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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Celebrim" data-source="post: 8822736" data-attributes="member: 4937">Excepting Rogue One, until now everything Disney has done with the Star Wars IP has felt like an afterschool 1980's cartoon.  Sometimes, as in about 5 episodes of The Mandalorian, it felt like a really well done cartoon.  But it still felt like a cartoon.  This to me feels like the first real adult drama since I watch the original trilogy back in the theaters.  It's dark, but it's not gratuitous.  It's not dark because it loves the darkness, but because it hates it.  It's brilliantly written human characters that feel real, not like members of Superfriends playing games with laser swords and killing off faceless mooks to provide the viewers vicarious egotistical power thrills.  You actually pity the bad guys because the bad guys are also just humans trapped in the system.  The guards huddled in the closet hoping they wouldn't be noticed, you didn't hope they died.  They surely weren't all sadists.   So much of the time Star Wars is offering up violence without cost, war without sacrifice, and in the Disney era, fights whose only purpose is pure spectacle.  Like think how many fights in The Mandalorian involve some nameless group of thugs whose sole purpose is to die for our enjoyment in a visually compelling but meaningless conflict that doesn't advance the story.  People are dying in Andor, but it isn't for our enjoyment.</blockquote>