Latest Andor was brilliant , even though it was a heist series , but what was good was him just taking it was a job and the team all died so it’s not just going to be more elaborate heists against the empire especially as he’s enemy No.1 now as they’ll have his face everywhere for bounty.
Yeah, I feel it’s more the start of the rebellion series, the heist is just to get it really started. Some money to back and pay for it and also a big fuck you to the Empire, making their intensions known. We also know his story arc already because of Rouge One but seeing how he got there is great. We are only half way through so a lot more story to come that’s not about heists.
How many episodes are planned for this Andor series? They’ve just started on filming series 02 - most of 01 was started shortly into the early global Covid lockdowns.
And yeah, it’s better for the lack of the Force and using that as a lazy fix for everything. I thought the petty vs lax bureacracy shown by the imperials organising the raid to arrest Andor was quite an interesting thread - it’ll be interesting to see what, if anything, they do with the fired police investigator guy who’s back at home with his mum.
@markg Been watching it with my 10YO son (in general likes the aesthetic of SW but isn’t a fan at all) and he’s been into it. What you said about 1940s France is a legit comparison TBF, but, given the comparisons often made between the Imperial officers and Nazi Germany…
12 episodes.
Absolutely loved some of the big, flashy CGI in this last episode, but also the lower key moments that show not everything in the SW universe is bombastic. The Commandant dying of a heart attack and the kid dying (despite getting to a doctor) by being crushed. It’s taken me a lot longer to get into this series than the previous SW series but I’m enjoying it.
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Barbican!
Stormtroopers!
Woo.
The latest episode was far, far better than the previous few (for me). Much better pacing and investment in characters.
However, for a show called “Andor” I don’t really care for him that much. I’m far more invested in Mon Mothma and the Imperial bureaucracy. Fingers crossed for a Palpatine appearance!
I really like what’s going on with Syril, the bureaucrat lad. Everyone who’s worked in an office has both seen and hated him and been him in different ways. Fucked off at a jobsworth busybody making things harder for people by insisting things are done right at the expense of things being smooth and easy, but also frustrated to the point of rage at people sacking it off and cutting corners because they know they can hide it and someone else can and will pick up their slack/fix their shit and there’s enough process in order for them never to get called up on it. He’s an extreme version of that but I completely buy that he could be lifted out of SW and dropped into any office anywhere in the world and be a real person, if that makes sense? I don’t think there’s been a major character in SW before that’s been like that? They’ve always been a collection of clichés, tropes and narrative construct that’s obviously sort of necessary for a 2hr piece of blockbuster fantasy cinema but the contrast with that in a longer form drama is way more compelling.
Sorry that that reads like something I’d have blagged in a GCSE English exam or something but it was a stream of consciousness I needed to get out.
Love the bureaucracy, politics and intelligence bits, generally way less bothered about the actual Rebels, bar the heist episode.
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So many different Troopers. Did you notice it was Clone Troopers that killed his surrogate father in the flash back? I think Shore Troopers might have the dopest colour way and have the coolest look in general? The Miami Vice reference opening on Niamos too, haha. I wonder if he’s the one who learns how too re-programme K2-SO droids, to help him escape jail?
All the tense espionage whispers and conspiring in quiet corners is being done far better than most spy movies to me.
I think Jawa’s (at their grubbiest), Probe Droids and Shore Troopers are some some of my favourite things in Stars Wars visually. This almost had them all. Two out of three isn’t bad. Another great building episode, adding new layers to the story, getting ready to go again…
Was buzzing seeing Cleveleys prom, it looked absolutely fucking brilliant. They used so much of the architecture and street furniture. Even left the massive steel sea shell sculpture in the opening drone shot. It’ll always feel like I’m running through a SW set now.
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All six episodes of Tales of the Jedi dropped today!
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Just watched all of them. I enjoyed them all, minus episodes 1 and 5, which were a load of nothing/predictable storylines.
Dooku’s back story was very welcome!
Now THAT was an amazing episode of Andor!
Andor next level good now…
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Definitely. I still stand by my statement of the middle few episodes being fluff, though. The last three episodes have been brilliant.
I disagree. I don’t think there has been any wasted time or dialogue at all.
To create the rebellion, they needed to push the Empire to give people the want to rebel…and that was always going to be a slow burn. I loved seeing it slowly build and think it would have been a disservice or would have felt hollow to not have done it in a realistic way.
‘One way out! One way out! one way out!’
Screen Crush on YT does a great a job of showing how the title of each episode applies to everyone involved and not just the obvious. It also shows how everyone is in similar situations, so the cutting between them all is never jarring.
I also think every minute of screen time has been clearly thought out in a way that hasn’t happened in Star Wars before, so no filler or fluff at all.
Cassian has always been a victim of circumstance from childhood than a willing participant in any of it and how it is actually the Empire that is giving him far more importance to the rebellion than he has and will end up pushing him that way, than by his own choice.
He is just trying to survive another day the best he can.
I’m going to be gutted once it’s finished.
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For me it was mainly the two episodes that built up to the heist on the base with the star show. That could have definitely been one episode. They both had very similar pacing and lingered on the same themes. I thought the editing was flat on those, and the performance somewhat.
They didn’t make me feel anything for Andor on those episodes, and the cutting back to other storylines for literally one or two shots didn’t do anything for me, I felt it detracted from the story.
Also those looooooooong drawn out rants from the mother should have definitely been shaved by a quarter or so.
Saying that, I am liking it a lot!
Andor is incredible. There’s so much detail and substance in everything.
