McDonagh is trying to say something about the broken police system. The entire setup of the film is someone putting up a billboard to castigate the police for their inaction and inability to solve a crime.

You do remember how long it took for them to iron that out, right? And it still has issues

Never preorder.

“IGN gave it a five out of 10"

Maybe the series needs to take a sa-bat-ical.

Sounds like this enterprise is Wayne-ing.

That ending is so good. Just a great portrait of how some authoritarian dictate filters down to petty bureaucratic tyranny and indifference at the local level, with Cassian just having some bad luck in timing and getting slapped with an over-the-top criminal sentence.

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 can’t add to any of the positives addressed here save for one. I thought the beach resort was spectacularly well realized. You note the buildings are built atop large retaining walls sloping to the beach, as if to mitigate a violent storm season? But just the design of a corporately planned beach community,…

I think “mature” just means we’ll shot, written, directed, and acted in this case.

“I have to ask who really wants Star Wars for adults?”

Is it me or this episode took inspiration from Terry Gilliam’s Brazil? The brutalist architecture of the Empire workplace and Andor just get arrested because he looks suspicious remind me of that.

mature doesn’t necessarily mean dark.

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...…

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.

George Lucas has always said that Star Wars was a fairy tale for children. That certainly tracked with the prequels, particularly Phantom Menace. The Abrams sequels were Star Wars for adults in arrested development.

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…

The production design crew deserves tons of credit for making this show special. Star Wars’ retro-futurism was on full display in this episode, from the dials/knobs in Syril’s super-cubicle to the Neo-Tokyo walkways of Coruscant where Vel was hiding out. Even the accents in Cassian’s seaside love-bungalow feel like…