Star Wars: Andor (April 22, 2025)

[Johnny Utah]

My ideal look for a Cassian figure would be his season 1 finale look.

 

[Asta]

Andor season 2 photos...

Spoiler

Could they make it look any drearier?

The last two images sum up how dry this is looking compared to Ahsoka or Skeleton Crew.

 

[jaztermareal]

Andor season 2 photos...




Could they make it look any drearier?

The last two images sum up how dry this is looking compared to Ahsoka or Skeleton Crew.

and yet so much better than Ahsoka and Skeleton crew

 

[Asta]

and yet so much better than Ahsoka and Skeleton crew

Andor is such a different kind of series to any of the others, just as Skeleton Crew is also different to any of the others.

I'd put those two at the extreme opposite ends of the Star Wars spectrum.


Andor was a welcome new angle in the franchise, which I'm also getting from Skeleton Crew (though the latest episode felt a bit weird).

Ahsoka sits in the comfortable middle, and has oddly enough become my favourite of the Disney series and the one I find myself keep going back to.


It took me a long while to get the urge to revisit Andor, and it only happened because I set myself the task of re-watching all the series (except The Acolyte, of course).

As good as it is, I don't really find the character of Cassian very engaging, or at least the way Diego Luna plays him. Plus Cassian is going to be incinerated in a few years so there's a grim future to add to the overall tone of the series. The season 2 photos are selling the idea more of a process cop show than a space opera, more the style of The Wire or the relentlessly bleak Mayor of Kingstown than mainstream Star Wars.

I'll watch it for sure, but it's not high on my list of anticipated series.

 

[jaztermareal]

I found the main cast of Ahsoka more bland than Andor. It is a flashy show sure, but the stupid writing in Ahsoka just makes it hard to watch for me. I think that Andor has longer legs, it will be spoken of further in the future than most of the Disney shows. I obviously much prefer Andor over Ahsoka/Skeleton Crew. Different strokes for different folks.

 

[Johnny Utah]

Comparing Ahsoka to Andor is like comparing Analyze This to The Godfather Part 2. Leagues apart in all aspects.

 

[Asta]

Comparing Ahsoka to Andor is like comparing Analyze This to The Godfather Part 2. Leagues apart in all aspects.

Yes, chalk and cheese.

Andor is dry.

Which makes Ahsoka moist.

 

[Mondragon]

Andoris such a different kind of series to any of the others, ...
Andor was a welcome new angle in the franchise,

Agree, It took one aspect of SW, and went in deep into the grittiest part of it, with maybe a character who is the hardest to like and root for,
A guy who we first meet, to survive just one more day in the shadows, is willing to (quietly in the back) kill an informant who he knows will break under torcher... and carries the weight of that kill for the rest of the film.

Seeing who the guy is, how and why they can come to that point, is exactly what I like about it.

"During the Battle Rebel Spies..."

The season 2 photos are selling the idea more of a process cop show than a space opera, ...

I'd say they are going more Spy Thriller, than a process Cop Show.
From the onset, they let us know where they were pulling this character from, right to the source, and this is it, I'm thinking this season will finally dive deepest into that "Rebel Spy" aspect of the character, and the missions he undertakes.
And yeah SW pulled from and lends itself to so many genres, I'm hyped to see this one explored to it's best.

Plus Cassian is going to be incinerated in a few years so there's a grim future to add to the overall tone of the series. ...

There are those who complained- but I already know how he dies so I can't see how this can be interesting.
They've apparently never heard of or can imagine a historical movie, where they know how things end up.
Or seen a film which begins with the final scene, then fills in how the character got to that point, to that state of mind when we first meet him.
Yes there is a darkness that hangs over it, yet that is the story.

Plus there will likely be some dark-levity in this chapter,
There is something to be said about a guy whose circumstances and own humanity are so unlikably grim and forsaken, he ends up having to transfer what's essentially his only "friend", into a cold sardonic, gunmetal assassin droid.

I am so here for these characters and series. And I know exactly where it ends.

 

[Johnny Utah]

Yes, chalk and cheese.

Andor is dry.

Which makes Ahsoka moist.

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