Submitted by testthrowaway54321 t3_1000dxj in television
I love spy thrillers. Everything from Bourne and Casino Royale to more heady pieces like Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy and Munich. And oh, shall we mention Rogue One?
I love high-stakes political subterfuge: Man in the High Castle, Game of Thrones, House of Cards
Most of all, I love shows with amazing dialog, with lines that I'll be remembering for years.
Andor is all of these things, set in a Star Wars universe I grew up loving.
Yet, I hated Andor at first. Because the first 3 episodes are none of these things.
Instead, they are a quiet, slow, character-driven crime drama. We have a dude fleeing for murder from a local cop in some tiny backwater. Worse, we have his Peter Pan Lost Boys gibberish-speaking childhood. Even the climax in episode 3 has pretty low stakes.
I took a month between each episode and gave up after 3. Until I read an article about a sophisticated political scene set in the Capital of the freaking Empire in episode #4. This sounded like an entirely different show. I tried #4, got hooked, was spellbound by the action in #6, and binged the rest in 2 days.
How the hell was I supposed to know from Episodes 1-3 that the show would go all the places it did?
Not from the show's concept: a character's path to becoming supporting cast in a one-off movie? Nothing there to tell me this wouldn't continue to be a slow crime drama about stolen parts.
Second, Disney+ Star Wars quality is shite. Mandalorian's ok, but everything else has been dull. No confidence there. And let's not get started on the latest movies.
Point being, I totally get why all the Andor posts are annoying. The people who are raving are talking about an entirely different show than most of the people who are they are trying to convince who never got past the first 1 or 2 episodes.
So if you're like me and love any of the shows I mentioned at the start but could not get into Andor, give episode 4 a go. If it's not the worst, give it till at least Episode 6. Try.
If you still don't like it, fair play. But you may, just like me, find why there's so many Andor posts on Reddit.
Edit: Yikes, Sometimes I think Andor fans are their own worst enemies. I'm trying to convince people to watch Andor, and people are here calling me and other idiots for being bored. Again my point is that very little in the first 3 episodes indicates at how wide and tense the show gets afterwards. The genre literally changes. If you liked the first 3 episodes that's fine, the point is if you don't the show becomes so much more afterwards, so that people should give episode 4 a shot before they say they are bored. Even if you love it, I doubt you can say that 9-12 is better than 1-3. Slow buildup is one thing, but slow buildup in a different genre than what the show becomes is the issue.
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