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thehankinato t1_j8xbdlw wrote

Just humor me, hear... Maybe it's not the quantity. Maybe it's the quality.

EDIT: I'm 37 years old. I've been watching star wars since I was old enough to form memories. The Mandalorian is passable and entertaining. I've ignored the animated series aside from the original Clone Wars mini series, much to the chagrin of the elitists. I felt the most recent film trilogy was awful. I'd grown tired of star wars... Until I watched Andor. God, it was amazing and it's just the type of story Star Wars needs to be modernized. Star Wars doesn't need less.. it needs more stories about the darkness surrounding idealism and revolution. Extreme times are cruel on all sides and black and white good vs evil doesn't really exist in modern storytelling, anymore. We're in the post-modern era of storytelling and Disney has entrenched itself in modernism.

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Dalekdude t1_j8x67na wrote

My roommates been watching it so I’ve catched bits and pieces and joined her for some. Thought it was very funny when the speedy guy picked the strongest guy thinking he could outrun him with the “be the last one holding onto the ball” game only for the strong dude to lay on the ball for almost three minutes lol

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magvadis t1_j8x5cp5 wrote

I think that's partly the case but at the same time hamstringing the plot into this overarching narrative has been the main issue I've had with Phase 5. You have to stop the drama to go and introduce this new hero and give them an origin or talk about it.

It's just lame because it undermines the new character and the media they are in.

They did that before but we lived to see it come to fruition in later phases.

Imo, just introing another Thanos wouldn't keep people watching...been there done that.

If Kang is bigger than just Quantumania then maybe they can pull it off but Kang is a deep cut villain mostly as a bit in the animated media.

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magvadis t1_j8x4bxq wrote

I'm hoping Andor gets renewed and maintained as a passion project because it's the only prestige thing to come out of Star Wars since the Disney acquisition. It's the only meaningful fuckin thing come out of Star Wars since TLJ....only less controversial because it doesn't involve the franchises favorite Marty Stu.

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magvadis t1_j8x3uc7 wrote

I trust James Gunn on Guardians....the problem is I just don't trust Marvel as a machine to do much of anything with their movies except cut half of it out to plug a new character.

What happened to solo movies?

All these new heroes are getting these forced origin stories in the middle of a plot that has nothing to do with them...which undermines their character and origin AND the movie they are in.

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