Lost me after Diego Garcia

Man. That was a fun episode!

I really hope I don't have to wait till Friday…..just saw this sucker is getting a 9.3 on IMDB….

Dang kids with their school and gymnastics and dinner and homework and bedtime!

OnlyForNow said:

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Watch it at work.

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K I'm playing with fire now bye

Really strong episode. Really liked the editing of the raid with the ceremony outside and the air base response. Pretty sure that the flight pattern that the kid set up had nothing to do with escaping and everything to do with flying the TIEs into conditions that were going to shred their ships apart.

Top moments off the top of my head -

1) The Indian chick's facial expression when she killed the engineer in the standoff. She was very much wanting to murder an Imp.

2) The very telling scene in the Senate. Watching A New Hope a million times, you always wonder how the Emperor can just shut down the Senate like that, and now you see it - they don't even care about making change and helping people. They don't even show up for their own sessions, and if they do, they don't bother paying attention. Granted, the news of the raid was distracting, but there was barely anyone there in the first place.

3) You knew the kid was going to die. But it still hurt. I thought the payroll bars crushed his head when it hit him.

4) Watching the TIEs lower down at the air base was sweet Star Wars candy.

5) ISB Director Qyburn mentioned that everyone needs to have their "Emergency Planetary Retaliation Plans" ready. That sounds like the Empire is going to punish EVERYBODY for what happened on one planet.

6) Thought Luthien had been found out when the guy mentioned the planet, even though it was just a joke. Nice Devaronian shoutout in that scene.

7) Andor taking the manifesto, which I'm sure will impact him significantly, gives me vibes from the EU book Tales of the Bounty Hunters where the final story, "The Last One Standing", is centered around Boba Fett. He hunts down some bounty on some wayward planet and the guy is in possession of all this famous music by some composer Fett's never heard of. The guy demands that Fett take the music with him, and in a whim, Fett listens to it while flying Slave I and it has a profound change on him regarding his purpose in life - this story came out before he was made a clone in AOTC.

8) The Eye lived up to the hype.

Holy crap, what an episode.

The kid gave heavy Mouse from the Matrix vibes as soon as he was introduced. You just knew he wouldn't make it out.

Didn't see that coming with the guy who tried to steal the money though. Particularly after his speech about his supposed brother.

I think you could take these first six episodes and it would make for a fantastic movie.

Really cool seeing the Senate for the first time since 2005.

Currently rocking a 9.3 on IMDb.

When Andor said to the kid - "You'll sleep when it's done."

Me:


Actually said aloud, to nobody but myself.

This shot.

The more I think about it, the more I love Mon Mothma dutifully giving her passionate speech in front of the 90% empty Senate Chamber, because that way the spies watching her for the ISB are reporting back, "Yeah, the Senator from Chandrila gave another of her BS lovey-dovey species about alien rights and nobody was there to GAF. She's totally clueless about what's really going on here, and utterly harmless. Oh, and she went to an antique store to buy a gift for that pretty boy socialite husband of hers. And hosted another vapid dinner where she tries to make points about how everyone's equal. What an idiot!"

If you didn't watch Rebels, there's some huge connections here, which mean that we're bound to see Mon Mothma go rogue and openly criticize the Emperor and declare the formation of the Alliance. The Ghormans who she has talked about a couple of times in Andor are the turning point for her. The Ghorman Massacre takes place in 2 BBY, so a few years away from where we are right now but we know time jumps are coming.


For reference - here's Mon Mothma trashing Palpy



and declaring the Alliance

Imperial kid was the kid who proposed marriage to Rhaenyra in HotD, got insulted, and killed the dude like a badass.

Brian Earl Spilner said:

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Imperial kid was the kid who proposed marriage to Rhaenyra in HotD, got insulted, and killed the dude like a badass.

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Just need him to show up as a wayward Harfoot in the season finale to complete the cycle!

So did Mikhail Kalashnikov somehow get a Star Wars blaster rifle or are designers just that lazy?

She had an AK47 haha

This is the fourth AK in the Disney era of Star Wars, I will say this is the least effort they've put in to make it feel more "in universe." Im ok with it though. Can't have a rebellion without an AK.

I spent the whole episode thinking the Dhanni chief was Bryan Cranston and had to take a good long look at the credits to make sure it wasnt him. It wasn't.

This show is lapping the field. So freaking good.

Hopefully, this is a sign of the future from Star Wars.

I'm kind of blown away by this show. I had very low expectations for it.

Visually, it looks better than almost anything Disney + has put out. It looks like it had twice the budget of Kenobi.

I was also sure that the Dhanis were going to break out hidden weapons and attack the troopers left to guard them.

OnlyForNow said:

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I was also sure that the Dhanis were going to break out hidden weapons and attack the troopers left to guard them.

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I thought that as well, especially after the speech about how easy they are to manipulate. But this show is doing some hard left turns where most other shows go right. The non-chalant brutality of the Empire is really shining through here in the worst (best) ways.

I'm really enjoying Andor. It has been a slow build to tonight's fantastic episode, but Disney Star Wars really needed such a grounded story.

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TCTTS said:

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Pretty sure I disagree with every single one of your critiques. Quite strongly, in fact.

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Agreed. It's like I 100% disagree with every word.

Did the reference to the Obiwan hangover mean Kenobi is the gold standard Andor is being compared to? If so… I just really disagree with all of it.

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Andor is the morning after pill for the mistake that was Kenobi. It's my favorite thing to watch right now, towering over HotD and The Rings of Power. I thought this episode was spectacular and visually stunning, the soundtrack was mesmerizing as well, it hit on so many levels.

I've been avoiding this thread because I started late, but I just got all caught up and man, this is a solid show. It feels like we're coming at Star Wars from *gasp* a new angle. Every character feels like they have depth, as if someone wrote a whole back story for each of them, even if we're only getting glimpses of who they are. It's like we finally got a show that isn't cashing its chips on "Star Wars" and is instead investing in world building and good writing.

This is so what Star Wars live action needed.