of course SB’s number one Daggerfall fan would have a link to Breast/Legends handy
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I’ve known about this page for years and never thought it could be improved, but I was wrong: the change to past tense is much funnier.
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delighted that the little rebel chalk marking predates sabine’s starbird tags by a year. death to canon
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they’ve got stenography in this! looks like a custom prop, too
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DID ANDOR JUST CANONIZE ACCIDENTALLY GETTING TOO FADED IN THE CLUB??
seriously though, loved the weird tonal clash this soundtrack to that scene creates, cant believe star wars is aesthetically interesting again
also yes i did make the same joke in the discord. you can’t tell me nothing
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great andor ep all around but god the skarsgard and whitaker scene was absolutely fuckin delectable
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i think it was maybe the weakest for me so far, but still decent, and the saw scene totally made up for it all
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spoilers for tales of the jedi but yaddle talks normal yoda is just a freak lol
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That episode was so depressing… How is Andor going to get out of this predicament???
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oh also i feel like i have ranted about this elsewhere but i am so so so very sick of the convention of just naming things after the main character in the series. like, it is totally out of control that every disney plus star wars show has been like this, but it is always bad across all media, unless what the thing is doing is genuinely just a kind of character study type thing. i think calling this show “andor” really undersells the extent to which it’s actually about the empire’s pivot towards just being an openly genocidal regime and the rebellion’s simultaneous consolidation. like it’s funny that the writers are using the same naming convention of SOLO: A STAR WARS STORY for their case study on space accelerationism. but i think it has earned its right to have a grander title, and i sort of like the idea of andor’s role in it being contextualized as just like one familiar face within a much bigger story. its like les miserables in space. you can’t just call that shit VALJEAN. though it would be kind of cool if they planned it as a multi-season thing with each season focusing on a different character in that way.
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i can kind of see the andor naming logic though because obviously the good name would be “star wars: rebels” and since they can’t do it, the people in charge would be like “rise of the rebellion” or “the shifting tides” or whatever. i mean ideally you would call the show “SPACE HEIST” but it is too broad and conversational and heist free to do that without pissing people off.
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oh the other Deep Star Wars Thought i’ve been having about this series
i’m not sure if this is their intent, but i am really into the way the show is exploring how the defining flaw/characteristic of the sith sort of trickles down into the more mundane, bureaucratic elements of the empire. which, to me, has always been the fact that sith ideology inherently favors internal competition and backstabbing, in that everyone is constantly vying for the position of apprentice to the only sith lord, and once you get there the only logical move is to extract as much from the sith lord as you can and then kill them.
like, as easy as it is to read this as a more serious commentary on real world evil bureaucracies, i think it also works perfectly well as an in-universe exploration of that, in that at every level of the hierarchy no one is actually cooperating, just barely concealing their own self-serving schemes.
on the surface they talk about order and stability, but that is just a thin cover for the fact that anyone with any degree of power is constantly figuring out the next person they need to stand on to get to the top
you can see it in the ISB, and even in the way the labor prison is organized. there have been other illustrations of this in other star wars lore, and i think even though the contrast it creates with the republic / jedi / ideal form of the rebellion as an alliance/cooperative is kind of corny, i still find it sort of compelling.
i guess the twist on it here is we don’t yet have the rebel alliance as a contrast to this, but as a disorganized and disparate group of reactionaries whose issue isn’t competing with one another exactly, but just insisting on their own independence. that is kind of new for what ive seen of star wars but you can still kind of see how the end point is going to be framed in relation to the social darwinist experiment of the empire
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finding out that there’s only been one sith lord and one apprentice for 2000 years or whatever was one of the funniest things that i’ve ever learned
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I get it because it’s kind of like the way people get cats
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it is kind of a ludicrous concept, but i do think lucas/filoni/etc have done a pretty good job explaining why its actually really effective
it’s like the old black magic where you put a bunch of poison bugs in a jar. the last bug alive, having consumed all the other bugs, is going to be the most potent
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My understanding from Kotor is that the Sith were a whole planetary culture of dickheads that also included a whole bunch of dark jedi, but then they all died and “modern” dark jedi call themselves sith sort of like as an homage to the birthplace of dark force dickheads, and the reason there’s only 2 is because the jedi are pretty effective at hunting them down and killing them like all good cops do
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one of the funniest retcons episode 9 does is it being like “oh actually there’s been a modern sith cult out here in the galactic boonies the whole time” and then killing them all off without any elaboration
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man andor really has that streaming show pacing. not the worst kind where the whole season is a pilot and nothing happens but the other kind where it’s a “ten hour movie” or whatever and absolutely meant to be binged. these people are really brilliant craftsman at like production design and dialogue and almost everyone is fantastically cast. i’m fully invested in everything that’s been going on but damn they sure are just writing acts of movies and calling them “episodes”.
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