![]() ![]() Because the fictional speaker doesn’t just like football, they want more football in everything. In case you haven’t caught on, this is just adding football to basketball. Oh, and I think that if we added a few more players, preferably one person with a strong arm to launch the ball down the court, so that another person could catch it to set up a score, that would make basketball better. Hmm… we’d need helmets and pads of course, but I think it would make it more fun, trust me. Grab the guy with the ball and slam him down hard onto the pine. But, what if we added full-contact? I mean, balls out, I ram into you and knock you on your ass when we’re in possession of the ball. Quick aside: do you like basketball? Who doesn’t, right? Either professional or just shooting some hoops with your friends, it’s a great time. There were parts I honestly liked, but at the end of the day, Blade Runner will always be an icon while ANDOR will be just another Star Wars show. I know that’s harsh, but it’s my opinion. It was a copy/paste of other space noir but without the skill. And if I’m being brutally honest with my opinion, ANDOR did nothing better than the other sci-fi it was clearly emulating. Seems to me, the showrunners wanted a Blade Runner-feel, but in Star Wars. Unless you mean the exact same things in a well-told story, like Arcane or Season 1 of Carnival Row. What do I know? Boring, slow, and oppressed is apparently what “adults” want. ![]() Am I skipping over Mon Mothma’s go-nowhere story or Luthen’s activities? Little bit. His approach was to stand somewhere, do his shifty-eye look-around thing, and then move to the next scene. Instead, I watched a bleak, cold, blue-gray-filtered-looking depression quest following Diego Luna’s titular Andor who stumbled in and out of events like a space-faring Candide. You know, the things that kinds sorta (absolutely) makes Star Wars what it is and sets it apart from its peers. Mostly it came off to me as being purposely designed to be completely bereft of Jedi, Lightsabers, and the Force. And of course, the moment when the oppressed people rise up and fight back… just like every other story out there. And some cat-and-mouse political thriller points. So when I watched ANDOR, I was kinda “meh” about the whole thing. But when I want that mystical feel among the stars, I go to Star Wars. If I want gritty noir, I go watch Blade Runner or 2001. If I want moral philosophy in space, I go watch Star Trek. Not just space opera, but actual fantasy, complete with a fully-functioning magic system, monsters, knights, and one bad-ass princess. That being, the technological juxtaposed with the spiritual/magical. Or as to not sound like a total gate-keeping asshole, what I feel to be the core of the Star Wars universe. Then it hit me… they-the people who say this-don’t actually like the core of Star Wars. So why was ANDOR suddenly “Star Wars for adults?” Huh, bloody well sounds like a Game of Thrones ep to me. “Hey kids! Wanna see billions of people die? Hey, stop crying, this isn’t for adults! Ya pansy-ass kids.”Įmpire and Jedi both had copious amounts of murder, betrayal, loss, incest-kissing, and sacrifice. Not to mention arm-cutting, bounty hunter murder, and planet-wide genocide. Stormtroopers who killed Luke’s Aunt and Uncle, leaving them as smoking corpses. An oppressive, totalitarian Empire that boarded ships and killed who they liked. The original Star Wars, while clearly a stylized old-west in space, had a lot of adult themes. And for some reason, that really, really got under my skin. Tons of reviews, both critical and user-based, spouted that line (or something similar) over and over. “Star Wars for adults!” That overused expression was what circled the internet when the show ANDOR landed on Disney+ (and oddly when people talk about Denis Villeneuve’s remake of DUNE). ![]()
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