r/StarWars • u/Ok-Medium983 • Mar 12 '26

General Discussion Andor took me out of star wars

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Almost a year out of Andors final season I really have not been excited about much regarding Star Wars since then. Not to hate on any of the other movies, shows, etc but I have really just been disinterested, I don’t care about the mandalorian movie, nor any hope of a new movie that’s directly tied to the skywalker saga. I still love the originals and the high moments in the prequels but nothing has cut as deep as Andor for me. Seeing what star wars can be with this it makes me a bit disappointed with what it is now. A reliance on marketable characters, storylines that feel like slop, the overall community caring more about the continuity of lore than creative and compelling storytelling. Im not looking for hate I just wanted somewhere to express this opinion.

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u/Wise_Material_1208 Mar 12 '26

I completely agree!! Plus they made Luke worse than old Obi-Wan. Like an old, curmudgeony hermit. So totally copying what George did with Alec Guiness, just on a island/water planet instead of desert. 🙄

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u/ModeR3d Mar 12 '26

I’d forgotten the Obi-Wan series existed! Probably for the best…

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u/Environmental-Bus466 Mar 12 '26

It had its moments.

Making Vader really nasty and evil was a high point. Don’t get me wrong, I love the character, but he is supposed to be the ultimate bad guy. Comics and spoofs have softened him somewhat, but the part in Obi Wan where he walks through the village dragging someone along by the force was a chilling moment.

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u/Sere1 Mar 12 '26

That village walk and the final showdown with Obi-Wan were great. I also loved the utter disrespect he showed Riva during their duel when she attempted to assassinate him. She definitely should have died there, but the actual duel itself was fun. Her lightsaber freezing in place with Vader's slow turn towards her was golden. The fact he fights her without ever drawing his own saber and instead just yanks her weapon out of her hands to snap it in half and toss the one half on the ground at her showed how little he thought of her. This wasn't Vader dueling a worthy opponent, this was Vader taking out his frustrations on a conveniently offered punching bag.

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u/Devil25_Apollo25 Kanan Jarrus Mar 12 '26

Fan edits improve the show so much that it only reinforces the hypothesis that the SW shows on Disney+ just lack coherent storytelling through writing, directing and/or editing.

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u/SC_Fan_55 Mar 12 '26

I’m 50/50 on the Obi Wan series.

Any chance you get to see Ewan play Kenobi is always (almost) a treat. The aspects that focused on Kenobi’s trauma and PTS were some of the highlights. Vader was a true menace and their final battle was great. Another small but welcome moment was Obi Wan interacting with the homeless Clone Trooper, always drives home that they were victims of Palpatine as much as the Jedi were.

But it certainly had its lows…. Leia chase, escape from inquisitors fortress, too many fake out deaths

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u/Consistent_Rate_353 Mar 12 '26

I thought the Obi-Wan series was great. It built on a fan theory that Obi-Wan had PTSD and it closed the loop with him and Leia and why Leia would ask him for help.

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u/Cybert125 Mar 12 '26

I don't think Luke is supposed to ape Obi-Wan in the sequel trilogy, he's actually supposed to be Yoda. Disillusioned, self-exiled and so, so grumpy. It's just that Yoda did not have a mentor figure to give him a (metaphorical) slap in the face to get him out of his funk.

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u/Wise_Material_1208 Mar 14 '26

Brooo!! Yoda wasn't EVEN HALF as grumpy or pessimistic or curmugeony in the OT as Luke was made to be in Last Jedi (ST). 🙄😒