I mean they did have to accelerate to Rogue One in the number of episodes they were given.
The last episodes were done very well in my opinion. It covered the rest of how much tyranny harms itself and creates the links necessary for Rogue One and a New Hope.
The original plan for the series was five seasons. And you can see it in the edges - scenes that were filmed before the decision to cap the series at two that didn’t seem to sync up with the rest of the plot, characters introduced in a dramatic fashion who only had a few minutes of screen time, production quality in the final episodes falling off a cliff.
The last episodes were done very well in my opinion.
The final episode of the second season had a Xena Warrior Princess tier budget. Tons of close in shots, virtually no special effects after the return to Yavin, weird janky uses of greenscreen and CGI in the final five minute epiloguish-thing. This was a beautiful show that was chopped off at the knees.
Gilroy exited the project gracefully, but its abundantly clear that Disney execs looked at the returns on their streaming service and said “Fuck it, we’re better off following the Zaslov Model”. So now, much like Netflix and (HBO?)Max, AAA movie quality television at Disney is getting flushed down the toilet and we’re pivoting back to Michael Eisner’s “Give me a forth direct-to-DVD Tinkerbell movie” business plan.
He tells the story quite differently. Sounds to me you heard it was supposed to be 5 seasons and started looking for problems. The entire series had tons of nothing side characters given unusually deep characterization, it’s been a hallmark of Gilroy’s style. I genuinely have no idea what you’re talking about with the production quality of the last episodes.
Sounds to me you heard it was supposed to be 5 seasons and started looking for problems.
You can find plenty of abbreviated and dropped plotlines across the 2nd season. But the last episode really stands out as half-baked.
The entire series had tons of nothing side characters given unusually deep characterization
The first season “nothing” characters largely have completed story arcs that begin and end in their 3-episode arcs. More major characters roll through to the end of the season.
The second season breaks from this pattern in a number of instances. Meanwhile, the cinematography, the special effects, and the choreography really fall of, particularly in the final episode. This was a very obviously rushed end to the series and quite a bit of it breaks heavily from Gilroy’s earlier episode depth and polish.
Showrunners planned for five seasons, with each three-episode arc commanding something like a $75M budget and months of filming. This was planned back when Netflix, HBO, and Apple were pushing out projects on a similar scale for their top tier shows. Gilroy notes that, at the current pace of release, the project wouldn’t have been completed until 2034. Some degree of scaleback had been anticipated for a while.
But post-COVID and following a huge industry-wide reevaluation of the prospective future growth of the Streaming media model, the big studios decided to cut back significantly. HBO / Warner Bros, under newly minted CEO David Zaslov, led the pack by going so far as to scrap existing projects and take a tax deduction rather than releasing functionally finished projects. Now Max is fully invested in Discovery Channel tier Reality TV and back catalog movies. Netflix began hard-capping their projects and churning out a bunch of AI-generated slop a year or two ago and is also heavily leaning on its back catalog. Disney is just following the pattern.
I thought they did the giant jumps in time in the series because they didn’t have good stuff, but it’s because Disney fucking sucks.
Every season was effectively planned to be a year, in the five year run up to Rogue One / New Hope timeline.
I mean they did have to accelerate to Rogue One in the number of episodes they were given.
The last episodes were done very well in my opinion. It covered the rest of how much tyranny harms itself and creates the links necessary for Rogue One and a New Hope.
The original plan for the series was five seasons. And you can see it in the edges - scenes that were filmed before the decision to cap the series at two that didn’t seem to sync up with the rest of the plot, characters introduced in a dramatic fashion who only had a few minutes of screen time, production quality in the final episodes falling off a cliff.
The final episode of the second season had a Xena Warrior Princess tier budget. Tons of close in shots, virtually no special effects after the return to Yavin, weird janky uses of greenscreen and CGI in the final five minute epiloguish-thing. This was a beautiful show that was chopped off at the knees.
Gilroy exited the project gracefully, but its abundantly clear that Disney execs looked at the returns on their streaming service and said “Fuck it, we’re better off following the Zaslov Model”. So now, much like Netflix and (HBO?)Max, AAA movie quality television at Disney is getting flushed down the toilet and we’re pivoting back to Michael Eisner’s “Give me a forth direct-to-DVD Tinkerbell movie” business plan.
https://comicbook.com/tv-shows/news/andor-season-2-creator-tony-gilroy-scrapped-five-season-plan/
He tells the story quite differently. Sounds to me you heard it was supposed to be 5 seasons and started looking for problems. The entire series had tons of nothing side characters given unusually deep characterization, it’s been a hallmark of Gilroy’s style. I genuinely have no idea what you’re talking about with the production quality of the last episodes.
You can find plenty of abbreviated and dropped plotlines across the 2nd season. But the last episode really stands out as half-baked.
The first season “nothing” characters largely have completed story arcs that begin and end in their 3-episode arcs. More major characters roll through to the end of the season.
The second season breaks from this pattern in a number of instances. Meanwhile, the cinematography, the special effects, and the choreography really fall of, particularly in the final episode. This was a very obviously rushed end to the series and quite a bit of it breaks heavily from Gilroy’s earlier episode depth and polish.
They had 5 seasons originally?
Goddamn bullshit we got fucking robbed. That is so much story there they could have done.
I thought they did the giant jumps in time in the series because they didn’t have good stuff, but it’s because Disney fucking sucks. Yay.
Showrunners planned for five seasons, with each three-episode arc commanding something like a $75M budget and months of filming. This was planned back when Netflix, HBO, and Apple were pushing out projects on a similar scale for their top tier shows. Gilroy notes that, at the current pace of release, the project wouldn’t have been completed until 2034. Some degree of scaleback had been anticipated for a while.
But post-COVID and following a huge industry-wide reevaluation of the prospective future growth of the Streaming media model, the big studios decided to cut back significantly. HBO / Warner Bros, under newly minted CEO David Zaslov, led the pack by going so far as to scrap existing projects and take a tax deduction rather than releasing functionally finished projects. Now Max is fully invested in Discovery Channel tier Reality TV and back catalog movies. Netflix began hard-capping their projects and churning out a bunch of AI-generated slop a year or two ago and is also heavily leaning on its back catalog. Disney is just following the pattern.
Every season was effectively planned to be a year, in the five year run up to Rogue One / New Hope timeline.