Spoilers Andor season one

[fireproof78]

It was quite effective tension building. I just recently finished the heist and even knowing its still a gut punch. I recently also rewatchec The Dirty Dozen and it's amazing how much that movie builds slowly and yet the finale is still gripping. Similar idea here.

 

[Jayson1]

Everyone seems overly pleased with this series…but I couldn’t make it past the second episode. It came off as dreary, pedestrian and completely uninteresting.

But, I also consider the source material (R1) to be pretty much the same…so maybe this particular part of the SW saga is just not for me.

Try it now with the show over so you can binge it. The show feels to me like one that plays better to be binged than to come out week after week like they did it.

 

[JD]

For me, there is "The Expanse", which I feel is one of the better science-fictions shows I've seen over the years. I would have included "Battlestar Galactica" (the more recent one), but I think "Andor" is better.

I forgot about The Expanse, I tend to think of that as more of a Amazon Prime series.
I loved the first few seasons of BSG, but the later ones kind of fell apart, so that drops my overall opinion of the entire series.

 

[Dee1891]

I forgot about The Expanse, I tend to think of that as more of a Amazon Prime series.

That's how I feel about "Andor". Like "The Expanse", it feels like a well-made series for the SYFY Channel or Amazon Prime to me.

 

[Set Harth]

I just discovered yesterday that SYFY shows R-rated movies uncensored.

 

[JirinPanthosa]

Now that I think about it, is Andor the first Star Wars that features no force users at all? I guess Rogue One, but it’s connected.

 

[cooleddie74]

Well, Vader is in Rogue One and he's definitely a Force user, but if you mean Light Side usage of the Force then I think Andor is indeed the first canonical chapter of the franchise to do so.

 

[Tosk]

Now that I think about it, is Andor the first Star Wars that features no force users at all?

I don't recall any Force users in either of the Ewok movies.

 

[YellowSubmarine]

Now that I think about it, is Andor the first Star Wars that features no force users at all? I guess Rogue One, but it’s connected.

I'm still counting Solo, even after I was corrected on it, since I don't think cameos to please fans of animated series shouldn't count especially if you don't remember them.

 

[Set Harth]

I don't recall any Force users in either of the Ewok movies.

According to Wookieepedia and this, the magic in the Ewok movies is really a form of Force use. So under that interpretation we're left with just Andor. And there could always be Force use in Andor's second season somewhere.

 

[Tosk]

That's some grade-A retroactive bullshit right there.

I looked up Caravan of Courage on Wookieepedia and there's no uses of the word Force there. Several uses of the word magic though. The Screenrant "article" gives no sources for anything. All the links are (unsurprisingly) just to other Screenrant pages. In fact, their claim that "As shown throughout the Star Wars franchise, 'magic' is simply the Force..." is at odds with Wookieepedia's own page regarding magic, where they are extremely iffy about it all. A lot of maybes and the like in there.

...For the record, retroactive bullshit is one of the key ingredients of Star Wars, so I'm not actually whining about that.

 

[Set Harth]

It's basically the same thing with Talzin/the Nightsisters.

 

[Reverend]

I don't recall any Force users in either of the Ewok movies.

I guess it depends on how one looks at the likes of Charal. I know the Nightsister thing was a retcon, but even if she wasn't one, there's enough representation of 'magick' in Clone Wars to assume that Lucas considered it to be just a different aspect of the force, so it should be safe to retroactively extend that presumption to Charal and even Logray, since he was a shaman. So that covers both Ewok movies.

Anyway, if we're really willing to go into the weeds, I think the Droids cartoon may be the first "force free" Star Wars show/movie/non-literary whatever. The closest that got was a lightsaber showing up for all of 10 seconds, but zero Jedi or sith or "magiks" (unless I'm forgetting something.)

In any eventuality, while Andor's paucity of space wizards may not be unique, it is unusual and thus noteworthy. Even the X-Wing novels back in the day included one character with Jedi ancestry.

 

[Set Harth]

Who turned up in the Obi-Wan show!

 

[shapeshifter]

I just discovered yesterday that SYFY shows R-rated movies uncensored.

And shows. CHUCKY is being shown totally uncensored. Oh, on USA too.

 

[cooleddie74]

The interview with Diego Luna begins at 15:15.

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[Gaith]

As I recall, at least one episode of Andor - specifically, in the prison stretch - features no weapons fire whatsoever. (That business with the electrified floor - that doesn't count.) Am I correct in assuming this is the very first piece of Star Wars screen media (i.e., a movie or TV episode) that is officially in-canon, and features no weapons fire?

 

[Dee1891]

As I recall, at least one episode of Andor - specifically, in the prison stretch - features no weapons fire whatsoever. (That business with the electrified floor - that doesn't count.) Am I correct in assuming this is the very first piece of Star Wars screen media (i.e., a movie or TV episode) that is officially in-canon, and features no weapons fire?

Weapon fire is featured in the series, including the episode that features the prison break.

 

[Set Harth]

Well, he said prison stretch, meaning the whole arc. Is there an episode in there with no weapon fire?