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What in the Renaissance painting is going on here????
when you want to be hunting rebels but you’re overstimulated at dinner with your mom instead
i cannot understate how much i adore what andor has done for mon mothma. the way this show has taken someone who before this was mostly neglected to small supporting roles, and turned her into one of the most layered, complex and tragic characters in all of star wars has absolutely floured me, not to mention how BRILLIANT genevieve o’reilly’s performance has been too 🙏
me: oh yay Andor is back what's going on gang
Andor: undocumented immigrants are facing sexual violence every day. left wing infighting will get everyone killed. rich people buying back things stolen by colonists is still an act of colonialism.
me: right so just a light season then
Yeah I know Dedra is a horrible person serving a fascist galactic regime, but mad respect to her for standing up for her autistic bf and putting his insufferable mother in her place. 💅✨
Some of you are too afraid to admit this but we all know Star Wars works best when it goes full soap opera
Love the darth plagueis reveal because it’s 100% giving the energy of your roommate has a date over and you’re peeking out of your room to see if it’s safe to use the kitchen yet
cassian having the audacity to act like he knows to even vaguely pilot that ship after his fuck up of a take off is hiralious
Quotes from "ANDOR" which keep haunting me:
"Gets to you, doesn't it? That's what a reckoning sounds like."
"That's just love. Nothing you can do about that."
"But this time... You can't stay and I can't go."
"Power doesn't panic."
"I burn my life to make a sunrise that I know I’ll never see. And the ego that started this fight will never have a mirror or an audience or the light of gratitude."
"Never more than twelve."
"ONE WAY OUT!"
"I've made my mind a sunless place. I share my dreams with ghosts."
"I can't swim."
"Let's call it war."
"Tyranny requires constant effort. Authority is brittle. It breaks, it leaks. Oppression is the mask of fear. Remember that."
"Freedom is a pure idea."
"I show you the stone in my hand, you miss the knife at your throat."
"Tell him I love him more than anything he could ever do wrong."
"The Empire is a disease that thrives in darkness, it is never more alive than when we sleep."
cassian never sees the death star plans.
he never knows that he was forced to build the very weapon that they used to kill him, kill millions of others.
he never knows that so many men died — were tortured, and traumatised, all so that the empire could kill millions more.
he never knows any of this, because they killed him with that same weapon too.
I have hope in Andor Season 2, not because I trust Disney, but because Tony Gilroy seems unhinged enough to rip Disney apart with his bare teeth if they tried to touch his show, like he’s completely off the rails what kind of man says “we are all living in a prequel, we are all going to die” he’s unhinged and I’m obsessed with that-
There is no sun, there is no sun, there is no sun, there is no SUN IN THE LAST EPISODE OF ANDOR. EVERYTHING IS DARK OR CLOUDY, NO SUNSETS OR SUNRISES. THERE IS NO LIGHT ON CASSIAN’S FACE EXEPT FROM THE TIME THEY’RE TALKING ABOUT MAARVA IN THE TUNNELS, BECAUSE THE LAST TIME HE TALKED ABOUT MAARVA THE SUN WAS HIDDEN BEHIND THE CLOUDS AND HE LEARNED SHE’S DEAD.
THERE IS NO SUN!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
tony gilroy watched rogue one, laughed and then said “you think that’s pain? hold my b2emo”
oh its the pieces of the death star? oh they’re being inserted into this weapon of mass destruction in the most stunningly horrifying shot ive seen in my life? oh cassian and melshi were really building the weapon that would bring about their deaths all along?
The thing that in the last episode of Andor a guy just casually whips out Luthen’s kriffing LIGHTSABER?!…I am…just….I can’t I just can’t….I have to go scream for a couple of hours I mean holy shit-
If I watch one more person die after yelling “climb” in Cassian’s general direction I’m gonna start throwing stuff
Listen.
LISTEN.
This is unhinged but Luthen and Kleya have been going around and around in my head and I’ve figured it out. She’s not his wife or his boss she’s his MASTER.
This show is too deliberate with its choices for it not to mean something. Kleya’s red outfit when she meets Vel and tells her to terminate Andor. The way they have Starkiller Sith Amor in the front and the back of the shop and constantly shoot it over Luthen’s shoulder. The Jedi AND Sith holocrons.
They’re being cute with Luthens costume and his *WIIIIINK* cane but he said he did the math 15 years ago and that’s solidly Clone Wars. He saw the writing on the wall and did a Dooku and left the order. Eventually meets up with a Nightsister who wants to bring the Empire (and prolly Sheevy Palps personally) down for genociding her people.
Luthen doesn’t FALL to the dark side so much as saunters vaguely downwards. He does what he needs to do, the whole goddamn episode is about One Way Out and the dark side was his way and Kleya showed him how.
His whole ass monologue to Lonni starts with there is no peace only passion and runs right down to through power my chains are broken.
Andor is full of echoes echoes echoes of Rogue One - not cutesy winky winky Easter eggs - but resonances and I KNOW this show will end the way the movie did.
Luthen’s gonna draw his (RED!) saber BUT instead he’s gonna go full Kanan and save the rebellion.
"And what do you sacrifice?"
"Calm. Kindness. Kinship. Love.
I've given up all chance at inner peace.
I've made my mind a sunless space.
I share my dreams with ghosts.
I wake up every day to an equation I wrote 15 years ago from which there's only one conclusion: I'm damned for what I do.
My anger, my ego, my unwillingness to yield, my eagerness to fight, they've set me on a path from which there is no escape.
I yearned to be a savior against injustice without contemplating the cost and by the time I looked down there was no longer any ground beneath my feet.
What is my sacrifice?
I'm condemned to use the tools of my enemy to defeat them.
I burn my decency for someone else's future.
I burn my life to make a sunrise that I know I'll never see.
And the ego that started this fight will never have a mirror or an audience or the light of gratitude.
So what do I sacrifice?
Everything!
You'll stay with me, Lonni.
I need all the heroes I can get."
It has just occurred to me that Kino probably knew the entire time that he wouldn't be able to escape with the others. He knew the prison was surrounded by water and that he couldn't swim. He's always known that his only way out was to get to the end of his sentence and once that got taken away, he'd have been entirely justified in just giving up but instead he helps literally everyone else escape instead, without ever letting on that he knows he can't join them.
No way out, indeed.
Some Imperial somewhere: you're never going to believe who just organised a massive prison break
I know I’ve already talked about this shot too much
BUT COME ON
Oh. OH. *sits here with eyes wet from emotion*
THAT’s why the colours of the Rebellion are orange and white…
me after episode of andor: this might be the best piece of star wars i’ve ever seen
me after episode 10 of andor: *shaking, crying, throwing up* this might be the best piece of star wars i’ve ever seen
sometime after scarif i sincerely hope that someone in the isb finds out cassian andor was involved in stealing the death star plans and is just so impotently mad because it’s that guy. funnier if dedra lives for this scenario.
there’s something so darkly funny about how cassian keeps saying that the empire doesn’t care about anyone when they care a great deal about his whereabouts specifically.
andor is a masterpiece why aren’t you watching it and talking about it please
AND HE’S RIGHT!
Everyone else in Star Wars canon: “Nooooooooo you can’t defeat the Empire by just blowing things up!” Saw Gerrera:
