Happy Andor day everyone!
― Tracer Hand, Wednesday, 2 November 2022 13:38 (one year ago) link
This was the least remarkable and possibly talkiest episode so far (!) and still quite tense in places.
― SQUIRREL MEAT!! (Capitaine Jay Vee), Wednesday, 2 November 2022 15:30 (one year ago) link
kind of breaks the whole 3 episode arc model, I was ready for some wild escape action
― Muad'Doob (Moodles), Wednesday, 2 November 2022 18:12 (one year ago) link
Still a great episode though. Andy Serkis was excellent and guessing the escape action will all kick off next week
― groovypanda, Wednesday, 2 November 2022 19:58 (one year ago) link
It's worth taking a few episodes to build up the escape. Loved the horrifying sound being described to Bix as something we ourselves are spared - and Cyril's Mom's expression when he told her he'd been promoted to name but two of many things.
― nashwan, Wednesday, 2 November 2022 22:52 (one year ago) link
Denise geogh smash me in the head w a hammer pls
― Its big ball chunky time (Jimmy The Mod Awaits The Return Of His Beloved), Thursday, 3 November 2022 01:05 (one year ago) link
this was really her episode. i thought she was extraordinary. performance of the series imo.
― Tracer Hand, Thursday, 3 November 2022 01:16 (one year ago) link
She's so devious, but Mon Mothma has my heart, and it makes total sense that glammed up Vel is part of the family.
― Muad'Doob (Moodles), Thursday, 3 November 2022 01:45 (one year ago) link
Good stuff once more.
― Ned Raggett, Thursday, 3 November 2022 04:27 (one year ago) link
i love the way gough does that snarly-sneer at cyril while putting him in his place, she’s so awesomeand the sound editing when they from bix screaming into the drill in the prison workroom was ~chef’s kiss~ so goodcannot say how much i love the actress playing cyril’s mum, more insidious and unsettling than the manipulative-mum-stock-standard - even her tone is somewhat surprising. great episode
― werewolves of laudanum (VegemiteGrrl), Thursday, 3 November 2022 04:43 (one year ago) link
*when they CUT from bix
― werewolves of laudanum (VegemiteGrrl), Thursday, 3 November 2022 04:52 (one year ago) link
How long is the series. I assumed it would be either 8 or 10 episodes judging from other things. So is the next one season finale and filled with cliffhangers or are things working up to a temporary at least denouement.We do know the eventual end anyway already unless that had a miraculous intercession or something.
― Stevolende, Thursday, 3 November 2022 05:31 (one year ago) link
12 eps for this season
― werewolves of laudanum (VegemiteGrrl), Thursday, 3 November 2022 05:34 (one year ago) link
and according to imdb, 12 episodes for the next :)
― Tracer Hand, Thursday, 3 November 2022 09:45 (one year ago) link
you're telling me I might have to work with CRIMINALS?!
― mh, Thursday, 3 November 2022 13:59 (one year ago) link
the entire scene of Mon Mothma giving an impassioned speech only for someone to cut the mic of anyone agreeing with her followed by her continued reticence was some good character development (or lack thereof)
― mh, Thursday, 3 November 2022 14:01 (one year ago) link
can't believe the Empire plays people the Tim Treadwell tapes from Grizzly Man--didn't Werner Herzog remind us to never listen to the tapes
― a (waterface), Thursday, 3 November 2022 14:03 (one year ago) link
http://richardhoefer.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/08/honestwithme-1024x573.png
― Tracer Hand, Thursday, 3 November 2022 14:35 (one year ago) link
Meero is just the best. So believably compromised and desperate. Her expressions are a tour de force at times, just a flicker here and there which hint at what’s hidden.
― assert (matttkkkk), Saturday, 5 November 2022 06:02 (one year ago) link
She's great. Took a while to realize where I'd seen her, she had a small but good role in Under the Banner of Heaven. Very different show than Andor.
― dan selzer, Saturday, 5 November 2022 12:32 (one year ago) link
how is meero “compromised”? am i forgetting something? in many ways she seems like a successful version of syril - a true believer
― Tracer Hand, Saturday, 5 November 2022 17:05 (one year ago) link
Idk how she literally makes one muscle in her cheek twitch when she’s pissed at Syril but it was masterful.
― Ima Gardener (in orbit), Saturday, 5 November 2022 17:22 (one year ago) link
Yeah that was an astounding moment.
― Ned Raggett, Saturday, 5 November 2022 17:43 (one year ago) link
i guess the show is called Andor so this can’t happen but it would be so sick if the show just continued right up to the events at the climax of Star Wars ep IV but from the non-Skywalker point of view
― Tracer Hand, Saturday, 5 November 2022 18:02 (one year ago) link
xxp Tracer I meant compromised as a human being
― assert (matttkkkk), Saturday, 5 November 2022 19:24 (one year ago) link
I have wondered if Jyn Erso will show up at some point. Maybe we can learn why she was arrested.
― Muad'Doob (Moodles), Saturday, 5 November 2022 21:36 (one year ago) link
I recently rewatched ROGUE ONE from my enthusiasm for this show, and man she is bad for 70-80% of her screen time. The “Stardust” thing made me groan out loud a few times.
― assert (matttkkkk), Saturday, 5 November 2022 21:57 (one year ago) link
matkkkk gotchacosine rogue one cringe factor
― Tracer Hand, Saturday, 5 November 2022 22:14 (one year ago) link
ha rogue one is probably my fav star wars
― a (waterface), Monday, 7 November 2022 13:03 (one year ago) link
i've love to see her again! i thought she was perfect "Star Wars"-typing
― Nhex, Monday, 7 November 2022 13:43 (one year ago) link
I’d be interested to see her in the lowkey gritty vibe of this show. There were flashes of excellence in RO but a much higher cheese quotient than here. (I will admit I loved the robot snark tho.)
― assert (matttkkkk), Monday, 7 November 2022 13:49 (one year ago) link
RO is such a comfort movie for me at this point. Possibly the Star War I rewatch the most.
― SQUIRREL MEAT!! (Capitaine Jay Vee), Tuesday, 8 November 2022 07:50 (one year ago) link
There is a lot to enjoy, the settings and the world building are gorgeous and it’s mercifully low on fan service.
― assert (matttkkkk), Tuesday, 8 November 2022 07:51 (one year ago) link
the last hour is amazing
― a (waterface), Tuesday, 8 November 2022 14:48 (one year ago) link
feel like I’m saying this every week but… it’s another incredible episode
― Roz, Wednesday, 9 November 2022 14:30 (one year ago) link
Stellan Skarsgard and Andy Serkis. That is all.
― Roz, Wednesday, 9 November 2022 14:35 (one year ago) link
This. Fucking. Show.
― groovypanda, Wednesday, 9 November 2022 21:09 (one year ago) link
AAAHHHHHH!!
― Ima Gardener (in orbit), Wednesday, 9 November 2022 21:58 (one year ago) link
holy hell. television, eh?
― Tracer Hand, Wednesday, 9 November 2022 23:16 (one year ago) link
that was just incredible. that was the most thrilling hour of SF i can remember having watched in a good long time. as good as the best expanse episodes. better? mon mothma looks fly as hell in her meeting with Dirk Skelton or whatever the “gentleman thug” financier guy’s name is. he lives up to his billing by the way. they really teased him last episode. would it suit me if he chewed the scenery a bit more? it would. it’s just a whiff of menace and violence to him rather than the whole bottle but it’s delicious nonethelessthe class and labor politics of this show are right out in plain sight and it’s fuckin rad!! the whole prison break was just.. i mean the heist was alright but this was next level in terms of ratcheting up the intensity. so many things came together. watching serkis come around is so gratifying. and hey even dave matthews lookin motherfucker gets to shoot a few guards. andor and serkis’ invasion of the central sanctum of the empire prison control room tense as fuuuuck. (absolutely incredible art direction for the on that btw). and you know what? a lot of dudes died. like a lot of dudes. it’s a massacre.finally clocked that this is where the rebels get their colors?!?? this is why they wear orange and white in a new hope!! this prison break has to be one of the foundational events of the rebellion. they’re like “we are all those prisoners.” “if we can fight half as hard as we’ve been working we’ll be out in no time”“axis” lookin like darth vader, talking about using the tools of the empire to defeat them, the ends justifying the means - the “dark side” one might sayfuckin a!
― Tracer Hand, Wednesday, 9 November 2022 23:28 (one year ago) link
the choice that the banker offers mon mothma echoes the kind of choices skarsgard is talking about in his speech to the spy - and i think mothma’s so shaken up by it because she realises that there’s a version of her who makes that deal
― Tracer Hand, Wednesday, 9 November 2022 23:34 (one year ago) link
The moment from Rogue One, which didn’t do a great job of selling the schism between those who already accepted that open, bloody rebellion was necessary and those that were still vacillating, had to be the departure of Admiral Raddus
An entire earlier scene where they were diplomatically debating whether they’d do this Scarif mission or if it was too much of a risk. Then, the rogues send a signal that they’ve got the goods and they’re stuck. I think it was Mon Mothma who was like “oh, we have to get word to Admiral Raddus!” and some is like, ma’am, Raddus left five minutes ago after we got the call
― mh, Thursday, 10 November 2022 00:39 (one year ago) link
I was half expecting Skarsgard to reveal he's a sith lord, it's possible this may yet happen.
― Muad'Doob (Moodles), Thursday, 10 November 2022 02:05 (one year ago) link
he does not speak in absolutes
― mh, Thursday, 10 November 2022 03:04 (one year ago) link
Great but I don’t think it matches the expanse at its best if I have to compare. Luckily I can have them both!
― dan selzer, Thursday, 10 November 2022 04:02 (one year ago) link
i think mothma’s so shaken up by it because she realises that there’s a version of her who makes that deal
I think she still might? perhaps it’s why we don’t see her family again in other stories
I was wondering earlier if her daughter might be an Imperial spy, given the way she seemed to randomly show up in the middle of Mothma’s conversations with Tay, but maybe it was just setting up this subplot
― Roz, Thursday, 10 November 2022 04:25 (one year ago) link
i also rewatched Rogue One because of this show and am enjoying the callbacks and parallels
#Andor spoilers “CLIMB” pic.twitter.com/sRHcRsCmWE— Phillip✨// ANDOR ERA🤞🏾(RIP Westworld😩) (@thegreattwig25) November 9, 2022
#andor spoilerscassian's words hold so much weight pic.twitter.com/QGqKzeM2Mf— kaytuesso (@jeronandor) November 9, 2022
― Roz, Thursday, 10 November 2022 04:33 (one year ago) link
omg great ep!!also ahhh that final speech was so dope!that was some tears in the rain shit. skarsgard killed that delivery ugh i love it.
― werewolves of laudanum (VegemiteGrrl), Thursday, 10 November 2022 06:22 (one year ago) link
Yeah the whole episode but Jesus H that scene. I was literally leaning forward for it. I even said out loud that might be the best scene as such in the past thirty years of everything/anything Star Wars and I might well stand by that.
― Ned Raggett, Thursday, 10 November 2022 06:31 (one year ago) link
my favorite thing about this show is that it doesn't just depict a violent rebellion. it advocates for violent rebellion.
and the "espionage will corrode your soul" b story was pretty good this week. not le carre good, but pretty good!
― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Thursday, 10 November 2022 07:07 (one year ago) link
iirc jizz has now been retconned to "jatz"... thanks disney :(
― 龜, Monday, 19 February 2024 17:04 (two months ago) link
Some are into skatplay, others are into jatzplay
― Ned Raggett, Monday, 19 February 2024 17:10 (two months ago) link
xxxxp I think that's just the section that was played in the episode looped. The official soundtrack available on streaming has a second section
― ɥɯ ︵ (°□°) (mh), Monday, 19 February 2024 17:19 (two months ago) link
I was gonna say only on third watch of this did I notice Mothma's muzak was a tease of the same tune as the Niamos Grindcore banger.
― nashwan, Monday, 19 February 2024 18:14 (two months ago) link
Whenever you hear that party music, you know something terrible is going to happen!
― ɥɯ ︵ (°□°) (mh), Monday, 19 February 2024 19:08 (two months ago) link
oh, I forgot to mention that the Galaxy Mix over the credits was an encore. The first time it appears in that episode is when Cassian is on the beach about to run some errands
the next two tracks are, depressingly:"Tourists Don't Run"and"Six Year Sentence"
― ɥɯ ︵ (°□°) (mh), Monday, 19 February 2024 19:10 (two months ago) link
space-age music in dune: • bagpipes• throat-singing• chapman stick
― mark s, Monday, 19 February 2024 20:10 (two months ago) link
Fairly certain Chapman Stick's a character
― Andrew Farrell, Tuesday, 20 February 2024 00:05 (two months ago) link
Blu-ray set out next month with some extras:
https://gizmodo.com/andor-season-1-blu-ray-release-date-details-steelbook-1851308715/slides/5
― Ned Raggett, Tuesday, 5 March 2024 16:48 (two months ago) link
Sweet!
― peace, man, Tuesday, 5 March 2024 18:55 (two months ago) link
Wow yes. I just rewatched it with my sci-fi indifferent older daughter who was absolutely gripped from ep 1. Is it even better than the 1977 movie? Certainly for an adult audience.
― assert (matttkkkk), Tuesday, 5 March 2024 20:01 (two months ago) link
On a separate note I actually just saw Michael Clayton for the first time thanks to a one-off Alamo screening. And yeah, a lot more of the vibe tracks, if you will.
― Ned Raggett, Wednesday, 6 March 2024 01:17 (two months ago) link
I recently showed my niece and nephew A New Hope and they kept laughing at how bad the VFX were, they couldn't take it seriously. I kept having to be like, "when I was a kid, this was mind-blowing". My nephew is even pretty into sci-fi but I guess it was too hard a sell for them - no interest in seeing Empire Strikes Back
I suspect they'd be way more into Mandalorian or Andor simply because they look better
― Vinnie, Wednesday, 6 March 2024 11:15 (two months ago) link
Must be hard when you grow up watching movies with great special effects like, er, Ant-Man 3
― Chuck_Tatum, Wednesday, 6 March 2024 11:23 (two months ago) link
Vinnie was it the "special edition" with the coating of "new" (now old) CGI applied?
― Humanitarian Pause (Tracer Hand), Wednesday, 6 March 2024 11:26 (two months ago) link
the space battles get a lot better in rotj. i agree, i remember being very nonplussed as a 10 year old by how slowly the x-wings moved in ANH vs the x-wings that i flew in the pc game x-wing.
― 龜, Wednesday, 6 March 2024 11:31 (two months ago) link
"new" (now old) CGI
shit, you're right. new special edition mk 2 needed stat!
― gene besserit (ledge), Wednesday, 6 March 2024 11:39 (two months ago) link
well i've always said this, that since CGI gets better all the time once you go down this road of specializing old movies with new effects you kind of can't stop since those new effects will quickly start looking very bad, in fact far worse than if they'd been practical to begin with. the only winning move is to despecialize obv but in lieu of that yes, new special editions are needed!
― Humanitarian Pause (Tracer Hand), Wednesday, 6 March 2024 11:42 (two months ago) link
Tracer, it was the special edition on Disney Plus. I don't think I was particularly bothered by the "new" CGI - it doesn't look great but many of the old VFX shots look pretty dated nowadays as well. I still enjoy all the other aspects of the movie, but I can see how it's a hard sell for younger people. My nephew and niece pointed out how bad any blaster scene was, with the shots going wildly off-target every time. And fair point to them
― Vinnie, Wednesday, 6 March 2024 13:21 (two months ago) link
that lobster man in full
https://m.media-amazon.com/images/M/MV5BNmFiZjBjZmUtOTdkYS00YmU0LTlkMjItMjZiZTk1YWJlMjRkXkEyXkFqcGdeQXVyMDYyODAzNQ@@._V1_.jpg
― memphis milano: the new trend of the 80s (bizarro gazzara), Wednesday, 6 March 2024 13:50 (two months ago) link
FUCK
lol when we watched Andor my kids were stunned that stormtroopers actually got a few hits in
― Humanitarian Pause (Tracer Hand), Wednesday, 6 March 2024 14:03 (two months ago) link