Streaming : Andor

[admars]

having watched episode 3, can see why they decided to launch all 3 at once, with the intention we watch 3 episodes together back to back, like a feature length introduction.

Yeah, I only watched the first episode last night and the cut to end credits made absolutely no sense at that point. There was no climax or suspense of any kind, beyond the subtly implied risk the boy was taking when leaving camp (and all the dialogue was left helpfully untranslated for no obvious reason, no doubt for some arty reason I haven’t yet thought of).

They seem to be adhering to 40-minute-ish episode lengths but also expecting us to go directly to the next one. I’ve seen other shows like this - the Netflix Marvel series had a tendency to just stop after about an hour whether they’d reached any sort of resolution or not. But in those cases they were always dropped in their entirety at launch. If Andor is going to have arbitrary episode end points once we get to the one episode per week phase, then it could get a bit annoying.

So far, the immersive aspect of the show is good. I’m enjoying seeing what the empire looks like when you go several rungs below the star destroyers and massed armies of stormtroopers. But to be worthy of the title, sooner or later there’s going to have to be some action, and not putting any worth the name in the first episode was a risky move.

[admars]

season 2 starts April 23rd 2025

[Hom3r]

I'll have to wait for the 4k version as it will be cheaper than subscribing to yet another pay service.

[Stephen]

It's taken a long time but I'm glad it's got the date confirmed now.

[admars]

https://youtu.be/AE4wxt70aUM?si=gUEIfESxz7hf41y6

Season 2 consists of 12 episodes, being released as 3 episodes per week (so for 4 weeks).

Ok, well it was entertaining, and (almost) led into Rogue one.

[cimt]

It certainly was. I need to give Rogue One a rewatch now.

Originally Posted by Paul

Ok, well it was entertaining, and (almost) led into Rogue one.

The final scenes with Saw Gerrera watching the star destroyer hovering over Jeddah City, and Cassian and K-2SO flying out to meet their informant on Kafrene, lead directly to their first scenes in Rogue One.

It would have been impossible to stitch any final scene directly to the opening moments of Rogue One the way Rogue One leads into Star Wars because the opening scene of Rogue One is a prologue set 15 years before everything else that happens in the film.

I finally finished this last night and really enjoyed it. I had planned to do an episode a week to make it last, but with them dropping it in clumps of 3 (which actually made sense once you saw them), there were so many episodes out there that I’d not seen yet, I started having to avoid spoilers everywhere. I didn’t dare open this thread until this morning.

[Jaymoss]

Originally Posted by Chris

The final scenes with Saw Gerrera watching the star destroyer hovering over Jeddah City, and Cassian and K-2SO flying out to meet their informant on Kafrene, lead directly to their first scenes in Rogue One.

It would have been impossible to stitch any final scene directly to the opening moments of Rogue One the way Rogue One leads into Star Wars because the opening scene of Rogue One is a prologue set 15 years before everything else that happens in the film.

I finally finished this last night and really enjoyed it. I had planned to do an episode a week to make it last, but with them dropping it in clumps of 3 (which actually made sense once you saw them), there were so many episodes out there that I’d not seen yet, I started having to avoid spoilers everywhere. I didn’t dare open this thread until this morning.

The only problem with the move from Andor into Rogue One was the reaction of Andor when the informant told him about the plan. He looked far too surprised seeing as he knew all about it anyway and it was just confirmed by the informant

I’m planning to watch R1 again this weekend so I’ll look out for that. But based on the final episode of Andor, I’m not sure Cas himself really understood what the intel meant. He was pretty vague when he related it to the rebel council members and Mon then had to coax him to rehearse what he had heard from Kleya in order to try to make sense of it. But she eventually did so only after a briefing from her cousin, Val Sartha, who in turn had bumped into Kleya wandering in the forest having stumbled out of the medical centre.

I suspect the Andor writers sketched out those scenes in order to make the stitch into Rogue One as plausible as possible.

[Jaymoss]

Might just be be seeing it wrong then :-) loved the series and watched R1 straight after the last episode

[peanut]

I enjoyed S01, but S02 dragged for the first 6-7 episodes. Should have or easily could have been cut down to at least 8 episodes to make it lot tighter. Would have been a lot better for it.

I havent seen R1 since it came out in 2016.
I had forgotten about the initial scene where Andor meets Tivik.
The close of Andor does indeed appear to be a few hours before that.