Andor - Is this... good Star Wars?

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  @TheLittlePlatoon · 3 years ago · pinned

  The complete review: <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xLHFqnrC3uQ">https://youtu.be/xLHFqnrC3uQ</a>

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  @Iceyman314 · 3 years ago

  Tbf, explosives weren&apos;t &quot;spawned&quot; in the street... the previous scene Cassian asks if he has more slap charges left when he&apos;s looking at the decoy speeder... the decoy speeder crashes near those three guys, the explosives are triggered... seems like a pretty simple setup, but I get how people might have missed it

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  @blakebarn8739 · 3 years ago

  They were making up a reason to mug him, he didn&apos;t cause any actual problems. Hope this helps your understanding of the opening

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  @henzoko5946 · 3 years ago

  The dialogue is phenomenal compared to just Star Wars but also 95% of other shows as well. It took me by surprise.

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  @ThePurpleParis · 3 years ago

  The only reason it wasn&apos;t weird for me when the town people started banging metals to signal to each other, and in fact it was familiar for me, was because I live in a society where people collectively hate any armed person in a uniform; someone sees a police on the street, they start to honk their horn, and suddenly and unexpectedly everybody joins in on this irritating civil disobedience just to annoy the uniformed person and show them just how many people hate them. But I guess it&apos;s correct that for most people this scene might be a bit unexpected and unexplained in universe.

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  @GageEakins · 3 years ago

  @<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=teTHKIsQkVU&amp;t=3710">1:01:50</a> If you paid any semblance of attention, you would know that he was informed that the fugitives were heading their way and as an added measure he tells the other security officer to keep pushing Cassian and Luthen towards their squad.

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  @land1877 · 3 years ago

  <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=teTHKIsQkVU&amp;t=228">3:48</a> when I watched it, I interpreted his expression to mean irritation and trepidation (like he really didn&apos;t want anything to draw attention to him but he knew those guys would do something stupid. So he was anxious). <br><br>His expressions convey a lot.

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  @GageEakins · 3 years ago

  @<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=teTHKIsQkVU&amp;t=3824">1:03:44</a> Earlier Syril is told that the people of Ferrix have their own way of doing things. They don&apos;t work for the corporate authority. The corporate authority administers the section of space they reside in. Syril is explicitly told that while their jurisdiction technically extends there, it is a bad idea to go in there guns blazing.

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  @karmamell2532 · 2 years ago

  regarding the whole point at <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=teTHKIsQkVU&amp;t=1140">19:00</a> : you&apos;re missing something:<br><br>They aren&apos;t &quot;padding&quot; everything, they are setting up an element of the world that wasn&apos;t introduced before. The Friend that Andor owes money to initially tries to go the clichee route of &quot;oi, gimme my money, or my big friend there will break yer kneecaps&quot;, but in the end, Andor ridicules him for that, and the big guy actually enforces this, sheepishly revealing himself to be far too nice to act as an actual bruiser. <br><br>This establishes that this community tends to hold together, and that everyone knows each other by name. An element that will come up many times later.

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  @slothomatic · 3 years ago

  I took Marv&apos;s &quot;when the banging stops&quot; threat to be psychological warfare. She was trying to freak out the Corpos so that when the banging eventually did stop, they would be too frightened to continue to worry about her. <br><br>The banging seems to really just have been a warning to everyone to get to cover because the presence of the Corpos could get people caught in the crossfire. Marv used that practice to her advantage.

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  @Throarbin · 3 years ago

  I don&apos;t know, I thought Tim made enough sense as the jealous boyfriend. The first time he meets Cassian is in a seemingly close/secretive relationship with his romantic interest. He&apos;s the jealous boyfriend who goes a bit over the top, which I thought was reasonable enough. Though I did think the initial stalking was a bit odd at first since his introduction gave me the impression that his relationship with Bix was less developed than it apparently was.

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  @schizosamurai8840 · 3 years ago

  &quot;Andor deals with immigrant experience&quot; might be the most shit take Ive seen past few days

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