{"id":163077,"date":"2025-12-01T22:33:08","date_gmt":"2025-12-01T22:33:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/163077\/"},"modified":"2025-12-01T22:33:08","modified_gmt":"2025-12-01T22:33:08","slug":"star-wars-released-the-most-important-episode-of-television-this-year-according-to-star-trek-creator","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/163077\/","title":{"rendered":"Star Wars Released “The Most Important Episode of Television This Year,” According to Star Trek Creator"},"content":{"rendered":"

The rivalry between Star Wars<\/a> and Star Trek<\/a> is the stuff of legends \u2013 at least as far as the fandoms are concerned. But this year has been a big one as far as Star Wars is concerned, with the Emmy-award-winning Andor Season 2<\/a> releasing to near-universal acclaim. The timing became significant, with showrunner Tony Gilroy considering Andor the most important story<\/a> he\u2019ll ever work on. It seems he\u2019s not alone in that estimation, too.<\/p>\n

Speaking to ScreenRant<\/a>\u2018s Ash Crossan, Star Trek: Discovery creator Bryan Fuller spoke about his love for Star Wars \u2013 and, particularly, for Andor. <\/p>\n

\u201cI think episode 8 of Andor season 2 is the most important episode of television this year, and probably for many years to come. Previously, I watched it so many times and cried at just the bravery of this woman, [Mon Mothma]. It\u2019s a crime that Genevieve O\u2019Reilly was not acknowledged with awards.\u201d<\/p>\n

Andor Was Like Nothing Else We\u2019ve Ever Seen in Star Wars<\/p>\n

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Andor was a unique Star Wars TV show, in large part because of the incredible quality of its writing. This was Star Wars as prestige television, and it\u2019s unlikely any franchise will ever make anything quite like it; Disney is cutting on streaming budgets<\/a>, as are Disney+\u2019s streaming rivals. Fuller, meanwhile, is singling out one specific episode \u2013 Andor Season 2, episode 8, \u201cWho Are You?\u201d This was the middle chapter in a massive story focusing on an Imperial act of genocide committed against the planet Ghorman, and it has been widely for the incredible quality of its writing and production.<\/p>\n

Andor was a masterpiece of science-fiction<\/a>, and it\u2019s frankly delightful to see other creators recognize it. But it stands out in large part because its message is somehow both timeless and timely; it shows the cost (and necessity) of fighting against fascism, set in a distant galaxy that somehow feels chillingly familiar. <\/p>\n

Showrunner Tony Gilroy was initially reluctant to discuss the overt political imagery of Andor, but he\u2019s become more open about it as the months have passed. \u201cWhen I started on the show, the parallels between what was happening in the world and what was happening in the galaxy and the Empire\u2014those were already obvious,\u201d he told The Hollywood Reporter<\/a>. But it\u2019s been \u201cvery sad for us how much it rhymes\u201d with the real world, he continued, pointing to surprising moments that, oddly, paralleled the story he told in episode 8 in particular.<\/p>\n

This timeliness is what gives Andor its true significance, and it is why Fuller\u2019s assessment is likely true. Andor told a very specific story at a time when the real world began to mirror it, giving the Star Wars series a weight that pop cultures franchises often aspire to, but seldom achieve. When Fuller calls this \u201cthe most important episode of television this year, and probably for many years to come,\u201d he\u2019s surely right.<\/p>\n

What do you think? Leave a comment below and\u00a0join the conversation now in the\u00a0ComicBook Forum<\/a>!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The rivalry between Star Wars and Star Trek is the stuff of legends \u2013 at least as far…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":163078,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[146,85,46,43,66342,74727,411],"class_list":{"0":"post-163077","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-tv","8":"tag-entertainment","9":"tag-il","10":"tag-israel","11":"tag-news","12":"tag-star-trek-generic","13":"tag-star-wars-generic","14":"tag-tv"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/163077","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=163077"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/163077\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/163078"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=163077"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=163077"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=163077"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}