It’s hard to qualify Andor season 2 as anything other than a success. Was it perfect? No. Anyone calling Andor season 2 a masterpiece might want to look the definition of masterpiece. And start watching better TV shows.

*newsflash* just discovering there are 3 more episodes? WTF? What can possibly happen now? We shall see. Still stand by my review of episodes 1-9. I’ll be more than happy to watch 10 – 12. *

INow, was Andor season 2 the second-best Disney Star Wars show? Absolutely. The best being Andor season 1. Nothing else from Disney Star Wars comes close. That’s just the truth. I finished up season 2 of Andor last night. I’ve given it some thought and now I’ll share my takeaways from the show so far. (This is probably a good time to let people know, I was a working writer in Hollywood for many years. Blah, blah, blah)

This little missive is in no particular order. I’m not going to invest that much time into someone else’s show. Just being honest.

The first 3 episodes of season 2 are a waste of time. It almost killed the whole second season for me. Those episodes were a slog. I hope everyone made a lot of money on those, because they were completely unnecessary. That was a the biggest ‘miss’ for me. Disney Star Wars almost destroyed the only good thing they have on the Star Wars roster by making people suffer through those bore-fests.

Thankfully the story kicked in at Episode 4. The rest of the season was fantastic. Tension, drama, some good action sequences. All of the stuff you want from a good show. Do I have some notes? Sure. Who doesn’t? It wasn’t perfect. But it was very good, especially when you consider the box the writers were in.

We know where Cassian is, emotionally and as a character in the beginning of Rogue One. So, you can only take him so far in the tv show. That’s tricky. Great job by the writers. They pulled that off quite nicely. Again: I’ll be very interested in finding out where they take his character in the last 3 eps.

Now for some problems I had. What happened to Cassian’s sister? Did I miss something? Wasn’t her disappearance/death the thing that drove Cassian as a person? Wasn’t his need to know what happened his motivation for the entire show? If I missed the resolve of that story I apologize. But what happened there?

The way Cassian meets his robot helper sidekick (no, I don’t know the name. Sue me.) was lame. No way in hell you pick up a robot death machine, right after you witnessed what that death machine JUST DID! I didn’t buy that for one second.

Also? They did this dude dirty. Ouch. They can’t leave this droid out. That would be tragic.

Get job Mon Mothma! That was a fine piece of acting. All the way around actually. Bravo, everybody!

The biggest takeaway from Andor overall is this: It isn’t stupid! People behave like real people would act in those situations! Is that so hard for Disney Star Wars execs to understand? Is it that hard? It must be. Star Wars fans are actually very forgiving. Just give us stories about people we care about, who don’t act like complete idiots. Don’t trash canon and rewrite Star Wars history. (Looking at you, Obi Wan show) And remember: Star Wars isn’t about the spaceships. It’s about the characters.

Let’s see what Gilroy and the gang have planned for the final 3 episodes of Andor. In my opinion? They could have ended the show after episode 9 and it would have worked. So far, they have delivered 6 high quality episodes of Andor. Let’s hope they keep it going for the final 3.