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

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Was that Anton Lesser in the trailer? Love that guy.

nate woolls, Monday, 1 August 2022 20:58 (one year ago) link

So THIS looks wonderful. Kind of sad Obi Wan seemed to get the "TV Movie Of The Week" curse while this looks gorgeous and rich.

SQUIRREL MEAT!! (Capitaine Jay Vee), Monday, 1 August 2022 21:07 (one year ago) link

*not "curse". I meant "treatment".

SQUIRREL MEAT!! (Capitaine Jay Vee), Monday, 1 August 2022 21:08 (one year ago) link

ooh they did call Saw

mh, Monday, 1 August 2022 23:09 (one year ago) link

I want some REAL ASS REVOLUTION. But in Star Wars.

Warning: Choking Hazard (Hunt3r), Tuesday, 2 August 2022 00:37 (one year ago) link

Apparently they're not filming Andor in "The Volume." Maybe that's why it looks so good?

DJI, Wednesday, 3 August 2022 16:42 (one year ago) link

probably some truth in that

Tracer Hand, Wednesday, 3 August 2022 16:51 (one year ago) link

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

nashwan, Wednesday, 3 August 2022 17:16 (one year ago) link

“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.”


this is good

Tracer Hand, Wednesday, 3 August 2022 19:11 (one year ago) link

I didnt think scotland had trees

Warning: Choking Hazard (Hunt3r), Wednesday, 3 August 2022 19:13 (one year ago) link

one month passes...

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.

Ned Raggett, Saturday, 10 September 2022 18:17 (one year ago) link

Well DAMN Andor delivers so far.

Ned Raggett, Thursday, 22 September 2022 05:26 (one year ago) link

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

terminators of endearment (VegemiteGrrl), Thursday, 22 September 2022 05:48 (one year ago) link

fuck I'm so excited

i eat ass with a knife and fork (Neanderthal), Thursday, 22 September 2022 05:54 (one year ago) link

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

SQUIRREL MEAT!! (Capitaine Jay Vee), Thursday, 22 September 2022 06:53 (one year ago) link

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

Roz, Thursday, 22 September 2022 08:41 (one year ago) link

Lovely and perfect detail, that,

Ned Raggett, Thursday, 22 September 2022 11:09 (one year ago) link

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.

a superficial sheeb of intelligence (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Thursday, 22 September 2022 15:35 (one year ago) link

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.

Muad'Doob (Moodles), Saturday, 24 September 2022 18:01 (one year ago) link

What I got I got to give it to the Empire

i eat ass with a knife and fork (Neanderthal), Saturday, 24 September 2022 19:11 (one year ago) link

Paul says Let It Be

Stevolende, Saturday, 24 September 2022 19:13 (one year ago) link

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

Tracer Hand, Sunday, 25 September 2022 00:11 (one year ago) link

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

Ned Raggett, Sunday, 25 September 2022 00:13 (one year ago) link

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

Its big ball chunky time (Jimmy The Mod Awaits The Return Of His Beloved), Sunday, 25 September 2022 00:15 (one year ago) link

Mull of Kenari

Stevolende, Sunday, 25 September 2022 07:49 (one year ago) link

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.

Stevolende, Sunday, 25 September 2022 08:59 (one year ago) link

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

Tracer Hand, Sunday, 25 September 2022 09:05 (one year ago) link

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

mh, Sunday, 25 September 2022 13:58 (one year ago) link

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

mh, Sunday, 25 September 2022 14:00 (one year ago) link

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

Ned Raggett, Sunday, 25 September 2022 15:49 (one year ago) link

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

— Al Shipley (@alshipley) September 25, 2022

flamenco drop (BradNelson), Sunday, 25 September 2022 16:27 (one year ago) link

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

Tracer Hand, Wednesday, 28 September 2022 22:38 (one year ago) link

How do i do spoiler text?

Its big ball chunky time (Jimmy The Mod Awaits The Return Of His Beloved), Thursday, 29 September 2022 00:16 (one year ago) link

[ h ] like this [ / h ]

peace, man, Thursday, 29 September 2022 00:27 (one year ago) link

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

Its big ball chunky time (Jimmy The Mod Awaits The Return Of His Beloved), Thursday, 29 September 2022 00:32 (one year ago) link

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

Ned Raggett, Friday, 30 September 2022 06:26 (one year ago) link

lol, it's that dude from The Bear!

Muad'Doob (Moodles), Friday, 30 September 2022 22:23 (one year ago) link

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

Josh in Chicago, Friday, 30 September 2022 22:42 (one year ago) link

POSEUR!!!!!

stank viola (Neanderthal), Friday, 30 September 2022 23:26 (one year ago) link

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

Further adventures of Paul Ramone

Stevolende, Saturday, 1 October 2022 04:23 (one year ago) link

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

Stevolende, Monday, 3 October 2022 20:12 (one year ago) link

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

Muad'Doob (Moodles), Tuesday, 4 October 2022 15:07 (one year ago) link

(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?

, Wednesday, 5 October 2022 03:32 (one year ago) link

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

Muad'Doob (Moodles), Wednesday, 5 October 2022 03:49 (one year ago) link

Well, yes.

Ned Raggett, Wednesday, 5 October 2022 03:56 (one year ago) link

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.

Nhex, Wednesday, 5 October 2022 22:15 (one year ago) link

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

Ned Raggett, Thursday, 6 October 2022 00:59 (one year ago) link

Ooh forgot there's a new episode today

Muad'Doob (Moodles), Thursday, 6 October 2022 01:09 (one year ago) link


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