Star Wars Andor (Disney+ TV series)

[Sluis Van Shipyards]

It sounds like (from this and other interviews) he and some other Lucasfilm people are walking back the "EVERYTHING is canon equal to the films now!" They found out that they don't want the crap floating on the surface of the pool while they're swimming I guess.

 

[modelcitizen]

somebody in that redit thread called it and said some people are going to take what he said about the old canontier thingamajig out of context and have a field day with it on youtube videos. that's not what's happening here is it?

(cleg lars) your canon is dead, son. accept it....
Pablos listed in the credits btw

 

[Somerset]

Again, although there were no 'action moments' this episode I thought it was fantastic.

Spoiler: Observations

Performance of the week has to go to Denise Gough's face when she meets Syril. That was the kind of Star Wars content I did not know I needed.

It's interesting how they're now leaning more into Dedra's casual attitude towards ordering torture, executions and secret killings. Even though we might see her as a competent officer just doing her job (and trying to further her own career), it quite efficiently emphasises the Empire's ruthlessness and absolute intolerance of any dissent. I wonder how far she will eventually go in the name of 'preserving order'.

Interesting developments with Vel and Mon which makes sense of Cinta's remarks last week. That connection makes me feel like it's eventually going to give Mon another reason to hate the Empire though...

Poor Ulaf in the prison. Now that it's been revealed that no-one will ever leave Narkina 5, I wonder whether the plan next week will be a small scale escape or a full-scale revolt.

 

[alluvial damper]

In this epiisode I wasn't sitting on the edge of my seat like before, I bloody fell off!


Only thing I didn't like was the casual friendly wink from the doctor in the beginning, that just seemed .. off

He reminds me a lot of Hugh Laurie (Dr. House). Would have been rather awesome if they casted him

That Dr. Beats interrogation device was creepy as hell! A remix of tortured kids would most likely also make me say anything (which is why torture doesn't work irl)

I think diet Kyle Maclachlan rather fancies Dedra, no?

Edit : Great they didn't show the actual torture, or used the wellknown probe droid, but the shutting of the door was very much ANH. I dig that

Terrific episode. I'm flabbergasted. Thought SW was dead in the water

 

[BlandoCalrssian]

Man, did they ever dial Dedra up to eleven in this episode. That interrogation scene was bone chilling.

 

[jkno]

 

[alluvial damper]

Yeah, but at least he is not a Kenobi, a Skywalker or a Palpatinian. In fact, he's cheaper than a droid!

 

[intwenothor]

This location is under the Adam Plaza Bridge at Canary Wharf. It's near to The Big Easy, for those who like Lobster. Yum.

 

[Somerset]

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This location is under the Adam Plaza Bridge at Canary Wharf. It's near to The Big Easy, for those who like Lobster. Yum.

I used to go up to the east-west roof garden for lunch - I liked it when they put in the poetry dispenser. I particularly liked how they'd have the lights display down there. Haven't been back to the office since the WFH in 2020 though - is it any more or less busy these days? I imagine they must have been filming at weekends sometime in 2021?

 

[Somerset]

Further to my comments above on Dedra, here's an interview with Denise Gough on the character:

Denise Gough talks Dedra Meero in Star Wars: Andor - Fantha Tracks | Daily Star Wars News

Denise Gough talks Dedra Meero.

www.fanthatracks.com

"It’s really important to me that there are no factions outlined: it’s important that Dedra feels like the heroine of her story, and that’s why she’s scary. She is a fascist. She believes in something, but it is fascism. At first you have to root for her, you feel like you’re rooting for her, but then you realize that no matter how strong a woman she is in a world of men, you realize that she is just a fascist in a world of fascists.

"Power corrodes everyone, men and women: she never apologizes, believes in everything she does and truly believes that she will save the galaxy, so she is credible and frightening. Cassian could also be a villain if you think about it, he kills both at the beginning of the series and the movie. He’s the villain of someone else’s story."

 

[joberg]

Those Rebel groupuscules will have to unite. There will be, either a prison break, or a rebellion inside or a rebel special attack group liberating those prisoners...we'll see. As for Dedra; she believer strongly in her mission to get intel by using any strategies that will give her "results".
She wants to advance into the pecking order and have more powers available to her.

 

[intwenothor]

I used to go up to the east-west roof garden for lunch - I liked it when they put in the poetry dispenser. I particularly liked how they'd have the lights display down there. Haven't been back to the office since the WFH in 2020 though - is it any more or less busy these days? I imagine they must have been filming at weekends sometime in 2021?

I haven't been there for ages either. The last time I was there, I think I went to The Spoons, of all places!

I recognised those diagonal pillars into the pools straight away, although much of what is in the shot doesn't exist in the real world.

 

[Darth Lars]

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This location is under the Adam Plaza Bridge at Canary Wharf. It's near to The Big Easy, for those who like Lobster. Yum.

Not difficult to find on Google Maps: Street View. Thanks!

 

[intwenothor]

That's the badger.

 

[dascoyne]

To her credit I am truly conflicted about Lt. Meero because I do love her professional efficacy behind the scenes but, in the field, she's terrifying and ... a bad person. But, damn, she's a great character.

Until now I was also a little afraid it was likely the story would have her bring Syril into her confidence. I'm relieved that her character was written with such precision that she immediately sees him as the unbalanced person he is.

I suspect, at best, she may find a way to use him. Then again he is just as likely to become a dangerously vindictive foil for her. (But I hope she isn't killed by him. I think her character deserves better.)

 

[Jaitea]

Compare strong leading female antagonist Dedra to Reva

It’s unbelievable the contrast in writing

J

 

[dascoyne]

Compare strong leading female antagonist Dedra to Reva

It’s unbelievable the contrast in writing

J

I just realized she's so good I don't want her character to die in this show.

 

[dascoyne]

Chekhov's euthanasia injection.

 

[firesprite]

You know you're a creepy MFer when you freak out an ISB supervisor....

 

[NakedMoleRat]

Loving every minute!