Editing Disney + Originals (section)

==Andor==
[[File:Andor postor.jpg|thumb|Poster for Andor]]

{{topquote|I'm condemned to use the tools of my enemy to defeat them. I burn my decency for someone else's future. I burn my life to make a sunrise that I know I'll never see. And the ego that started this fight will never have a mirror or an audience or the light of gratitude. So what do I sacrifice? Everything!|Luthen Rael}}

Series centering on Rogue One's Cassian Andor before the events of that movie. Despite (or perhaps because of), focusing on a more minor character who's less of a household name than Obi-Wan and Boba, its done well for itself review-wise, with many appreciating its darker, grimier, more morally gray take on the Rebel Alliance and their fight with the Empire. So Star Wars for cynics basically. The series is also set far enough from the frontlines that one does not even see a stormtrooper in any great detail until episode 7 and even then it is almost a cameo. 

It starts in the Corporate Sector Authority: basically the area of the galaxy in which Capitalism has been allowed to run rampant and megacorps dominate, an old Legends idea that has been given new life. The first episode starts on the Blade Runner-esque world of Morlana One, home to the Preox-Morlana corporation (the current rulers of the CSA at the behest of the Empire). Cassian is (unsuccessfully) looking for his sister, who he last saw on his homeworld, the jungle planet (and Republic/Imperial strip mine) of Kenari during the Clone Wars. He gets shaken down by some Pre-Mor mall cops who he met in a brothel while looking for his sister, and Cassian guns the poor schmucks down. This attracts the attention of a turbo-sperg working for the Pre-Mor machine, Deputy Inspector Syril Karn, who can't seem to take the hint from his superior (Inspector Hyne) to ignore the two corrupt thugs who just died. This eventually leads to a police raid where he gets most of his squad killed.

Cassian returns to his current home, the scrapyard planet of Ferrix. He's completely disillusioned with the state of things. His biological parents were killed for being Separatist sympathizers, the tribe of feral children he and his sister joined were killed when a warship crashed near their camp, his adoptive father Clem was hanged shortly after the rise of the Empire for being in the wrong place at the wrong time. All he has is his adoptive mother (Maarva) and their droid B2. He's in debt to almost everyone in town, barely scraping by on salvage and theft from the Empire for both the money and due to low-key resentment against them.

During all this, we also have Mon Mothma, who is going from sympathetic senator to the overall leader of the Alliance. Genevieve O'Reilly reprises her role from ''Revenge of the Sith'' and ''Rogue One'', and surprisingly shows us ''why'' Lucas chose her for that role, for those who never saw the scenes cut from that film. After that, it moves to a planet populated by shepherds being low key oppressed by the Empire. Andor teams up with some Rebels to pull off a payroll heist from an Imperial Base(as the Empire is looking so closely at Mothma's bank accounts, they gotta get their money from ''somewhere'''). This leads to galaxy-wide crackdowns from the Empire, (which is revealed to be the main goal behind the heist, as said crackdowns would lead to more joining the Rebellion) which Cassian ends up on the wrong side of, ironically just for being in the wrong place at the wrong time. Afterwards he ends up in an Imperial Factory Prison and leads a mass escape. Meanwhile Mon has to launder the stolen credits while keeping the Empire at bay and handling family drama.

All the while we follow ISB Lieutenant Dedra Meero who's involved in the crack-down against anti-Imperial activity and eventually looks into Andor himself and Syril Karn [[That Guy|who stays fixated with Andor, living with his mom and being a creep to Dedra]] (so basically an Incel). Surprisingly, this works. In particular the Narkina 5 prison is terrifying in its low key banality-of-evil way. 

The finale is really good, involving an anti-Imperial riot on Ferrix. In general the series has slow build ups establishing characters, situation and settings and having them pay off in big dramatic ways.

For all that its been the best-received Star Wars thing since fellow Disney+ originals The Mandalorian and Visions, there is still some points of criticism. It is by far the least action-heavy Star Wars has ever been on screen and whole episodes are used to set up a later, more action-heavy episode(the typical pattern is two set-up episodes leading an explosive payoff in the third). There is also considerably more focus on politics and bureaucracy than anything we have seen from Star Wars before give or take a couple of arcs in The Clone Wars. Some fans think all this makes it the best Star Wars series since the Mandalorian if not the best overall while others think its slowburn storytelling and lack of action most of the time makes it boring. Regardless, this is undoubtedly the most "adult" Star Wars series yet. Fun fact, the head writer was inspired by the October Revolution when writing Andor, with Stellan Skarsgård fitting into Lenin's role.