Andor

Stupid aside, but is this the first time we’ve seen a Star Wars show go against the trope of “Stormtroopers couldn’t hit the side of a barn”? These ones were picking off rebels no problem,

I'm a bit confused about

Syril recognises something in Daedra that he aspires to be. Loyal to the Empire, imposing the letter of the law effectively. Prob fancies her too. Wants to be the hero of his own story, rescuing the girl in distress. Him and Mosk are wannabe fascists, they became best friends geeking out about how they could put the boot on others throats, cosplaying and looking cool doing it. I took the hat swap to be a little moment of 'This hat looks better on you' type of thing





S2 supposedly takes place over a number of years, each 3 episode arc taking place within a year etc. Think innS2 we will see K-2SO

It's kinda necessary tho, after reading interviews with the show runner If the season is more 3 episode arcs that are fairly self contained, same as here, then it'll be fine. I have faith in these writers to do it right.

I think that will be one of the main story arcs for the four years covered in S2 that lead directly into Rogue One. Apparently each three episode arc covers one year with the final episode directly before he goes to the Ring of Kafrene to meet Daniel Mays character

Restraint has been one of the things that has made this series so good. No streaming bloat of overlong or too many episodes, no needless references, only showing what was necessary for this story and these characters

What a great ending to a consistently brilliant show. It delivered on all of its promise, set things up wonderfully for the next arc, without resorting to cheap cliffhangers.

I'd put this up there with the very best of TV shows form the last few years, easily holding its own against the likes of Chernobyl and Succession for me.

It managed to enrich the Star Wars universe without overly relying on what had come before, and when it did show us things we knew, be it characters or props, they only added to the overall package (TIE Fighters have never looked or sounded so good - and never been as menacing).

Had the story been set outside of Star Wars, it would still have been staggering writing, but tying into the lore we already know (the Empire and it's rise) gave us a world we already understood. Just now we know so much more.

Easily the best Star Wars outside of the OT.

I suppose Rogue One is more like a classic WW2 adventure like Dirty Dozen or the Navarone films but Andor is more of a thriller in a lot of ways. Its a lot more serious and talky than Star Wars has ever been before.

And like others have said, this could easily have not been Star Wars at all and you’d lose almost nothing.

The bright star light illuminating the space battle was very R1.

While I’d love this show to run and run, it’s no doubt a good thing it’s got one more season to go. I’ve full and absolute faith that the quality will not dip for the next season. Give it another two to three though and that dip is inevitable

I’ve read theories that B2 will get transferred into/merged with K2-SO. If that happens ima be a blubbery mess during that scene

Either way, I think we can safely say Tony Gilroy writes the best droids

I wonder if S2 will show more of the aliens/droids aspect of joining the Rebellion. Its a very human led story, I'd be curious to see if they bring in any aliens as part of the main cast. Heard that even stuff like memory wiping droids is an Empire construct which goes against droids equal rights amongst organic races. Would be fun to touch on that subject as well.

...Can we have 5 more seasons of this?

Yeah, Maarva's speech had me welling up. What a scene, what an episode. I know some have said you could take away Star Wars and still have a great show, and while I think that's true a lot of the emotional impact comes from witnessing the emergence of the rebellion.

Anyway, I just watched the final three episodes in one go. I thought it would peak at the prison break but one thing about this show is just how incredibly well it's maintains its quality. I'll have to watch it again to identify episodes I didn't enjoy so much. I'm not sure there were any, even if there were at least 3 absolute standouts.

One last random thing:

I hadn’t realised three of its writers were Oscar nominees, that’s certainly putting it a class above most of what Lucas and Disney have given us so far.

I think they wanted to do more series, five was mentioned in one of the links earlier in the thread, but time is against them.
Luna would be late 50’s and it would be jarring to go from watching that to Rogue One when he was 36.

Better Call Saul kinda got away with it but Jesse Pinkman looked way too old in his cameo, bearing in mind how young he looked in Breaking Bad

Two seasons is good for me