Andor Season 2

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I like Andor Season 2 so far. My comments without reading earlier posts…

I like that the characters are not hyper-competent, except for the title character. They have difficult situations and make mistakes. The acting is believable.

I’m looking for to having all these story threads interact in the end. Will we see again the test engineer who gave Cassian the codes to the advanced TIE fighter? Doesn’t matter, but I hope we at least get a glance of her working on an X-wing in some hangar.

I like cultural depth they’ve put into the series. The Chandrila customs of the maidens: two long braids for available, one long braid for betrothed, and then the groom cutting it to establish the marriage. Also, the literal fork in the road that the bride has to step over to enter the marriage circle.

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I mean, he wasn’t a hyper-competent Tie pilot.

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I mean, have you seen the other TIE pilots? They routinely get out-flown by a monkey in a Space Moving Truck.

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Just your typical patriarchal custom of a man permanently handing over his life and death control of his daughter to her husband.

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From episode 3:
“This is not the ship I was trained to fly. Did you know that? DID ANYONE KNOW THAT!”

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It doesn’t seem to be that kind of show. Remember that everything that has happened on this show was kicked off by one thing, Cassian looking for his sister. That sister hasn’t been mentioned again.

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I’m waiting for the final reveal to be that Bix was his sister all along. :wink:

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Yes, but

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An FYI, if you like Andor in general and Mon Mothma in particular, there was a recent Star Wars Novel called the Mask of Fear that is set during Episode III, days after Palpatine declared the First Galactic Empire and is about Mon and Bail Organa navigating the new Political situation.

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I know it goes against the tone of the show, but I really hope a character named Immanuel or Manfred makes a brief appearance at some point.

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As pointed out in that article, one big driver for the “I can fly that” assumption was the presence of the Force. (Plus, in Luke Skywalker’s case, familiarity with a civilian craft with similar controls.)

But Andor isn’t High Fantasy Star Wars. We’ve seen zero Force-sensitives. So even a talented and widely experienced pilot like Cassian Andor is going to struggle mightily with a spacecraft where the UI designers decided to throw the entire book out the airlock and start with a blank page.

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Poe Dameron who is a hotshot combat pilot but not Force sensitive, jumped straight into a First Order Tie fighter and flew it better than most trained Tie pilots do.

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I think the 3 episodes / week works out well with my viewing habits. Friday night is my typical make popcorn and watch a show/movie night. I’m not sure I can wait until Friday to see something.
So I watch the 1st episode Tuesday night and then watch the next two on Friday.
I just have to avoid spoilers for those episodes and avoid the temptation to watch all 3 on Tuesday…

Brian

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Online folks are pointing out that the Empire started at BBY 19, and it is BBY 4 so if Dedra was 3 when she was in an Imperial kinder block that would make her 18.
The best fanwank is that is started out as a Republic kinder block and she just calls it by the later name (and importance to her)

Brian
(or she is just lying)

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Yeah I had caught that while watching. That always was an issue introduced by the prequels. The original Trilogy implies the Empire is older than the Prequels revealed it actually being. It basically only lasted a Generation (if you count the First Order as something different).

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Which he would have have access to before hand. This was an experimental research prototype, probably the only one of its kind and obviously completely different than anything they had before.

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I just watched season 2 episode 4 (and only that one) – I’m guessing the drug Bix took was not deadly and “just” for coping.
I’m wondering when the Imperial informant will be found out – seems unlikely to me he will survive.
Liked the fact that the guards were watching pod racing.
Not sure I will return to this thread until after I see the next two episodes (to avoid spoilers)

Brian

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That’s six episodes in a row that I don’t think are as good as season one.

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I have only watch up to the end of Episode 4. What was the machine that was brought to Saw Gerrera? With a 3 year gap between seasons, I am having trouble keeping some of these plotlines straight.

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It is a Plot Device.

It is a tool for taping into Space Oil pipelines to steal Space Oil for Space Power. It is a very fidgety and dangerous procedure.