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For someone totally out of the loop, what does this mean?
It means Andor was excellent and Secret Invasion was hot garbage.
Through no fault of Tony Gilroy’s, Andor’s last few episodes got GoT’d. So much of the story had to be compressed, a bunch of scenes got inserted almost randomly in post production. The narrative fell apart. That final episode was shot with the change in Gilroy’s back pocket.
Really spoiled what had been up until that point some of the best Star Wars material produced to date.
I’m less likely to tune into a new Star Wars series after watching Disney dismantle another hit in mid-Production now than I was when the first episode aired. So, I guess, in that sense it has something in common with Secret Invasion.
I mean they did have to accelerate to Rogue One in the number of episodes they were given.
The last episodes were done very well in my opinion. It covered the rest of how much tyranny harms itself and creates the links necessary for Rogue One and a New Hope.
The original plan for the series was five seasons. And you can see it in the edges - scenes that were filmed before the decision to cap the series at two that didn’t seem to sync up with the rest of the plot, characters introduced in a dramatic fashion who only had a few minutes of screen time, production quality in the final episodes falling off a cliff.
The last episodes were done very well in my opinion.
The final episode of the second season had a Xena Warrior Princess tier budget. Tons of close in shots, virtually no special effects after the return to Yavin, weird janky uses of greenscreen and CGI in the final five minute epiloguish-thing. This was a beautiful show that was chopped off at the knees.
Gilroy exited the project gracefully, but its abundantly clear that Disney execs looked at the returns on their streaming service and said “Fuck it, we’re better off following the Zaslov Model”. So now, much like Netflix and (HBO?)Max, AAA movie quality television at Disney is getting flushed down the toilet and we’re pivoting back to Michael Eisner’s “Give me a forth direct-to-DVD Tinkerbell movie” business plan.
They had 5 seasons originally?
Goddamn bullshit we got fucking robbed. That is so much story there they could have done.
I thought they did the giant jumps in time in the series because they didn’t have good stuff, but it’s because Disney fucking sucks. Yay.
