Homophobia, lol.

Of all the Wars aspects of Star Wars, the space battles always felt the most harrowing and realistic in their depiction. The movies have no shortage of explicitly depicting pilots getting violently incinerated in small cockpits in the cold silent depth of space, with their ending screams over the comms. Nowhere does…

I agree, it made me cringe a bit - but I think if the showrunners were obligated to extend one olive branch to the ‘fans’, at least I’m glad it was relegated to a post credits scene. I can almost view it as a separate entity from the series itself despite the prison stuff being involved.

The absolute mad lads and laddesses, they stuck the landing.

Thanks Tom for the review recaps and thanks to this wonderful comment section. I’ve loved tuning into every week to see us collectively realize and wax lyrical on how special this show was turning out to be, as if we were watching an underdog unknown team…

My young elementary age kid and I watched it together and despite her being restless from time to time... she still loved it, and had lots of thought provoking questions about the show (often she was confused by the motives of some characters... ‘why is Cel trying to kill Cassian??’)

I think the showrunners are smart enough to write around that, to my mind I can’t remember if it’s ever been stated what Leia was doing prior to the events of New Hope. Be easy for Bail Organa to say she’s elsewhere, on some diplomatic mission ;)

True! I think I might have misinterpreted him giving the Alderaan credentials as his main way out rather than him simply buying time for the thrusters. I was sweating too hard during the scene to be viewing it coherently lol.

I might have to rewatch it, but this scene felt like it was hinting that Luthen is somewhat force sensitive, as if he could predict that no matter what credentials he gave the end result was going to be the same and that he had to get the hell out of dodge.

So insane to think about! It’s remarkable that the ‘let’s expand this bit role character in a spin-off/prequel’ is usually a recipe for disaster that can retroactively tarnish the character (looking at you Boba Fett) but Andor has improved Cassian, Mothma, Saw and gosh even Melshi beyond belief.

Between the dogfight and last week’s monologue (and the rest), Luthen in my mind is already an all-time classic Star Wars character. That Imperial stop-and-search was so insanely tense I thought the whole thing was going to end in a Game of Thrones penultimate shock death, and when he ripped the tractor beam to pieces…

Thanks Racj82 your support is really appreciated. 

The whole thing reminded me of The Dark Knight Rises... overlong, overwrought. None of the scenes flow and pace is virtually non-existent. Characters making portentous speeches that add up to nothing. An antagonist (lopsidedly) way more interesting and charismatic than any protagonist.

Yeah and it sucked. They brought back Mcdiarmid for that? The whole ‘inspired by Miyazaki’ made the resultant product laughable.

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…

Kino’s speech I agree didn’t really hit the mark, but Luthen’s one on sacrifice was absolutely captivating. The entire scene of Jung descending into the depths of Coruscant while Luthen’s talk on the comms itself descended into the murky depths of his morality was brilliant. And the best part knowing that Luthen could…

As a kid of a single parent and a very unconventional family unit growing up, Terminator 2's strange little family of Arnie and the Connors was and still is pretty inspiring and moving for me, considering the (still) omnipresent and suffocating number of nuclear family depictions on screen.

I heard it might be Sam Witwer? The voice of Darth Maul?

I’d actually say that - at least so far - on a whole the story of Andor is looking to be a lot more important to the mythos/world of Star Wars than almost any other recent TV show/spin-off. Obi-Wan’s grand contribution was ret-conning a single line from RotJ, while Andor is basically showing the entire conception of…

My personal favorite line, from the ISB Meeting:

I don’t know your definition of ‘dark’ sci-fi, but if you’re leaning in the ‘gritty’ Blade Runner direction, Andor is in fact not that, and why I feel it’s refreshing not just for Star Wars but the current cyberpunk-obsessed grimdark sci-fi landscape in general. Andor is an ‘adult’ ‘mature’ show insofar as it...…