Andor Andor Season 2 Discussion (Spoliers Allowed)

A successor show would be better suited for a different era.

 

Not really. The ground level story of the rebellion doesn't end with this show, or even Rogue One or A New Hope. It makes perfect sense to carry that throughline into the OT+ timeline.

 

Does it though? If we look at Andor to Rogue One into OT. It goes right into the main story of the Rebellion. And unlike Andor and Rogue One you got no Tony Gilroy.

 

Fred, why are you fighting this idea like your life depends on it? It’s an odd thing to be implacably against. You seem to even be against other people hoping for it! Are you the next incarnation of Palpatine????

 

I would love to see a show (or movies) set between ANH and TESB or between TESB and ROTJ! I know I should just let go, but I love this era.

 

I simply dont think we get a show in OT and want OT break. Like after Rebels we had Resistance. So after Andor lets get something in a new era. 5 years we can go back to a OT show. This era is getting milked to death.

 

As a famous dairy farmer once said, if the milk is good, keep milking.

 

Then suddenly the milk becomes sour

 

When life gives you sour milk, make kefir or yogurt or buttermilk or sour cream, or just get creative and bake something with it.

 

Its because if we get more OT content, it may mean the forty fifth show about Ventress and Clones might be put on the back burner.

 

More likely PT and ST shows being on th back burner. OT been done for almost 50 years now. Lets get something new.

 

While everyone is arguing about milk, I'm just waiting patiently for a Partisan series to come out, whether it be in televised or novel form.

I just want to see more of Saw fighting the space fascist/communist dictatorship with Benthic and Edrio at his side, alongside an appearance by Bor Gullet himself.

 

What are you on about, Freddy? The Clone Wars, Bad Batch, Tales of the Jedi, Resistance, Young Jedi Adventures, Acolyte, Mando, BoBF, Obi-Wan, Ahsoka, Skeleton Crew, Andor, the Maul show. All of those are either pre-OT or post-OT. There have literally been ZERO movies or TV shows set during the OT era.

 

Rebels and Andor is just before OT and serves as OT shows. Its about the Rebellion. And outside a few all are post PT to OT in the same tired era i know why its popular. Only Clone Wars and The Acolyte are before. And Mandalorian/BOFB/Skeleton Crew and Ahsoka are post OT stories. An OT show set between ANH and ROTJ will be the same. Rebellion vs the Empire. Its nothing different from Early Rebellion or New Republic. The empire is in almost all the shows and movies.

 

That's perfectly fair to say you want a break from the era and want to move on from the Rebellion vs. Empire timeline, but it is not the same thing as saying an Andor follow up makes more sense in another era. An Andor follow up absolutely makes the most sense in a post-Yavin to pre-Jakku timeline.

 

Finally wrapped up Episodes 1-3 and found them thoroughly entertaining - good with a few very good moments (and one amazing moment, ironically right at the start).

I understand the talk about ANDOR being dark and gritty but for me its major accomplishment is bringing SW down to the personal level. Sure, SW can be about huge fleets of giant spaceships and war on a galactic scale, about chancellors and senators and princesses, about a quasi-religious institution of warrior monks keeping the peace for a thousand generations, but if you were just Mr or Mrs Average on some backwater planet there's a good chance on a bad day that some nasty "nobody" Imperial takes an interest in you...and that might just prove fatal.

A couple random things...
> Love the continued illustration of how fragmented the opposition to the Empire is, as Saw noted in Season 1. There is no one "Rebellion"...quite yet.
> Can't say enough good things about the opening scene between Andor and the young woman helping him steal the fighter. So human, so real, so impactful, showing the courage it took to stand up (you can't be truly brave if you have no fear). I put this up there with Luthen's Season 1 monologue on sacrifice as one of the best five minute blocks in SW.
> The squabbling rebels didn't really work for me. They seemed a bit too goofy and inept.
> Luthen is too much of an expert chameleon to be scowling across the room at the wedding even if he's inwardly very troubled. IMHO.
>While its arguably understandable for Andor to struggle with the controls of the fighter, I felt that got played a bit too comedically.

Overall, solid start with some excellent moments; really looking forward to more!

 

Fair enough i just dont see a reason or need for it

 

Fans want to see that period done well, that’s all. No need to harangue people about it.

 

Done well, havent been done well already?

 

Fans want to see galactic events during and between the OT films. And fans of Andor would love to see those time periods done in that style, bringing historical depth and layered world building to the time period. Why do you have to constantly rip on people’s interest in that? It’s strange.

 

I just dont see it happening but whatever floats your boat

 

Just before the OT through to just after the OT is the goose that lays the golden egg. Following Andor, if Genevieve O'Reilly is still up for it, another Andor style show but with a new hero would be my option. Bringing back a classic Rebel leader such as Dodonna or Madine and setting it where the action in the OT is elsewhere.

Where was the Rebel Fleet when Rieeken's command is on Hoth? Was Mon there, was Dodonna organising commando operations against Imperial installations? Twilight Company is a great suggestion but I'd much prefer a brand new team, the story of their recruitment.

 

There's so much potential in plumbing the depths of the galaxy at a specific time in history. That's not inherently less creative than touching on other time periods. Both can be done, and done well.

 

We dont need every Wikipedia article details

 

Sadly, I think there's a chance we won't see this serious style in SW ever again. Or perhaps not for many years.

I would love to see more of it, but if the streaming numbers aren't great, LFL will likely focus on the usual style.