The purge wasn't a failure since Palpatine got his Empire and ruled it with an iron fist like he wanted. If it was a failure he'd have been killed by anakin and mace windu working together in ROTS. His death at Endor was just the cycle of the rule of two coming to its natural conclusion and Anakin Skywalker's redemption through Luke.
The EU also had lots of jedi survive the purge as well, Palpatine wasn't actually interested in killing every jedi that exists in the galaxy as much as he wanted to make a point to them and the galaxy by killing most of them. Vader was really the guy that had an obsession with killing every jedi but he was a cripple so he obviously didn't kill everyone. Darth Krayt would shit talk Palpatine all the time about how his purge was a failure.
Darth Sidious actually preferred the fact that a few Jedi managed to survive. So that they can bury their heads in shame before the Sith. He enjoyed the idea that Jedi who once held power and influence in the galaxy were now hiding in bumblefuckistan planets all across the galaxy. Darth Vader and Darth Krayt were the ones who really wanted all Jedi to be gone, and that has more to do with their own personal hang-ups with the Jedi Order, (they were ex-Jedi who were really disappointed with the reality of what the Jedi became, just like with Baylan Skoll) whereas a pure Sith like Palpatine or Valkorion saw that getting rid of all the Jedi is a task that was beneath them. They just wanted the Jedi broken, not fully destroyed. Made too weak to resist the Empire, not outright killed down to the last man, woman, and child.
Most people will just roll their eyes and not bother even watching the well written scenes of KOTOR 1 and 2 on youtube even if you show it to them. Don't even need to download the game to enjoy the story anymore. Aspyr also ported them to phones including the restored content mod for 2 as a free DLC.
So Yes, they are absolutely tourists in every sense of the word and see this stuff as nothing more than disposable meaningless media to consoom like most new entertainment media is today.
That, and they see it as an agitprop for their "fascist man bad" stuff.
Like, they want to emphasize fascism being banal, mundane, evil, when that isn't unique to them; even democracies and communist governments can be banal, mundane, and evil. The one thing setting them apart from fascism is that the fascists, or at the very least the Nazis, believe in a cult of the ubermensch, seeing that there is a superior human being who towers above the rest, and the people must constantly be tested and put through the grinder, so that the strong will survive and the weak would perish. Kind of like how the classic Sith and the Mandalorians thought.
The banal 9-5 lifestyle that the Empire puts people through in Andor happens even in so-called democracies, especially in centuries past, when industrialization was something new. ANTIFA-types want to make it a feature of fascism, when it wasn't unique to the fascists. I'm pretty sure people in Soviet gulags in the 1900s or British factories in the 1800s could relate to the life of an Imperial prisoner in Season 1.
The Empire from Star Wars is far from a banal sort of evil. The naked evil of the Empire was shown in games like the Force Unleashed where the Empire throws itself into battle against the natives of other worlds, polluting and decimating villages and communities. It was anything but banal or boring, especially as they threw Stormtroopers, walkers, and Dark Troopers at Felucians, Rodians, Wookiees, Rancors, and Rebels.
The Empire just feels so mundane and weak in Andor; it just makes no sense why it took so long to overthrow them. Even their scary guard droids can easily be killed by some schmuck who hijacks an APC, then the Rebels reprogram said droids to fight on their behalf against the Empire. If the Empire is so weak, to the point where they let a Senator escape the capital after bad-mouthing the Emperor, the Emperor and his top officials should all have been assassinated before Krennic finishes the Death Star. Especially if there's a whole galaxy ready to hate the Empire.
The remake really needed to happen to get them to take KOTOR seriously again in any meaningful way. Disney really should have just fucked off and let the fans do the remakes themselves instead of handing them C&D letters.
Exactly. But we've seen big corpo be unable to let things just happen behind their back. Bethesda letting people remake other games in the Skyrim engine is the exception to the rule, not the norm.
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