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i really like andor, and i'm making it your problem

i am enjoying andor a lot and one of the big reasons is how much it loves being star wars

andor is fucking stoked to be star wars

you can tell. visual worldbuilding has always been one of the biggest strengths of star wars as a franchise, but the post-disney installments have been kid of hit-or-miss in having a vision

but andor doesn't have that problem at all

it's got so much to show you

andor has this habit of almost comic-book-style shot sequences when it's establishing a locale, these long lingering wide panning things, moving from out to in just luxuriating in the process of placing the scene in the world

it's so patient

i could do a whole separate post on interiors

or just, like, this scene

i dunno i don't have a lot to say i just like what i'm seeing

i wish all the modern star wars media was as... deliberate, i guess?

i just think andor brings a lot of richness to the table

it's good art

andor is adding to the canon

it's neat i like it

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Cohost Picross/Nonogram Generator

Can't promise this works perfectly, but I built a cohost CSS-based nonogram generator: You can specify the vertical/horizontal clues as well as a passive and active cell color:

You can run it somewhere like Google Colab to easily generate your own! Output looks like this (bigger ones might have trouble on mobile? Also I have barely tested it on other devices/browsers):


31
258
11
2
47
11
1
33
61
2
21
1
12 2

1 3 1

1 1 1

3

9

1 2 1 2

1 4 1

9

2 1 4

5

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some quotes i found interesting from the Toby Haynes THR interview about his Andor episodes so far (features spoilers for all episodes out so far up to ep 8)

Interviewer: At the other end of the spectrum, were you quite shocked when you learned that your Star Wars career would kick off with a brothel and two dead cops? Toby: (Laughs.) Yeah, I was like, “Is this on Disney+?” I was really shocked. That’s the first thing I said to Tony. I was like, “This is bold stuff.” And he was like, “Yeah, it’s all conscious. I’m making a point.”

"Is this on Disney+?" lol

Interviewer: I’ve seen what’s ahead, and I can safely say that you made the right choice. Anyway, this might be a silly question, but was Andy self-conscious at all about not sounding like Snoke? Toby: No, but he did try an accent in one of the rehearsals. He was playing with the idea of an Iraqi accent because he has some Iraqi heritage. [Writer’s Note: Serkis’ mother was half-Iraqi.] But it never quite fit. With Andor, I don’t think we ever had an actor do an accent that wasn’t their own. We had everybody use their own original accents, without trying to soften them or anything. It’s part of their own character. It’s the realism of them, so there’s no additional layer of fakery. So we dropped that accent and went with Andy’s own accent. He wanted to find the right kind of tonal quality for it that fit the class level that Kino was at. We have a famous soap in the U.K. called EastEnders, and we didn’t want it to get too EastEnders where it would be too cockney. That would have a layer of artifice to it that we didn’t want. So it was just trying to find that right level of realism.

Really interesting note from Serkis there. I wonder if he was attempting to make a Guantanamo Bay connection or something along those lines?

Interviewer: What are your highlights and takeaways from Stellan Skarsgard and Forest Whitaker going toe to toe in such an incredible scene? Toby: Oh my God, that was an amazing day. We were all nervous. I had phone calls from Forest the night before, and he was asking me questions about Kyber crystals and backstory. But we did this incredible rehearsal where they just read the scene for the first time and went at it. They really went at each other, and there was this incredible tension in the room as they read this scene. And honestly, if I could have filmed that first time they read the scene, I would’ve been overjoyed to have gotten that performance from both of them. And the crazy thing was, when we went to film it for real, it was almost like we had to deconstruct what they did, spontaneously and naturally. So they had to reconstruct it and build it from scratch, in a way, when we got the cameras rolling, and it took us a while to get to that pitch. I had this idea about how to structure the scene. I wanted to end on an extreme closeup of Forest at the end of his rant about all the seperatist groups of the alliance. A really direct, face-on shot would really bring you into the argument and build that intensity. And so I just got him to do that speech over and over again. I was just like, “Go crazy with it,” and that closeup was one of the best closeups of my career. Seeing him do that was just absolutely magical, and to have him play opposite a heavyweight like Stellan was a career highlight.

Love how much Forest Whitaker got into it, seems like he really loves the character!

In regards to the lack of aliens in Andor, I do have a pretty good idea of why, and it's just as simple as that it's way easier to emote and read someone's face when they're a human! That plays into Tony Gilroy's strengths so I understand why we're not seeing a ton of them (although who knows, I could be proven wrong soon, with Saw's group showing up). But! I would love to see Gilroy attempt to bring depth to them or have a really elaborate alien puppet that gets as much love as the human characters.