“Andor” might be a movie spinoff focused on a familiar character, but in terms of the overall “Star Wars” canon it’s right out on the fringes.
The first Disney+ series set in that galaxy far far away, “The Mandalorian,” started out on relatively fresh and original turf, but by season 2 it had been dragged into the vortex of legacy characters.
Boba Fett showed up ahead of his own Disney+ series, and even Luke Skywalker himself joined the story (via a body double for young Mark Hamill and some VFX trickery) to whisk Grogu away to space wizard school.Many “Star Wars” fans are delighted to see so many returning characters, from Max Rebo to Ahsoka Tano, but there is such a thing as too much fan service.
When Lucasfilm did step away from the Skywalkers with a bold gamble of a spinoff movie — one that introduced a cast of almost entirely new characters,
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