tethered to a burning sphere

This week Gregory and I finally watched Season 2 of Andor, and I had this whole post lined up in my head after episode 8 about how it’s Not Good but I can be chill about it, since after all Season 1 was so much better than my wildest dreams that it doesn’t even matter if this one bombs, though I did still want to talk about what the issues were and how the season should have been handled to provide an effective connecting narrative between S1 and Rogue One...

...And then tonight we watched the last four episodes (the last three apparently written by Tom Bissell, a self-proclaimed Star Wars geek (...)) and those episodes were so absolutely, full-on unwatchably bad that actually I’m not chill about this, I’m viscerally offended by this crime against Rogue One in general and Cassian Andor in particular, holy fucking shit, that was TERRIBLE. Like, “had to stop actually watching and open another window to get through the last 30 minutes,” “wish I could drink alcohol” levels of terrible, just. WOW.

So actually I am not going to write that post today, I am going to go rinse out my brain and take a break from thinking about Star Wars! And possibly tomorrow I will write my essay about what S2 might have looked like from writers who actually understood the themes of......anything.....or even just basic narrative cohesion.....honestly, I’m not sure even filming during the Writers Guild and SAG-AFTRA strikes with no involvement from Gilroy for 6+ months is sufficient to explain the results here, holy incompetence by committee Batman.