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Spoilers Andor - Season 2

Nah, the Bothans were more heavily involved in the 3-4 ABY period. We're too early for them, unless one showed up as a random background Rebel and they had the classic EU alien design.
 
Just been having a google for the filming locations. Definitely a fan of the use of real life locations and how they integrate them with cgi. Gives it all a grounded look.
I dare say it's better than stagecraft tech, which is still very clever bit of filming.
But how they blended real place in Valencia, for Coruscant is fantastic.
Also I never knew in season one the planet Niamos is English seaside town of Cleveleys, only a few hours drive from where I live. Lol.
 
Just been having a google for the filming locations. Definitely a fan of the use of real life locations and how they integrate them with cgi. Gives it all a grounded look.
I dare say it's better than stagecraft tech, which is still very clever bit of filming.
But how they blended real place in Valencia, for Coruscant is fantastic.
Also I never knew in season one the planet Niamos is English seaside town of Cleveleys, only a few hours drive from where I live. Lol.
The mixture of locations, VFX-altered backgrounds, and sets was masterfully done.
I know that's something that should just be expected, but I really do think Andor pulled it off better than almost all.

Edit: I just realized that reads like I just mean the mixing of the three, but I also mean the execution of all of them. The locations were well chosen and well shot, the VFX backgrounds blended seamlessly and believably, and the sets were well made, looked great, and were often hard to distinguish from location work.
 
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Maybe. :shrug:

I don't hate them, I just pity them. ;)
You know who else pities them.
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they did use the volume for some sets, but only as an addition for fully built sets, like IIRC the Coruscant safe house was built on the volume for the stuff outside the windows.
 
Would someone please fill me in on why there is a feeling out there as to why Rian Johnson does not like Star Wars?...I am relatively new to the Disney Era of Star Wars, and am enjoying what I have seen so far - for the most part.
Because a lot of people who are some combination of toxic, racist, sexist, or just plain not very bright, aren't capable of appreciating true quality, even when it's staring them in the face.
 
For sure. All very clever.
Also they had some great sets. Ghorman and Ferrix for example.
In each season, they clearly spent scads of money on gorgeous practical sets which they filmed the hell out of. God bless 'em.

Ferrix and Ghorman are the most detailed, immersive and fully "alive" locations in SW history.
 
Ah yes. If people don't like something they must be stupid.

This is why Andor keeps dropping down my list. In order to build it up people punch down.
 
Finished it a few days ago and the best aspect of Andor is that it runs with the old concept of the Galactic Empire being a slightly cartoonish pastiche of Nazi Germany and Imperial Japan (but in space) but depicting it in a more adult, banal, sinister, and poignant way.

The Empire's a semi-competent, fairly efficiently run, and very well resourced regime, but from as long ago as Order 66 and the events of The Bad Batch, it was ideologically flawed and rotten at its very core (by selecting too many corrupt or over competitive bullies), and was slowly sowing the seeds for its own downfall for two solid decades (with too many millions of little trash fire insurgencies galaxy wide eventually culminating into the Galactic Civil War).

You sensed the slowly growing panic already amongst the Empire's top brass with that last amazing scene between ISB Director Krennic and Major Partagaz...
 
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