Star Wars Franchise

Something along the lines of it being about time a woman took control of the Star Wars story.

That'll go down well with internet star wars fans then.

Be amazed if that gets a second series, really

I don't know how it was filmed - if it was all done in one go - but it was definitely announced as a two-part story, split over two seasons. So the second half is built in already, and may even have been filmed (genuinely can't remember).

I was under the impression it was out this year, tbh.

Wasn't it a bit shit, though?
I think I'm a lost cause at this point. Not excited about a Mando film in the least as I'm too fatigued by everything SW to even bother finishing the show.

A Mando movie after season 1 might have got me excited, but I've also not even bothered finishing the show. Or gotten around to Andor or Ahsoka.

Maybe if I was younger and had more free time I'd be consuming all this stuff. I certainly consumed all the star wars games etc.. I could get my hands on when I was younger. So I genuinely don't know how this stuff is landing with the younger audience.

But it's interesting to see the parallels between the MCU and the SW(U?) and the Disney+ shows, and my motivation to keep up with both trailing off very similarly.

The shows largely haven't been great, but there's also been a thing with both franchises where once I fell behind in one show it basically killed all my motivation to keep up.
New shows just get added to my watchlist/backlog, but I never get around to them because I still haven't finished the previous show. (Same thing happened to the Netflix MU as well).

I drifted away from SW for a long time, but for a while there I was really back into it (Rogue One, Last Jedi, Mando S1 was a good run and made it fresh and interesting again, while still feeling like proper old-school star wars)

It's a shame Rise of Skywalker was such a mess, as it really killed my interest. And then all the following shows hammered down on that even more. (really must watch Andor though)

I think SW would work really well as a series of big event movies that come out once every couple of years at Xmas, but maybe I'm too busy and old for the need for it to be an endless stream of content.

I hoped that since Ep 9 ended they’d actually go wide with the universe and not just stick rigidly to the Skywalker saga and everyone they interacted with.

But apparently not. Despite a universe of possibilities, we’re only ever going to see stuff set around the same 10 people.

I’m way behind on all of it now too. My partner doesn’t like SW and having the time to watch multiple shows and upcoming movies by myself will be pretty difficult.

Andor is nothing like any of the other series. It's the best thing ever.

Either after or a long time before. But yeah there’s no room within the timeframe of I-IX for anything interesting or consequential to happen anymore.

I think why Andor makes me more excited is the character development, and me actually caring what happens. I watched half of Mando S3 before giving up, then I couldn't be arsed to watch anything else until Andor comes back.

The good thing is that there seems to be very little technological progress in the SW universe, so they can set it years into the future or past and still keep almost all the visual style.

I really can't see them wanting to distance it too much from the R2D2-saga, just because they'll want to have cameos from familiar faces.

The problem with that is it kinda limits them to the boring old 'making a new jedi academy/order' plot. Again.

But, just like when I ask what everyone wants for dinner, we do know what we *don't* want.

Mando had it to begin with too but I think it suffers from the same thing something like Only Murders In The Building does where as good as it is (and I do very much enjoy both) it was clearly pitched as a one and done limited series and now you can see the wheels turning as they try to find things for the characters to do.

If Andor is a two parter like it says - and it can’t really go much further given we have Rogue One already - it makes sense that we’re seeing so much consistent character growth. Basically the arc is already semi-established and properly planned out.

(and obviously the fundamental flaw in Book of Boba Fett is that Mando season 1 was already the Boba Fett show we all wanted growing up so they had to cobble together any old collection of half ideas to fill the time)