TenForward: Where Every Vulcan Knows Your Name

I have no idea what you are talking about in your first two paragraphs.

This sentence looks as if implying it were my fault. And of course it is, but that'd be any misunderstanding, with some other common traits of misunderstandings, like that it's symmetrically the other side's fault too.

Meant that you never know the upsides and the downsides of something for real. Just in some limited model, with your own imperfect projection of the universe.

Maybe you can have another go.

Feel more like another attempt at TNG, but yes, maybe.

They are though. They are definitely better than the prequels and arguably at least as good as the OT, at least from a story telling and movie making perspective.

You are right, of course, in at least one of the myriad of possible interpretations.

In mine half the good things about them are a bit masqueraded references to how the old SW EU felt, and not original decisions. And in the rest there are flaws as bad as those of prequels. No way they are better than the OT. They may be better than prequels, if we are not taking a huge part of prequels' atmosphere and removing it from flaws, calling it author's style (I do ; I don't, however, ignore parts that seem left as they were because Lucas lost the interest in deepening them or finishing them, I actually suspect he's a bit on the spectrum too).

I also don't consider prequels obviously bad, which seems to be such a common opinion that its bearers often can't elaborate on it, other than vague terms like "bad dialogue" and "bad pacing" and "doesn't make sense". I would, of course, welcome good supporting points on that.

Andor doesn’t show failure though, it shows how fascist systems work and how fascism affects the ‘little people’.

That's what a huge part of Star Wars is about, except "fascism" is a word a bit tasteless for the more generic thing.

By "looming failure" I mean Luthen&co's approach to planning, risk and lack of backups, and that they also act like agents of something far more powerful than the Rebellion in that stage. In the EU at that point they'd be all surveilled by ISB 3 steps into the chain from anybody who touched any of the suspicious senators. The private moments and conversations would be intentionally arranged and rare. Instead they act like Soviet agents in USA or vice versa, as if knowing that at worst they'll be exchanged for someone. Almost like ambassadors.

OK, I guess we might still see that Luthen was just an upper society cynical, but naive type, and in the end learn that the Emperor watched them all every moment and laughed.