Lucasfilm is back at it again. For just one day, it might be nice for them to not use controversy as their main advertising tool. For one day, it would be nice of quality of product was the shining force for why people want to watch a galaxy far, far away where Jedi and Sith can use the force. Instead, Andor has decided to include forcing ones self on another for gratification as its second season debut reason for tuning in. As a result, many fans are tuning out.
The answer to that is subjective. Mine is yes as it isn’t/shouldn’t be normal to watch r*pe scenes for entertainment.
Why do people defend watching that?
Also, Star Wars is known to be a family IP. Inserting unnecessary SA scenes doesn’t help the story or the franchise.— Tabitha*🇺🇸 (@DreamingTabitha) April 23, 2025
Disney Plus is dropping Andor episodes, three-at-a-time, Tuesday evenings for the next three weeks… twelve episodes in total. But some fans may be done already with a show that reportedly cost more than $600 million to produce. While some Star Wars fans are happy with the super-gritty, actual-evil events being included in the show, others think that getting into this sort of darkness is a concept George Lucas would have never wanted on-screen in his sci-fi universe.
SA in SW feels unnecessary. You can portray power dynamics and making the audience hate the empire in other ways without taking it to such a disgusting place.
Vader wouldn’t tolerate that shit nor does the Empire condone it.
It has no place in Star Wars. Period. Unnecessary.
— StarWarsTheory (@realswtheory) April 23, 2025
Of course, as is so often the case with Star Wars these days, the reception of this new type of wrongdoing was met in very different ways depending on the viewer’s own ideologies. Some online claimed that the show is now pushing boundaries, that it is presenting a more realistic world, and that there are actual stakes involved beyond just lightsabers and force powers. The fact that the show had a migrant be the recipient of such an awful act had some fans applauding the presentation of patriarchal evil, as well as the idea of marginalized women being harmed by an Empire that looks distinctly white and masculine.
#Andor spoilers
Wow. I never thought I would see this topic broached in anything Star Wars but Andor continues to push boundaries pic.twitter.com/yTIHGa9ywV
— anna 🛸 andor & tlou era (@ahsokasconvor) April 23, 2025
One thing is for sure. All of this is a huge risk for Disney and for Lucasfilm.
Star Wars has never been at a weaker point in its history. Andor Season One was a critical hit but not a highly-viewed show on streaming. In fact, it barely (if ever) managed to make the streaming charts for Nielsen. With an astronomical cost, Lucasfilm needs a win badly. Skeleton Crew wasn’t a hit. Ahsoka and The Acolyte were definitely flops. If Andor Season Two is poorly-received again, Lucasfilm is down to Ahsoka Season Two and a couple of movies to try to save the day. But fans seem to giving feedback to Kathleen Kennedy’s crew that they’re at least mixed on what is happening with the current offerings. For a studio in need of an uncontested hit, that’s a hard pill to swallow.
Why in God’s name would anyone think it’s a good idea to have an attempted r*pe scene in Star Wars? It’s supposed to be a family friendly franchise. I guarantee that George Lucas is both appalled and furious by this.
“Pushing boundaries”, you see. Apparently it justifies everything.