The details in the article make you realize the story is even worse than the headline implies. She was IN HER OWN FRONT YARD (and maybe on the sidewalk in front of her house too), and she’s part of the only black family on the street. So this guy not only likely knew who she was, or at least could have easily deduced…

I loved that speech. It does a great job of crystallizing how, even if you’re the “good guys”, even if your cause is undeniably just, you still need men willing to become monsters in order to win. Luthen made the decision to sacrifice every scrap of his humanity in order to play his role. And I love that, even with…

I thought the 400,000 credits was just the amount she was trying to quietly move around to support the Rebels. I got the impression that it’s only a tiny fraction of her actual fortune.

I don’t think I’ve ever read a sentence that neatly summarizes the white suburban American mindset as this one. Trapped in their own homes, constantly spying on the neighbor next door, always miserable despite having everything going their way. 

regardless of Lawshe’s intentions, the incident was “still racism,” and “this was not a mistake.”

I thought the 400k credits were just what she’d siphoned off to the rebellion?

Yeah Skarsgard killed that monologue.

I’m going to be honest, I hope none of the show is ever constrained by Rebels or whatever other animated stuff from the Filoni-verse that covers the era. Let Andor either retcon it or make a parallel universe, because we’ve seen how badly shoehorning every Filoni character into a series worked out for Mando season 2…

I’m curious about your last statement. I didn’t take it that Cassian and Melshi were the only survivors (though it’s a convenient way to keep them together for Rogue One). I just assumed folks got scattered as they made their way toward shore.

I have a feeling that the Mothma family storyline will culminate in much more tragic events than an arranged marriage

It does leave him open for a surprise appearance later though. I thought for sure the emotional climax of this episode would be his death. 

Fantastic episode.

You get a star just for using a relatively deep cut Popstar joke. Comparing Cassian Andor to Seal is one hell of a metaphor.

Funny you say that, because Luthen and Lonni detailing their own deeply personal sacrifices for the cause also reminded me of another wonderful bit of Star Trek monologuing, from TNG’s “The Defector.”

Luthen’s speech was great. Stellan Skarsgard is just fantastic.

Yeah, B is a harsh grade. We got a pulse-pounding prison break, a self-righteous monologue, a smarmy loan shark face off, and the reveal of an ISB mole. Also the fact that the only characters who were sure to survive were Cassian and Melshi, so that made it all the more exciting.

Even better that Andor couldn’t jump with him and try to save him because he got run over like he was hit by a party wolf from Popstar and knocked off the platform.

It was almost as if he was pretty sure he was never gonna make it that far. He obviously knew they were surrounded by water. He just happened to survive his suicide mission.

It’s really underappreciated that the Nazis themselves were mostly just giant dorks pretending they were early 20th century pulp fiction heroes, which was a big part of why the rest of the world didn’t take them seriously until it took a whole world war to sort them out.

The emotions he conveyed was powerful. The fear the shock the sadness.