Taking a shared universe more associated with shallow adventure stories and using it to tell a deep and mature story is something you normally associate with comic books. But I guess the Disney Star Wars shows are doing things comics would have done in previous decades, including this.
And it had to be a Star Wars show! It relies on the movies already having done the worldbuilding heavy lifting so it can focus on its own story. You could imagine something like Andor set in an original space opera universe but it wouldn't be as effective.
No spoilers, but what the ending left me thinking about is how many people are the heroes of their own stories but supporting characters in others'. So many characters could have carried their own shows, but they were in a show called Andor...
And then Cassian Andor goes on to be a supporting character to Jyn Erso in Rogue One, and then Jyn becomes part of the opening crawl to Luke Skywalker's story.
Also: the music! I love the way the Ghorman protest song sounds like it's going to to evolve into the Rebel Alliance leitmotif from the original trilogy. (Or maybe I'm reading too much into a similarity.)
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