Of all the characters in Rogue One, Cassian Andor isn't the one I would have thought to spin off into his own series. Not with Donnie Yen standing right there, but really, almost any of the characters seemed to me more memorable than the Rebellion's master spy. But it didn't take very many episodes of Andor to prove me wrong. We catch Andor before he joined the Rebellion, in fact before he was ready to give himself to a cause larger than himself, and though his journey is interesting, I was perhaps more intrigued by the events that sparked the Rebellion to the point we see in A New Hope. It's a little crazy to think that the Mon Mothma stuff - financial and political as it is - was a highlight, considering that most people object to that kind of thing in the Prequels, but there it is. We also spend a lot of time with Imperials who feel righteous in their actions. At 12 episodes, it's perhaps a couple episodes too long. There's one of the prison-centric episodes where nothing really happens, and the flashbacks to Andor's childhood in the first three episodes aren't really need. The way new supporting casts are introduced every so often (including a droid that will melt your heart!), one can see Andor's first season as really 4 movies: An origin/intro, a heist, a prison movie, and the conclusion where everything comes together. Each of these has its joys and builds to the next (I say joys, but it's often bleak). If you liked the feeling of Rogue One, it's here. The more covert side of the Star Wars galaxy. Could be a little more focused, but the strongest SW show since The Mandalorian.
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Of all the characters in Rogue One, Cassian Andor isn't the one I would have thought to spin off into his own series. Not with Donnie Yen standing right there, but really, almost any of the characters seemed to me more memorable than the Rebellion's master spy. But it didn't take very many episodes of Andor to prove me wrong. We catch Andor before he joined the Rebellion, in fact before he was ready to give himself to a cause larger than himself, and though his journey is interesting, I was perhaps more intrigued by the events that sparked the Rebellion to the point we see in A New Hope. It's a little crazy to think that the Mon Mothma stuff - financial and political as it is - was a highlight, considering that most people object to that kind of thing in the Prequels, but there it is. We also spend a lot of time with Imperials who feel righteous in their actions. At 12 episodes, it's perhaps a couple episodes too long. There's one of the prison-centric episodes where nothing really happens, and the flashbacks to Andor's childhood in the first three episodes aren't really need. The way new supporting casts are introduced every so often (including a droid that will melt your heart!), one can see Andor's first season as really 4 movies: An origin/intro, a heist, a prison movie, and the conclusion where everything comes together. Each of these has its joys and builds to the next (I say joys, but it's often bleak). If you liked the feeling of Rogue One, it's here. The more covert side of the Star Wars galaxy. Could be a little more focused, but the strongest SW show since The Mandalorian.