TyrantTriumphant
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In my opinion, Star Wars is a big universe with room for a lot of stories. Having a gritty show like Andor does not diminish the heroic story of Luke.
And while Star Wars is not 40k and they do and should have different tones, too much focus on telling the same kinds of stories can be harmful to a series. For instance, in the EU after Palpatine got killed the rebellion became the New Republic and had to wage a 15 year war against the remaining fragments of the Empire. But for some reason these stories generally were "plucky underdogs against big evil empire" despite the New Republic having an actual military and navy and the Imperial warlords being divided and ground down by civil wars and rebellions.
Another much worse example is found in the Disney movies. Where the heroes, despite having defeated the Imperial remnants in one year and in a far more lopsided manor than the EU, and against enemies who had been forced to run off into the middle of nowhere and rebuild from scratch, were once again forced into the role of plucky underdog.
Essentially because the writers focused on maintaining the tone of the series at the expense of internal consistency.
Heroic Traditional stories are good. I personally enjoyed the original trilogy and feel that including the themes that Andor had would have diminished the movies. Not because I don't like those themes or that they have no place in Star Wars, but because they were outside of the scope of the particular story that the original Star Wars was trying to tell.
But there is room for other themes to be explored in other Star Wars works. Plenty of other franchises branch out into different themes, 40k for example producing the Ciaphas Cain books that are much less dark than their usual content, and do not suffer for it. Star Wars is no different.
And while Star Wars is not 40k and they do and should have different tones, too much focus on telling the same kinds of stories can be harmful to a series. For instance, in the EU after Palpatine got killed the rebellion became the New Republic and had to wage a 15 year war against the remaining fragments of the Empire. But for some reason these stories generally were "plucky underdogs against big evil empire" despite the New Republic having an actual military and navy and the Imperial warlords being divided and ground down by civil wars and rebellions.
Another much worse example is found in the Disney movies. Where the heroes, despite having defeated the Imperial remnants in one year and in a far more lopsided manor than the EU, and against enemies who had been forced to run off into the middle of nowhere and rebuild from scratch, were once again forced into the role of plucky underdog.
Essentially because the writers focused on maintaining the tone of the series at the expense of internal consistency.
Heroic Traditional stories are good. I personally enjoyed the original trilogy and feel that including the themes that Andor had would have diminished the movies. Not because I don't like those themes or that they have no place in Star Wars, but because they were outside of the scope of the particular story that the original Star Wars was trying to tell.
But there is room for other themes to be explored in other Star Wars works. Plenty of other franchises branch out into different themes, 40k for example producing the Ciaphas Cain books that are much less dark than their usual content, and do not suffer for it. Star Wars is no different.
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