Andor, by modern standards, bucks the trends again

Living proof that something half decent will retain or grow viewership.

I'm pleased Gina Carano got that settlement - good on Elon Musk for funding that too.. The fact Disney settled and are being very polite towards Carano suggests discovery on that lawsuit would have been absolute fire if it got there.

Just sad for her that it took 4 years of her career away when others still working are far worse people with far worse views. But glad she can move on now.

We just started watching Skeleton Crew, a few episodes in. My 12 year old son loves it. I previously made him watch Goonies first, he's also seen Pirates of the Caribbean, the Indiana Jones movies and others to get where a lot of the inspiration comes from. I think it's good to have a show that appeals to kids, but also it has some new planets, worlds, droids and other SW stuff to make it interesting enough.

Most of the reviews I saw for Skeleton Crew were basically it was decent; not great, but did its job and was fun. A shame it was caught up in the whole general suckiness of Star Wars and it didn't really get watched.

Damn, that's a quite a burn from the Director of an episode of Andor, and Tony Gilroy too. Don't watch anything else as its crap

I said "Yeah, sure, I’m interested,” and I had an interview with Tony and executive producer Sanne Wohlenberg. I loved everything they were saying about what they were trying to do with Andor. This was before season one came out. I said, "Look, I haven’t seen all the spinoffs,” and Tony said, "No, no, don’t watch anything. This is something else. Don’t watch anything, because it will just give you the wrong idea.” With all respect to what’s been made, he really wanted to take Andor in a different direction. He framed it as the Ken Loach version of Star Wars.

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Andor avoided some Star Wars influences.

Disney had a boys brand in Star Wars, and then changed it a Girls brand with films Rise of Skywalker or TV like the Acolyte because the Force is Female

The scale of stupidity in Disney is vast

Unrelated, just saw this posted.

They could have done it as OG Star Wars sat down, Prequel Star Wars on the right, Disney Star Wars on the left.

I am glad I wasn't the only one that laughed at the AT-AT falling off the road. It looked crappy and cheap for Disney. Why did they include it?

However. do I hate the trailer? No. but I don't have any real positive feelings either - it will do ok in the Cinema because of Grogu, but will largely be forgotten 3 weeks after release.

Practical effects > CGI

Andor showed what can be done when you mix both together. F1 (not seen yet) reportedly did a good job too. It doesn't need to be bad CGi and dark all the time. And even more ironically, its not cheap to look that bad either

It doesn't need to be a movie. Cash grab. Just do more episodes of the show.

I thought they were supposed to take the shows and have them end in a movie where they team up against Thrawn?

On 9/27/2025 at 4:57 PM, NOTW said:

It doesn't need to be a movie. Cash grab. Just do more episodes of the show.

I thought they were supposed to take the shows and have them end in a movie where they team up against Thrawn?

Yep after Mando and S2 of Ahsoka has completed..so technically the film is still happening. But so is Riain Johnson's trilogy. And D&D from GoT.

At this point, it will just be another film where X will say how great it is, but the cinema numbers will be awful after week 1 of release.

Speaking of bad numbers, turns out the Acolyte costs $254m to make 1 series of it. Andor was expensive, but at least looked good for it. Damn

Some info is coming out about the Starfighter film.

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Bringing Rey back in a trilogy? Hard pass here. Didn't work the first time, won't work after they slopped Star Wars. Sad...