re: Andor Season 2 Discussion (All Episodes Available)

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This show is making the best Star Wars movie (other than original trilogy) even better

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Never thought my favorite star wars show wouldnt have any jedi or the force, yet here we are.

Finally caught up.

Amazing set of episodes. To from an all out action/war movie in episode 8 to political spy thriller in 9. As someone else said, years beating and adrenaline rushing during those two

I loved that Cyril grew some balls when he realized he had been lied to and used as a pawn. I kinda hoped he would switch sides and totally redeem himself. But I knew as soon as he laid a hand on Dedra he was toast. I was somewhat expecting her to pull out a blaster and kill her m herself.

It's been a long time since I watched Rogue One. Is Bail Organa still in the Senate at that time? When we meet Leia aboard Tantive IV, she is a senator. I know each system has two, so would father and daughter serve together or does Bail resign and Leia take his seat?

Some of the visual and audio effects were just amazing. The transport escorted by X-Wings coming into Yavin at the start of episode 7 was so well done. Same with the TIEs flying over the protest in the plaza... even though you only saw them a few times the repeated screaming of the flyovers helped dial up the tension in that setting.

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But I knew as soon as he laid a hand on Dedra he was toast. I was somewhat expecting her to pull out a blaster and kill her m herself.

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I thought the way the writers handled Dedra in that scene was fantastic. They’ve been building her up as this hardened ISB machine who wears the pants in that relationship. They could have made her pull some sort of judo move out on him when he choked her, and it would have been somewhat believable. But instead they allowed her to be vulnerable in that moment.

As a result of that choice, we see two things:
1. We see that Dedra is still human. Cracks are forming in the facade and she is pretty clearly struggling internally with her role on Ghorman, even if she says otherwise.
2. We see that Syril has reached his breaking point. So when he goes after Cassian shortly thereafter, he’s basically operating on pure rage.

These little choices have a big impact on character development. That’s one of the many things Andor does exceptionally well.

Yeah, doesn't Chirrut Îmwe use some force elements/mysticism in Rogue One?

I was talking about this stupidity

It was silly. I don't have a problem with it, but it was just silly, and Cassian handled it like i would have just ignoring it.

I do think it's important for this show to start showing some belief in the force though, especially on Yavin. You're going to hear people very soon at that base tell others "May the force be with you", so you might as well start introducing some elements of it now.

The force stuff was absolutely fantastic. It seemingly confirmed a theory that's been in Star Wars for as long as I can remember and confirms that even though he can't use the force and/or doesn't have a lightsaber he's still a God like figure.

I think it was a well done scene. Didn't over do it and you saw both sides of how people felt about it.

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Yeah that's the only force usage we saw. It's very minimal though and force healing is canon (disney since the clone wars show, EU/Legends since 1978). It didn't take me out of the universe. It just showed how little the average person interacted with the force

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Glad somebody said it. I'm sure most people not in the remote reaches of the universe have heard of "The Force". But most probably have never seen someone actually use it in person. In fact its more likely they would see some traveling amusement act pretend (or not pretend, how would they know) to use the force for parlor tricks and games.