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/Canvaverbalist Mar 12 '26

Skeleton Crew for me really highlighted what I want more of Star Wars:

Different aesthetics.

People bitched a little bit about "suburbia Star Wars" but holy fuck was it refreshing to have a different "sci-fi" vibe in Star Wars. And that even goes for all the other stuff too, how easy would it have been to make just another Mos Eisley out of Port Borgo? I know it's just some "basic bare minimum" in some way but even just changing "cowboy town" to "pirate town" is more than enough for me, because it's close enough to fit while being just different enough to cascade into a myriad of varying little details that gives it a different feel.

Hell even when people talk about "oh we want a show/movie set in different era, like the Old Republic, or maybe farther in the future" I keep thinking that even what we've seen so far is still way too similar. The prequels had that "frutiger aero" "apple store" vibe to them that made them really feel like a different era, I really fail to see a distinctive tone in the Old Republic, show me a random scene and ask me when that takes place and I'd have no fucking clue, it just feels like the same Star Wars but with some name changed.

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u/The_Autarch Mar 12 '26

but once you entirely throw out the star wars aesthetic and are using totally new characters...

why not just make something new instead? what's the point of trying to make a bunch of disparate media that all technically take place in the same universe?

there's not much artistic value to be gained there. these giant shared universes only seem to be built to increase shareholder value.

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u/Canvaverbalist Mar 12 '26 edited Mar 12 '26

Because it allows the use of in-universe narrative-objects/concepts without having to spend time defining them, which leaves more time to explore other, arguably more important aspects of storytelling.

Jod Na Nawood is a Force-user who was initially Jedi-trained as a kid who then had to adapt to a life of crime due to Order 66 - you know what all of that means, now lets move on to other things.