I didn't really have a problem with the Sabine stuff. They built it up so much that you kind of knew it was happening and I'm not a snob about such things. As I said previously, I just wish they had gone about the last few episodes differently and created significantly more urgency than Sabine finding Ezra and then playing around with turtle people for hours instead of telling him they need a ride back home. Considering they really didn't have much exposition or anything about much, I think just putting greater emphasis on the clock ticking would have benefited their story significantly. At least for me.
I see what you're saying. But at the very least they spent the whole season building up to those moments versus just having force user Sabine right out the gate.
I would say the light saber part was cool to me, but as mentioned previously, throwing Ezra right after that felt a bit much. But like you said, not like it ruined the show. Was simply a choice I wouldn't have made.
Show struggled a tad after arriving to Peridia. Most of everything leading up to their arrival was electric. Thrawn didn’t come across as some tactical genius to me. All his moves seems fairly obvious. Too small of a battlefield/# of enemy really limited his cunning. I’d like to see Thrawn over a massive surface and space battle with many moving parts.
1. ANDOR *giant chasm* 2. Mando Szn 1 *giant chasm* 3. Obi Wan 3. Ahsoka 3. Mando Szn 2 *giant pile of shit* 7. Mando Szn 3 8. Boba
The duels in this show were top notch. You had the slow paced Baylan v Ahsoka matchup and the faster second round on Peridia, young gun match up with Shin v Sabine, classic samurai duel with Ashoka v Marrock, and the ultra fierce and fast duel between Ahsoka and Morgan.
Gunna start a band called Darth Bae and the Warriors of the Wasteland. Everyone but artoo is invited to our first gig. ————————— Frustratingly inconclusive last episode but I’m really excited for where it goes. My prediction for the Grand Unification Movie is they defeat thrawn but he manages to combine the cloning shit we’ve seen in Mando and the Dathomir Zombies and it ends with Zombie Palpatine from the Sequel Trilogy fucking off to whatever planet it was in RoS.
On Sabine, I thought Ezra finger the lightsaber to her and it was would revealed after the fight. Agree, her doing that was fine in the moment. The push/pull was a really fun callback but save that for season 2 between Ezra/Jacen. Was just out of place in that situation. Also, earlier in those fights when Ezra was in trouble and Sabine switched to the LS to save them she also blocked some blaster shots coking at her without seeing them first. I think after is when Ahsoka said “I told you she’s been training”. The note that Ahsoka quit training her because she was afraid of what she would do with the power (when they made it seem it was because Sabine was too stubborn to train the whole time) was an interesting addition.
Filoni carrying the weight of that shitstain of a last movie is gonna put me in the grave just make interesting stories within the general framework of the universe, get as far away from the skywalker shit as possible
I saw something that said this episode was the series finale. Is there not going to be a season 2 and this is all just leading into the new movie?
Well, I never saw that they announced a second season, so I guess until they do this is the series finale Seems like Andor is the only series they came out and said beforehand would definitely be more than one season.
seems clear to me theres a portal to WBW at the flashing mountain, also seems like they're going to be in the other galaxy for a long time to explain why they weren't around with Rey
I think with the success of this season that they’ll insert another Ahsoka and Mando in before starting the movie. There’s just way too much story to tell.
When Huyang was talking with Ezra he said something about Ahsoka being concerned that Sabine might go dark. Maybe she was subtly sabotaging Sabine's progress initially (making her doubt herself and her connection to the force) to keep her from going Anakin's route?
Where do we think the blue kyber crystal came from? What happened to the one in his original gunsaber? I can’t remember. Also a line I missed but heard on a nerdcast. Huyang suggested something and Ezra said something like “no that would inhibit the thickness of the blade” which was a big criticism of Rebels animation style.
He reminded me a bit of Vizzini from the Princess Bride, because he kept announcing his every move so confidently and saying he wouldn’t make that mistake again, and then it would fail.
I thought it was extremely meh from a story point of view. They did not stick the landing at all. If not for the fact that this was episode 8 and they played super dramatic music the last couple of minutes, I would not have even known that was a finale.
Be interesting if they somehow did some sort of time jump through the WBW to come out after the events of the new trilogy.
Sabine gets back to the galaxy in season 2 and reunites with Ezra. Shortly after they have a baby girl named Rey. It's obvious.
"We can assume their ship is disabled, they will be coming by foot". Cargo was loaded. Take off when they are miles away and finish the hyperdrive calculations from orbit. Edit: oooorrr, hear me out, do the hyperdrive calculations the same day everyone arrived. Unless calculations expire, which is actually completely reasonable. Nevermind
Because the majority of people in it have a long history of loving some of the characters in it. Especially the main character.
Side note, a friend of mine almost got Rosario's part in that movie. Ended up losing out bc she refused to get the covid vaccine
IDK about this one old friend. Ahsoka and Mando 2 didn't have the absolutely absurd waste of screen time scenes geared towards 7 year olds that Obi Wan did in the 1st half of the season. Also didn't have a protagonist that was as bad at acting as Riva with her adderall clinched jaw 100% of the time she talked. I'd put Obi firmly behind the other 2 3's as a clear cut 5, but possibly include a minor chasm between them. Obi ended strong but it was painful to watch at times. Nothing in this season IMO was painful to watch. Some questionable choices like spending a little too much time on the turtle folk and Sabine's arc/force choices, but they still made it work and kept it pretty entertaining.
I wouldn't even have Obi Wan above Boba Fett. It's bottom of the barrel nonsense that added nothing to Star Wars.
I feel like making Sabine force sensitive was a plot device rather than something that's story driven. Didn't really take away from the overall story but didn't really bring a lot to it.
it brought more to the animated series as she trained on the dark saber, now its more about the relationships between her and Ahsoka and her and ezra imo
Loved the show overall. A bit slow in spots, and like most Disney+ offerings it would have been better as a tight 2.5 hour movie. Great casting across the board. Every new character was great, especially Baylon, as everyone else has said. So much gravitas and a character that just intrigues the heck out of me. Got to recast him, which is sad because Stevenson totally killed the role. My hunch is this was the first part of Filoni's trilogy. I think we'll get a season 2 that sees Thrawn consolidate the ex Imperial power, and start to dominate. Meanwhile, the stranded heroes end up working with Baylon and his apprentice to find...whatever it is, and get back home. Filoni's movie will be the end of the trilogy, with Ahsoka and co returning to save the day and defeat Thrawn for good.
I think that’s my biggest disappointment. For vast majority of the season, Ahsoka felt like a bystander in her own story. The two main character developments - relationships with Anakin and Sabine - fell flat and were forgettable. Precious few cool “hero” moments. Rosario did the best she could with a pretty flat script for the character.
The beginning of this series was great. The last two episodes were trash and a huge disservice to what they had built up to.
I didn't like 7. I liked 8 enough that calling it trash feels harsh. But I get where you're coming from. In general, the show peaked in episodes 4 and 5 and I don't think it ever came close to that once they got to whatever this other galaxy is called. I'm not mad at how it ended or where they went in terms of story, but I think they could have filled in the pieces around those stories in ways that would have been more interesting and fun to watch.