making a gritty believable setting that felt like an RPG in terms of its detailed world building, that when it couldn't deliver it was pretty jarring.</blockquote>

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