A poor slave on a backwater desert planet built a droid for his Mom from spare parts. I think that indicates that droids are pervasive in society.
I think anyone buying heavily armored combat droids would be getting a visit from the imperials real fast. I doubt you can just make them at home like Anakin building C-3PO. Putting a broken one back together is a different matter, and it took extraordinary efforts to even capture that one. The rebellion was never in the business of winning straight battles against the empire, that was always a last resort kinda thing. An army of battle droids, most of which would have to be the shitty ones the separatists had, would be inconvenient to acquire, extremely expensive and plant a giant target for the empire to come carpet bomb.
And even then, they weren’t sure that trying to repair it was a good idea. The tech guys complained to Andor about his plans, and when they finally tried turning it on, then had it strapped down to a table, and surrounded by several armed men aiming blasters at it. They were really, really worried that it might get loose and kill them all.
Not the sort of thing you do on a whim.
…whut?
Yeaaaaa… that’s interesting.
Here’s an excellent Vanity Fair article about Mon Mothma’s wedding dance becoming a meme. Gilroy fully supports it and apparently he and the cast members send each other their favorite videos.
It also confirms something we speculated about above. They intentionally did not showed what happened to Tay Kolma. Gilroy wanted the viewer to have the same experience that Mon Mothma did, no closure, no evidence, he leaves the party and is never seen again.
I just saw a clip from Andor replayed in multiple languages, including French. Which inspired a question - does anyone know what the Ghorman language sounds like in the French dub of Andor? In the English version, the Ghor are explicitly French coded. Would that work in French, or would a Francophone audience think the Ghor were speaking verlan?
There was a singer in the 70s, mighta been French but i could be wrong, that made a hit song comprised entirely of gibberish meant to sound like English because he wanted to prove that it didn’t matter what he said as long as it sounded English. I’ve heard a clip and as someone who is bilingual with English as my second language it really sounded vaguely like he was speaking English, just not making any sense. I would imagine it’s the same for any French people hearing Ghorman.
Italian.
I’m Canadian but not French-Canadian. I don’t speak French but I took it for several years in high school. I know what French generally sounds like. Ghorman sounded like French but… wrong. Having said that, this is probably what French people from France think when they hear Quebec French.
So finally got my issues with Disney+ straightened out on my TV and watched season 2. No notes - it was excellent and FAR and away the best Star Wars content IMHO. All of that is hashed and re-hashed above.
But as I usually do when I like something, I went back in combed through a few old reviews and interviews. Something I found while doing that and I didn’t see mentioned in any of these threads caught me off guard. How many of you crpg veterans recognized from her voice that Dedra Meero = Yennifer of Vengerborg from Witcher 3?
Finally got to the end. I know I’m very much in the minority here, but I just found this plodding and predictable.
In every way except for visually, ISTM a big drop from the first season.
Flame away, but I’ll say this: it would be great if I’ve missed something. I would love to be able to rewatch and enjoy it as much as s1.
Prequels tend to be predictable. Andor isn’t great because every moment was shocking and surprising, it was great because everything was executed extremely well - writing, character, directing, acting, dialogue, setting, etc. Everything was top notch. Just a terrific representation of how fascism can rise, gain, and utilize power, and what it can take to fight against fascist power.
By “predictable” I didn’t mean that the end state was predictable. I meant that many of the beats along the way were.
Again though YMMV
Honestly I don’t see how it was more predictable than season 1. You knew Andor was getting out of prison and joining the rebellion, those are the main things that happened in season 1.