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Originally Posted by Knut
Incredible TV. This could be a story outside of Star Wars and be amazing.
Star Wars needs more of this. Stellan Skarskgard and Diego Luna are killing it.
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This is exactly the problem I see Star Wars fixing and Marvel losing.
I look at the phase 1 and 2 Marvel movies and they were mostly all good movies that mixed in a superhero. Captain America is a good enough war movie where they could have just replaced the Super Serum with a giant work out montage and Stallone could have starred. Winter Soldier didn't really need it to be Super Heroes. Lately instead of good plots with the super hero element added, they have become super hero movies with a plot shoe horned in.
Star Wars seems to be going the opposite. Andor doesn't need to be in the Star Wars universe to succeed, but it adds the flavour we want. I like Boba Fett for the same reason, and also why I didn't like the Grogu episodes forced in. Mando is a great series that could have been in a different universe and just add a Grogu stand in like short round.
Rogue One used the Rebellion as a backdrop, but as a movie plot, it works without it. Solo on the other hand felt like it was Han Solo with a plot forced into it. And I won't even get into the "plots" of the Sequels.. if you take the Star Wars out of them, they don't work.
Now, I love me some fan service (or franchise focus), and I think Obi-wan and Tales of the Jedi were all that and it worked, but it is nice to see the heads at Star Wars realize what made Marvel successful was good movies with Franchise elements instead of all Franchise with a movie forced into it.