Star Wars Misc. Catch-All

Andor is a slow burn spy thriller that just happens to be set in the Star Wars universe. Bluntly it’s all the better for it - it’s not just a side quest to Star Wars main plot that so many of these other shows are. I’m really enjoying it.

Nice to see Doc Brown in the latest episode too. I'm holding out hope he does his gangster rap version of 1-2-3-4-5 Once I Caught A Fish Alive at some point.

I can imagine that Andor might not be everyone's cup of blue milk, but I'm really appreciating the building tension and all of the little bits that are fleshing out the SW universe in new ways.

Asshole husband, ungrateful little sh*t daughter; no wonder Mon Mothma formed the Rebellion.

I think Andor so faris one of the best SW things I have seen and may be the best Disney+ original show yet. I love the slow burn and how dense every scene is. There is so much small storytelling in every scene. And I love how we seem to be thoroughly exploring places in the galaxy (with a few obvious exceptions) that Star Wars usually ignores.

This episode of Andor made me realized just how half-assed Han, Luke, and Obi-Wan's thing on the Death Star was.

I finally got the Star Wars Wraith Squadron adapation I've wanted for 20 years or something. Sort of. I've always had issues with Rogue One because it wanted to be Star Wars Saving Private Ryan and not the Star Wars Where Eagles Dare that I wanted.

DudleySmith wrote:

I finally got the Star Wars Wraith Squadron adapation I've wanted for 20 years or something. Sort of. I've always had issues with Rogue One because it wanted to be Star Wars Saving Private Ryan and not the Star Wars Where Eagles Dare that I wanted.

Oh? I might actually have to check this out.

Thought about putting this in the Hot Take thread, but Andor maybe the best SW thing since Rogue 1, and is definitely the best (if not most fun) of the D+ SW shows.

I like that they decided to have dialogue that made sense. That was a huge upgrade from Book of Boba Fett.

UpToIsomorphism wrote:

Thought about putting this in the Hot Take thread, but Andor maybe the best SW thing since Rogue 1, and is definitely the best (if not most fun) of the D+ SW shows.

This is too much of a completely reasonable and accurate take for the Hot Takes thread.

A very mild take indeed.

When will there be a Star Wars mercenary movie, something like Star Wars: Overkill or something like that.

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If they keep the quality this high for the rest of this season, it'll surpass Rogue One easily.

I'm having a hard time thinking of another prequel that has done this good of job of creating tension.

Badferret wrote:

I'm having a hard time thinking of another prequel that has done this good of job of creating tension.

Right? Prequels almost by their nature lack tension, because you know where things are going to land in the end.

It's because rather than focus on Cassian to the exclusion of everyone else, they've done a very good job with giving us a reason to care about the new characters, whose fates we don't already know.

Come on now. Forgetting about Better Call Saul so soon.

slazev wrote:

Come on now. Forgetting about Better Call Saul so soon. :(

Gah, you're right. Still, if Andor keeps this up, that is very good company to keep.

slazev wrote:

A very mild take indeed.

Luke warm, even?

Stengah wrote:

It's because rather than focus on Cassian to the exclusion of everyone else, they've done a very good job with giving us a reason to care about the new characters, whose fates we don't already know.

Spoiler:

Except now they've killed almost all of them off. Will be interesting so see where things go now.

When Andor was announced, I thought it was completely unnecessary (same with Rogue One) but I like what it's doing (same with Rogue One). Mando was great fun, adventure-time stuff, but this is more bureaucratic, political and crunchy. Not all Star Wars needs to be like this, but I'm glad there is finally something like this.

I'm enjoying that it digs into what it's like living under an oppressive, Imperial regime -- for the oppressed and the oppressors. How the Empire maintains control, how it feels to live under it, the kind of people who thrive in it etc etc. There's heaps of references to Northern Ireland, India and other real-world Imperial projects, as well as totalitarian regimes. It also looks into the practical difficulties and risk of building a Rebellion. I like that they have a Trotsky-ish character who's intellectualising the Rebellion and theorising it.

Watched Andor episode 7 and really enjoyed it. I haven't been as pleased with the serious as most of you guys. I can say I only really liked 3, 6, and 7. A good deal of that is probably because 2, 3, 4 and 5 weren't really complete episodes or at least didn't seem that way to me. 7 doesn't seem complete either but I wasn't bored by it like the others.

What I really dug was seeing the empire side of things and seeing them get manipulated. The stuff with the senator was great also. Heck all the storylines were good . Seeing the droid and how he mistook hang was just gravy.

I kind of wish I waited until all the episode were out but I thought spoilers were going to be minefield for so put it on my watch as it come out list. I know I would have felt better about the other episodes if I watched them all at once or at least in three episode chunks which I think they were written as.

Was it just me or did the last episode feel like nothing but meeting after meeting?

Vol 1 of the Andor score was just released. It covers episodes 1-4, but they included the Niamos track.

Space Florida.

Andor is so f*cking good man. It's wild in any current 'genre' media, never mind Star Wars, to get something that actually trusts the audience. The confidence to devote an episode to manoeuvring and scene setting after the wild end of the previous arc is rare.

The Last Jedi was my previous favourite SW since Empire, but it was an example of Johnson's penchant for deconstruction. And it did Finn dirty.

Andor is a new perspective on Star Wars without deconstructing anything. Gilroy just ignores the stuff we've been stuffed to our eyeballs with and immerses us in the world, its structures, and characters.

Incidentally, A More Civilised Age has jumped tracks from Clone Wars to Andor while the show is running, so if you want really intense deep dives into the show, it's worth a listen. As always.

MrDeVil909 wrote:

Incidentally, A More Civilised Age has jumped tracks from Clone Wars to Andor while the show is running, so if you want really intense deep dives into the show, it's worth a listen. As always.

I’ve been enjoying this series hugely, and am especially glad they jumped over to Andor … weird to think that the only way you can hear Austin Walker share his big brain on politics and such is through Star Wars recaps

So I've been watching movies sometimes when my wife takes the kids out for events during work. Usually stuff I've seen dozens of times. BttF, Goonies, etc. lately. Last week and this week I watched the original trilogy, I think for the first time on Disney+.

Might have watched ANH sometime the last 2 years but definitely not all 3. So yeah, lots of changes, from the blu-ray release I guess?

I had the '07? or so DVDs with both original and special edition so that's what I usually watch. Generally don't watch the SE versions but remember a lot of the changes. But I have never seen the blu-rays and I guess not watched on D+.... so today I was absolutely floored when they added "No.... Nooo!" to Vader in the final battle of RotJ.

WHAT THE f*ck?

I guess I'm a few years late. But who in the world possibly thought that added anything good to that scene? And especially after how much Vader's "Noooooooo" was mocked in RotS. Why in the hell add another one?

And that scene was perfect. You know what he's thinking. No dialog needed.

I'm going to have to get out discs to show my kids the movies when it's time. Can't watch this crap.