Andor

Absolutely loving this. Everything is just done so well, it really is top tier TV.

It's so Star Wars in its design, but without the force or any of the main characters needing shoehorned in. Those characters and locations that are, feel essential to the story. As much as I loved Mando, it overdid the references at times. In this last episode we got a single Tie being more menacing, adding more sense of dread, than anything in EPS7-9, just by doing a flyby.

Obviously I want to know how the heist will go down, but I also want to know who Uncle Harlo is, whats going to happen to Mon Mothma and her family, is Cassians sister still alive?

Brilliantly written, superb acting, stunning prop and set design, great pacing. Only complaint is having to wait a week between episodes.

This season is 12 episodes

That makes a change from the usual 6 or 8, can't stand those shitty short seasons.

I thought that the Scots were Separatist sympathisers?

Only watched the first one, are there many big action scenes and stuff? I'm away for the week and was thinking of downloading them to watch on the tablet but dunno whether it's worth waiting to watch them on the big TV and sound system.

Definitely think this benefits from the big screen, the set and prop design is top notch and the location shots are stunning. It sounds glorious to so again, the sound system will benefit.

Real life? There have been 5 episodes so far. They release on a Wednesday
Star Wars life? It’s 5 years before rogue one/anh

Tempted to stay up another hour and half… for once, the length of each episode is a turn off

I’ll have to rewatch part of that some time because I was quite confused who survived and how. Too tired. Good episode though.

ONE OF US

They keep reinforcing the message that the Empire’s flaw is it’s arrogance. As this follows what we saw in Luke and Palpatine’s exchange in Jedi, it is fitting. They’ve also established that discipline here is lapse, a perfect combo to exploit, should one wish.

Plus they live in a universe where a man with a jet pack is taken out by a partially sighted man, flailing a stick; and he was considered amongst the most dangerous. I am certain more people in Star Wars are taken out by inadvertently crashing into something than actual combat.

Fully caught up to this now and this show's pretty much all I wanted from a mature Star Wars TV show. I can't even believe that wasn't the season finale, it was so grand and epic. One thing I do like is that in other Star Wars shows if you get sliced, stabbed, shot, spinal cord slashed open? They’ll fix you up with machine parts.

In this show? You die.

Pretty mad we are only halfway through the season too. It’s still just building up.

Love that each episode is so long as well

I wonder what the show runners of coming series are thinking. The bar for quality has been raised very high. Going to be a lot, lot harder to swallow shonky ‘dafuq’ writing in future.

Who knows, maybe they’ll stop shooting the first draft of every script from now on.

Absolutely brilliant episode. At the weekend, between episodes, I watched Rogue One for the first time since I saw it at the cinema. It just confirmed it's the best Star Wars movie. You heard me - better than Empire! Okay, on a par with it at least. The Gilroys can do all Star Wars as far as I'm concerned, though I'm not sure how many heist movies or suicide mission plot lines they can get away with.