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7 hours ago, Girth Certificate said:

As someone who never read any of the expanded universe novels etc I was surprised they used BBY on that first episode as I properly associate that with hardcore wookiepedia maniacs and not streamlined disneyplus normies

Not least because there's no explanation of what it actually stands for

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I do really like the way this is taking its time to tell its story and making everything fairly intimate with it. Even taking out all the Star Wars parts of it, I'm finding it enormously enjoyable. The acting's got better and better through the episodes, and the soundtrack is awesome. I said before it doesn't feel like Star Wars at all, and that's not a criticism at all for me - it's just a good show, which is great.

 

Compare and contrast to the Rings of Power, where every episode is over an hour and there's no pacing, no time for much character growth or anything - it's all showy and fucking irritating whereas this...it's just a decent piece of TV, and I don't care if it's SW or not :) . 


Absolutely the biggest surprise of a show I've had for a long time - I had no real desire to watch it, yet I'm glued to it.  

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God, that was just fucking brilliant. More filthy Sky-car porn, amazing mother-son time, and a truly intimidating TIE fighter. Best Star Wars writing, acting, cinematography and direction since R1, by a country parsec.

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Oh yes, that was fantastic! 
 

They’ve done such a good job on the aesthetics and building a believable, consistent approach to things like technology - love all the switchgear, displays, control rooms etc, and that there’s nothing lazy. It really gives everything a sense of place and reality.

 

One big question for this episode…
 

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Who shot first this time? :P

 

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1 minute ago, KartoffelKopf said:

How many episodes is this ? Been waiting to binge it as I find the 30 minute episodes so unsatisfying. 

 

12. So we're at the halfway mark now. I would personally say that you're safe to watch it in three-episode chunks, but I understand the desire to wait till the full thing is available.

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One thing I don't understand, is given Rogue 1 was just ok. The Mandalorian was kind of dull. The Book of Boba Fett was a crime and I never even watched Obi Wan. How is this so good? It makes no sense.

 

 

 

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8 minutes ago, Alask said:

One thing I don't understand, is given Rogue 1 was just ok. The Mandalorian was kind of dull. The Book of Boba Fett was a crime and I never even watched Obi Wan. How is this so good? It makes no sense.

 

 

 


because the people making this know all of the above?

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1 hour ago, Alask said:

One thing I don't understand, is given Rogue 1 was just ok. The Mandalorian was kind of dull. The Book of Boba Fett was a crime and I never even watched Obi Wan. How is this so good? It makes no sense.

 


It’s got good writers. 

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It was a rhetorical question, but for the people in the know is it an entirely different production team behind it? Writers, show runners, directors, etc? I guess because it was Disney I stuck it under the general banner of all Disney things and figured it'd be on par with the rest, but have been pleasantly surprised.

 

 

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This is fucking excellent.

 

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The meteor shower sequence was one of the most incredible looking and beautiful and terrifying sequences in the entirety of Star Wars. And up there with the best you ever get in sci-fi.

 

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On 06/10/2022 at 11:00, Benny said:

If we're talking predictions

 

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I reckon Gap Yar rebel boy is going to snuff it, and will while dying hand his little manifesto book to Andor in front of everyone, who will be completely non-plussed and use it as a fire lighter later when no-one is looking.

 

 

Oh my God I was so (mostly) on the money :lol:

 

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But I don't mind, because it's perfectly sensible and logical storytelling. Andor is the reluctant rebel and was putting the kibosh on our young revolutionary earlier, but given enough time and enough exposure to the cause, that little manifesto might start sparking something in him.

 

 

And another thing I loved because the sound design in this show is fucking incredible:

 

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When it first cuts to the Imperial ship yard with the Tie Fighters, that distinctive Imperial alarm going off was synced perfectly with the rhythm of the music. It can't have been unintentional. It was mesmerising. 

 

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I have to say again, honestly because I can't help myself. I just really really fucking loved that. All of it was so good, every moment in the episode, just firing on all cylinders.

 

Even small moments were great:

 

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Like just a bloke in the comms room, surrounded by lovely switches and dials and lights, and also the fact that it makes sense there would be that detail of a random bloke who's job it is to do exactly that, who might notice something was up and start poking around. It creates a feeling of a world that exists and is operating outside of our main characters so everything feels so much more lived in and believable

 

EDIT: I feel quite bad being sniffy about this show when it was announced now. As I think it's one of the best things ever made with the Star Wars licence, assuming the second half holds up.

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They are absolutely nailing this in every possible way.

 

One little thing I absolutely loved in this one was the attitudes of the senior imperials (before it all kicked off). Instead of sticking to the tried and trusted Empire=fascists=Nazis approach, these guys are old fashioned colonialists. The Galactic British Empire.

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3 minutes ago, FishyFish said:

This three part segment has reminded me of watching old war movies like The Guns of Navarone.

 

This. This is something I was thinking about earlier. It nails that feeling and it's not just because the actors are all Brits.

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4 minutes ago, Benny said:

 

This. This is something I was thinking about earlier. It nails that feeling and it's not just because the actors are all Brits.


Yeah. Just look at the cast picture from Guns of Navarone. The characters could pretty much have stepped right into Andor with barely a change.

 

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3 hours ago, Alask said:

It was a rhetorical question, but for the people in the know is it an entirely different production team behind it? Writers, show runners, directors, etc? I guess because it was Disney I stuck it under the general banner of all Disney things and figured it'd be on par with the rest, but have been pleasantly surprised.

 

 


Showrunner is Tony Gilroy (Michael Clayton, wrote the Bourne movies) and also his brothers as editor me writer (Dan Gilroy who did nightcrawler).  He did Rogue One as well,  it only took over after Gareth Edward’s ran into trouble with the project, I imagine it would have been better if it was his project for, the start.  The heist is better in Andor than in the movie IMO,and the escape sequence only second to Top Gun Maverick’s this year.

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