Massive audience success, develops a cult following. Gets immediately canceled.
Half the season not wanting the burden of having to surf. Why him? He’s just wants to be a regular Dracula. Let someone else have to surf through these adventures!
This is why it took me like 4 tries to actually watch all of Andor. It’s like 4 episodes of prologue where nothing much really happens and then the actual story starts in episode 5 lol
Cassian: kills a man in the literal first 5 minutes of the series that triggers a chain reaction that will ultimately lead to the destruction of the biggest massive planet destroyer ever created.
This guy: nothing happened!
It’s 4 episodes of contrived nonsense with almost zero plot or character development for anyone until episode 5 when they actually started telling the story. It took me so many attempts to get through it because I’d keep getting to episode three and realizing that I genuinely didn’t care what happens to any of them. They could have easily condensed all of the events of the first four episodes into one episode but it just kept dragging on forever
The whole point of the series is that first half Cass is an entirely different man from second half Cass. And by the final chapter he has fully transformed into the rebel spy and leader he is in Rogue One. You see him deal with conflict in three entirely different ways and mindsets through the series. All main characters change profoundly by having their whole worldview challenged is kind of the point of the plot.
I feel like a whole generation of writers were told that in medias res was a worn out trope and they all fled to the extreme opposite.
Well I mean. How I Met Your Mother is like a billion seasons long.