Absolutely. That’s something I couldn’t quite put my finger on. I thought Rogue One was great. It really filled in a lot of the missing Star Wars movie lore (if one didn’t read any of the books), and it was a darker movie in the vein of ESB.

Then I watched Andor.

You really get a much, much deeper take on all the characters and the story gets far more detail.

And as soon as I watched the last episode of Andor I watched Rogue One again and it really feels more like assembling disparate parts into an action film.

But that’s the price of having to assemble a big story and see it all in ~two hours.

Yeah Andor really highlights how light on character development Rogue One is. It’s just action scenes stringed together with a bit of traveling and dialogue. Like I didn’t care for most of the deaths in the movie or even feel sad for Jyn because the movie didn’t make me feel invested in the characters.

The same problem is there with Gareth Edwards other movies like Godzilla and The Creator. Lots of action, lots of characters, but not enough time spend on the characters to feel emotionally connected to them.

Yeah, people claim Andor is a great movie. But to me it doesn't hold up. It looks like a great movie. What I always imagined and hoped for in a prequel/sequel as a kid.

But... All the main characters died at the end and I didn't care at all. In contrast the bloody robot died in the middle of the movie and I was very sad.

To me it totally falls flat on its protagonist. Which is kind of critical for a movie to be "good" in my books. At least it had a protagonist, I guess, unlike the Phantom Menace,