Broccolidwarf
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...there is a major glaring plot hole, which takes away from the experience of an otherwise excellent show.
Don't get me wrong, the production quality is top notch, it is clearly a big budget production and it is executed very well indeed.
There entire cast is also brillant and does stellar work making the material compelling.
But, where the F... are the Jedis?
I get that you may want to produce a show where they don't sweep in with light sabers and solve everything - I get that you may want to center the story on other aspects of the Star Wars universe - that's all cool.
But to pretend they simply don't exist, just makes the entire story - set in the STAR WARS UNIVERSE 5 years before Episode I - entirely unbelievable.
There is not a single mention of the Jedis in the series, they do not factor in at all in all the politics and all the power plays, they are not talked about by the rebellion as a potential ally or the Empire as a potential adversary... they simply appear to not exist in the "Andor universe".
It just drags the entire story down to me and makes an otherwise really good show average - at best.
Don't get me wrong, the production quality is top notch, it is clearly a big budget production and it is executed very well indeed.
There entire cast is also brillant and does stellar work making the material compelling.
But, where the F... are the Jedis?
I get that you may want to produce a show where they don't sweep in with light sabers and solve everything - I get that you may want to center the story on other aspects of the Star Wars universe - that's all cool.
But to pretend they simply don't exist, just makes the entire story - set in the STAR WARS UNIVERSE 5 years before Episode I - entirely unbelievable.
There is not a single mention of the Jedis in the series, they do not factor in at all in all the politics and all the power plays, they are not talked about by the rebellion as a potential ally or the Empire as a potential adversary... they simply appear to not exist in the "Andor universe".
It just drags the entire story down to me and makes an otherwise really good show average - at best.
4 episodes in, and thus far it's the best new show on TV.
It's an entirely engrossing thriller, even if the premise of their circumstance is only revealed a little at a time, in flashes.
The cast is great, they all give stellar performances, the set, camera work, score and other production values are all top notch, and we are on our way to a bona fide hit.
But I have felt this way before about sci-fi shows, after only a few episodes, and then been terribly disappointed, so I can only give it an 8, as of yet.
And the little flashes we get, of the pyramid they are in being almost submerged, makes me worry.
I could easily imagine the big reveal is, that a catastrophic climate crash caused most of the planet to flood, and if that is the case, this whole thing is instantly dropping to a 4, because even if all ice on earth melts over 80 % of the landmass will still be intact.
I really hope it doesn't happen, I really hope this production is smarter than all the ones that went before it in the genre, so that this becomes a 10 rather than yet another promising dud.
It's an entirely engrossing thriller, even if the premise of their circumstance is only revealed a little at a time, in flashes.
The cast is great, they all give stellar performances, the set, camera work, score and other production values are all top notch, and we are on our way to a bona fide hit.
But I have felt this way before about sci-fi shows, after only a few episodes, and then been terribly disappointed, so I can only give it an 8, as of yet.
And the little flashes we get, of the pyramid they are in being almost submerged, makes me worry.
I could easily imagine the big reveal is, that a catastrophic climate crash caused most of the planet to flood, and if that is the case, this whole thing is instantly dropping to a 4, because even if all ice on earth melts over 80 % of the landmass will still be intact.
I really hope it doesn't happen, I really hope this production is smarter than all the ones that went before it in the genre, so that this becomes a 10 rather than yet another promising dud.