Star Wars: Andor

I just read an article saying that Star Wars fans are clamoring for an Andor-style show set during the collapse of the Empire. Someone commented that they want a series set after the Battle of Yavin, which is all about Vader explaining the destruction of the Death Star to the Emperor, and the resulting insurance claim.

I have to say, if they got the Andor writing team, I'd probably watch that.

You know that scene in Clerks where they are discussing whether or not the destruction of the second Death Star is a morally clean act since the second Death Star still being under construction would have had millions of civilian contractors on board, and the contractor comes into the store and discusses the morality of his work and whether a civilian contractor is morally culpable for the contracts he takes.

Well, we actually know that even the first Death Star had a very large number of civilian contractors aboard doing things as mundane as catering, so you could have a character who is the family member of one of those civilian contractors for whom the ax that forgets is Luke Skywalker. Imagine there is like a teenager aboard the Death Star whose job it is to load lunches for the officers on to Mouse droids for delivery, and there is like this dad who is dead set on vengeance because, "Those terrorists killed my baby!" and he becomes this pro-Imperial vigilante that is out for vengeance - like a Charles Bronson Death Wish style character whose attacking the smugglers that make up the logistics backbone of the Rebellion, and unlike the ISB he's actually good at it because he does human intel well. And then he could like on his journey meet an orphan from Alderaan and the two could heal together as the dad comes to realize that the world is not the morally simple universe he believed, and if anything as he learns the reality of the Empire's impact outside of the shelter of the Core Worlds, he's actually on the dark side of the spectrum.
 

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You know that scene in Clerks where they are discussing whether or not the destruction of the second Death Star is a morally clean act since the second Death Star still being under construction would have had millions of civilian contractors on board, and the contractor comes into the store and discusses the morality of his work and whether a civilian contractor is morally culpable for the contracts he takes.

Well, we actually know that even the first Death Star had a very large number of civilian contractors aboard doing things as mundane as catering, so you could have a character who is the family member of one of those civilian contractors for whom the ax that forgets is Luke Skywalker. Imagine there is like a teenager aboard the Death Star whose job it is to load lunches for the officers on to Mouse droids for delivery, and there is like this dad who is dead set on vengeance because, "Those terrorists killed my baby!" and he becomes this pro-Imperial vigilante that is out for vengeance - like a Charles Bronson Death Wish style character whose attacking the smugglers that make up the logistics backbone of the Rebellion, and unlike the ISB he's actually good at it because he does human intel well. And then he could like on his journey meet an orphan from Alderaan and the two could heal together as the dad comes to realize that the world is not the morally simple universe he believed, and if anything as he learns the reality of the Empire's impact outside of the shelter of the Core Worlds, he's actually on the dark side of the spectrum.
 


So we've only got two episodes left to go with this season. What do y'all think is going to happen?

Tony Gilroy is confident we'll be satisfied with how this season ends.

"I saw somebody say that we were spreading ourselves too thin with all these characters," he said. "But we [will] be pulling people together. That is not something that we would let go by. And we won't be leaving you with much of an enigmatic ending."

"Hopefully, [Episodes 11 and 12] are the most powerful two episodes that we have in the show," he said. "It's our emotional catharsis. It's our physical catharsis. It's our summing up for these 12 episodes. We've invested a lot in it, so we have high expectations that we're paying it off."
 

So we've only got two episodes left to go with this season. What do y'all think is going to happen?
Sadly, I think that Episodes 11 & 12 will pale in comparison to the Narkina 5 arc.

Not that I don't believe in the show but, dayum, how do you go up from there?
 






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