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Maybe my statement was misinterpreted..... I am not a very good writer, after all.

What I meant was that Andor should have gotten all of those awards. So far it's been amazing. The sets, the acting, the VFX, the dialogue.. it clearly is a return to form for prestige television after the last 5 years of increasingly diluted writing talent.

It might completely shit the bed in its last few episodes. But even then, it has the following over Strange New Worlds:

a) Characters feel like real people. On SNW, you have a ragtag group of randoms whose backstory is either written on their sleeve (La'An) or there's none at all and they only have scenes on the bridge generally, have lines, but are inexplicable (Ortegas).

b) Speaking of Ortegas, the writers seem to have insisted on using the Marvel template of quippy lines at inappropriate times. The character acts completely and uttery unprofessionally. Noone notices, because the plot needs to happen. There are no moments where someone says to her "Hey, you need to button up before you take the helm of this bajillion dollar space ship because 200 lives are counting on you."

c) In Strange New Worlds half of the VFX shots are covered in smeary digital lens flares. This never happens in Andor.

d) Andor doesn't use "The Volume", which is the LED wraparound virtual set that the other Star Wars productions use. SNW uses it for a lot of things, including Engineering, which has been reduced to becoming a vast cave with one console in the middle, like some sort of budget TARDIS. It looks awful. it doesn't look like Star Trek's engineering set from 1967 and while I know there'd have to be updates to make it look modern, it's a completely different room.

e) The plots in SNW are kind of ass. Like, the whole episode where they think they're characters from some storybook because a space cloud has become friends with the Doctor's ailing daughter, and then at the end the cloud takes her because he can't save her, the actor playing the doctor has absolutely no emotions because he can't act his way out of a paper bag, then she pops in as an adult but not really because she's space cloud now. Is that how you resolve a plot that's been going on since the beginning of the show? The daughter thing was basically just a mystery box from poor writers.

The last episode of the season has them time jump to an alternate 7 years in the future during the original Star Trek's "Balance of Terror" and the romulan commander, despite not having the same rapport that he had with Kirk (because the scenes are entirely different) then says the lines from the original episodes almost VERBATIM at the end and we're supposed to be somehow impressed by this even though those lines didn't fit the scene, didn't work with the rest of the script, and existed entirely for memberberries.

Anyhow, I hope SNW season 2 is better, because even though it can be very mediocre it's the only live trek right now that isn't outwardly hostile to its audience.