Andor (Star Wars: Andor) - Disney+

[Mog]

Each arc is almost like a 3-hour movie.

Kinda thankful they didn’t try to stretch these out into a season a piece.

Yeah, there’s the initial “What did I miss?” feeling at the start of each arc.  But it’s not hard to figure out what’s happened in the interim.

[Big s]

2 hours ago, Roy Focker said:

I really wish this 2nd, and last season was actually 4 full seasons as originally intended. Each of these 3-episode blocks feel like an anime compilation movie. We just seeing highlights of things. Interesting plot points that you want to see expanded will be gloss over during the next block.

I kinda get that feeling as well, especially since there’s so much talk about what went on just before we get to what’s going on here as though we missed something somewhere 

[Seto Kaiba]

On 5/1/2025 at 1:30 PM, Roy Focker said:

Each of these 3-episode blocks feel like an anime compilation movie. We just seeing highlights of things. Interesting plot points that you want to see expanded will be gloss over during the next block.

Hmm... I can see it, in a way.

We are seeing "the highlights" in a sense, but it's because we're seeing the periods of time when Things Are Happening and skipping the time inbetween where people are laying low after an op, gathering intel for the next one, and generally doing all the unexciting groundwork to set the stage for their faction's next move.  We're seeing the few important days of Cassian's life that happened in that year, and skipping the ~11 months afterwards where nothing much was going on.

[Mog]

. . . Other than Cassian killing some soldier because he saw Bix’s face, Syril agreeing to play spy for the ISB, and Wilmon being dropped off with Saw’s wackadoodle faction.

But as I said earlier, it’s pretty easy to figure these things out by what was shown and said onscreen.

[pengbuzz]

44 minutes ago, Seto Kaiba said:

Hmm... I can see it, in a way.

We are seeing "the highlights" in a sense, but it's because we're seeing the periods of time when Things Are Happening and skipping the time inbetween where people are laying low after an op, gathering intel for the next one, and generally doing all the unexciting groundwork to set the stage for their faction's next move.  We're seeing the few important days of Cassian's life that happened in that year, and skipping the ~11 months afterwards where nothing much was going on.

Such as:

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Cassian reading his datapad while in the john, Mon Mothma sending one of her servants to go do some grocery shopping at the WInnn-Dixie Station orbiting Coruscant, and Luthen sitting on a couch in his shorts, drinking beer and watching Late Night with Gorga the Hutt.

(yeah, I know: real killjoy, ain't I? )

 

Edited Friday at 06:33 PM by pengbuzz

[Big s]

11 hours ago, pengbuzz said:

Such as:

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Cassian reading his datapad while in the john, Mon Mothma sending one of her servants to go do some grocery shopping at the WInnn-Dixie Station orbiting Coruscant, and Luthen sitting on a couch in his shorts, drinking beer and watching Late Night with Gorga the Hutt.

(yeah, I know: real killjoy, ain't I? )

 

Sounds kinda like the stuff we saw in the first couple episodes of this season when it wasn’t focused on Andor.

 

11 hours ago, Mog said:

. . . Other than Cassian killing some soldier because he saw Bix’s face, Syril agreeing to play spy for the ISB, and Wilmon being dropped off with Saw’s wackadoodle faction.

But as I said earlier, it’s pretty easy to figure these things out by what was shown and said onscreen.

there’s also that amazing action with a certain operative in a mission that went sideways that ended up with her in recovery that we didn’t get to see just before things went sideways in a way she couldn’t recover from that we did get to see

Edited Saturday at 05:50 AM by Big s

[Seto Kaiba]

10 hours ago, pengbuzz said:

Such as:

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Cassian reading his datapad while in the john, Mon Mothma sending one of her servants to go do some grocery shopping at the WInnn-Dixie Station orbiting Coruscant, and Luthen sitting on a couch in his shorts, drinking beer and watching Late Night with Gorga the Hutt.

(yeah, I know: real killjoy, ain't I? )

Yep... that and other fodder for licensed spinoff comics and short story collections where the Glup Shittos of the Galaxy Far Far Away get their time to shine like the polished turds they are.

(NGL, a late night talk show starring a Hutt is a weird mental image I kind of actually want to see tho.  I have this bizarre mental image of a Hutt squeezing itself into a suit and tie doing a Stephen Colbert-style late show.)

 

9 hours ago, Big s said:

there’s also that amazing action with a certain operative in a mission that went sideways that ended up with her in recovery that we didn’t get to see just before things went sideways in a way she couldn’t recover from that we didn’t get to see

It's a noodle incident at best.  They were off on some nonspecific mission and someone saw their faces on the way out so Cassian removed the witness.  Could've been a literal milk run anywhere there are wanted posters of them up.

[Big s]

19 minutes ago, Seto Kaiba said:

It's a noodle incident at best.  They were off on some nonspecific mission and someone saw their faces on the way out so Cassian removed the witness.  Could've been a literal milk run anywhere there are wanted posters of them up.

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I was kinda referring to the mission of the operative that died in the last episode during the robbery. Can’t remember her name though 

She supposedly got injured badly enough to need a long while for recovery 

Edited Saturday at 05:58 AM by Big s

[pengbuzz]

7 hours ago, Seto Kaiba said:

Yep... that and other fodder for licensed spinoff comics and short story collections where the Glup Shittos of the Galaxy Far Far Away get their time to shine like the polished turds they are.

(NGL, a late night talk show starring a Hutt is a weird mental image I kind of actually want to see tho.  I have this bizarre mental image of a Hutt squeezing itself into a suit and tie doing a Stephen Colbert-style late show.)

I'll see if I can sketch that up for you later.

 

[Duke Togo]

Edited Sunday at 12:27 PM by Duke Togo

[sh9000]

May the 4th be with you.

[pengbuzz]

On 5/3/2025 at 1:38 AM, Seto Kaiba said:

(NGL, a late night talk show starring a Hutt is a weird mental image I kind of actually want to see tho.  I have this bizarre mental image of a Hutt squeezing itself into a suit and tie doing a Stephen Colbert-style late show.)

Here's your skit delivery:

[Big s]

5 minutes ago, pengbuzz said:

Here's your skit delivery:

Nice

[Duke Togo]

[Big s]

3 hours ago, Duke Togo said:

Don’t ruin the actual holiday, this is one of the only times I am required to have tacos on Monday, as well as Tuesday. Star Wars can wait til next year to have their thing on the fourth

I’ll give revenge of the 7th though, because after all these tacos it’s definitely gonna feel like I had the low ground 

Edited Monday at 03:59 PM by Big s

[Seto Kaiba]

6 hours ago, pengbuzz said:

Here's your skit delivery:

... that is almost exactly what I pictured in my head.

This would actually have felt a lot more natural than the hosts of Good Morning Coruscant who looked like they wandered onto the wrong set from a Hunger Games spinoff.  With the Hutts reputation for being kind of sleazy (and in The Clone Wars, pretty hammy), they'd make ideal talk show hosts.  Especially with their incination to big, booming laughter and their sluglike body profile that'd make them naturals at slouching over a host's desk.

About the only Star Wars character who'd make a better talk show host would be f***ing Hondo... but he spends this same period hamming it up as an itinerant space pirate and bothering Hera Syndulla's rebel cell.

[Big s]

5 hours ago, Seto Kaiba said:

About the only Star Wars character who'd make a better talk show host would be f***ing Hondo

I don’t know which character you’re talking about, but I don’t think I want to watch that happen. But I guess someone has to be with Hondo physically or there wouldn’t be any baby hondos 

[Seto Kaiba]

2 hours ago, Big s said:

I don’t know which character you’re talking about, but I don’t think I want to watch that happen. But I guess someone has to be with Hondo physically or there wouldn’t be any baby hondos 

Hondo Ohnaka, and it's not literal.  More a habitual expression of exasperation (shared with the in-series characters).  He's an incredibly flamboyant and theatrical pirate captain who debuted in Star Wars: the Clone Wars and managed to get on the wrong side of most of the major characters with his shenanigans.  He was enough of a fan favorite that he got brought back for Star Wars: Rebels and is the host of the preshow at the Smuggler's Run ride at Disneyland's Galaxy's Edge.  He's absolutely got the right level of flamboyant ham to consider a career as a talk show host.

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[Big s]

44 minutes ago, Seto Kaiba said:

Hondo Ohnaka, and it's not literal.  More a habitual expression of exasperation (shared with the in-series characters).  He's an incredibly flamboyant and theatrical pirate captain who debuted in Star Wars: the Clone Wars and managed to get on the wrong side of most of the major characters with his shenanigans.  He was enough of a fan favorite that he got brought back for Star Wars: Rebels and is the host of the preshow at the Smuggler's Run ride at Disneyland's Galaxy's Edge.  He's absolutely got the right level of flamboyant ham to consider a career as a talk show host.

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I meant the character that’s 

 

9 hours ago, Seto Kaiba said:

f***ing Hondo

to get a talk show 

[sh9000]

The World of Andor.

 

[Duke Togo]

[Big s]

2 hours ago, Duke Togo said:

All I know is that that mando bro better be bringing the tacos

[Seto Kaiba]

 

3 hours ago, Duke Togo said:

Oh come on, Star Wars was already double dipping with May the 4th and Revenge of the 5th.

It can't annex the whole bloody month.

 

 

 

[Duke Togo]

12 minutes ago, Seto Kaiba said:

Oh come on, Star Wars was already double dipping with May the 4th and Revenge of the 5th.

It can't annex the whole bloody month.

It can and has. This is the way.

Also, is it 9PM yet? I need more Andor.

[Mog]

Seriously, I need some Ghorman’s getting massacred.  

Gotta fire up a rebellion.

[Seto Kaiba]

1 hour ago, Duke Togo said:

Also, is it 9PM yet? I need more Andor.

Nah, you got about nine hours left.

 

 

1 hour ago, Mog said:

Seriously, I need some Ghorman’s getting massacred.  

Gotta fire up a rebellion.

DARK.

 

[Big s]

1 hour ago, Mog said:

Seriously, I need some Ghorman’s getting massacred.  

Gotta fire up a rebellion.

I have a feeling that the Ghorman massacre part two won’t be till the last batch of episodes 

[Seto Kaiba]

24 minutes ago, Big s said:

I have a feeling that the Ghorman massacre part two won’t be till the last batch of episodes 

Assuming Andor's story continues to skip forward one year for each three episode story arc, the Ghorman massacre and Mon Mothma's speech about it should occur in the block of episodes that drops tonight.

Season 2's first block of episodes started in 4 BBY.  The second block was in 3 BBY.  This next block should be set in 2 BBY, the same year as the Star Wars: Rebels episode "Secret Cargo".  That was the episode that depicted the final leg of Mon Mothma's escape from Coruscant to the rebel base on Dantooine after she made a speech in the Senate about the Ghorman Massacre.

That last batch of episodes should be in 1 BBY, the year before Rogue One.

Edited yesterday at 04:14 PM by Seto Kaiba

[pengbuzz]

10 minutes ago, Seto Kaiba said:

Assuming Andor's story continues to skip forward one year for each three episode story arc, the Ghorman massacre and Mon Mothma's speech about it should occur in the block of episodes that drops tonight.

Season 2's first block of episodes started in 4 BBY.  The second block was in 3 BBY.  This next block should be set in 2 BBY, the same year as the Star Wars: Rebels episode "Secret Cargo".  That was the episode that depicted the final leg of Mon Mothma's escape from Coruscant to the rebel base on Dantooine after she made a speech in the Senate about the Ghorman Massacre.

That last batch of episodes should be in 1 BBY, the year before Rogue One.

Then they can do the sequel to Rogue One where Andor and Jyn Erso survived by hiding in a refrigerator.

[Big s]

2 hours ago, pengbuzz said:

Then they can do the sequel to Rogue One where Andor and Jyn Erso survived by hiding in a refrigerator.

That only works if the refrigerator is lined with lead, or that stuff from Smilo Ren’s helmet 

[Seto Kaiba]

2 hours ago, pengbuzz said:

Then they can do the sequel to Rogue One where Andor and Jyn Erso survived by hiding in a refrigerator.

Please do not give Dave Filoni ideas... as third Tales of series clearly shows, he is clearly desperate enough that he's not particularly picky.

[pengbuzz]

3 hours ago, Seto Kaiba said:

Please do not give Dave Filoni ideas... as third Tales of series clearly shows, he is clearly desperate enough that he's not particularly picky.

[Duke Togo]

4 hours ago, Seto Kaiba said:

Please do not give Dave Filoni ideas... as third Tales of series clearly shows, he is clearly desperate enough that he's not particularly picky.

I'm not even watching it, man. The only animated Star Wars I am interested in is Visions, which is free from Filoni's influence.

Edited 19 hours ago by Duke Togo

[Duke Togo]

WOW

[Mog]

I kinda wanna curl up into a ball after this last set.

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Knowing what we know happens to Cassian, Bix’s speech is so bittersweet.

We all knew the massacre was happening, but damn. That was absolutely horrible.

Dedra’s still Empire, but yeah, she broke after the situation’s fall-out. She’ll never know that Syril probably saved her life.

Damn, Cassian does all that work, and gets none of the glory. At least, he got a kick-ass snarky droid out of all this. Really needed that moment of levity after everything.

But speaking of never getting the glory, can we PLEASE sing Lonni’s praises again? Dude’s been low-key invaluable, especially this arc, ratting out the mole/assassin in Bail’s crew.