A/V Just Announced 7 Years Ago: Andor!! It's happening now!!!

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BENTHIC! The Tognath are one of my favorite alien designs, so I'm so happy to see one of them again here, along with Saw and crew.

 

That trailer is just spectacular.

 

That is quite the trailer.

Really like the opening shots of it.

 

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At 0:06 of the trailer was that one person carrying an AK?

 

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Wow that is pretty. Frankly, I have been impressed in general with star wars show visuals, but this really seems movie quality.

I especially love that it looks like we are getting more space scenes by the looks of it.

The political intrigue part of it looks pretty interesting as well.

I saw someone else make the observation that we are seeing more open faced imperial troops in this and less stormtroopers than usual, and I do wonder if there is a thematic reason for that or if the makers of this show are just WEG fans. Certainly that one ship we see crashing in another trailer and entering an atmosphere here has a very WEG look to it.

Forest Whitaker really likes playing Saw I believe.

 

Now is that gal Tolvan or not in Andor? Her mom? Her clone? Her original? Her twin?

 

I suppose she could, although I'm not aware of any reason to think that she will.

Meanwhile,

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I thought sure the blonde female ISB agent was going to turn out to be Alecia Beck, an antagonist who appeared once or twice in early new canon stories. There's a fairly strong resemblance, but in fact it's not her - the subtitles identify the person in the trailer as "Dedra Meero." Would have been a nice connection as Beck was almost certainly active in ISB during this period, but alas.

 

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Well Beck and Tolvan can be clones of an imperial Donor like Dedra Meero.. or one of them is the original that donated in their youth and the others are clones.

 

Different people sometimes look similar

 

Heresy!

 

We are living in the Saw Guerra cinematic universe now.

 

I wonder...who is Stellan Skarsgard's character? Is he a senator? Is he a noble? What role did he have in the Clone Wars?

He'll be fascinating to see. I also wonder:

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Will there be a reference to the Lothal rebels since they started to become active around that sector in 5 BBY, depending when they recruited Ezra in that calendar year.

 

What if he's Garm?

 

For anyone interested, and in particular those wondering if Stellan Skarsgård's character is Garm Bel Iblis, turning on the video's subtitles on YouTube reveals the name of whoever is speaking. New character names revealed in the subtitles include:

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Luthen (The Skarsgård character, who isn't Bel Iblis but may be playing a similar role)
Sgt. Linus Mosk (guy in a blue non-Imperial uniform with wicked sideburns)
Dedra Meero (blonde woman in ISB uniform)
Kleya (may be some sort of aide to Luthen)
Tay Kolma (associate of Mon Mothma, may be a Senator)

 

BUT WHAT IF HE'S GARM

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Who is this Garm Bel character, a Luthen rip off.

 

I thought saw gerrera was already Nu canon Garm

 

Saw Guerra is too Extremist and not a politician. To be that legends character. Luthen fits him better.

 

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Seeing the Imperial Senate makes me hope for an appearance by Mas Amedda.

Also, Luthen Rael's laugh at 1:37 sounded a lot like a Palpatine cackle to me. I actually had to backtrack to make sure it wasn't ol' Sheev .

 

You can never have too many Garms

 

Garm Bel Iblis does exist in canon according to Wookieepedia. And I still consider him the Corellian senator during the Clone Wars.

 

So he got reduced to a background character.

 

To the surprise of no one, it turns out Wookieepedia's "canon Garm Bel Iblis" is sourced from one of those sketchy DeAgostini magazines where they throw canon and Legends information together without differentiating between the two, and Wookieepedia for some reason just treats it all as if it's canon. Ugh. Gives me a headache, that site does. It's up to you if you want to take the Wook's word for it, but personally I'd wait for a legit canon source to reference the character before assuming he exists in canon.