I posted over in the SW thread. It’s good. Takes better part of 2 episodes to start moving. Most non-star wars thing I’ve ever watched, but that’s what makes it good. hope it stays with the slow burn of first 3 episodes
Spoilered until rules established. Spoiler Really like how they didn't try to retcon Andor into a good guy (which I think Solo suffered from) and show he's a criminal and straight up murdered a dude. Really liked the interplay between the very-over-it security commander, the baby-faced LT who's THERE to MAKE a DIFFERENCE, and the one gung-ho NCO he found to do his raid. Really liked the Black Hawk Down vibe of the raid on the town, where the security force very quickly realizes they're in over their head. I was a little disappointed there wasn't a bit more of a popular uprising against it. First time in a SW thing I can remember it being clear people are about to bone.
IMO the weekly release shows are "enter at your own risk" but since 3 episodes just came out at once this week I'd say spoiler until next week when it's on normal schedule
also posted in the SW thread that I've got the same thoughts on it as Tarpon Nole - midway through episode 2 it kicks in gear after a thorough exposition and intro of characters. No cheesy disneyfication like they had in Obiwan. The show seems geared towards a more mature audience. Same feel as Rogue One which is one of the best SW movies to come out in a long time. Spoiler Big fan of everyone seemingly being in that gray area between good and evil. Skarsgard said it was what drew him into the show because it's a more honest view of humanity. So you know he's going to have some ulterior motive to recruiting Andor than just "we'll really make a difference and beat these guys good." You don't really see that in the SW universe much. People are either definitively good or evil and sometimes they transition but they're rarely "in the middle" for that long of a period. Lord Royce of the Vail is gonna be baaaad pissed at his supervisor for not squashing the "accident"... or the young guy will squeal on him for trying to sweep something like that under the rug. I was expecting something... anything to happen when the town finally stopped banging on the metal. Mauvve made it sound like the townies were going to do something drastic and then they just didn't. I'm curious if Andor was actually looking for his sister in the bar originally. Wasn't that her that got blasted by injured soldier at the crash site before the Wachutu tribe darted him up? I just assumed she died since most people in SW die from those blasters and the civilization being an indigenous tribe with presumably no medical remedy available.
Spoiler so I guess the flashbacks are going to be an ongoing thing for a little while. I thought the whole "they took everything from me" = they killed my family and Mauvve was only able to save him. So maybe they show more and Mauvve went back to his village and took more people with them? Early flashback scenes I was somewhat distracted by the GF so I guess I missed out on some of the body language clues and they didn't have subs for Kenari language to know which one was his sister. I thought the oldest girl was an older sister since he did the face paint like hers and her behavior towards him in that face paint circle. Plus his eyes were glued to her during the entire ship scene. So maybe that was just someone he was admiring
First episode did not hook me at all, probably why they dropped the first three because the third episode I thought was awesome.
First two episodes were boring, but the third one was one of the best episodes of TV I've seen in a while and made them worth it. That was fantastic.
Watched all of the episodes last night and thought it was awesome. Might be some of the best Star Wars content that's been put out in the past few years.
Just started the first episode. The opening 5-10 minutes would have fit right into Blade Runner. Loved the cyberpunk vibes.
Okay I'm all caught up and I'm sold. This show is what I've been wanting Star Wars to be for so long.
Man, this show is on such a higher level than any of the other Star Wars stuff (and frankly all D+ shows) that’s come before. My biggest concern is that I’m not sure that 30ish minutes a week can sustain what they’re trying to do. Scene with the ISB lady and Qyburn was tremendous. Same with Skarsgard and Cassian last week. Just top tier writing and acting.
Guess I wasn't as impressed with Loki as everyone else. It had some moments but a lot of weak spots too.
I didn't find them to be. This show is a slow burn. Even if they were slow I still found the writing to be excellent. The writing in Loki wasn't always top notch. And maybe it's inconsequential to some but this show just looks better than anything else they've done. Everything marvel has that same look to it.
I’m guessing Mon Mothma comes into her own in his series because her being kinda a wimpy housewife/senator is kiiiiiinda a big departure from where she is in all other media.
who do we think Mon was referring to with the person she wanted to bring into the circle? first thought was Bail Organa, but I don't know if there's something out there already that contradicts that.
Wasn’t Bail already about that life at this point? Feel like it’s a new character on the funding side or Ahsoka.
He's definitely part of a resistance movement but I think part of this show is bringing the scattered insurgencies into a single Alliance (Andor rattles off like 7 different movements), so I don't know if he and Mon Mothma are in the same movement. I don't think it'll be Ashoka since I haven't seen anything about casting young-adult Ashoka and I don't know if they can age down Rosario Dawson for that, and I think any Jedi would have Mon Mothma more excited and press Elder Skardgard harder about meeting them.
I forgot the scene with those two got cut from Episode 3 so nm. Yeah good point on the casting stuff. I guess I’d assume Bail in the situation you said or a new character.
It would make sense since they're both Senators at this time as well, and Mon Mothma starts working with Leia a lot more in the few years after. Per the Rebels story line, he makes contact with Kanan and the Spectres around the time of the show.
On episode 2 and I’m completely lost. I guess because I have no idea about the “universe” and what’s going on at this point
This show is reallllly good. Absolutely love the pace of it - I think I know who the contact is. I saw a picture of Spoiler bail months ago saying he’s in the show - who is the fired security guy going to end up being?
Finally stuff’s started happening but there’s no way to describe the pace of this show other than “glacial.”
I love these star wars series. This one is by far the worst. Was falling asleep in the 1st two episodes because they were so boring. 3rd episode was better but still not amazing. About to start episode 4.
Some of you guys should just get a mobile of various shiny objects that go “pew pew” and live happier lives than daring to watch something that’s character driven and needs more than 4 minutes to build to something.