First teaser for this arrived; looks moody and seems to be hitting more of the muddy, grim aesthetics of Rogue One... Lots of prequel iconography abound as well.
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Early reviews apparently universally ecstatic
Not just some of the best Star Wars ever made, but some of the best television period.”
Everything you want & more. It’s a miracle.”
really pscyhed for it now
Wow it looks like they will be releasing 3 episodes each week for 4 weeks.
So it will be one of the 4 arcs released each week. Nice.
3 episode premiere on Tuesday.
Final trailer. Can't wait
I think he'll just be kicked to the kerb by Dedra. Possibly not even die. Just to waste away, a pathetic little man, believing in an Empire that doesn't even know he exists. If he does die, it will be in a way that he would probably think is heroic but, in reality, is small and inconsequential.
Im wondering if Syril might have a road to Damascus moment and switch allegiance.
That's a great idea. Get people into it.
I just finished re-watching S1 last night (Last 2 episodes). And it holds up. The first couple were a bit slower than I remember but not dull.
I like the idea of Season 2 basically being 3 or 4 chunks over the last 4 years up to Rogue 1. It ties in well with Season 1 which was also definitely broken into phases:
1-3: Thief phase
4-7: Heist/Empire Clampdown phase
7-9: Prison/Awakening phase
10-12:Rebellion phase
For all the (Amazing) monologues posted above, there are still just so many excellent, smaller lines "What have you done for him lately?" "I don't have 'lately' I have ALWAYS" "They're so proud of themselves, so fat and satisfied. They can't imagine that anyone like me would ever get inside their house, walk their floors, spit in their food"
Sure, Nemik (The "True Believer" kid on Aldahni) was a gonner the instant you saw him but tell me his lines aren't chilling at the moment. I had forgotten how easily Mon Mothra used her husband as a potential scapegoat for the money she syphoned away (Blaming him for gambling it away). Her arc will be very interesting next season (All those tense parties and "smile" and basically sacrificing her daughter). As long as they don't strike up some relationship between Dedra and Syril (Dedra & The Dweeb). He's obsessed with her and she is repulsed by him. I suppose they might do something whereby she initiates something despite her revulsion only to throw him under the star-bus later.
That hateful tiny mother's GOTTA die 😁 EASILY the most evil thing in the show. Makes Dedra look positively fluffy.
Oh, and I FINALLY realised where I had seen the major from. He's the evil maestor in Game of Thrones! I KNEW I'd seen him being casually evil before.
The first 3 episodes of Series 1 are free to watch on Youtube now
Cant wait, looks superb, like a kid waiting for Christmas.
Very good edit of the 2 trailers here, it looks amazing in 4k.
Official recap. About 14 mins.
The latest teaser trailer has dropped, this feels more like it.
Ah, I expect that that's just for the trailer. Doubt there will be anything in the series. But it is an interesting idea for a thread: Best use of song in a trailer.
I did like the visuals, but the music was a bit jarring. S1 had great music, but I don't recall any of it being 'real' music. Works great in GOTG, just not so much here, but I'd expect I would be in the minority.
Brilliant trailer for a great show. Hopefully they keep up the standard from season 1, they have a hard act to follow but the trailer looks great.
The music in the trailer sounds like something you'd hear on a Guardians of the Galaxy film.
Its actually Steve Earle, surprising, its a real belter.
Given the high focus on the critical reception of season one, especially at the more grown up and articulate tone, I would imagine they will leave them alone. They have their series that can sell toys and have Jack Black cameos. This is their prestige show really
Looks good, I hope Kathleen Kennedy has been kept far away from this, and left the creative people do their own thing.
Visually it looks superb.
It's the people involved.
That looks great though. Good to see Krennic and K2SO make an appearance.
Please, please, please…don't **** it up!
That trailer looks awesome. I just cannot understand how they can get that so right and so much other star wars stuff so wrong.
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Hopefully more people will start to hear about the first season and watch it then watch the second season too.
That is true, it really looks stunning, you cant beat real sets and minimal cgi.
Its kind of sad that the show has such low viewing figures, its by far the best Star Wars output Disney has made, it deserves a wider audience.
Hopefully more people will watch the second series.
Yeah, that stage they use for The Mandalorian really started showing it's limitations by the last season. Well, I mean, they became more obvious.
You rarely saw characters more than a meter or two apart. And you would often see characters walking away before cutting away. I mean, of course, to be expected when the set is a large, high hall or something. But even happens on less "extreme" locations.
I know we said it before but that terrifying shot of the TIE fighter screaming down the valley showed the benefits of real location shooting. Amazing scene.
Cannot wait for Season 2. Compare the idiocy of never taking their helmets off and constant repetition of "This is the way" with a show that has, not one, not even two but three amazing monologues delivered by three amazing actors:
At least this show actually looks like the money they spent on it, thanks to proper sets, cinematography and staging.
A lot of other big budget shows - including some within this particular franchise - dream of looking an iota as good as this does.
Disney has revealed that the cost of making Star Wars streaming show Andor has surged to $645 million (£504.8 million) after it spent a record $290.9 million (£232.1 million) last year on filming its second season which will debut in April 2025.
The filings reveal that the show also received a massive $129.3 million (£101.2 million) reimbursement in return for filming in the U.K. This brings Andor's spending so far down to $515.7 million and the financial statements confirm that "the final cost was forecasted to be within the production budget."
Thats a heck of alot of money, 72m on wages, 563m on production costs.
Looking forward to Season 2.
Timely reminder for a rewatch.
Season 2 coming April 22nd
It'll be interesting to see what they do with Krennic with the runway of a TV series: his bureaucratic, middle-manager energy was the kind of thing we saw expanded into an overall theme in Andor; you'd have to think that's the plan with Krennic this time around.
Ben Mendelsohn (Krennic) returning
