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I miss Dennis Perkins.

The Empire is famously anti-alien. If you’re trying to infiltrate an Empire facility, when the Empire was at its height, bringing aliens along isn’t the best idea.

In defense of Mandalorian, I think it’s mean to highlight the “fun stuff” side of the Star Wars universe. The focus of Andor is to tell a more grown-up style of storytelling, with far less emphasis on the “toy” aspects of Star Wars. I’m glad for this, because these Star Wars series shouldn’t all feel the same.

“... offers him a choice: get paid a hell of a lot of cash to complete a risky mission, or get dropped off on the nearest rock planet and take his chances. Cassian at first opts for the former...”

I loved the tiny mention of increasing security due to the ramp-up of construction on Scariff.

I don’t think that was cut corner; either the series is specifically making a statement about the technology level this current band of rebels can muster (old slugthrowers, not blasters or other more exotic weaponry) or the blasters the rebels are wielding are being used by the show to intentionally connect the…

Ferrix was such an interesting, fleshed-out place with great characters like Bix, Marva, B2 etc. that I’m sure going to miss them. But I wouldn’t be surprised if we never saw them again.

There were so many fleeting references in episode 4 (whereas the first 3 barely had any) that I was frankly a little surprised and I know most of them went over even my geeky head.

I think this was my favourite episode so far, different strokes for different folks I s’pose.

I enjoyed The Mandalorian, especially the first season, but that’s a great description: a live-action cartoon. A Star Wars show that feels like prestige TV is a whole other thing and I can’t get enough of it.

I’m a born and raised Scot and didn’t know this so thank you! I hope every episode discussion of Andor includes at least one Scottish Fact™

“Aldhani makes for a great Star Wars planet, ably set in the Scottish Highlands. It all feels very earthy and real until we walk past a pen inhabited by four-horned sheep and it’s like, Oh right, this is an alien world.”

Also, the Ghorman shipping lane issue that Mon Mothma references will later lead to a massacre that causes her to leave the Senate, as revealed in Rebels.

It’s got shitloads of fan service, it’s just for a weird subset of fans.  References to Ryloth, the Kuat Drive Yards, and the Rakatan Infinite Empire in just this episode.

I listened to an interview with the showrunner, Tony Gilroy, and he mentioned the show is kinda segmented in three-episode chunks. He also mentioned the transition from screenwriting (which is very tied to page counts and finite runtimes, unlike streaming tv) allowing him to loosen up some, but he still kept the movie…

We’ve seen no fire behind Diego Luna’s eyes yet (and we know he’s capable of that), and once again it’s up to a supporting character to tell him (and us) what he is and what he wants.

hearing the plan being laid out was sooooo refreshing, and even more so hearing it will revolve around an epic, only-in-a-galaxy-far-far-away planetary event with a short time frame! Book of Boba Fett was full of plans that were completely asinine or completely withheld from us so we just sort of watched as things…

I’ve been rapt with every episode, kind of surprised how refreshingly non-fan servicy it is.

Really enjoying Andor, it’s worlds better than any of the other Disney+ Star Wars shows because it actually feels like a real series instead of a cartoon with real life actors.