Submitted by PetyrDayne t3_z20yc6 in television
permafr0st t1_ixewy35 wrote
Bro I usually think it's silly and that people are being paranoid when people call out astroturfing campaigns but holy shit I feel like I am taking crazy pills with the amount of Andor post and articles trying to convince to watch this show.
I'm sure it's a fine show but this is first time I feel like the marketing is being a bit blatant.
selectiveyellow t1_ixf63on wrote
For me this has been the only consistently good Star Wars media since The Mandalorian, which was three years ago.
Annoying-Ass_Insect t1_ixf6gpg wrote
Honestly, I totally believe that the constant push for this show is real people. I didn’t believe it could be that good until I checked it out myself last week and saw it was leaps and bounds beyond every other Star Wars show.
byronotron t1_ixflp3k wrote
That's why you're seeing so many articles about it, because it's SO good that even regular, non-star wars fans are noticing. How many articles have there been about Succession?
selectiveyellow t1_ixf7158 wrote
Gotta remember that entertainment news is a vicious cycle. Reddit reacts to media, media reacts to users reacting, and users post these regurgitative articles.
Calfzilla2000 t1_ixi8tl4 wrote
I think the reports that the show wasn't hitting the streaming numbers previous big Disney+ shows have reached (not 100% certain because the real numbers are not provided) got fans of the show motivated to help promote it.
I wouldn't say I am helping but it certainly made me feel like I should.
Annoying-Ass_Insect t1_ixicxl6 wrote
It’s a shame it’s not reached the same audience. I think it’s probably a hole that Disney dug by producing a bunch of Star Wars and Marvel shows that ended up being received badly, so most people dismissed this before it was even released. I also thought it’d be more of the same, so I can’t blame them.
Calfzilla2000 t1_ixiel6l wrote
It will find it's audience. Whether it's because of the merciless spam from fans, promotion by Disney or just plain word of mouth, people will find this show and Season 2 will be huge.
LuckyPlaze t1_ixf7sls wrote
I don’t think a lot of it is Marketing. It’s genuinely THAT good. People want to talk about it.
jsgx3 t1_ixf9be1 wrote
It's very good, the buzz is ground floor and it deserves it. Just a great entertaining ride.
NorthernDevil t1_ixfg9y4 wrote
I mean maybe but if I were more of a poster and less of a commenter I’d be pumping this show up. It’s been by far my favorite Star Wars show of the batch, and one of my current favorite shows generally. I want it to get the love I think it deserves and I kinda think every one of these posters does too, mostly so we get more content like it from the Disney machine.
And I don’t think I’m a shill. But how would I know?!
HerbaciousTea t1_ixgj62s wrote
What's more likely?
Disney comitting a massive amount of gross violations of FCC regulations by running a secret and undisclosed astroturfing campaign and that every redditor and hobby site is secretly either a fake bot or in cahoots and being paid off to post positively about the show?
Or people talking about Andor because it's a surprisingly great show in an IP that has gotten a whole lot of trash recently?
Reddit imagines that astroturfing to be WAY more common than it is, and vastly overestimate the value of reddit threads to advertisers.
When we're talking ad campaigns designed to draw tens or hundreds of millions of eyes, no one is going to expend any degree of effort to break the law for the grand prize of... some reddit threads with a few dozen comments.
RusevReigns t1_ixfvt2j wrote
It's mostly not astroturfing, it's just people are collectivists who want to join in when they see something buzzy and therefore have talked themselves into Andor being this good (and imo seeing something that's not really there). The critics are just trying to get views from the Andor trendsters. Disney might have started the snowball but everything after that is people organically overrating it because they saw other people overrating it. Now as a result of this Andor will probably be one of the best reviewed dramas on TV for the rest of its run. Because one day (possibly with Disney starting the snowball), it became buzzy.
hoos30 t1_ixj9cmb wrote
Why is hard to believe that people in the Reddit demo simply like a well-written sci-fi show?
Thoth_the_5th_of_Tho t1_ixgoshg wrote
It's a really, really good show, and the next episode was the finale. That is always going to cause a lot of talk.
hellkingbat t1_ixj706e wrote
To be honest, there hasn't been an opportunity that I've skipped praising the show. I've did it in one of my company Slack channels even lol.
esran7 t1_ixfefq2 wrote
Criticisms are also not allowed to get any upvotes except the standard "if you don't like the first few episodes keep at it, it really picks up later!".
JediJoshy1 t1_ixfpxnd wrote
I get that but I’d say the show is built more around a multiple story arc structure, so if you just watch the first ep it’ll feel a bit open, I believe that’s why they put out the first 3 eps at once since it’s one whole arc, then the Aldahni arc, and the prison
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