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  1. Roy Focker
    Early am hours just after dawn but before the beach is open. Public parks near me are usually closed between dusk and dawn. They aren't closed off. You can enter them. Odds that a park services employee is going to find you is rare. If they do you'll just be told to leave. If the Empire in Andor catches you it's prison. The people at the resort know to follow the rules or else. The Imperials know that ruling by fear means there's no need for 24 hour beach surveillance.
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    Next episode (last of the season?) seems to be drawing everyone to the same location. I hope that episode ends with Syril arriving comically late when everyone else has left.
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    Exactly. Mon Mothma brings a legitimacy to the cause. She represents the senate that Palpatine disbanded.
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    In the movies the rebels vs the empire is clear battle of good vs evil. It is a world of fantasy. In our actual reality even our so called good governments engage in questionable activities and have policies that are unjust. Andor presents a more realistic view of things. An Empire that isn't (at first) in your face evil. It is like many of our own totalitarian regimes accepted by their populace even when they all know their regimes are silently suppressing others. Rebels like Luthen and Saw aren't noble saints. Their actions is pretty much terrorism. Even if it is for a just cause. Empire and Rebels are all just shades of gray. The steps they take against eachother causes them to move up and down the shades. Luthen's heist causes the Empire to suppress even more people. Moving them to a darker shade. Mon Mothma represents the lightest gray that the Rebels will become by the time of Rogue One. In that movie Saw and the Rebels are at odds because he's still runs his group like a terrorist. While the Rebels act like the "good guys" even though Rebel intelligence is still giving assassination missions to agents like Andor. Luke's arrival creates a world of absolute good vs evil or Rebellion has gotten even better at hiding the shady things they do. Unlike the Empire who doesn't bother hiding it anymore. I like to think Andor as an alternative universe. I have a hard time accepting it is actually part of the same family friend fantasy universe of everything else.
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    The events that happened in the prison during this episode had more of an impact because they gave us a couple mundane episodes of Andor learning the routine and working alongside his fellow inmates. In regular paced show Andor would instantly befriend the first prison he meets and start a prison escape 10 minutes later. Maybe the build-up to action in Andor is more than a little slow but so many shows have barely any build-up at all. This is a welcomed change.
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    I wonder if Scorsese thinks Andor is more cinema or more theme park.
  7. Roy Focker
    My review of the latest episode from just one scene. Maybe spoiler? Brought to you by the lyrics of White Snake: Is this love that I'm feeling? Is this the love that I've been searching for? Is this love or am I dreaming? This must be love Cause it's really got a hold on me A hold on me
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    Vote for Purple. This I command.
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    So true.
  10. Roy Focker
    Time jump towards the end of the episode and another possible time jump between this and the next episode.
  11. Roy Focker
    Season finale was kind of dumb. Bad guys were revealed. Leading to the start of a big dumb superhero fight. That's when the show broke the 4th wall again and told the audience that this show shouldn't end like this. I thought we were going to get a rewind and we'd get a redo of the last 20 minutes. Nope it just does a yada, yada, yada and jumps to bad guys get arrested and good guys celebrating.
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    Wade!!! Took me a minute to remember who you were talking about.
  13. Roy Focker
    It was good. Predictable and slow like all the episodes. It's just refreshing to see them tell a Star Wars story for adults. Movies have to be big, mindless, action filled, nostalgia affairs to appeal to the widest audience. TV/Streaming is made for stuff like this. This is treatment they should have gave Obi-Wan.
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    I think this trailer gives away every possible surprise you could see in the movie. Look this character is in it too and here's their cool costume. Only thing that could be kept secret is who the real enemy is. Trailer suggests it a conflict between Wakanda and Namor but you there's bound to be someone else pulling the strings.
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    They could have trimmed the first 3 episodes to 2 but overall I'm enjoying the pace and world building. This is a more mature psychological thriller over an exciting adventure. I hope they bring back the private security goons.
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    Deputy inspector Karn is going to take the same path as the villain in Bridal Mask. That's a K-drama from several years ago. In it the well meaning but over his head villain slowly becomes a vicious and ruthless psychopath.
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    You know you don't have to share every little TV spot and every single pic for this or any other series. Anything news worthy will be in the main trailers. These spots are often just re-edited footage that's already been shown.
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    Help me figure something out. I'm watching Moulin Rouge One a Star Wars Story for the 2nd time since seeing it in the theaters. Over the course of a decade (or whatever) Le Chiffre has been forced to make the Death Star operational. Why didn't he just refuse? His wife was killed, and their daughter escaped at the start of the movie. There was nobody left for the Empire to hold hostage to force him to do anything. Prior to the start of the movie, he and his family were living in hiding. That suggests he knew his knowledge was invaluable to the project and was doing his best not to be found. Without his help would there even be a Death Star? What was stopping him from refusing complete his work and not jumping off edge to bottomless pit that's a part of nearly every Imperial facility?
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    Maybe they're going to use the budget that going to be spent on Batgirl's post production towards replacing Ezra Miller in that Flash movie.
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    Give me a VF-1A Mass Production Type or a VF-1J Milian Jenius.
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    That's too many episodes for Disney's budget and it's writers to maintain quality. They lucked out with season one of the Mandalorian. Every other show could have really benefitted from having shorter seasons.
  22. Roy Focker
    I've got my only 3 framed and empty 4th frame for when I get another. Hallways are made for hanging posters.
  23. Roy Focker
    I placed an order for it. $300 was too high in my opinion but I consider all 4 of the unlocks to be worth $100. Leaving $200 for base Hiss and Driver. That's still over-priced by $100! These aren't being made in mass retail numbers and the Hiss is my default favorite Cobra vehicle. Now the kicker $22 Shipping. Come on! For a $300 purchase they can't provide free shipping?
  24. Roy Focker
    Not a big fan of a bunch guns everywhere most of those will stay in the box if I get one. I want the 4th unlock to be another figure but I'm afraid it will be a cardboard diorama.
  25. Roy Focker
    I'm waiting to see the add-on goals. $300 is a bit too much for base item.
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