Whenever Darth Vader isn't onscreen actively committing atrocities, all of the other characters should be asking, "Where's Darthie?"

Literally the dumb drooling babies that RLM mocked relentlessly in all their sw videos.

I think it's on purpose because Andor can't have a real anti-fascist, anti-empire message if Darth Vader is present. In the dynamics of real empire, Vader should be some kind of manager/general like Krenic. He can't be a 6'-4" cyborg who is the best at being a pilot and the strongest magic space warlock to ever exist. The foundational narrative of Star Wars is about how empires are created by bad people who are indoctrinated by magic space warlocks. This message was driven so far deep in the lore that literal space genes cause people to be almost deterministically evil or good. You can't be materially anti-empire when the empire is actually magic. Being a revolutionary against empire means something and it's not waiting for the prophecy of a good guy with magic space genes to save us all.

The best thing Andor can do is forget the Skywalker bullshit, pretend it doesn't exist, and flesh out the Empire as being founded in material exploitation. That is something they have been doing so far. If Andor has to go find a magic Jedi mcguffin or protect the royal space gene bloodline, it's cooked. Luckily we know how this ends so they don't have much room for that bullshit.

I also remember the action packed duel between Obi-Wan and Darth Vader in A New Hope.

This is what a steady diet of ''best [X MOVIE HERE] fight scene compilation'' and comicbooks does to your brain.

I remember when i was younger just wanting to watch a star wars tv series about the inner workings of the senate, which still sounds infinitely more enjoyable than "vader kill to show power heavy breathing".

I just want to see Vader return to his one true love - podracing

I'd watch it because it's good, not because it's Star Wars fan fiction.

protip: George Lucas only made 6 Star Wars movies.

They can get all that in the darth Vader comics if they want.

Trauma mindset: I wont watch andor because the first person who recommended it to me really hurt me

Darth Vader's entire story and then some has been told. Also the threat he once represented is entirely diminished due to his presence in pop culture for almost 50 years. Dude is printed on children's bedsheets and stuff, any excitement from Darth Vader has been wrung entirely dry. Like Bela Lugosi's Dracula, that shit was scary in 1932 but it didn't take long for it to be the way to depixr a vampire in a silly way. If you want a threatening villain to be threatening you don't use them as often as possible cause that means the heroes have to beat or escape them more often, trek did it with the borg as well.

Plus tonally, Vader doesn't fit into Andor at all. Most of Star Wars is focused around grandiose melodrama. Anakin was never relatable at any point. Fucking Mon Mothma at this point has waaaaay more character depth than Darth Vader because what she's going through makes sense and the way she reacts to things emotionally is similar to what a human would do or feel. Anaking never reacted to a single piece of outside stimuli in a way that remotely resembles human behavior. His emotions are dictated by plot necessity at every turn. Andor is doing this thing where it's not trying to be Flash Gordon or whatever bullshit the clone wars was trying to rip off which seems to be the gold standard of star wars for these fucking geeks. A trash kids show.

People like this don't deserve good media.

I wanted lightsaber fighting as a child. Somewhere in my mid teens I wanted to know the lore but as an adult I want lightsaber fights

P.s. no idea what andor is

Treatle is like Wordle but you identify the treat based on selected reddit reviews of it