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cohost's first star wars fanblog, official "Big Name Fan".

 

in my "bad batch s3" era currently



Andor episodes 1-3 were so good i'm waking up the next day still thinking about them. god DAMN that was some good television. more thoughts under the cut


i think there's still a bunch of time for this show to be Great and/or (heheh, get it) Completely Faceplant so i'm holding off on saying "the show is good" just yet. i do think that as far as the entire disney star wars lineage goes this is the best opening we've ever got.

there's just so much actual good television in here. there's shots that tell stories. the visuals onscreen communicate things that are not backed up by dialogue that explains it immediately! all the acting so far is incredible, like me and all my friends were audibly struck by that "fomenting" scene. like god damn!! they hired good writers!! what the fuck!!!

and for me, the Lore Nerd - that separatist gunship on Kenari?? "Republic Frigates closing in"??? holy shit??? Are we finally getting a critique of the Republic??? I'm LOVING all this shit. Amazing first episodes. Up there with Mando S1 as far as the live-action stuff goes. Wow.


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What did you think of the bucket wheel excavators at the mining site? I couldn't decide if that felt jarring or not, given that they have so many other vehicles that don't exist IRL otherwise

I think they were fine, if only because I think they continue the sort of visual lineage of the Empire being the... extractive technologies faction? There's a weird thin line that Star Wars walks of what 'technology' 'means' but I think in the case of the (late-era Republic/)Empire, using the imagery of modern strip-mining makes sense both in a visual storytelling sense (invoking real-world harmful extraction processes) and within the world (the Republic/Empire is immediately setting out to destroy whatever worlds they need to in order to create more warmachines).

yeah it's definitely just way more interesting for star wars to move in the "physical machinery" tech angle rather than the "magic floating things" tech angle. it feels more "right" to me, even if star wars has plenty of magic floating tech things too

compared to the high water mark of mandalorian (which was a meh for me) I can definitely say at least the first three episodes of Andor are Good. the visual storytelling alone shows so much more confidence than anything else! on top of actual character development and letting shots and scenes breathe, it's good stuff!

Yeah there were some moments in Episodes 2 & 3 especially where it was like... oh they're using visuals to tell stories. Wow! I mean, pretty basic stuff in a history of media sense but you just... don't usually see it in a popcorn IP like star wars lmao

it took me a minute to realize the Pre-Mor guy wrecking the ship wasn't an example of fascist failure (which admittedly would have also been funny) but actually community resistance which just blew me away. That shit was so clutch. that and the community notification thing with the banging on metal objects. Just really stellar storytelling stuff there. Brasso a real one