Anyone know who voiced the stormtrooper on the beach? the one who says “Tourists don’t run” ? It’s driving me crazy trying to figure this out...

I usually fast forward through the credits just in case there’s a bonus scene, but I let it play out today because the credits music was just so good. I never thought Star Wars needed techno music, but it really worked.

The decision to hold off on showing us stormtroopers and star destroyers until now has really made their appearances here pay off. We just get a little bit, and it’s enough to actually make them seem dangerous. Same with how the show handled the TIE fighters on Aldhani. I’m glad to see a Star Wars property treating…

Man, I’ve been reading that the views on this show are terrible and that’s really, really depressing. I think this is the best written Star Wars anything. That scene with Syril and his toxic mother was so well written and so well acted you could have set it in a NYC apartment and it would have still worked. I hope…

I have no idea why I thought last weeks episode was the finale, I’m glad to see I was wrong.

Filoni/Favreau are carrying George’s torch. They’re making Star Wars for families with kids. Gilroy is making Star Wars for the parents, after the kids go to bed. Personally I’m thrilled to have both.

It’s probably the most “low stakes” mission in SW history, in that we’re not saving literal planets or the galaxy as a whole. They’re just taking....money.

Andor has gone from the name that I didn’t really care about on that big MCU-style Star Wars Wall-O-Announcements screen to now the guiding light for every major Star Wars project going forward.

Forgive the self-reply, but... in retrospect, can you imagine what Rogue One might have been like with the original script intact and none of the hasty rewrites and reshoots?

Goddamn is this show ever great. It’s reminding me a bit about the early 70s cinema turn to grit and antiheroes and the whole embrace of moral ambiguity. I particularly loved how, during the robbery, the Rebels haughtily self-justify themselves while kidnapping a relatively innocent woman and her son, basically…

Everything with the Commandant in this episode highlights the difference between actual storytellers like Gilroy compared to the people running all the other shows, who are content with merely dumping all the toys on the table to show you Boba Fett’s new hat.

And the Empire built taverns with big screen TV’s along the pilgrimage trail to keep the Aldhanians placated and out of the valley. Jesus, show. Offhand comment making me reevaluate my life n’ shit.

Andor is also succeeding in how real it feels. The good guys suffer losses in firefights, characters have motivations outside of the main plot, and you can feel the rebellion building through small clues like the little extra commotion in the senate or the guy joking about it while reading the news. A lesser show…

Oh, and the Commandant dying of an apparent heart attack was some sweet poetic justice.

Man, this episode was truly fantastic. Tense, full of great flourishes and world building, bolstered by top notch performances, and it really made me question if the heist would be a success. And some really fantastic visuals, from the Eye to the reveal of the doctor having four arms.

I don’t think it was the original intent of Stan Lee (although he himself admited it the character was an answer to certain hippie ideals), Tony Stark ended being a sugarcoated, for the masses, John Galt. A propaganda for certain aspects of Objectivism.

As a LOTR nerd, Frodo most definitely did not come from a “humble background”. He was the heir to the mansion of Bag End, meaning he was the richest guy in Hobbiton and maybe even the entire Shire. He wasn’t a king, sure, but that’s just because that’s not how hobbits rule themselves. His friends Merry and Pippin were…

I’ve said it before, I’ll say it again: Wakanda is a perfect fantasy for the early 20th-Century United States.

Black Panther is all sorts of weird when looked at through a certain lens. Killmonger overthrew an isolationist heriditary monarchy. He actually did it legitimately under Wakandan succession law. But the old regime didn’t like him changing things up and modernising so they executed a counter coup with the help of the…

They had to make Killmonger a viscous woman murderer because everything he was saying made sense.