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masterpug53 posted...

I'm not saying that all SW media should be a carbon copy of Andor, nor am I saying that Andor is some immutable pinnacle of writing (although it is really, really good). But it should serve as a more general standard for SW going forward, in which new shows look at it and say 'hey, maybe putting more emotion, tension, smart dialogue, and clear, consistent motivation into our characters can only be a good thing.'

You don't even need to look exclusively to Andor for inspiration when even something as relatively simple as The Lego Movie has more charm and emotional weight than Ahsoka. Take the MCU for another example; people rip on its movies for being bland cookie-cutter capeshit, but myself and many others got invested in those movies due to a core cast of likeable, memorable, and (mostly) well-written core characters, which produced an attachment that carried viewers through two dozen movies worth of material, some of which was great but most of which was mediocre.

But SW has almost stubbornly refused to learn lessons from contemporary media over the years, outside of outliers like Andor. At this point, simply meeting expectations is not a good thing when the franchise lows outweigh the highs. There's a ton of potential here, but too often you either have good characters stuck in a bad plot (the Sequel Trilogy), or a good plot saddled with bland characters (Ahsoka). SW as a franchise is long past due to set its overall writing standards a little higher.

But you're talking about subjective things as though they're objective measurements. I found Andor to be extremely boring and couldn't make it past 2 episodes. Ahsoka, on the other hand, I LOVED! I enjoyed all the characters and didn't find them bland at all.

In your MCU example, you would be the audience that finds them "bland and cookie cutter," whereas I'm the one who connected and loved them.