who's saying it's rushed? I'm saying so far having watched 6 episodes that the first 3 didn't need to exist, that's the opposite of rushed. it drags on with needless filler.
uh what? I didn't learn any of this in episodes 1-3. Pretty much everything on this list happened in episode 4, predominantly more so through ep 6.
Here's what happened in ep 1-3.
Andor steals a Tie fighter and spends 3 episodes dicking around with a bunch of incompetent bandits from snow white
Mon Mothra's daughter gets married and there's a dance party
Bix and crew are hiding out on a farm world there's a real world political illegal immigrant analogue tie in forced upon us along with muhh rapeeee.
Then you are either blind, not paying attention or retarded.
-Andor steals the prototype TIE Avenger, which is the same line as Vader's TIE. Its a hero ship and its inclusion was awesome and it kicked ass.
-Andor Lands back on Yavin which is uninhabited, no Rebel base, a total backwater which SHOWS the current state of the Rebellion.
-Dangerous animals, local food that was deemed inedible, poor weather, all challenges the Rebellion would have to overcome to use it as a base
-Andor deals with a Rebellion group that is inept, unskilled, squabbling, they dont even trust eachother which SHOWS the current state of the Rebellion
-Andor showing his skills as a soldier and leader by suggesting tactics, rationing, water supply etc which SHOWS his growth since season 1
-Andor not giving a fuck about Imperial ship tech nor her boss. They are both either dead or imprisoned forever after he steals it and plays her like a chump.
-Andor dealing with Luthen not being able to plan for everything SHOWING his ability to "Make his own luck"
Meanwhile you have
-Chandrila.... Wedding Customs, Music, Fashion, History of marriages (the knife ceremony), wealth, internal politics, and planetary history
-Imperial day time shows for women like "The View", Imperial news, Tourism videos, Ghorman opera (what Deadra was listening to), Casual upper middle class fashion
-Imperial immigration policy in Tarkin's Governance, how the Empire feeds its populace, lack of Imperial soldier discipline the further from the core you go
-Imperial adaptation of Rebel tactics to use as a blunt instrument for oppression
-Imperial propaganda, spin doctors, media manipulation to control the narrative in the core worlds
I could go on. Anyone who uses the "muh rape scene" in this show should just be blocked. Grow the fuck up. That shit would have happened 11/10 times. The dumbest part is there was no rape, she got the living shit kicked out of her. Who knew some low level fuckstick with an ounce of power would use it over someone who had none and wanted to take advantage of that. But you are right in a series filled with genocide (Alderaan), Vader force choking a pregnant Padme (episode 3), child trafficking (Mando), child murder (episode 3), child experimentation (Mando, Rebels), child slavery (episode 1), child death screams used as a means of torture (Andor), random torture (all of Star Wars), Stormtroopers using a flamethrower on random civilians (Episode 4), Vader torturing his own daughter (thanks force I guess?), prisons on fake sentences with no hope of release (Andor), Madalore (a fucking CGI cartoon), Imperial sterilization of the Geonosians (CGI cartoon), destruction of Jediah, etc that sexual assault is the main no no screams man child.
If you watched this shit while taking a nap I would understand your comments. Was it the best arc in the 8 arc series? Nope. Was it bad? Fuck you.