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Who else is watching this unexpected jewel of a Star Wars series?



It's not a thrill ride a minute, but I'm finding it well plotted, thoughtful, and I'm affected by a lot of the cast. There's no rebels Good (Cassian would shoot Greedo in the face the moment he sat down!), Empire Bad moralizing, while they still seem to have made the Empire something to dread without simply sticking the Death Star in background shots. The politics in the show (and there's more than a bit of it) is interesting and almost to the level where you feel you have to follow ever word. And let's just say Stellan Skarsgard automatically elevates everything he's in, but he's not just here for the franchise money.

It's not quite what I was expecting.

 

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Spoiler: Episode 7, Announcement

Two sequences of dialog really stood out for me - one that had me eye squirting - in episode 7 and made me interested in seeing if anyone out there was watching as well:

Maarva: Take all the money you've found and go and find some peace.
Cassian: I won't have peace. I'll be worried about you all the time.
Maarva: That's just love.


Cassian: I don't know anybody here. I'm a tourist.
Shoretrooper: Tourists don't run.
Cassian: But I'm not running.
Shoretrooper: You got that right. That window is shut.

 

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Spoiler

 

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Andor’s designers approached it like a Star Wars period drama

A look at some of the finer details.

www.theverge.com

 

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I held off on episode 10, One Way Out, until this morning.

Holy crap. The expected prison break was unexpectedly jaw dropping. Andy Serkis' performance is Emmy-level. Stellan Skarsgard's monologue on what he sacrifices was near-Shakespearian. The scenery and sets and camera work. The music. It feels like I'm watching the most underrated tv series out right now.

 

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No Kino Loy minifig, no way.

 

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45 years later, Star Wars finally plugs a hole in Star Destroyer canon

 

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Almost forgot: I watched the season finale tonight.

Thumbs up, 5 stars, 10/10.

 

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I think that they have already started filming season 2.

 

[Khamon]

The first two episodes are airing on FXX (i think) tonight so we shall watch. Still not gonna subscribe. But I’ve been watching Diego Luna watch paint dry for decades.

 

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I missed the after credits scene.

Spoiler

On Narkina 5 they were building parts for the Death Star. They’re brackets that link together the gold panels inside the superlaser.

 

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Andor Breakout Adria Arjona Reportedly Signed for More Star Wars Appearances

She played Bix Caleen.

 

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Something to look forward to on Disney+ this spring.

 

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Hope everybody has a happy ending in the series.

 

[Wesleytron]

The first three episodes of Andor season 1 have been made officially available to watch for free on the Disney+ YouTube channel:

S1E1

S1E2

S1E3

 

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The official trailer for season 2 has been out for a few weeks. No real spoilers but give it a pass if you want to go in cold.

Starts on the 22nd.

They'll be showing 3 episodes every Tuesday. Which seems weird but it appears their plan is to package it all up as a movie-like presentation each week. Maybe the first season's 3 episode arcs were difficult for people to manage. Whatever.

Just about all the prime characters from Rogue One should be making an appearance. The big question appears to be, will Vader show? Personally, I could do without him. Andor has been a program about the regular people (well regular people from a long time ago in a galaxy far, far way...). No need to bring the gods of the mythos into it.

 

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They wanted to make 1 year jumps between seasons but they only got two seasons. So each arc is getting released together. Season 1 kind of works that way in 3-episode chunks (origin, heist, prision, early rebellion) but in a contiguous timeline.

I hope we do not see any Jedi or Sith. Avoiding the Skywalkers made it a stronger story. I would argue that while Star Wars is mostly space fantasy, Andor is where it becomes strong SciFi.