Paul Farquhar
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The galaxy has been at war for nearly 30 years. That makes a lot of orphans.
Spoilers Star Wars: Andor season 2
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Paul Farquhar
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Harry Potter, Frodo Baggins, Oliver Twist, King Arthur..,
It’s a literary trope that predates Star Wars by a very long way.
Disney started out adapting traditional folk tales. Snow White, Cinderella etc were orphans long before Disney got his hands on them.
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Mustrum_Ridcully
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New (mock/fake) Trailer for Andor 1999!
The 1975 was a banger, too.
The 1975 was a banger, too.
Paul Farquhar
Legend
They forgot Mel Blanc as K-2SO.
Voadam
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That is an odd misstep. They had to expect a large number of people to watch Rogue One right after Andor so it would stand out. Its been nine years since I saw Rogue One with my son so it did not stand out as many details have become blurry but I expect to watch it with my wife this coming weekend who has not seen it before but hesitantly agreed to watch Andor and then really enjoyed it.
Sacrosanct
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Not just Jyn, but K gets shot to pieces by a group of people notoriously known for their low attack bonus.
MarkB
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To be fair, it does take an awful lot to put him down. But you still see each shot damaging him.
Sacrosanct
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That was because of plot armor, not robot armor
Remember, K-2SO is literally the same droid in Andor that took a beating without a scratch until a barge hit him, but stormtrooper blasters tear him apart. It wasn't like it was a different droid that might have had a different config.
Celebrim
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To be fair, it's reasonable that a droid be virtually immune to anything short of a military grade blaster rifle.
What's not reasonable is that the Ghorman front at this time didn't have heavy weaponry including military grade rifles and carbines. That they were still armed with light pistols and the like despite being armed by Luthen's "Axis" network just a year before Endor was hard to believe. This late in the game they should have star fighters, repeating blasters, anti-vehicle missiles, etc. The Ghorman front by this point is tens of thousands of partisans. The scale of the conflict being barely bigger than Ferrix on a core world that had been in rebellion for years was disappointing. Andor's budget not being able to support its epic story got more and more distracting to me the longer the show went. That Aldani was a small-scale mission was appropriate. But it didn't build up like it should. The climax of scale was probably the prison breakout from Narkana 5. Ferrix being small as a backwater world I could largely accept, but I was disappointed when Anton Kreeger's death was handled entirely offscreen.
Palmo should have had hundreds of thousands of people packed into a plaza the size of Tiananmen square or the national mall in Washington. This is the planetary capital of a world with like an 8000 year history. There should have been a few legions of troopers involved in the massacre. We should have seen the gouge mining. We needed a call back to young Cassian seeing his scarred world and the massive mining machines gouging out holes into Ghorman. But so many things were constrained obviously by budget and not the needs of the story. This really was felt when I followed up the show with Rogue One which did have a suitably big scale (except for how it deals with the size of the galaxy in terms of how fast you can jump from A=>B, which I can overlook for the sake of the movie).
I probably wouldn't care but the show did such a good job at times of making a gritty believable setting that felt like an RPG in terms of its detailed world building, that when it couldn't deliver it was pretty jarring.
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Paul Farquhar
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The first was a crit.