out of all the star wars (and generally the modern superhero-wish-fulfillment bullshit smorgasbord that western pop culture is offering nowadays) i feel like this show is the most willing to hurt its characters. i like that. i mean they did torture tf out of bix, lock maarva in her house until she died, traumatize b2emo, throw cassian in dystopian super-prison… i wonder if we’ll see cinta or vel get burned out on the sacrifices necessary, luthen descend further into paranoia, empire do more brutal irl-colonialism-inspired crackdowns, etc. i do kind of trust the show in that sense, altho granted, i’m happy to give the benefit of the doubt to anything going in that direction
i really like the “web closing in” pacing of the show, just need more of that on grander scale with more moving pieces
i do think the death star reveal was a bit clumsy tbf, and some other moments i can’t remember rn.
saw is the biggest opportunity to make the alliance messy and true — we see him as a young man in clone wars being trained by the jedi to fight the droid army, then here and in rebels not having anyone’s shit
rebels and rogue one default to annoying liberal equivocation but i can imagine a gilroy version of this scene that’s incredible. weird how it parallels marva’s hologram in the last episode
the scene where luthen becomes the number one tractor beam evading space pirate in all the galaxy with his swiss army knife ship felt totally unrelated to everything else happening in that episode, and honestly could have been inserted into any episode of the season and it would not have changed anything. it sort of felt like a studio mandated ‘you must have at least one cool spaceship battle per season’ thing. even though it was a good scene on its own. which is fine in a way, because everything disney-star wars has been absolute dogshit for outer space dog fights, save for, i guess, the opening sequence of the last jedi. we’re dyin over here. just show the x wings and tie fighters fighting…i feel like they were saving it all up for that rogue squadron movie that will never get made…
yeah that, also felt out of character cuz why would he risk bringing so much attention to himself when he’s such a key figure in the rebellion… that implies a level of stakes that wasn’t emotionally communicated during that scene in favor of whiz-bang spaceship stuff
really? the last act of rogue one and the two sequences in last jedi are hands down my favorites and i would fast forward through non-ship sections as a kid
the shot of the corvettes ramming the destroyers into each other is fantastic and the U wing is my favorite ship design
oh yeah i forgot about rogue one, that scene was excellent. that’s the kind of stuff i wish they would do more of in the new movies. it felt like a star fox level haha. i honestly don’t remember the second one from tlj? only the opening scene (which, tbf, is cool)
kylo leading a squad of TIEs to attack the main cruiser. the explanation of shield inefficacy vs light craft is really elegant and the pathos of kylo hesitating the fire on the bridge plays well
you may have forgotten about it because it immediately precedes leia flying back into the ship
i like the bit in andor because i really like the idea of highly illegal and rare countermeasures that he’d have given his position
oh yea that part was good. i guess more of what i miss from most of those is the like… spaceship choreography? i think it is a fun filmmaking challenge to make empty 3 dimensional space intelligible. though tbf they usually do it by just having everyone remain basically on a 2d plane of some kind for basically no reason
i do like that andor scene on its own, i just don’t get why it had to occur when it did, when the way the show coordinated all the other subplots usually felt pretty smart to me.
although i do get why it plays out when it does, he cant really afford to leave without wrecking their shit because it will just make him easier to identify in the future. i assume though that there will be some consequence to this in the next season though? in that like now someone knows there’s a ship that looks like his causin trouble in the galaxy?
also his hotshot flying does kind of open up some interesting possibilities of who he was before he gave it all up for the rebellion or whatever. was he a republic pilot? idk. i just hope all the fan theories that he’s an ex jedi turn out to be wrong. no jedi!!! if they do show the jedi at all in andor i hope it is just to do it like a better version of what happened in obi wan, in which they are basically just a persecuted group that no one really believes in or understands anymore. but it would be best to just leave the jedi out of it…
This is every frickin’ trailer these days, even the goddamn Mario one. Find a new gimmick, Hollywood, please
Wasn’t the Millennium Falcon cockpit designed after WWII bombers anyway? I guess it’s all part of the endless cycle of references now though. As George Lucas would say “it rhymes”
yeah, I couldn’t help but think as I watched this that if history was progressing the same as the years of his life, this could be set at around the fall of the iron curtain, the wall collapsing, Indy setting foot in Berlin for the first time in decades. I would have loved to see it, since for me Indy has always been a character sort of touching history, with the setting and the archaeology themes, but I’m not seeing that here.
tempted to go back and start reading old Indiana Jones paperback novels. I had an urge along these lines a few years back, but I was reading thematically similar but not explicitly branded Indiana Jones/Lara Croft style novels, since I figured that would give authors additional freedom to work within. Most of them ended up reading like the author just wanted to write Ding Chavez fiction without having to think about the geopolitics.
