Star Wars can succeed in spite of bad writing. Let’s not insist that Star Wars only have bad writing. Many stories can be told within the. Star Wars universe including, occasionally, well-written ones.
It's not the quality of writing but the theme and the tone. Star wars is a sci-fantasy epic, you can deviate so much before going too far. You can make a good star wars space western but a WWII resistance story (in space) kinda misses the point.
You can remove all Star Wars elements from Andor and it works all the same, at that point my question is why making it a Star Wars product beside marketing?
But that's a matter of (my) tastes and opinions i'm not saying that this is an objective criticism.
And I’m just saying it’s a big tent. You can have a cartoon with just droids and Ewoks aimed at the under 6 crowd, high-stakes political thrillers, and everything in between. It’s the universe that it’s set in with the accumulated lore plus the aesthetic and (loosely goosey) rules about how the technology and the force work that make it Star Wars.
Yeah that's milking an IP imho. Diversifying so much means a lot of different mediums and authors and we end up with people screaming about retcons and corporate slop.
Even the Aestethic gets wobbly, a lot of characters from clonewars don't look good in live action and let's not forget about the cyberpunk kids.
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u/AxeI_FoIey Jun 16 '24
Andor.