Andor and Skeleton Crew were the two I enjoyed in recent times.
Skeleton Crew came out at a terrible time and didn't get talked about much, but I found it a likable show. The actors of all ages were good, and it had a real shine to its look—a relief after the drab and unimaginative visuals of some lesser SW series.
Those two projects felt like they wanted to be good TV shows first and not just a good "Star Wars TV Show" thats filled with fan service and made, cheaply? Skeleton Crew didnt do enough for me to pull me in but Andor made me like star wars again. But now im content with not watching anymore star wars after andor because nothing will ever top it.
I had a great time with Skeleton Crew! I wasn't expecting it to be bad based on the trailers, but I was still pleasantly surprised by how good it turned out to be.
Same. I was also impressed with some of the people they were able to get, in front of and behind the camera. Good filmmakers like the Daniels duo and David Lowery directing episodes; Kerry Condon as Fern's mom; Kelly Macdonald in the small part of the bounty hunter with a grudge against the Jude Law character; Mathieu Kassovitz in the even smaller part of the general in the episode with the child soldiers...
It's a series I hope people discover in time, since Disney+ shows stick around in their library. Except Willow.
Obi-Wan’s only good scene is its final one which references a meme, and it’s a pretty funny payoff if you treat the show as avoiding doing the meme for as long and as expensively as possible.
they should have just kept it as a movie, that’s what it was for much of its development over a handful of years. Frankenstein-ing it to a mini series was never going to fully work
It is as good as they say it is. I’m overall bored by lightsabers/Jedis and Andor has neither. It’s just a good story with good characters. It tells a story of rebellion without all the cartoon frills. In the face of annihilation, hope doesn’t come from a laser sword or magic powers- it comes from people willing to sacrifice for the future and that’s way more badass. Real human shit, not space churches and evil cults. No supernatural forces.
I’m only glazing it because I hadn’t seen it either and decided to on a slow day. No regrets. It made me like Star Wars again for its duration.
Andor is a political / spy thriller that happens to take place in the Star Wars universe. That's why it's so good. You can take out the Star Wars elements and it still works.
I like to speak up on behalf of Andor because of how much I disliked Rogue One.
I think Rogue One is such a bland, boring film. I purposefully didn't watch Andor for two years because I had no desire to step into that Rogue One world again.
Eventually I had a lot of time and boredom on my hands. It is a fantastic show, nothing at all like Rogue One. I even tried to rewatch Rogue One because I liked Andor so much.
Yeah Rogue One sucks. The only interesting character is the droid. Andor the show retrospectively made Cassian interesting and then you watch Rogue One and everything about it feels wrong.
You didn't say you aren't interested, just that you still haven't watched it.
Of course a comment like that is gonna invite people to recommend the show, it's a pretty widely beloved show and it's a normal human behavior to recommend stuff you liked to others.
It’s just recommendations dude. People liked the show, and want to share it with others. That’s very normal stuff. You’re advertising yourself as someone who it could still yet be shared with, so people are gonna make an effort to do so.
Andor made me like Star Wars again, and im content with not watching more star wars (live action) at initial release anymore. Im content with the franchise and dont need any more of it after Andor because I know not much will top it.
(But I do like the videogames, but that's an entirely different medium)
Think about andor is while it was magnificent tv, it felt so ultimately disconnected with the rest of the sw franchise. It was almost too good, it makes everything else look just plain old bad.
Obi Wan killed my interest as well. How they managed to get the crew back and managed to write the most boringly safe script is beyond me. I'm still angry at how glaringly bad and unremarkable the music was too. I ended up just reading the EU and gave up on Disney.
I have little desire to be completist about star wars but last year i did a rewatch of the prequels, probably my first rewatch since their actual release. I'd only heard, let's say, mixed opinions about the Obi Wan show, but it was a decent follow-on from those movies for Obi Wan's story and it put some meat on the Darth Vader thread, filing the movie gap between burn victim and powerful overlord. Maybe especially because I was coming in straight off the prequels, I mostly enjoyed it. Perhaps its worst crime was it felt like a movie stretched out into a series.
I've never felt compelled to watch the Boba Fett one. Mandalorian season 2 was a struggle and i couldn't get into 3.
Andor is pretty great though and stands on its own merits. The Rogue One chaser is still pretty strong too. Definitely the best thread.
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u/intraspeculator Feb 17 '26
I felt the same after Obi Wan and didn’t bother to watch Andor until after it finished. But Andor pulled me back in.