*** STAR WARS: ANDOR *** (Disney+)

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I also think Andor is definitely part of a breakout, as opposed to being plucked out by Meero, as there's still this shot from the trailers, of Andor with wet hair swinging at pipe-looking object at something on a wall...

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Yeah I took that as an example of the empire compartmentalizing information.

The Death Star itself is being built at Geonosis, which is a secret, but that the imperial information vault itself on Scarif is also potentially a secret is interesting.
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Nah, shift 51, Andor is mad that his team finished last, punches the scoreboard.
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One of my good Star Wars buddies (even went to Celebration with me) hasn't watched Andor and I've been begging him to try it again. (He said he got bored in episode one.)

It truly saddens me that this isn't a bigger show.
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The problem with episode 1 is it's 1/3 of the real episode 1. You really have to watch 1-3 at the same time.
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Brian Earl Spilner said:

One of my good Star Wars buddies (even went to Celebration with me) hasn't watched Andor and I've been begging him to try it again. (He said he got bored in episode one.)

It truly saddens me that this isn't a bigger show.


Sever ties with him until he watches it.
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Am I the only one who remembers Andor has been in an Imperial prison before? I swear when the corporate security people pull up his mug shot in episode 2 they mention prison time for sedition and insurrection against imperial order or something like that. It may be the result of him assaulting the storm troopers after his dad was hung but he's been in this spot before.
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pocketrockets06 said:

Am I the only one who remembers Andor has been in an Imperial prison before? I swear when the corporate security people pull up his mug shot in episode 2 they mention prison time for sedition and insurrection against imperial order or something like that. It may be the result of him assaulting the storm troopers after his dad was hung but he's been in this spot before.
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Enraged at the execution of his father, Andor traveled to Rix Road while his father's body still hung to confront four clone stormtroopers with a baton.[url=https://starwars.fandom.com/wiki/Cassian_Jeron_Andor#cite_note-Announcement-22][22][/url] Alongside the destruction of Imperial property, Andor had a charge for attacking an Imperial soldier on his record.[url=https://starwars.fandom.com/wiki/Cassian_Jeron_Andor#cite_note-Episode_2-3][3][/url] Andor claimed that he was forced to fight for the Empire on the swampworld Mimban after leaving prison when he was sixteen years old.[url=https://starwars.fandom.com/wiki/Cassian_Jeron_Andor#cite_note-Episode_4-6][6][/url]
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He's been arrested before - and probably in the local imperial jail, (according to above info) - but he hasn't been in "this spot" before.

If anything he seems absolutely overwhelmed at the scale of it at first. I think that itself is one more checkmark on his way from "keep my head low" to "help steal top secret plans from a fortified imperial planet."
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You guys have covered pretty much everything, but I still wanted to chime in and say how much I'm loving this show. Some obvious stuff:

Diego Luna did a lot of acting with just his face this episode and was up to the task.
Love the music on the show.
Bix is really hot.


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Watching Bix run was the gift that kept on giving last episode.
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How did you access Hobbit mode?
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Mathguy64 said:

If they arent just random widgets, I like them as the end cross braces on the wings of a TIE fighter. They need a lot of them because they lose a lot of them.
I also though TIE Fighter while watching that part of the show, but the TIE was built by Seinar Systems for the Empire. I was under the impression that the Empire controlled that floating prison, and wouldn't think Imperial prisoners would be co-opted into producing these fighters. But maybe I'm just overthinking this.
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The shot he posted was my favorite of the episode. That booty deserves to be shown off.
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It's pretty easy to look up images of TIE fighters and compare them to the parts being made in Andor's prison floor.
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redline248 said:

It's pretty easy to look up images of TIE fighters and compare them to the parts being made in Andor's prison floor.
I get that. As I said, my initial thought was the TIE Fighter, specifically the piece connecting the wing panels to the fuselage.
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double aught said:

You guys have covered pretty much everything, but I still wanted to chime in and say how much I'm loving this show. Some obvious stuff:

Diego Luna did a lot of acting with just his face this episode and was up to the task.
Love the music on the show.
Bix is really hot.



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Calling my shot that the old man in the prison gets taken out by someone on the team or even the "warden" due to his poor performance screwing up their ranking.

Love this show so much….sucks that we only have 4 episodes left!!!
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Took me a bit to place that guy last episode. He's The Broker from Guardians.
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Several Disney+ ads during the World Series last night reminding us there's still a scene of Cassian flying a TIE coming up at some point.
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So I usually trust Alan Sepinwall's reviews but he basically didn't like Andor and REALLY didn't like Luna's remark about how it's a 12 hour movie. I just don't get it...is Alan so anti-movie and pro-TV that he thinks that a 12 hour movie (done really well) is somehow a bad thing?

Wouldn't we want the slow form narrative from TV combined with incredible special effects and set pieces. To be fair, Alan tweeted out the most recent episode was "cooking with gas, or maybe cooking with a really hot floor" so he may have come around but the show doesn't get weekly reviews like some other shows.

I know I shouldn't care...he's a critic after all but just thought his criticism of a 12 hour movie was odd.
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In the age of the Internet, there are about 99% too many movie critics.
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The Porkchop Express said:

In the age of the Internet, there are about 99% too many movie critics.
Very true but Alan is a TV critic, which might explain his disdain for the 12 hour movie comment, but I still found it odd because he usually is a really good critic/TV reviewer.
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The Porkchop Express said:

In the age of the Internet, there are about 99% too many movie critics.


There are 100% too many. Watch movies that are interesting to you and form your own opinion.
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I used to love reading Sepinwall, but he's had some super weird opinions the past few years. For instance, he doesn't like Succession either, which is basically considered the best writing on TV, has won every Emmy, etc. Just feels like he's past his prime now, for whatever reason, and a relic of the Golden Age of TV, when he was the go-to for The Sopranos, The Wire, Mad Men, etc.
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TCTTS said:

I used to love reading Sepinwall, but he's had some super weird opinions the past few years. For instance, he doesn't like Succession either, which is basically considered the best writing on TV, has won every Emmy, etc. Just feels like he's past his prime now, for whatever reason, and a relic of the Golden Age of TV, when he was the go-to for The Sopranos, The Wire, Mad Men, etc.

That's been my experience as well. I guess it's natural for someone to eventually lose their fastball , for one reason or another.
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Average Joe said:

The Porkchop Express said:

In the age of the Internet, there are about 99% too many movie critics.


There are 100% too many. Watch movies that are interesting to you and form your own opinion.


I don't agree with this. A good critic provides a lot of value, or is great for creating discussion on a topic. I just think most people aren't providing quality reviews anymore and the vast majority have dubious integrity
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TCTTS said:

I used to love reading Sepinwall, but he's had some super weird opinions the past few years. For instance, he doesn't like Succession either, which is basically considered the best writing on TV, has won every Emmy, etc. Just feels like he's past his prime now, for whatever reason, and a relic of the Golden Age of TV, when he was the go-to for The Sopranos, The Wire, Mad Men, etc.
I forgot about his disdain for Succession...that's the reason I didn't watch it for the longest time and then binged it over the summer and was like Alan, WTF?
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That is just hilarious
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It's still not proven he's not the secret Sith Lord behind it all
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Just caught up. Downer of an episode, but damn! The production and acting in this continues to be off the charts compared to what I'm used to seeing from a Star Wars offering.

Best thing on TV right now, and there really isn't a close second.
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I realized tonight what this show reminds me of and it's "The Night Manager". The pacing, acting, sense of menace, it's all there.
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pocketrockets06 said:

I realized tonight what this show reminds me of and it's "The Night Manager". The pacing, acting, sense of menace, it's all there.
That show did not get the attention it deserved
 
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