Astonishingly odd move to be honest to not have originally built up the characters with the Andor series before doing the events that happened there. Harder to care for characters you just meet in an already big universe.
tbf, the whole media landscape was way different back when Rogue One came out. it wouldn’t be for another 5+ years that cinematic universes connecting tens of movies and multiple tv series would be the norm. Mandalorian was the first live action star wars, and it only started in 2019
Marvel was still in his infancy with their breakthrough of the bazillion tie-in movies and media, where to understand that movie you need to watch 20 others first.
Astonishingly odd move to be honest to not have originally built up the characters with the Andor series before doing the events that happened there. Harder to care for characters you just meet in an already big universe.
tbf, the whole media landscape was way different back when Rogue One came out. it wouldn’t be for another 5+ years that cinematic universes connecting tens of movies and multiple tv series would be the norm. Mandalorian was the first live action star wars, and it only started in 2019
Marvel was still in his infancy with their breakthrough of the bazillion tie-in movies and media, where to understand that movie you need to watch 20 others first.
They’d already released 15 of the MCU films by that point