Andor season 2

[CaptainWacky]

 

[Dr Dave]

I did end up watching Rogue One.

 

[whisky]

I liked how the ride up to arrest the girl was essentially the same as the end of season one, someone leading the troops who was inexperienced, a big English guy was was really in charge, a bunch of troops who don't respect the leader, only last time Cyril survived, and this guy got turned into a meat shield.

So the place Bix goes to feel safe is the planet where she was nearly raped and had to kill the guy to get him off her?

 

[CaptainWacky]

Well she knows he's definitely not coming back because she caved his skull in.

 

[Mentalist]

I'm going to watch Rogue One on Wednesday and pretend Andor got a 3 episode third season.

It's a mark of a great show that a day later I can't stop thinking about it and the complexities of the plot.

This is very much how I feel. I’m still thinking about this show and how much it’s expanded the lore of the central political conflict (Star Wars was always political), improved an already great film in Rogue One, and somehow managed to clear season one (which I thought was absolutely fantastic too) multiple times a day. If that’s not the hallmark of a great show, then nothing is (it is).

I feel compelled to write a long and sprawling review of the entire thing, but I’m currently up to my eyeballs in coding and feeling an aversion to long-form writing—or, frankly, anything. I don’t think I could do it justice. It would probably devolve into a soup of superlatives.

To say it’s the best thing Disney has done with the IP is a hilariously easy claim, because it is, by a margin.

That said, I don’t think everyone who bounced off it is a moron. I can see how some who like the swashbuckling, operatic pulp of Star Wars might not vibe with it, but I doubt I’d have very much in common with them. That’s what you want from a company like Disney taking on this IP, though. Try different things. Don't play it safe. The Sequel Trilogy (which I consider an unmitigated disaster) was such a derivative pile of slop once you scraped off the veneer, so a show like Andor is just a delight on so many levels.

I hope it continues to gain more success and eyeballs (cream tends to rise to the top), because while I’m not sure Tony Gilroy would commit to another massive Star Wars project (I think he’s proved his point), there is room for darker and genre-bending ideas in this universe. That’s always been part of the Star Wars Expanded Universe (in varying degrees of success) and who knew, it works here too!

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[Kyehlar]

I did the same thing. Finally watched the last episode of Andor the other night, and then watched Rogue One last night. Amazing how it all fit together, ten years apart like that. A lot of care went into that finale to make the transition feel seamless. The only difference was Cassian's uniform. I don't remember the Captain's patch on it in Andor.