Star Wars: Andor (April 22, 2025)

[Mondragon]

Looks like Andor is prepping to sniper someone from some lavish apartment building.
Crazy if it's someone at Mothma's shinding or in her circle.
This character has always operated in some gray areas, done things that have haunted him to his final moment.

 

[chrisstbh]

HT Fodder

HT wont make unmasked goons.

 

[ZE_501]

Given all the action that's likely to be in this season, I think HT may do figures.

• K2SO re-issue
• Andor
• Stormtrooper re-issue
• Something teased and never released

 

[Mr. Awesome]

I remember enjoying season 1. And that's literally all I remember. It's been way too long to pick this show back up for me. The thrill is gone.

 

[xipotec]

I remember enjoying season 1. And that's literally all I remember. It's been way too long to pick this show back up for me. The thrill is gone.

Sequel movie must be hard for you.

 

[karamazov80]

I remember enjoying season 1. And that's literally all I remember. It's been way too long to pick this show back up for me. The thrill is gone.

Yeah, I thought it was really well done, many times better than the lame movie it was based on, but the specifics elude me.

Is it better to be a good, forgettable show like this, or a bad, memorable show like the Book of Boba Fett?

 

[Mr. Awesome]

Yeah, I thought it was really well done, many times better than the lame movie it was based on, but the specifics elude me.

Is it better to be a good, forgettable show like this, or a bad, memorable show like the Book of Boba Fett?

I think the only thing I remember aside from liking it is that I didn't (still don't) care for Diego Luna. I mean, he's OK but he is on no way shape or form lead actor/main character material imo.

Dude has zero charisma on screen and shouldn't be the main star.

 

[Sassafras]

Yeah, I thought it was really well done, many times better than the lame movie it was based on, but the specifics elude me.

Is it better to be a good, forgettable show like this, or a bad, memorable show like the Book of Boba Fett?

I don't think of it as forgettable. It's some of the finest production writing and performances I've ever seen. I replay some of the speeches. Didn't think Rogue One was lame either.

It's a slant on SW I didn't expect - previously if anything was poignant it was Yoda, or Qui-Gon's misplaced faith, or Obi-Wan's or Luke's choices etc. But Lucas didn't pace SW the way Rogue One and Andor is.

The only SW I despise is Acolyte and TROS because of the mind boggling stupidity and conveniences, and wastage of some good actors (TROS). The only thing poignant there was watching the excellent Lee Jung-jae doing his best as the ship sank. I hurt for the man.

On the other hand Acolyte provided UNITY to the fan base, so there's that. And plenty of laughs. Unfortunately it's gone, gone like a mouse fart.

 

[karamazov80]

I think the only thing I remember aside from liking it is that I didn't (still don't) care for Diego Luna. I mean, he's OK but he is on no way shape or form lead actor/main character material imo.

Dude has zero charisma on screen and shouldn't be the main star.

I rather liked the guy as an actor in that show. But then, I've always been a sucker for character actors, which is how he strikes me. Would love to have seen, say, Harry Dean Stanton or Dick Miller as leads in a TV show.

I thought the performances generally were good as I recall, though some of the imperial characters (the woman and the dude who got demoted stick out) were a bit over the top.

 

[xipotec]

I rather liked the guy as an actor in that show. But then, I've always been a sucker for character actors, which is how he strikes me. Would love to have seen, say, Harry Dean Stanton or Dick Miller as leads in a TV show.

I thought the performances generally were good as I recall, though some of the imperial characters (the woman and the dude who got demoted stick out) were a bit over the top.

I'm not a fan either. And certainly wouldn't put him in a class with Miller..

Who BTW, showed up on an episode of ER, which my wife is re watching. He gives a stellar performance as a cancer victim who can't even inhale the pot that makes him feel better.....

Rewatching ER has reminded me how ground breaking that show was, the incredible cast...every medical drama since that is literally ripping off the story lines..

 

[ZE_501]

I rather liked the guy as an actor in that show. But then, I've always been a sucker for character actors, which is how he strikes me. Would love to have seen, say, Harry Dean Stanton or Dick Miller as leads in a TV show.

I'm fine with Luna. I think the Cassian character worked well in Rogue One (a movie I like a lot) and season one's origin story for him plays out well. He doesn't need to be a traditional 'leading man' type and maybe shouldn't be.

I thought the performances generally were good as I recall, though some of the imperial characters (the woman and the dude who got demoted stick out) were a bit over the top.

Syril is a bit of a caricature at times, but Dedra rings very true to life as an ambitious, morally bankrupt, self-serving cog in the Imperial machine. Hell, I've worked with women like her. She exists right here, never mind in a galaxy far far away.

 

[Wor-Gar]

I want to see Dedra demoted by Krennic to the endlessly mundane Hall of Desks where Syril was sent, to be lost forever, swallowed whole by the Imperial bureaucracy.

I hope Syril has to go back to live with his disappointed mother.

I would like a new villain to boo... but I'm sure Krennic's return will negate that.

 

[ZE_501]

I want to see Dedra demoted by Krennic to the endlessly mundane Hall of Desks where Syril was sent, to be lost forever, swallowed whole by the Imperial bureaucracy.

I hope Syril has to go back to live with his disappointed mother.

I would like a new villain to boo... but I'm sure Krennic's return will negate that.

I re-watched some Rogue One scenes the other day; Krennic is such a weasel. Looking forward to seeing him slink and strut through Andor S2. I hope he has more than a cameo but there's currently more investment in that ISB dude.

 

[Wor-Gar]

Yeah, I think Krennic is likely more to connect the series to RO than the actual villain of Season 2. But if he arrives for the last two episodes and dishes out punishments for failures, he'll take out the Main ISB dude first, take over the chamber, and hopefully send Syril and Dedra somewhere they will get the comeuppance.

Actually, now that I think about it, that ISB may be seen as a failure due to "the rebel attack"... so Krennic might try to disassociate himself from it, allowing the ISB Boss to take the fall.

 

[ZE_501]

Yeah, I think Krennic is likely more to connect the series to RO than the actual villain of Season 2. But if he arrives for the last two episodes and dishes out punishments for failures, he'll take out the Main ISB dude first, take over the chamber, and hopefully send Syril and Dedra somewhere they will get the comeuppance.

They did a great job with the villains. Some of them are so banal yet so slimy and mean you just want to see them suffer. Very true to life, how small, nasty, pathological personalities can wedge themselves into spaces to create massive suffering.

 

[ZE_501]

I'm watching episode 7 of S1 right now. Dedra's smart and I'm reminded of how hard the revolutionaries are. "This is what revolution looks like." -- they ain't playing. You can actually see how resolve and moral flexibility such as they display could overthrow the Galactic Empire. They needed all that just to get to military engagements of any significance. Needed more than one farm boy no matter who is dad was.