Andor (Disney+) • Page 31

Just finished Ep 3 for the second time. Some thoughts:

1. So everyone on the crashed ship on Kenari died from poisonous gas? The dead bodies' faces were all yellow and Maarva and Clem came in with masks. Idk if I caught that the first time.
2. When I saw the rerelease of Rogue One in IMAX, they played a teaser from Andor, and it was the warehouse scene where Cassian talks to Luthen and they escape the shootout. I remember thinking "cool, this seems like it is gonna be good" but I that one scene alone could never prepare me for how amazing the show as a whole is.
3. Timm's death scene is kinda brutal - not the death itself because fuck that guy - but how it went down for Bix. She's left there chained to the wall delirious while her lover's dead body just sits feet away from her.
4. The buildup with all the clanging and banging on metal things to the empty street where the Corpo guards are just waiting for Andor is show is masterful. This show does climaxes so good at the end of every 3rd episode.
5. The ship Maarva and Clem leave Kenari in is the same one out in the junkyard in Ferrix that Cassian hides out it.

I also realize that we haven't even seen Meero or her world yet and that's yet another amazing part of the show.

 

just watched Rogue One again and man, Cassian's "do you think anybody was listening?" to Jyn hits so hard in light of the "nobody's listening!" in the show. they did an unbelievable job enriching this whole storyline really

that being said, I'm not surprised I didn't recognise Melshi in the show because he looks and acts completely different in RO lol

 

Onto the second arc in the series, Aldhani. I think out of all of them, this one feels the most self-contained. Might change with the prisoner arc. We didn't even get to the ISB/Coruscant/Mon Mothma until this episode, which highlights how strong the first 3 episodes are without any of those plotlines to hold them up. I truly love everything on Coruscant.

Other thoughts:

Ep 4
- Luthen truly is ruthless, the way he commands Vel, from his aggressive "look at me!" to his assertion that Andor is disposable.
- Nemik is one of the best characters in all of SW
- The place where Syril's mom lives is super depressing, at least the exterior. Imagine living in a massive dreary apartment complex with hundreds of units on Coruscant.
- Within 5 minutes of Andor meeting Vel's group, we see the wide spectrum of individuals in the Rebellion and what they're fighting for. Nemik is an idealist, Cinta fights for revenge after her family was killed, Taramyn is a former stormtrooper, etc. It's not all just 'good guys fighting the bad guys.'
- Perrin ambushing Mon with dinner plans she wasn't aware of/forgot about is too relatable
- I love Nemik's insistence on being careful with the models of the garrison he constructed. It reminds me of Warhammer and other tabletop war games where people meticulously care for their models.

Ep 5
- love the space Trix cereal. Syril's mom is super obnoxious, cutting him down at every opportunity. He's not exactly nice to her either, and watching them verbally snipe each other at the table is probably one of my least favorite scenes.
- On the topic of parent-child relationships, Mon's daughter doesn't really seem to like her much either. They don't really reveal the context of their conversation where her daughter doesn't want to go to whatever Mon is dragging her to, saying "you just want to show off" or something along those lines. Wonder what she was referring to?
- Vel's group truly was fucked without Andor to fly the freighter and configure the weight.
- I know we mentioned it the first time around, but this episode does a good job at highlighting just how menacing a single TIE fighter is to those on the ground.
- Everything involving Lt. Gorn is super poignant when you know his backstory.
- I totally missed that Meera pops a pill while staying late at work lol
- "Everyone has their own rebellion" is one of the more memorable lines from the show.
- Love that Syril has action figures in his room.
- Luthen obsessively sitting by the radio listening for signals reminds me of myself in high school. In the days before music streaming and MP3 players, I would sit by the stereo in my room listening to the local rock station in the hopes of listening to a Rage Against the Machine or Metallica song. I remember some times getting out of bed at night and plugging in the headphones and sitting their in the darkness hoping to catch "Guerilla Radio" or something. I was a weird kid.

Ep 6
- I still think the leader of the Dhani looks like Bryan Cranston.
- Honestly, no wonder Lt. Gorn lost his taste for the Empire. He has to stand around and listen to his superiors complain about the Dhani and the way they smell and it's revealed that he fell in love with a Dhani woman.
- This episode shows us how Imperials aren't all just nameless uniforms or troopers. For example, the garrison commander talking to his wife about wanting to get a transfer off of the planet. Who here can relate?
- Also mentioned last time, but the shot of the pilots getting into the TIE fighters is so damn cool, as is the whole escape through the Eye.
- Nemik's death is one of the saddest in all of SW
- Cinta for sure killed everyone in that tower huh
- Skeen was pushing hard to take Nemik to the doctor after Vel was having misgivings, but that might be a part of his effort to look out for himself and split the money with Andor. Either way, Andor killed him so it doesn't matter.

What a great show. Deserves a rewatch.

 

I finally got back into this (resubbed to D+ for Owl House). I expected the prison break to happen in 9 but it happened in 10 so I guess my theory that each arc would be three episodes was wrong

 

This was great, and in typical Disney+ fashion it ended in a big fight except none of the main characters actually took part in it haha

 

Convinced my brother-in-law to watch it so going through it again

 

One way out!

 

Andor....Vice

 

The music to this show is in my head pretty much all the time

 

couldn't find an official star wars thread. I haven't watched this yet, but I have two questions

is the post-empire republic canonically socialist or did they just fall right back into the same old eventually-fascist trap of hierarchical capitalism? no wonder the first order rocketed back to power in like 20 years

also, this just hit me: is Naboo supposed to be a hamhanded Cuba analogue? I love incompetent leftist storyteller George Lucas

 

Naboo now formally known as Space Cuba.

 

I’ve always found this thread to be the general Star Wars thread. It’s title is a little out dated now, I guess, but it works.

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Leave the title. It's the one corner of the Universe where Rebels comes first

 

I guess there's also Dave Filoni's heart

 

The Ahsoka show is seemingly just the sequel to Rebels. Rebels fans are eating good right now.

 

This was a fantastic analysis

 

so sick, give me that Rogue Squadron movie

 

I feel like a Rogue Squadron movie with the effort towards flight scenes like Top Gun Maverick would absolutely crush at the box office

 

Yeah, like they have the model for it right there

 

Like, it seems like such an easy win, so the only reason I could see Disney putting that film on the backburner is to first want to get a new trilogy of films started