Star Wars: The Disney+ Empire Strikes Again and Again and...

The look of it seems really in keeping with Rogue One, the best looking Star War.

“In Pitlochry, Scotland, we had to walk for hours up a mountain to set up one shot,” says Luna. “Huge effort. Really dangerous to get there. All you can see around you is sky, trees, rivers, lakes. Amazing! Like being on another planet.”

I didnt think scotland had trees

Shoulda left off voiceover guy at the end but anyway

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PboKpnin_Wg

Also have an extended clip up on Disney+ itself.

Well DAMN Andor delivers so far.

yeah this is great

the policing aspect feels like oldschool brit procedural and i LUV it

also aesthetically- love the color pallete, all the browns & oranges… also it needs to be said that star wars universe outerwear is chef’s kiss always

fuck I'm so excited

So this is where all the budget and creativity for “Obi Wan” and “Boba Fett” went!

Am saving the third episode for the weekend but yeah loving it so far.

The universe feels lived in and the characters for once appear to be driven by human-level motivations - misplaced ambition, jealousy, laziness, spur-of-the-moment thoughtlessness. People actually talking like people, instead of just delivering exposition. No one is just going round going from place to place completing RPG quests (which is what Obi-Wan/Mando sometimes felt like).

also hell yeah, blue ramen

Lovely and perfect detail, that,

Andor truly the Star Wars show for anyone who ever wanted a Star Wars without Jedi, lightsabers, action, cool spaceships, iconic designs, John Williams music, or things happening at all, but get really excited about scene after scene of intensely whispered exposition

— Matthew Perpetua (@perpetua) September 21, 2022

It's amazing how this guy is just wrong about everything. I knew the second I saw this tweet that I would love the show.

I enjoyed the first few episodes of Andor, so now I'm going back and checking out Kenobi, and holy shit, I never realized how brutal the recruitment process for RHCP was.

What I got I got to give it to the Empire

Paul says Let It Be

big ACAB energy so far

are my eyes deceiving me or was the police bus thing that brought the cops down to the planetary surface the same sort of vehicle that the jawas bundled our droid friends into on tattooine? as if the jawas had found an old junked spaceship of this model and repurposed it into a sand crawler?

i wasn’t thrilled by the horizon zero dawn shit but at least it’s out of the way. that really could have all been told in a line or two. the way cas was “adopted” was fairly… horrific?! like okay maybe you’re right that he would have been in trouble or even killed later, but who put you in charge

Oh I very much like the idea that the 'adoption' wasn't nice, pleasant or even desired!

the cop transport was similar to a clone wars-era troop transport from the starwars 2 movie

Mull of Kenari

Am at least semi enjoying this though am aware taht whatever background is being set is pretty temporary no matter how in depth it's being set up as so intrigues between side characters probably not as important as might seem. I take it we do know the ultimate end of the story arc anyway & it ain't no frog chorus. THough possibly set up to show attitudes to loyalty and a few other things. Though he do seem a tad shady and stuff.

Trying to work out why the kids clothing on Kenari looks so manufactured when they seem to have been returned to a primitive level though not sure how long before. THought clothing would be more natural/simple not as textured or complicatedly finished. KIds look more dressed than scrabbling by having to make clothing or whatever from local materials.

Is this like a footnote to a footnote if the main character is someone whose til now main arc was inside a film that sets up some of the action in one of the original films.

Yes definitely - backstory to the backstory.

Interesting point about the clothes. Maybe they’re still getting by on the remains of what the mining colony left (maybe 100 years earlier? Hard to tell)

I wonder if Dudley Do-Right policeman is going to “break good” at some point

The situation on Kenari was relatively recent. There’s that line in the third episode about how Cassian saw his father hanged by the imperials in the town square as a kid! The implication is that the adults were killed or were absent for other reasons.

I think the bouncing between his past and the present day sets up the parallel of circumstances molding his path. He didn’t choose to leave his planet but that became his life, much as he isn’t actively trying to become a rebel agent but he’s stuck with another foster parent figure again. Orphans make the best agents, you know.

I kind of hope they follow through on that, and his diminished sense of agency, as he gets groomed as a spy and assassin

(I mean, it seems incredibly likely they will with Gilroy reusing some of the backstory markers from his Bourne series screenplays)

And that's in place in Rogue One as well, so.

you can tell star wars is for babies because of the crawls and the wipes

— Al Shipley (@alshipley) September 25, 2022

this episode was sensational. too short!

- baby banthas!
- “clem”!!!!! i love it
- incompetent sadman fascist on the skids
- light speed!
- THE TIE FIGHTERS fuuuuck
- the creeping centralisation and surveillance
- woke mothma
- the hard-science diversion for the heist a kind of switcheroo of king solomon’s mines, where it’s the locals who use the astronomical calendar to their advantage

How do i do spoiler text?

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i dont think those were bantha babies they just looked like goats to us and i assume they have weird alien penises. My wiiiiife also said she was amused by the star wars world retail experience

Yeah this was really sharp. Just the way this show easily introduces characters, switches scenes and modes while maintaining mood.

lol, it's that dude from The Bear!

I keep thinking this show is called Endor and is about Ewoks.

POSEUR!!!!!

I keep thinking it’s called And/or and it’s a philosophy text

Further adventures of Paul Ramone

The Rebellion the Next Generation
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FYHSzMMX0AIqLlT?format=jpg&name=large

getting to the end of Obi-Wan Kenobi, there's certainly some good stuff here, I like the new bad guys and Darth Vader of course, but the retcon level is so high as to make it rather aggravating

(i've never been to england) i like how the first three eps of andor are set in some sort of blighted northern england post-industrial mining village! perhaps the next star wars series will be how the same planet gave birth to the post-modal nodes band the max rebo twelve and their label sandcrawler records?

great show if your favorite part of star wars were the scenes of imperial officers sitting around a table bitching at each other or if you were curious about the lives of all the construction workers and contractors who died on the 2nd death star

Well, yes.

xp I actually am glad after the last set of Star Wars shows that we're getting a bunch of new/different planets and ecosystems, especially after Boba Fett. (We got like, two or three newish locales on Obi-wan, but eh.) Even "new" Coruscant was fun to see.

Perfect ratcheting-up-tension episode this week, I'd say. When it ended I felt totally wound up.

Ooh forgot there's a new episode today

The pre-Imperial tech thing Karis was showing off was actually a barely-concealed older Polaroid!

Ha I DID think "Wait is that a camera?"

Which, BTW, was prompted by seeing this earlier in the week -- turns out Diego's a major camera nut (the explanation is kinda sweet, really)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=59rKS8qaKuA

is the name of the droid in this noir feelings star wars show actually B2EMO? because that's awesome.

enjoyed the new episode - it definitely heightened my anticipation for “the job”

love the classic heist/bank job story beats ie new-guy suspicion, last-minute revelations that undermine cohesion, newly-sown suspicion towards leader, etc etc etc

blue food watch: space cereal with blue milk

the uptight police guy’s mom is a whole mood, i kind of love her and their vibe

also uptight police guy reminds me of the Jude Law android from AI, it might just be his hair

i thought the same thing

yes his mom is great. strangely for such a diverse and motley set of beings she’s one of the few real “characters” in this show

i was psyched for the heist but now i’m very much enjoying the slow burn. “clem” a bit jumpy, not just a strong dude for us to identify with but a dude with problems. “we all have our own rebellion” - loved that.

will our double agent’s moment of sentimentality - allowing the men to watch the cosmic happening - come back to bite them? i don’t know but i loved that we got to see that little grin