lol they kinda delivered on the hype for The Eye thing damn
ha yeah i was disappointed we hadn't gotten to the heist at the end of the last episode, but the wait was worth it!
Between this and The Bear, Ebon Moss-Bachrach has been in the two most stressful episodes of TV I've watched all year
― Roz, Thursday, 13 October 2022 03:38 (one year ago) link
ok if we get a three episode cadence, every third is action-heavy, and each builds on the last, that twelfth one better deliver
― mh, Thursday, 13 October 2022 12:29 (one year ago) link
THE GREENIE GREEN ONESTHE GREENIE REVNOG
― Tracer Hand, Wednesday, 19 October 2022 21:55 (one year ago) link
this show keeps impressing me tbh
― Tracer Hand, Wednesday, 19 October 2022 21:59 (one year ago) link
so "shave and a haircut" exists in the star wars universe?
― Muad'Doob (Moodles), Thursday, 20 October 2022 18:25 (one year ago) link
It does now!
Fantastic last couple of episodes here. And yes it's pretty clear we're on a three episode arc each time, which I have no problem with. (Appreciate the ISB office politics mania of course. Also didn't realize the dude there with the one speech about imposing measures etc is the latest iteration of this character, who might be the classic retcon.)
https://starwars.fandom.com/wiki/Wullf_Yularen
― Ned Raggett, Thursday, 20 October 2022 18:29 (one year ago) link
looking forward to episode 9 being the star wars version of the great escape
― Muad'Doob (Moodles), Thursday, 20 October 2022 18:45 (one year ago) link
nerdy sidebar - i love the room interiors for a lot of their homes & meeting rooms, like the architectural details in mon mothma’s mansion or the interesting brick interiors of andor’s home or that 70’s looking pad of his girlfriend/not-girlfriend, and uptight-guy’s mom’s modular pod-apartment i can’t say why exactly but it gives me a bit of a “bladerunner” echo.
― terminators of endearment (VegemiteGrrl), Thursday, 20 October 2022 18:48 (one year ago) link
I'd reallt still like a series dedicated to Jawas especially a Jedi Jawa
― | (Latham Green), Thursday, 20 October 2022 18:52 (one year ago) link
veg, you're the third person to make the bladerunner connect here. I should be watching Andor I think.
― “Cheeky cheeky!” she trills, nearly demolishing a roadside post (forksclovetofu), Thursday, 20 October 2022 20:17 (one year ago) link
for me it’s specifically the interiors somehowanyway it’s great! mandalorian still my fave but andor def a close second
― terminators of endearment (VegemiteGrrl), Thursday, 20 October 2022 20:38 (one year ago) link
and some of the music this latest episode - by the fantastic Nicholas Britell - used a lot of very Bladerunner-y synth textures. Such a wonderful series. The ground level Empire stuff (probe droids, TIES, stormtroopers) has rarely felt more ominous.
― SQUIRREL MEAT!! (Capitaine Jay Vee), Thursday, 20 October 2022 21:26 (one year ago) link
If you thought that the Mandalorian was essentially bad, is this good on a Mandalorian scale or on an objective scale?
― change display name (Jordan), Thursday, 20 October 2022 21:27 (one year ago) link
the vacation planet theme song was pretty amusing
I like this much more than the Mandalorian, it is a very different show
― Muad'Doob (Moodles), Thursday, 20 October 2022 21:28 (one year ago) link
it is much more focused on giving a glimpse into how normal people live in various parts of the galaxy, very subdued, much less action and heroics, although that stuff is in there for sure.
― Muad'Doob (Moodles), Thursday, 20 October 2022 21:33 (one year ago) link
andor is way more grounded in a lot of ways than mandalorian, it feels more like a gritty, modern type of spy movie that happens to be set in star wars world rather than the kind of epic space western like mando was
― terminators of endearment (VegemiteGrrl), Thursday, 20 October 2022 21:40 (one year ago) link
but if you thought mando was essentially bad i can’t fully speak to whether you’d even enjoy andor different vibe but like, it’s not NOT star wars
― terminators of endearment (VegemiteGrrl), Thursday, 20 October 2022 21:41 (one year ago) link
veg otm re the interiors. I also liked that wide shot of the Imperial cubicles, love this (and Rogue One’s) depiction of the Empire as essentially being run by a bunch of corporate stooges and horrible middle managers.
that ISB meeting scene was as gripping as any lightsaber duel lol
― Roz, Friday, 21 October 2022 00:58 (one year ago) link
I think this may also be the first star wars show to follow multiple agents of the empire maybe not quite as sympathetic characters, but definitely as humans possessing inner lives.
― Muad'Doob (Moodles), Friday, 21 October 2022 03:29 (one year ago) link
It is Ronin but Stellan Skarsgård has more years and hair this go round
― Cinta Kaz is comin' to town (Sufjan Grafton), Friday, 21 October 2022 04:08 (one year ago) link
Absolutely delighted to discover that Chamberlin, Powell and Bon did some work on Coruscant before coming to London to design The Barbican.
Not so thrilled that everyone is carrying around tablet computers, I thought it was canon that SW never had that kind of tech.
― ledge, Friday, 21 October 2022 07:52 (one year ago) link
i thought of the Barbican as well!i must have missed the tablets. it’s a funny mix of tech, it mostly feels like Vietnam-war era is about where they’re at.
― Tracer Hand, Friday, 21 October 2022 07:56 (one year ago) link
watched the new one last night and was thinking the same stuff about the production design and music. A lot of these star wars shows have felt kinda cheap...like expensive compared to a lot of tv shows, but budget compared to an actual movie, but the physical world building, the exteriors and interiors, vehicle design etc, on Andor has been really fantastic. I prefer this to the Mandalorian for sure. I skipped Boba and only watched one episode of Obi Wan.
― dan selzer, Friday, 21 October 2022 12:52 (one year ago) link
I think a big reason it looks so much realer is that they used the green screen superdome a lot less for this show. Or at least, that gave them an excuse to have less scenes of people standing around in the desert.
― Nhex, Friday, 21 October 2022 13:09 (one year ago) link
Britell such a great choice for this series
― realistic pillow (Jon not Jon), Monday, 24 October 2022 13:06 (one year ago) link
I keep hearing good things about "Andor," but I haven't watched anything post-Mando S2. Just kind of Star War'd out, I guess. (Also totally off the LotR and GoT trains, too, though more power to you folks invested.) But maybe I'll give it a shot, since we're between Marvel things. The praise seems similar to S1 of "Mando" - just a good show set in the Star Wars universe rather than some portentous fan service playing up/with mythology.
― Josh in Chicago, Monday, 24 October 2022 13:24 (one year ago) link
Pretty much - it's a good show, a little elevated by the extra Star Wars mythology that it does touch and the action setpieces that finally happen
― Nhex, Monday, 24 October 2022 13:33 (one year ago) link
it ties in closer to the main Star Wars story than Mandolorian does because it's about the birth of the rebellion, but mostly avoids obvious fan service, most of the characters and settings are new, and there hasn't been any mention of jedi/sith stuff so far. It sidesteps the superhero aspects of Star Wars and focuses more on the human side of things.
― Muad'Doob (Moodles), Monday, 24 October 2022 13:40 (one year ago) link
I like the idea of the "rebel alliance" explicitly being a coalition of partisans and pro-republic politicians and aristocrats, as messy as that may be, playing out. The formal title of "Alliance to Restore the Republic" might be an interesting point in a future episode because it's been pretty strongly implied that some of the people involved hate the Empire but didn't necessarily have great faith in the Republic
― mh, Monday, 24 October 2022 14:26 (one year ago) link
I love Andor, and thought the Mandalorian post season 2, the Boba Fett thing, was dumb, as was Obi Wan. Dug the first two of Madalorian, but this is even better.
― a (waterface), Monday, 24 October 2022 14:28 (one year ago) link
I have skipped LoTR and found HotDragon lame, so I have sorta desperate geek hopes here.
― “Cheeky cheeky!” she trills, nearly demolishing a roadside post (forksclovetofu), Monday, 24 October 2022 16:21 (one year ago) link
https://twitter.com/i/events/1584693275755044865
― groovypanda, Tuesday, 25 October 2022 08:58 (one year ago) link
Try again:
A Secret Writers Room, a Rising Scribe and a Post-‘Skywalker’ Timeline: A Look Inside Damon Lindelof‘s ’Star Wars’ Movie (Exclusive) https://t.co/Qr3PvFqx3F— The Hollywood Reporter (@THR) October 24, 2022
― groovypanda, Tuesday, 25 October 2022 08:59 (one year ago) link
no mas
― death generator (lukas), Tuesday, 25 October 2022 15:23 (one year ago) link
I’ve read articles by like “industry watchers” who are LIVID that Disney has not been exploiting the star wars IP more in the cinema and I’m like….. thank fuck for that
― Tracer Hand, Tuesday, 25 October 2022 15:35 (one year ago) link
The Force ReawakensThe Penultimate JediRe-Rise of Nu-Skywalker
― stank viola (Neanderthal), Tuesday, 25 October 2022 15:41 (one year ago) link
kinda crazy that Andy Greenwald (formerly of the Ringer) is on the writing team of Star Wars movie
― “uhh”—like, this is an insane oatmeal raisin cookie “uhh” (President Keyes), Wednesday, 26 October 2022 14:27 (one year ago) link
Ha, I knew Andy from Spin.
We saw the first "Andor." I liked it, at times it sort of had "Blade Runner" vibes, but my daughter was very resistant and found the characters "boring" (which come to think of it is also very "Blade Runner"). That means I'm on my own for finishing it, which means it'll be another ... six months before I'm done.
― Josh in Chicago, Wednesday, 26 October 2022 14:35 (one year ago) link
it's a pretty glum set of characters in a pretty glum setting it's true. i didn't exactly find them boring but i can see how someone would think that
― Tracer Hand, Wednesday, 26 October 2022 14:37 (one year ago) link
yeah I watched the first three episodes and liked aspects of it, but the characters are definitely still pretty opaque (and kind of charmless, to be harsh) and I'm not sure I'm going to continue
― rob, Wednesday, 26 October 2022 14:43 (one year ago) link
'this is Murg. she's from the Cassavetes system'
― Tracer Hand, Wednesday, 26 October 2022 15:18 (one year ago) link
new Andor episode great the prison stuff gave me a Ghosts…Of The Civil Dead vibe but honestly it’s prob just bc its an all white future hell-prisondiego luna is so good, the transportation + arrival scenes he looked legitimately physically scared like he was going to puke at any moment, like when you are so afraid you’re involuntarily twitching
― werewolves of laudanum (VegemiteGrrl), Thursday, 27 October 2022 05:15 (one year ago) link
hey vg: ANDOR aka Glum Village : its own thread
― Tracer Hand, Thursday, 27 October 2022 07:34 (one year ago) link
Can’t believe how good the show is actually. First SW thing I haven’t had to cringe at since Empire. (Rogue was great but the digital actors were abhorrent to me.)
― assert (matttkkkk), Thursday, 27 October 2022 12:42 (one year ago) link
bring it to the Andor thread :)
― Tracer Hand, Thursday, 27 October 2022 13:15 (one year ago) link
Anyway since the Andor thread will have its own stuff now...there's also Tales of the Jedi which just dropped yesterday, six short animated features around 15 to 19 minutes each. Only seen the first but enjoyable of course -- if anything this appearing alongside Andor's relentless crush helps show that there's wide scope for all kinds of stories in this universe.
― Ned Raggett, Thursday, 27 October 2022 16:08 (one year ago) link
Super psyched to see Tales. I doubt it'll be as good as Visions but I'm still down for more Clone Wars animated content
― Nhex, Friday, 28 October 2022 15:06 (one year ago) link
Yeah it can't beat Visions for sheer reinvention but it does a nice job of balancing out illustrative anecdotes to -- I think rather handily -- doing a bit of filling in corners for the prequels and Clone Wars (and Rebels, just) without having to commit to a full series or movie or anything (they should use that model more going forward). It is also definitely an example of just how continually better their animation studio and affiliate partners are getting in terms of visual detail and possibilities.
― Ned Raggett, Friday, 28 October 2022 16:36 (one year ago) link
the art style of tales i just find really kinda.. ugly
― Tracer Hand, Thursday, 10 November 2022 15:34 (one year ago) link