Andor (Star Wars)

The first six episodes were mostly tedious. I feel like they could have made the series 6 episodes and not lost much.

Bix was a very pointless character. Mopey, look out of the window woman (occasionally with drugs), apart from one or two scenes where she got to do something.

The last three or four episodes were more enjoyable but there wasn’t that much tension since you knew Cassian, K2, Mon Mothma, etc. were going to survive.
 
Stu999 said:
The first six episodes were mostly tedious. I feel like they could have made the series 6 episodes and not lost much.

Bix was a very pointless character. Mopey, look out of the window woman (occasionally with drugs), apart from one or two scenes where she got to do something.

The last three or four episodes were more enjoyable but there wasn’t that much tension since you knew Cassian, K2, Mon Mothma, etc. were going to survive.
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Agree, I was bored for about half of the season.
 
I quite enjoyed it overall but took quite a few attempts to stick with it initially, some quite immersive Star Wars in there but sometimes things stuck out which are too rooted in our world like some of the swearing, slang or things based off brand names, etc. etc.

EDIT: Also found it kind of funny the way there was barely any Jedi or force, etc. related content, aside from one healer, and what did touch on it suggested it was some very background thing that most people didn't really believe in, and then suddenly at the end everyone is going on about "may the force be with you" LOL.
 
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Rroff said:
EDIT: Also found it kind of funny the way there was barely any Jedi or force, etc. related content, aside from one healer, and what did touch on it suggested it was some very background thing that most people didn't really believe in, and then suddenly at the end everyone is going on about "may the force be with you" LOL.
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it was only Bail - and he actually legit is buddies with some real life jedi dudes so not too strange that he would believe in it
I liked the healer was kind of vague and not everyone believes etc, without the jedi around to teach anyone, some people must naturally be forcey, even just a little bit, liked the healthy scepticism Cassian was displaying though
 
Rroff said:
I quite enjoyed it overall but took quite a few attempts to stick with it initially, some quite immersive Star Wars in there but sometimes things stuck out which are too rooted in our world like some of the swearing, slang or things based off brand names, etc. etc.

EDIT: Also found it kind of funny the way there was barely any Jedi or force, etc. related content, aside from one healer, and what did touch on it suggested it was some very background thing that most people didn't really believe in, and then suddenly at the end everyone is going on about "may the force be with you" LOL.
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The phrase comes up quite a lot in Rogue One, along with references to ObiWan etc. I think they deliberately left out the Jedi connections in Andor but they are definitely there in the roots of the resistance.
 
ci_newman said:
The phrase comes up quite a lot in Rogue One, along with references to ObiWan etc. I think they deliberately left out the Jedi connections in Andor but they are definitely there in the roots of the resistance.
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I thought it was a nice way to subtly indicate the differences in culture between the Rebel Alliance and the earlier efforts of Luthen. Luthen wanted to destroy the Empire; the Rebel Alliance wants to restore the Republic.
 
Just rewatched Rogue One.

Still love it.

Andor really helps to make the characters more understandable and give it more life.

They better do more series of similar quality.
 
Rroff said:
EDIT: Also found it kind of funny the way there was barely any Jedi or force, etc. related content, aside from one healer, and what did touch on it suggested it was some very background thing that most people didn't really believe in, and then suddenly at the end everyone is going on about "may the force be with you" LOL.
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This was after Order 66 don't forget so Jedi were very much Myth and Legend and exceptionally rare. The Force was likely more like God to us, something overarching but not much involved in daily lives. And I think Andor was all the better for it.
 
MissChief said:
This was after Order 66 don't forget so Jedi were very much Myth and Legend and exceptionally rare.
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This is one of the least credible things in Star Wars, that got broken as they fleshed out the background. Andor starts 14 years after the Jedi Order was running things. The Jedi can't go from galactic power to myth and legend in living memory.
 
Mr Jack said:
This is one of the least credible things in Star Wars, that got broken as they fleshed out the background. Andor starts 14 years after the Jedi Order was running things. The Jedi can't go from galactic power to myth and legend in living memory.
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True, but the Jedi order wasn't the ones running things, that was the Galactic Senate, and while I'm unsure how many Jedi there actually were in Canon (I just looked it up, around 10,000 Knights apparently), I still think the vast majority of people, especially if they didn't live or travel to Coruscant, would have never seen one. The known systems were many, thousands of worlds, I fact, again having looked it up there are between 5 and 20 million sentient species and around 70 million planets or systems that had some form of representation in the Republic, even if that was aligned with a larger system or planet. The chances of most people ever seeing a Jedi Knight were very slim indeed. Some likely even doubted they existed at all I'm sure.
 
I finished s2 yesterday. Loved it. I hope it wins heaps of awards as I think it is up there with GoT, The Soprano’s etc. Maybe not quite The Wire or Lost but damn near close. I was in tears a few times, knowing what’s coming for Cassian is just wow.. And I’m not even the biggest SW fan out there.

Need to watch Rogue One again — my girlfriend half heartedly said she’d watch it with me (having not watched Andor nor care about SW) but I’m afraid I’ll be annoyed with her not understanding half of what’s going on and then probably me blubbing everywhere too :p

Rroff said:
EDIT: Also found it kind of funny the way there was barely any Jedi or force, etc. related content, aside from one healer, and what did touch on it suggested it was some very background thing that most people didn't really believe in, and then suddenly at the end everyone is going on about "may the force be with you" LOL.
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Dude, you’ve absolutely totally missed the point of the whole series lol good job :confused:

The “may the force be with you” from Bail Organa was a wonderful surprise and afaik the only time it was said in the series. And explained above by a poster more knowledgeable than me. It was perfect to use at that point.

Loved it. Just loved it. I’m tempted to watch R1 and just go back and watch all of Andor again!
 
Scam said:
Dude, you’ve absolutely totally missed the point of the whole series lol good job :confused:

The “may the force be with you” from Bail Organa was a wonderful surprise and afaik the only time it was said in the series. And explained above by a poster more knowledgeable than me. It was perfect to use at that point.
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Like MissChief above you've somewhat misread my post, though I was probably wrong on one aspect in that I thought 2-3 people mentioned the force in parting at the end rather than just Bail - even from Bail though more understandable it is a rather odd inclusion considering that at that point anything to do with the force was obscure and myth like.
 
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