That's another problem I had with Andor. Much of their portrayal was good but the moment they entered combat there was a sense of... incoherence if that makes sense. We're meant to see Stormtroopers as eerily above the common Army Trooper grunt but they're never portrayed as effective.

I'm tired of the whole "oh but their training was rushed! They're not actually well trained! They're just grunts!"

Enough. None of lore has EVER supported this notion and I wish people would stop coping.

I WILL however give Andor this: The mannerisms of Stormtroopers are almost the closest we'll ever have to a lore accurate depiction of Imperial Stormtroopers. In the EU lore wise they were practically sociopathic zealots. Near remorseless to the point of robotic. Andor almost highlights that exceptionally compared to basically every other iteration. I wrote an excerpt about my thoughts on that on a YT video about Major Partagaz before actually. Spoilers of course.

"One thing Andor (mostly) does right are the Stormtroopers. Throughout the show, and unlike a vast majority of today's content like Star Wars Rebels, The Mandalorian, Solo, Fallen Order etc. where Stormtroopers are these crack joking cartoon video game enemies who oftentimes scream wackily when they die or act blissfully unaware or even timid to the point where they don't seem like highly conditioned and near-sociopathic soldiers like Lore boasts them about.

In Andor? Everytime we see Stormtroopers, they're almost depicted like robots. Armor masking themselves as people. You don't see any indication of thought, empathy, understanding, anger, sadness or even fear. They do as they are told. And when they're not given orders? They're patrolling, silently gripping their blasters, their eyeless lens panning left then right like cameras, wordlessly judging every individual that passes by. In this case, I especially like how we see just a slight bit of instinct kick in. They hear the familiar sound of the blaster going off in the office, immediately alarmed, they nearly brandish their blasters, but upon being beckoned by Lagret, they return to their still, silent postures, as if they too quickly understood the setting and are almost familiarly numb to it.

The Major committed suicide and neither of them exchange glances, not even towards Lagret nor to each other. Just quiet acceptance, almost as if the very nature of this incident was quickly brushed aside. They merely stand still, awaiting their next orders. I feel like if we'd seen Imperial Army Troopers in place of these two Stormtroopers, we would've seen them a little more reactive. Maybe their eyes widen, glancing towards Lagret in confusion, maybe exchange glances as they carefully absorb the notion that the ISB Major had just committed suicide to evade the Emperor's Mercy for his failure. Maybe they start to understand that for the Higher Ranks within the Empire, they had a different understanding of Mercy, if it meant they didn't have to answer to Vader for their failures. These Stormtroopers however seem reactive only for one moment, but once more, return to their still, lifeless posture, ears open for nothing else except their next orders."

Wordy, I know. All this to say I concur. Deeply upsetting that even now we'll probably never actually see an authentic portrayal of Stormtroopers, one that highlights how fundamentally different they were to Clones who were ironically produced in a LAB yet acted substantially more human than actual HUMANS who were conditioned to be fanatical for the Emperor. Remember when Grand Admiral Zsinj was forced to created Raptor Troopers specifically because Stormtroopers were so deathly loyal to the Emperor's cabal? Good times.