Andor [Disney+]

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.

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.

3 episode premiere on Tuesday.

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

Ah balls. Thought it was released this morning Irish time, not the small hours of tomorrow morning.

Damn. Ah well, guess it's just more time for me to rewatch Luthen and Marva's speeches again about 18 times each.

I must be cuckoo staying up waiting for it to drop.

Can't wait to see it tonight. Should have watched a bit this morning.

if I could do it again, I'd wake up early.

Just watched the first episode so far, found the storytelling a lot more propulsive and punchy than series 1, fewer muttered allusive conversations. Likely this is mostly because I'm now familiar with the characters and get most of the references…

Ya that could have been awful cheesy like the wedding traditions which are always terrible in TV shows but it looked great.

In general this show does an amazing job with sound. The music is so often a big part of the scene and is rarely just background noise. The flyover shot as the music changes speed at the funeral is one of my favourite bits of TV.

Some of the subtle expressions are great too. The way Luthien and Mon keep flipping between anger, tears and joy as they move through the crowd or practically anything Dedra does with her face. That dinner scene was great fun.

Losing Brasso was tough after already being through so much.

What is it about engineers. Bix quickly racking up Mile O'Brien levels of personal horror.

That planet scene was a chore. I assume was about tying him up for a bit and showing that he is now a fairly competent operator.

That scene with Bix and the Officer in the third episode though.... They hinted something might happen earlier, but I was still wasn't sure if they'd go there.. Just another example of how different and grown up this show is compared to everything else that's been before. That's not dig at other Star Wars, but I'm so glad this show is what it is.

I hope we get some sort of scene between the high level leadership in the Empire. See a meeting between the Emperor, Tarkin, Yularin, Thrawn, Krennic etc. I'm surprised that none of the shows have touched on the Chiss and the Grysk as an enemy, given the plots laid down in the new Thrawn and Empire novels.