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walkitoutI was really excited when Andor was announced, but did not start watching it when it came out. I have finally watched episode one, because a friend really thinks that I would like it. I have been warned that it starts slow, and I maybe should skip the first episode or 2.
However, I’m leaning towards not watching any of it given how this series starts. There are some really interesting women characters. In the backstory, young Cassian has an even younger sister, and in the main story, he’s looking for her. There’s an older girl than young Cassian who looks a bit like a leader of what seems to be a refugee camp of some sort on Kenari. The bartender in the beginning of the episode seems cool, but it’s in a brothel, and then shortly after that, we have an event that is pretty familiar for the kind of thing Cassian does, and that means there’s a really close connection being created between Poor Cassian Looking for His Sister but in a Sexualized Context and then Oh Ooopsie Bodies.
When I was a teen working at a movie theater, Spaceballs came out, and I remembered it being incredibly stupid and also funny. When I rewatched it more recently as part of a Let’s Revisit Funny Movies From the Past Oh Look They All Suck, I realized that Spaceballs — like a lot of movies of all sorts, including scifi — has a runaway bride who does not want to marry the person her father wants her to marry. *sigh*
Anyway. There are problems with relationships in Star Wars — my daughter called a halt to watching Attack of the Clones because she had such an issue with the age difference between Padme and Anakin. (Look, it is _no loss_ to stop watching the prequel series!). But Andor opening in the first few minutes with a rapidfire sequence of Brothel (but looking for his sister), Murder, and then not too long after that a complicated interaction pressuring another woman to help him get away from the pressure generated by the murder is a very, very, very bad sequence, much worse than I would normally anticipate seeing in Star Wars, much less post-Disney acquisition Star Wars. Apparently subsequent episodes will develop the Chandrilan society of which Mon Mothma is a member, their marriage customs etc., and that’s going to include delightful things like arranged marriages between teens and a complete lack of acceptance of same-sex relationships.
I really liked Cassian Andor in Rogue One. I can see that this prequel series shows a plausible earlier version of Cassian, but it’s basically missing _all_ of the appeal. In conjunction with what looks like another mistaken effort on Disney’s part to have more “adult” offerings, I just cannot imagine continuing. Having read spoilers about where the series is going, I am absolutely NOT continuing.
However, I’m leaning towards not watching any of it given how this series starts. There are some really interesting women characters. In the backstory, young Cassian has an even younger sister, and in the main story, he’s looking for her. There’s an older girl than young Cassian who looks a bit like a leader of what seems to be a refugee camp of some sort on Kenari. The bartender in the beginning of the episode seems cool, but it’s in a brothel, and then shortly after that, we have an event that is pretty familiar for the kind of thing Cassian does, and that means there’s a really close connection being created between Poor Cassian Looking for His Sister but in a Sexualized Context and then Oh Ooopsie Bodies.
When I was a teen working at a movie theater, Spaceballs came out, and I remembered it being incredibly stupid and also funny. When I rewatched it more recently as part of a Let’s Revisit Funny Movies From the Past Oh Look They All Suck, I realized that Spaceballs — like a lot of movies of all sorts, including scifi — has a runaway bride who does not want to marry the person her father wants her to marry. *sigh*
Anyway. There are problems with relationships in Star Wars — my daughter called a halt to watching Attack of the Clones because she had such an issue with the age difference between Padme and Anakin. (Look, it is _no loss_ to stop watching the prequel series!). But Andor opening in the first few minutes with a rapidfire sequence of Brothel (but looking for his sister), Murder, and then not too long after that a complicated interaction pressuring another woman to help him get away from the pressure generated by the murder is a very, very, very bad sequence, much worse than I would normally anticipate seeing in Star Wars, much less post-Disney acquisition Star Wars. Apparently subsequent episodes will develop the Chandrilan society of which Mon Mothma is a member, their marriage customs etc., and that’s going to include delightful things like arranged marriages between teens and a complete lack of acceptance of same-sex relationships.
I really liked Cassian Andor in Rogue One. I can see that this prequel series shows a plausible earlier version of Cassian, but it’s basically missing _all_ of the appeal. In conjunction with what looks like another mistaken effort on Disney’s part to have more “adult” offerings, I just cannot imagine continuing. Having read spoilers about where the series is going, I am absolutely NOT continuing.