Spoilers Andor season one

[Crazyewok]

"Mining disaster" is what Vader tells Director Krennic the Senate will be told after Jedha is used to test the Death Star. Sounds like standard operating procedure in Palpatine's Empire.

Well the death star is a giant rock breaking minning laser.....from a certain point of view.

Maarva's dialogue in the flashbacks imply the crashed ship was republic, and even said the kids killed a Republic officer. But the suits on the dead crew had the CIS symbol on it.

I think this will be explained later on. My guess is republic false flag shenanigans.

Wipe the population out to restart minning operation and blame it on the CIS. But clearly something went wrong.

 

[Tuskin38]

There's an old RPG source book reference in the dialogue in one scene
https://twitter.com/pabl0hidalgo/status/1572960347627335680

Oh god I just called something from 1993 old, I was born in 1991

 

[Crazyewok]

There's an old RPG source book reference in the dialogue in one scene
https://twitter.com/pabl0hidalgo/status/1572960347627335680

Oh god I just called something from 1993 old, I was born in 1991

I noticed Easter eggs from dark forces game 1994.

Anders byrar pistol and the planet fest.

 

[fireproof78]

I never thought "Obi-Wan Kenobi" looked cheap.

Same. The commentary around Andor vs. Kenobi is tiresome, as are the vast majority of talking points over the Andor series. Like "this is Star Wars grown up," as if Empire Strikes Back or Rogue One don't count. "This canonizes sex" as if ROTS doesn't count. "Shit is now canon," as if swearing was a new thing to Star Wars. "This is the best Star Wars show and saves Disney Star Wars" as if Mandalorian is no longer exists.

As for the show itself, I'm in definite wait and see mode.

 

[Crewman6]

"This is the best Star Wars show and saves Disney Star Wars" as if Mandalorian is no longer exists.

but this show is already leagues better than The Mandalorian, which is insanely overrated and mediocre!

 

[Crewman6]

I think we might see force users but if we do it will be presented in a very grounded kind of way. No fancy back flip fighting or anything like that.

I can't imagine that will happen.

CASSIAN: "Who are you and why are you here?"

"My name is Hera Syndulla. This is my astromech Chopper. We're here to help."

Please god, no. Leave that shit to Favreau and Filoni.

I don't know what show you were watching, but they obviously fucked.

Heh. Indeed.

 

[fireproof78]

but this show is already leagues better than The Mandalorian, which is insanely overrated and mediocre!

I will agree that I find the Mandalorian being overrated, but the way I see individuals fawning over Andor like it saved Disney Star Wars as if the Mandalorian no longer exists, when it was touted as being the exact same thing when it first debuted. It's absurdist claims like this that drive me nuts. I'm glad people like Andor, and I'm glad many are getting the Star Wars series they (apparently) always wanted. But, what I'm seeing doesn't feel all that different from Star Wars in various forms that has come before.

 

[Tuskin38]

I don't think anything saved Star Wars because it didn't need saving, it was doing fine.

 

[fireproof78]

I don't think anything saved Star Wars because it didn't need saving, it was doing fine.

I agree, but this is what I see and I'm just going...I don't know. I just shake my head. Obi-Wan looked cheap? Ok then.

 

[Mage]

This kind of polarisation always happen in franchises with every new show. We're just seeing it a lot now, because Marvel and Star Wars are dropping new stuff twice a year, or is it more already? Not to mention new Star Trek shows happened quite fast after each other in just a few years. Supernatural is getting a spin off quite fast after its last episode.

So ofcourse we're going to get hugely divided opinions. What I find weird is how people just shows after a few episodes. One reviewer I read said the first three felt a bit too dragged out, untill he saw the fourth and understood why the three first ones needed to do a lot of set up.

I haven't seen Andor yet, this sunday is lazy sunday where I'll spend the afternoon binging all three episodes. All I know is I'm very curious

 

[fireproof78]

This kind of polarisation always happen in franchises with every new show. We're just seeing it a lot now, because Marvel and Star Wars are dropping new stuff twice a year, or is it more already? Not to mention new Star Trek shows happened quite fast after each other in just a few years. Supernatural is getting a spin off quite fast after its last episode.

So ofcourse we're going to get hugely divided opinions. What I find weird is how people just shows after a few episodes. One reviewer I read said the first three felt a bit too dragged out, untill he saw the fourth and understood why the three first ones needed to do a lot of set up.

I haven't seen Andor yet, this sunday is lazy sunday where I'll spend the afternoon binging all three episodes. All I know is I'm very curious

It does and the talking points are very repetitive and reminiscent of Rogue One and Mandalorian, and even Clone Wars to a degree (that show got dark a lot. You know, for kids!). The larger thing is this idea that Andor is doing some new in regards to Star Wars. It's really not. It is quite interesting in terms of the world building (I'm only one episode in) but it does the the OT did well which was drop in to a story already in progress and trust the audience to pick up on context clues to understand the world.

The biggest weird one that stood out to me was a reaction of "Sex is canon now." It's like...ugh, no. Are we 15 years old as a fandom, get all atwitter over swear words and implied sex?

 

[Booji]

Well, this was the weakest start of any SW series since Resistance imo. Getting the first 3 episodes did help though. I simply hope there are no more episodes like the first one that pop up in any given week... unless they're part of another 3 episode release like we got this week. The third episode was quite good, helped tie things together, and does make me look forward to the next ep.

 

[Saul]

Fantastic work. Beautifully shot, the framing, editing, music, acting, writing. It actually felt like the show was made by people who care about the art and craft rather than just getting it done in any ole way.
Parts of it gave me Blade Runner vibes, parts of it some old war movies. I really started to get into it by the 3rd episode when everything started coming together. I was actually chuckling from how much I was enjoying it.
If only all of Star Wars could be handled with as much care as this show...

 

[Jayson1]

There's an old RPG source book reference in the dialogue in one scene
https://twitter.com/pabl0hidalgo/status/1572960347627335680

Oh god I just called something from 1993 old, I was born in 1991

If that makes you feel old imagine me seeing someone born in the 90's talking about feeling old. I was in junior high school in 1991.

 

[cooleddie74]

I was in junior high school in 1986. Now get off my lawn.

 

[Tuskin38]

The actor who played Timm Karlo, Bix's boyfriend(?) also played a Resistance pilot in TFA
https://starwars.fandom.com/wiki/Niv_Lek

 

[The Wormhole]

If that makes you feel old imagine me seeing someone born in the 90's talking about feeling old. I was in junior high school in 1991.

Going to work makes me feel old these days realizing there are some employees there now who were born the year I started working for the company.

 

[valkyrie013]

It was meh.. Could have been done in 1 episode instead of 3.
Still looking forward to the rest.. And kinda sad of no mon motha.

 

[indianatrekker26]

Going to work makes me feel old these days realizing there are some employees there now who were born the year I started working for the company.

Yup I can understand that. We hired some "kids" recently at my job. They were 8 years old when I started at the company. I was 26 then. I'm 43 now at the same job.

 

[JD]

Have we found the franchise's newest breakout background character?