Why "Andor" is Basically Terrible

So, imagine you invented something truly revolutionary. Picture all the people who were there when you did it, who helped and supported you and were part of it. Interesting people, I'm sure. Now imagine the person who stamped the paperwork so your patent was pending. 

That's who Andor is.

I'll admit I didn't have the highest anticipation for a "Star Wars" Disney+ series about a character whose imprint on the franchise was basically as a homicidal pile of ashes. He was meant to be an expendable Rebel whose actions aided in obtaining the Death Star plans so other people could blow it up and nobody would ever mention the names of the team he was on again; they were little more than a means to an end.

It's the most unnecessary origin story since Dumb & Dumberer. Why anyone cares about such a dull, detached character is truly baffling, as is the apparent need of screenwriter and creator of the cannon fodder character Tony Gilroy to provide a backstory to the backstory that feels like something from a very old, cheesy short story. It is even duller than Andor himself, if that's possible.

There seems to be a trend when it comes to streaming TV series to go at least two episodes without anything of note happening before rewarding the audience with some much needed, well-choregraphed action or suspense. Such was the case here where we waited an interminable amount of time and to entire episodes for something, anything, to happen to break up the monotony of the snail's pace and the constant need to world build a universe that has already been world built.

By the time the end of the fourth and once again totally eventless episode had ended, I found myself laughing at the abrupt ending.

As of this writing, I have watched four episodes of this dreadful waste of gigabytes and have no intention of continuing. It's too slow, there is only one interesting character, Stellan Skarskgard's Luthen Rael, a character who starts out like something out of a classic spaghetti western and slowly devolves into a cliché-riddled playacting chameleon. There is literally not one other character of note, including the droid.

Andor's troubles with the law after killing a guy for sitting on the ground don't make for riveting TV, nor do they make the protagonist anything less than a ruthless psychopath with a puppy dog face. He deserves to be caught and locked up if not worse. Anyone who's seen Rogue One knows he deserves even more than that because of what he does to the rebel with the bad leg. Andor is a lowlife who walks around looking innocent and pretending to be a victim. If ever there was a "hero" for the new age, it's him. 

So, to sum up we have a morally bankrupt screw-up joining a rebellion so he can one day murder an innocent man without the slightest twitch and nearly kill a young woman's father with a sniper rifle after lying to her. We also have a pace that is agonizingly slow, a soundtrack that is slumber-inducing, and not a Jedi to be seen. There are people who think the lack of Jedi is a good thing. I find that viewpoint idiotic.  

I find Andor idiotic as well. Bring on Asoka!