Andor | Season 2 Trailer

[jongoff]

Apparently episode eight is already one of the highest rated episodes of TV ever on IMDb.

Absolutely gripping set of episodes. Incredible piece of TV and probably some of the best SW has ever been.

I just found some time to watch all three this early morning. WOW.  Fully agree, the suspense and the Music were killing me and kept me on edge.  Great stuff.

Same, I watched them last night. Wow. Just Wow. Not just some of the best Star Wars ever (if they stick the landing on the final three episodes, I'm going to have to admit that they did better than Empire Strikes Back), but also rock solid even if you knew nothing about Star Wars. Powerful.

~Jon

[Blackstar]

This is a great edit. Note that it has spoilers, so don't watch it unless you are up to date:





Also: https://gizmodo.com/heres-why-rogue-ones-rebellions-are-built-on-hope-got-its-payoff-in-andor-2000600363

(The comments on that article are hilarious.)

[catdlr]

I agree, and I have that in my playlist.  Here is my submission for a Fan edit of Mon Mothma's Speech.

[sanman]

And more about Saw:

https://gizmodo.com/andor-season-2-saw-gerrera-rhydo-scene-star-wars-2000597588

I was surprised they didn't have him say, "I love the smell of Ridomium in the morning."

Nah, they should give a line like that to Bill Burr instead.

I just wanted to further express explicit appreciation that they made that self-referential callback with rhydonium, which gave me a flashback to that Mandalorian episode which had Bill Burr guest-starring / co-starring along with Pedro Pasquale (Mando).

Which seems to be the origin of the material, as a macguffin or plot device to place our hero Mando in a tactical box, putting him in a predicament where he's forced to fight under severely challenging circumstances.

There are some good commentaries on the recent episodes on YouTube. I'll post them here eventually, but I don't want to spoil anything for people. (Yeah, if you click on this Andor thread, you are risking spoilers, but I still hope that people just watch without being spoiled.)

Can we just have a separate full-on spoiler discussion thread to discuss everything in more detail, please?

One interesting commentary was that the show is exploring the different levels of "evil" as well as the different forms of rebellion.

Not trying to derail, but since you brought it up....



I got some good feels out of that scene.
Satisfaction at Imperial Navy TIE fighters swooping in to the rescue, blowing the crap out of rebel assailants who were trying to cut off resupply to that Imperial forward base.
Appreciation of stormtroopers blowing away the on-rushing attackers at point-blank range, showing they could aim for once.
Grateful stormtroopers showing their admiration and respect oward Mando & Mayfeld for having brought much-needed supplies (the aforementioned rhydonium) to relieve their beseiged base.
The rousing display of camaraderie greeting the victors with cheers as they roll into the base.

Hurray for the... good guys? The not-so-evil Empire?
It was a very novel and refreshing take on the Star Wars universe, challenging the dominant traditional narrative.
An example of good storytelling.

Twark Main, you doing that Unreliable Narrator thing again, with Star Wars Huck Finn?
Mandalorian does have that usefully aloof unattached quality for that purpose, doesn't he?

Andor, by contrast, is a committed rebel, and his adversaries are portrayed in a way that shows why.

[Thorny]

Absolutely gripping set of episodes. Incredible piece of TV and probably some of the best SW has ever been.

I was on the fence about Andor season 2 after the first half of the season. I still don't know what the point was of Cassian with his TIE fighter with the rather dumb rebels at the beginning, for example. So I haven't made it Appointment Viewing. That all changed, I watched Episodes 7, 8 and 9 straight through. Simply superb television!

[Blackstar]

with the rather dumb rebels at the beginning, for example. 

The series is how rebellions grow, and the show has demonstrated that they're not linear or logical--all the people fighting the Empire have their own reasons, come to it from their own backgrounds, and may not be fighting for the same cause. As we have seen with Saw, he's crazy, paranoid, but that does not mean that he's wrong.

The rebels in the jungle fought each other because they could not agree on a leader. That's just a mini-story in the overall bigger arc of the series.

[sanman]

Absolutely gripping set of episodes. Incredible piece of TV and probably some of the best SW has ever been.

I was on the fence about Andor season 2 after the first half of the season. I still don't know what the point was of Cassian with his TIE fighter with the rather dumb rebels at the beginning, for example. So I haven't made it Appointment Viewing. That all changed, I watched Episodes 7, 8 and 9 straight through. Simply superb television!

I think it was an illustration of how a key guy like Andor could be snagged and held up by low-level dumbasses who don't know their elbow from their ass. Good help is hard to find. Just imagine if he'd been carrying the plans to the Death Star when this crap befell him.

During that segment, we see contrasting emphasis between an experienced hand like Cassian, who remained stoic and practical in conserving his energy and resources while being held captive, as opposed to his captors who were amateur idiots unable to even control their tempers toward one another.