Eh, idk, but to me rogue one is still whatever honestly, that movie is peak nostalgiabait for the most part with a serviceable plot that keeps things moving like a series or short levels of Jedi Knight or something so you can keep munching popcorn, and the cinematography and setpieces are actually really good.

Sure it's now even more fun because the characters are fleshed out in a primetime TV drama that came out years later and I do rewatch it more often because of that, but it's like saying revenge of the sith flows well with clone wars S7, nah, not really, there's an island of quality between the two.

Wow those numbers are way closer than I was expecting. I mean just with the marketing of two separate seasons of TV I expected there be a way bigger difference than 65-ish million dollars.

Personally I thought Rogue One was ok in cinemas, but I found it hard to care very much about the characters, so it wasn't any better than "ok".

Rewatching it after Andor really lifted it for me, because now I did have an investment in the characters to a much greater degree.

I watched Rogue one after Andor season 2 and no, Rogue one does not measure up. It's a good star wars movie, but comparing a 2 hour long action movie to 2 seasons of TV series is not faire. Character development and suspens are just on another level in Andor.

You can make good quality shows on a shoestring budget if you really want to.

• Dr who

• Outer limits

• Red dwarf

• Lexx

Well duh. Their best idea was literally "somehow Palpatine returned" then killing off the most liked character.

There was a semblance of an idea going in, this somehow got sold to Disney execs who just threw money at it hoping to revive the SW brand, but all that managed to do was mirror the original trilogy with little to no originality.

This is what happens when you give that "semblance of an idea" to someone who'd get kicked off of AO3 for abysmal shite level writing.

It really depends on the TV show.

Modern TV has transitioned to more serialised, continual episodes that form not just a singular but a continuous story. They're essentially a much, much longer movie, with considerably more details.

This is in contrast of "old" TV prior to DVRs, streaming, etc., that allowed a level of rewatchability on demand (thus making modern TV possible), where content had to be episodic and somewhat fragmented. A great contrast piece is Star Trek - every episode essentially reset the status quo by the end, there were very little season-wide progresses made in each, and you could have easily missed half a season, or even 4 seasons, you'd more or less know what's going on if you tuned in.

"Old" TV has a very different production format compared to movies. New TV? Especially with all the new tech? I'd say it's pretty close - just considerably longer. Just like the end result.

They aren't talking about the trilogy as a whole, they specifically state "any of the movies".

So an entire season of television to any one of 5 different movies.

Just for fun, let's math:

Episode 7 $533M / 136M = $3,933,823.53 per minute.
8 $410M / 152M = $2,887,323.94 per minute.
9 $593.7M / 142M = $4,180,985.92 per minute.
Rogue One $280.2M / 133M = $2,106,766.92 per minute.
Solo $364.5M / 135M = $2,700,000 per minute. Even(!) Wow, that's kind of cool.

Andor - $705.5M for all 24 episodes. 582 minutes for season 1, 502 minutes for season 2. 1,084 minutes total for a cost of $650,830.26 per minute.