What's Rebels?

Did you at least try Andor? Because that's the best Star Wars show I've ever seen, and honestly I'd even say I enjoyed it more than most movies.

I've admittedly seen nearly ever Star Wars show, but can't recommend them all. It's often a pretty shallow series, with comically evil villains that have no depth. But Andor is chefs kiss.

I'm not sure how Ahsoka is gonna be. I sure hope it's closer to Andor than the other recent shows (most of which were only middling quality in my book).

I have also fallen out of fandom for SW. I love the original trilogy and I really loved Rebels, but they’re squeezing the franchise to death milking every penny out of it they can. And, in doing so, they’re diluting and de-flavoring something that was once special and awesome, into just another consumerized product.

It’s started to happen to Marvel, too, with all the special interest pandering - not to diminish those special interests because they’re important, but do it in a way that’s not at the expense of quality, and storytelling.

So much of pop culture is being harvested like fucking corn, just squeeze every ounce of value out of it and leave a rotting husk in its wake. They don’t care; they got theirs.

I'm with you, buddy. Like most franchises these days, creators are playing it safe and looking inward and filling in smaller and smaller gaps in canon. As opposed to looking outward and giving us something new, at the risk of it being rejected. Me, I'd prefer to see something different than something familiar, but I guess my continuing Disney+ subscription tells the higher ups otherwise...