Andor (Star Wars: Andor) - Disney+

[Roy Focker]

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.

[Seto Kaiba]

1 hour ago, Big s said:

In the six episodes I’ve seen, it’s not just saw.

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We had that whole group of people in need of a shipment of football helmets turn on eachother and this new group had a guy accidentally kill one of the rebellions top agents on oopsie. I get that storm troopers have a hard time hitting their target, but the rebellion can’t even tie their own laces. The whole war would be like going to a kindergarten and giving all the kids too much candy and punch, but lock the bathrooms except one single stall and see who wins

This is the early days of the Rebellion, after all.

The Rebel Alliance hasn't been founded yet at this point in the timeline.  Luthen et. al. are maintaining and supporting a network of independent rebel groups as best they can, but each group is still a separate entity with its own chain of command and its own agenda and priorities.  There's no central command.  No official training regimen.  Each rebel cell has to make do with the volunteers they can find and whatever teachable skills they bring with them.  For every elite rebel group like Luthen's, Hera's, or Saw's that has had actual military training, prior combat experience, significant technical skills, and/or the benefit of plot haxx like Jedi and Mandalorians, there are dozens like the Ghorman Front or Maya Pei Brigade that are made up of normal people whose only real qualifications are being angry enough with the Empire to pick up a blaster and shoot someone over it.

The ones with good leadership, discipline, planning, and luck will last long enough to gain experience and grow more effective as insurgents.  The ones who don't... well... you've seen what happened to the Maya Pei Brigade.

That's why Mon Mothma's call for a Rebel Alliance is such a game-changer.  Consolidating the individual rebel movements into a single cohesive organization allowed the rebels with critical skills and experience to train the inexperienced civilian volunteers into effective spies and soldiers for their war with the Empire.

[Duke Togo]

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.

That's not what's happening here. Every three episodes take place over a short amount of time. They aren't taking place over a year. 

[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? )

 

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