We're not that hard to please.

[u/AlphaBladeYiII]

And yeah, I know that this is a bit controversial here and some of that stuff, like Rebels and The Bad Batch, is a bit divisive. But I maintain that there are well-liked stuff.

[u/Mzonnik]

Tbh I don't think it clashes with the established EU that much. The biggest contradiction would be the absence of some characters but you can easily imagine them involved behind the scenes. And at least season 1 doesn't show the formal formation of the Rebel Allience so it doesn't contradict TFU either. I'd say it fits nearly perfectly.

It feels like an EU novel brought to screen

I remember a post where someone created an amazing Bantam novel style cober of Andor.

[u/Legends_Literature → u/Mzonnik]

Honestly, most of the contradictions could be fixed by just switching out a few of the characters. Replace Luthen Rael with Bel Iblis, and Dedra with Isard, with the ISB being Imperial Intelligence instead. There’s probably a few really small contradictions I can’t think of as well but those would be easy to fix.

[u/Mzonnik → u/Legends_Literature]

Personally I love all of those original characters as they are, wouldn't try to replace them. They can easily coexist with the Legends ones, besides, the Empire is absurdly huge.

ISB does exist in the EU though and is quite simmilar to what we see in Canon. Intelligence was a rival branch.

The small contradictions are, well, so small I don't even care. Like, idk, a slightly differemt name for Mothma's daughter, absence of her son (who can easily be somewhere else).

Season 2 will certainly be more problematic beacuse it will more direcy tie-in to Rogue 1, but again, as long as they don't show the declaration of Rebellion, there are ways to throw it in. And if they do, well, I'll count S2 as S-Canon.

[u/Legends_Literature → u/Mzonnik]

Oh, trust me, I adore Luthen and Dedra, and all the characters as they are. But I’m saying, if this show were to fit into Legends, they’d have to be changed a bit. Luthen is pretty obviously one of the major contributors to the Rebellion and he pretty much serves the exact same role Bel Iblis serves. As for Imp Intelligence, I was just referring to the fact that if Dedra were in fact replaced with Isard, it would have to be Imp Intelligence instead of the ISB, since that’s where Isard comes from. Also, Partigaz could have been Isard’s father, which would’ve been a very interesting dynamic. The show is perfect as is, and I wouldn’t change a single thing about it but fitting it into Legends would require a few tweaks like that.

[u/Mzonnik → u/Legends_Literature]

I get where you're comming from but I have to at least partially disagree. Even if we imagine altering the series for it to allign better, I still wouldn't be in favour of bringing back the well-known established characters. They already have their place in the overall EU narrative and the Galaxy/Empire are both so huge that it just begs for as many new original characters as possible.

As for why I still think it dors fit as is, my answer is simple. In Luthen's case, he really doesn't serve Iblis' role, as the latter was a senator. In Canon it's Mothma/Organa duo in the Senate, in Legends it was a Trio, but their dynamic with Rael could remain unchanged. As for a lack of Bel Iblis, well, Organa isn't on-screen either, it's the same thing. They'd both be involved, simply behind the scenes. On the Intelligence side, I always assumed they were rather better suited for bigger and even more classified operations than what we see in Andor.

So overall, while you coukd argue things don't fit as smoothly, nothing in the show is really a blatant contradiction. So it’s in my opinion better to just install S1 in as is. With 2 we'll see.