Don’t forget about me neilson I pirated the whole thing
BTW, I want an unpopular advice - where to you legally get these shows as seamlessly as torrenting?
Suppose I’m a Linux or FreeBSD user, and don’t like too many steps being required due to being autistic and thus easily irritated.
Because with Andor specifically would really want to pay for it.
I want an unpopular advice - where to you legally get these shows as seamlessly as torrenting?
You can’t, that’s why I pirate it all.
Best star wars content, movie or show, since Lucas sold out to the mouse. Well deserved.
I agree, but sometimes one can encounter trekkies and other dubious types pretending it’s better than prequels or even OT, that is too much.
It’s better than the prequels, IMO.
Andor is way better than the prequels, honestly people who venerable those movies are giving them more credit than they deserve. Makes me feel like they got too lost in the sauce since /r/prequelmemes blew up.
Prequels are weird, not bad. What people criticize about them can be said about Babylon V even more, but I haven’t seen many people calling it a bad show.
I’m not impartial - I’ve grown on “prequel EU” as much as on “original EU”, but started with the former, trying to really interpret Jedi philosophy and such. My brain is not agile enough to separate pieces of EU and their closest movies by now.
But there’s that moment that with prequels the EU and the movies were being created simultaneously, there were official layers of canon and Lucas himself would even refer to EU. So - I don’t know. Maybe as self-contained movies they are bad. Their aesthetic gave me a lot, their emotion feels more real than Andor’s second season (its first season is better though), their music.
I tried watching it, but since after 2 episodes still nothing had happened, I stopped and went to watch a movie.
Which is about the same length as those 2 episodes, but actually had a begin, middle, and end.
It might be good, but I will never know since the slow start is so off putting.
I’ve watched the first 3, maybe 4, episodes. Still have no idea what it’s about, just couldn’t grab my attention. Which is a shame, I’m sure it’s great Star Wars content.
BTW, never express any opinion about this except full-throated, roaring approval.
Keep going, the beginning of the season was mid but the end is golden. Motherfuckering show had me crying at the end
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Its incredibly good.
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A chunk of the episodes in the two seasons are practically dead air.
I’m still flip flopping on whether the slow pacing of some of the episodes was intentional (whether to try to build suspense or to hammer home a Lenin attributed quote about “decades where nothing happens and there are weeks where decades happen”) or some wonkyness with trying to figure out the proper ‘fit’ of story and dialogue in an episode.
Apparently that quote was invented by George Galloway. Lenin didn’t exactly say that.
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You gave up 2/3 of the way through the first story arc. With the 3rd episode it clocks in at about 2 hours, there’s your movie.
You stopped the movie a little over halfway through, what did you expect?
If the movie is boring, I will stop it halfway through.
Did the same with Twilight when I gave that a shot.
Your loss
I’m been tempted to watch it. Imo rogue one is the best Star Wars movie (including OT), is this show for me then? As in, is the atmosphere the same?
Andor is, without hesitation, the best piece of Star Wars media ever made.
Yes, even including the original trilogy. I said what I said.
I’d even go so far as to say Andor is one of the best tv series of the last five years period.
I’d say it is the best mature star wars piece of media ever made. Because I (today still, but especially my younger self) do love me some good lightsaber fights or large scale space battles, which we didn’t get here. Andor not including those is for the better, but I wouldn’t want to completely go without them either.
Andor is a documentary about radicalization, resistance movements, and fascism set in the Star wars universe. It is VERY true to life and based on real revolutions.
It did an excellent job showcasing real politics and social dynamics. Tons of characters and they all had depth.
The first season is very good, the second season is, IMO, some of the best political drama ever produced. It’s also highly entertaining.
It was good at all levels - not only did the characters had real human depth as did the story, but it even had details like creating a Gorman language and an actual detailed Gorman fashion, so the Production quality matched the quality of the Script, Direction and Acting.
It’s unsurprising that some (maybe many) think this is the best Star Wars ever, at least adult Star Wars.
I saw Rogue One again just after the last episode of Season 2 and whilst they’re almost seamslessly linked, you can absolutelly notice the change of pace and story telling style from one to the other: you go from a story of people in the Rebellion to an Action rollercoaster with an almost symbolic bit of background story.
Mind you, both are a pleasure to watch in their own ways, though Rogue One is mainly “chewing gum for the brain” as entertainment goes whilst Andor is a far grander meal.
Dunno, the languages seemed AI-generated based on French and German, or something like that.
Would make them similar to Mando’a, so no complaints, not the first time in Star Wars.
But - for me it’s good because it resembles the old EU.
So if you have little acquaintance with the old EU and liked Andor - I recommend delving into it.
Some of it is clunky, but in the adorable way that the star wars universe is. It’s a good show, with good story arcs, good acting, good world building, but it can be predictable at times and rest in tropes rather than characters.
It’s certainly worth watching and is an adult show, not a Disney show.
it can be predictable at times
I mean considering we know it ends with Rouge One and generally sits within a larger established universe, that seems somewhat unavoidable.
Pretty much the last 3 episodes were about tying it all together with the beginning of Rogue One.
I would say that the story of Andor can only be judged independently of external concernes by excluding those last 3 episodes.
