Wait until they watch Drive My Car.
(Great movie, by the way! One of my favorites from the last few years. But it's three hours, and it makes Gattaca look like Crank: High Voltage).
Star Wars: Andor
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Wait until they watch Drive My Car.
(Great movie, by the way! One of my favorites from the last few years. But it's three hours, and it makes Gattaca look like Crank: High Voltage).
tomBitonti
Hero
So, I’m enjoying this, and found the prison break exciting. However, I’m needing a lot of suspension of disbelief. The prison design is a huge fail. Weapons adjacent to prisoners? Doors that don’t require external release? Key components in prisoner accessible areas? I guess maybe the facility was repurposed from being a factory to being a prison. Not a huge problem as I’ve grown well used to such problems in fiction.
TomB
TomB
Lidgar
Gongfarmer
Its Star Wars, where every door can be opened by shooting the control panel with a blaster, and major control switches are on parapets with no safety rails. I just view it as part of the lore...but yeah, hear you there.
pukunui
Legend
I was expecting the prisoners to don the guards' special boots, but they kept leaving them on the racks, so then I was expecting them to pay for that oversight, but they didn't. So the boots ended up being a bit of a red herring -- that is to say, when they turned out not to be as important as I thought they would be.
Exactly. The Empire doesn't care about health and safety. That being said, the second Death Star had some in the throne room at least ...
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They really wrong-footed the audience. I hope they didn't step on anyone's toes, though: I don't want any of the writers to get the boot.
(OK, I'm done. I'll put a sock in it.)
trappedslider
Legend
pukunui
Legend
The more I think about it, the more it makes sense to me that Luthen is a Jedi survivor. Between the khyber crystal that means more to him than money and the carefully worded speech he gave his ISB mole, it all adds up. Whether he is actively using the dark side of the Force or is just acting in ways that go against the Jedi code remains to be seen.
That just leaves his "assistant", Kleya. Is she just a ruthlessly dedicated rebel or is she a fellow Jedi survivor? If the latter, she would have been a child when Order 66 was issued. She may have been a youngling like Reva, or perhaps she'd only recently started on her journey as a padawan.
Hopefully we'll find out more about them both before this series is over!
That just leaves his "assistant", Kleya. Is she just a ruthlessly dedicated rebel or is she a fellow Jedi survivor? If the latter, she would have been a child when Order 66 was issued. She may have been a youngling like Reva, or perhaps she'd only recently started on her journey as a padawan.
Hopefully we'll find out more about them both before this series is over!
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Mustrum_Ridcully
Legend
I don't think anyone involved so far is a Jedi and will just take them at face value. I think putting former Jedi or Sith in at this point kinda undercuts the story, showing off how "normal" people deal with the Empire and the rebellion.
And this episode was fantastic.
Kino did know what he was getting into when he decided to work with Andor. The only way out wasn't one he could take. When he repeated Andors claim that he'd rather die fighting the Empire than keep working for it, he meant it quite literally.
Luthen gives a strong speech about his sacrifices. But I kinda find Mon Mothma potential sacrifice even more powerful than his - will she sacrfice her daughter for the Rebellion, putting her en route to an arranged marriage, something she despises? Could she live with herself? I see a possiblity that she refuses, or takoing a huge risk by telling her daughter what really is going on and getting her to agree to play along. But I could also see to go "full-Luthien" and know she hasn't has just sacrificed herself to the cause of the Rebellion, but even her daughter, and that her daughter will likely never forgive her.
And this episode was fantastic.
Kino did know what he was getting into when he decided to work with Andor. The only way out wasn't one he could take. When he repeated Andors claim that he'd rather die fighting the Empire than keep working for it, he meant it quite literally.
Luthen gives a strong speech about his sacrifices. But I kinda find Mon Mothma potential sacrifice even more powerful than his - will she sacrfice her daughter for the Rebellion, putting her en route to an arranged marriage, something she despises? Could she live with herself? I see a possiblity that she refuses, or takoing a huge risk by telling her daughter what really is going on and getting her to agree to play along. But I could also see to go "full-Luthien" and know she hasn't has just sacrificed herself to the cause of the Rebellion, but even her daughter, and that her daughter will likely never forgive her.
