Why do you need a driver if you have intelligent machines?
That said, I like it. Lady Penelope too.
That said, I like it. Lady Penelope too.
So spot on, IMO; couldn't agree more!Lucas tried to do the political machination angle in the PT. Not only was it at odds with the hokey Flash Gordon inspiration for the original Star Wars, but he did it so clumsily by off-setting politics with comical stupidity (Jar Jar and the Battle Droids). The acting through much of the PT was pretty bad too.
Andor has succeeded where Lucas failed. We have the political machinations, a lack of comical stupidity, and good acting. It isn't Flash Gordon, but it is a good, more grown up interpretation of the universe George created before he lost sight of his own vision.
Also, in case not already mentioned...
You old farts are showing your age. Wait...I remember them, dagnabit I'm old too.Why do you need a driver if you have intelligent machines?
That said, I like it. Lady Penelope too.
Perhaps he was thinking moment to moment, instant gratification, wanting to forget the twin rejections from his mother figure and Bix. I agree, not super smart, a legitimate nitpick for the episode, perhaps an obvious plot contrivance.Well this episode whacked the break on again, overall it was fine, however Cassian came across as lacking in prudence in his choice of travel destinations. WTF was he thinking!?
Could be a class thing. Only new money buys droids. Old money has natural born servants.Why do you need a driver if you have intelligent machines?
Why do you need a driver if you have intelligent machines?
That said, I like it. Lady Penelope too.
Agreed. It's like someone owning a luxury car, a yacht, or a designer dog these days.As ZE_501 just wrote, I think it's a status symbol.
What was it Luthen said to him? "I thought you were smart."My take on him going to "Florida" was that he has all this money and deludedly thinks nothing can touch him. He's completely in denial about how bad the situation is, that a holiday resort would surely be a safe haven free of the Empire's grasp.
A trip to the shop that'll take him 6 years!
Yeah, that was a pretty harsh sentence.My take on him going to "Florida" was that he has all this money and deludedly thinks nothing can touch him. He's completely in denial about how bad the situation is, that a holiday resort would surely be a safe haven free of the Empire's grasp.
A trip to the shop that'll take him 6 years!
Yep. His state of mind being illustrated to set the stage for him becoming a part of the fight for freedom that he'll be willing to give his life for. Seeing that no "escape destination" exists, no blind spot to the eye of the Empire, and that no amount of money can buy safety, Cassian can conclude that if his role as just one man in a payroll heist can lead to so much disruption that the Empire feels compelled to respond with these galaxy-wide measures, then that same man can keep on making a big difference by committing to the Rebel cause.My take on him going to "Florida" was that he has all this money and deludedly thinks nothing can touch him. He's completely in denial about how bad the situation is, that a holiday resort would surely be a safe haven free of the Empire's grasp.
A trip to the shop that'll take him 6 years!
One thing I like from a metaphor standpoint about the Florida locale is that Andor's allegiance to the Rebellion was likely born on that beachfront getting railroaded by the Empire, and then he died on a beachfront getting a huge measure of revenge against them. It's like poetry, it rh... aw never mind.
The main take from this show for me is, how much they ****** up the ST.
Sure Disney have ****** just about everything they've touched, but your marquee product, the product that ensures longevity and a longterm revenue stream, brand strength/recognition, merchandising, etc (that has subsequently been forgotten by almost everybody already), they rush headfirst into, without a meticulously planned story.
What. The complete. ****?!
I know Lucas didn't have it all perfectly planned out back in the day, but he had an abundance of notes and ideas that gave it all (eps 1-6) some semblance of continuity and structure.
The current custodians have proven to be idiotic corporate clowns with zero foresight and understanding of the material and their customers.
If only they'd given J.J. the boot. It still might not have been that great but at least would have been a more cohesive, singular vision.
Truly epic post thank you for this amazing read.I genuinely think this may be the genre show that finally gets Disney their first non-technical Emmy. It’s so damn smart. There’s no shortage of engaging, well written television out there, but I often find that it’s easy to push boundaries when you have none. Streamers like Apple TV+, Amazon, HBO Max, Netflix, and others can pretty much be completely uninhibited with content restrictions, but Disney + finds itself in an almost self-imposed exile with Network TV in which the high profile of their IP and it’s conservatorship often boxes them into a different set of standards than their competitors.
This show transcends that and it does so within the limitations of its platform. It’s one thing to write engaging dialogue and political intrigue when you can break it up with orgies and bloody, gruesome battles, but you just can’t have Admiral Ackbar calling someone a four-letter word in a series set in a multi-billion dollar franchise. And yet? Tony Gilroy almost does that without doing it and it recontextualizes the entire Star Wars Mythos for me. This is a show that actually makes me want to see The Emperor as the elder statesman he seems to be. It’s something that I don’t think has been highlighted enough in the decades’ worth of film. Palpatine has often been depicted without cunning after the PT and as a sort of cackling idiot zealot obsessed with “The Dark Side.” I’d be interested in seeing him through a different lens that I think this show hints at.
Namely, that I don’t think any number of Senators or his Imperial subordinates would be able to rationalize nor entertain the inane ramblings of a prune-faced lunatic about “Darth Plagueis” and “The Force,” nor would I think the Empire would be so quick to bend the knee to him if there wasn’t some foundation of respectability belying his…eccentricities. Andor has me re-examining all the inner workings and machinations of nearly 50 years of one of the most iconic franchises in pop culture. “What did the Imperial High Command look like after the destruction of the Death Star?” “How did the remnants of the Empire grapple with the news of Palpatine’s death after the destruction of the second Death Star?” “Who took control?” “Were there power struggles?” “When did the transition to the First Order begin?”
It raises all sorts of questions I never even thought I knew nor wanted the answers to and, honestly? Disney would be absolutely moronic if they didn’t lean into it in charting the future of this franchise.
He didn't really come out of retirement right? He was allegedly in A New Hope too.Admiral Yularen live action debut, what a surprising take from this episode. Now he's full-time serving the Empire and Emperor Palpatine after years of taking **** from the Jedi Council ))
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