u/in-a-microbus

One of the complaints I hear about Rogue One is: the characters seemed 2 dimensional. "They didn't spend enough time developing the characters for me to care about their deaths" or even "I cared more about the robot getting shot than Jyn Erso getting blown up"

Then I watched Andor. And there were a LOT of characters who were DESTROYED emotionally by the death of someone who's name I had to look up: Timm Karlo, Cinta Kaz, most of the crew that went to arrest Andor.

Then there are haunting deaths of characters who's names we don't know. There is that scene on Ghorman when a K2 unit throws a protestor and I expected her to get up and keep running because that's what happens in action movies. Instead she dies in a crumpled heap because that's what actually happens when you throw someone 30 meters.

Then there's "Who are you!?" Where you realize that just because we know the full backstory of a character doesn't mean they know each other.

Overall the writers did an amazing job of reminding us that just because the audience does or doesn't understand the impact of an action doesn't mean it's not important to the story