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DS9 really not only let us know the charactesr, but also the people and the place(s). Every other world is usually just a planet-of-the-week with aliens-with-bumps-on-their-forheads. Andor managed to give two previously practically or actually unknown Star Wars planet a real authentic feel of a...

Maybe I read it here and forgot, but some details that I didn't fully understand when I watched it and only in hindsight was the bombing scene flashback. Luthen hands her the trigger, and she acts as if she's going to press - but then takes it away, making the audience and Kleya think that...

I just don't feel that quite describes the situation. It's not Kleya that is "on the ground", we never see her outside of Coruscant until Chandrilla. She is the one that's getting intel from the people "on the ground", and relays it to Luthen, who is himself also "on the ground" all over the...

I don't really follow that his monologue suggests anything about him that is contradicted by the backstory. His monologue isn't about given up on something he had in the past. It's about giving up on something for his life, something he would never have, whether he had it before or not. This...

He's definitely not "just the front man". Kleya learned everything about the trade from him. But she is taking over from him. There are several occassions where they mention that it's getting too complex, that Luthen is slipping. He's getting old, but Kleya is still young, and now she has...

New (mock/fake) Trailer for Andor 1999! The 1975 was a banger, too.

I think that was pretty solid. He wasn't something or someone special, but he had seen and participated in acts of inhumanity and violence he couldn't accept, an in that moment decided to not just run away, to resist, eventually rising up to setting the foundations of the Rebellion. He's kinda...

Luthen's ending was ... well, not unexpected. I didn't really have expectations. I suppose maybe that it would be to Cassian to kill him to protect the Rebellion. It being himself, and then Kleya, and it being without any great heroics, to take him out, just works. I didn't see Pantagaz' end...

Andor asked him about the monument, and he talked about how his father died during the massacre (the one by Tarkin). I guess that caused him to really take a good look, and also brought the neccesary emotional connection to keep the memory around, unlike most guests that never ask such questions...

Soft or hard control isn't the distinguishing aspect. The distinguishing aspect IMO is that Defender "control" is always about controlling the enemy to make it a more attractive choice to go after the defender than anyone else, but the Defender is the toughest guy in the party and can probably...

No, I don't think control must be absolute. But it needs to change the "math" of your choices - so that whatever would be the best option normally comes with additional cost that might not make worth doing anymore.

The challenge in defining a special "controller" ability that is similar generic like the Defender's mark, Striker's damage buff or Leader's healing ability is that controlling is about restricting the enemies choices and punish them if they do stuff you don't want. But there are a lot of...

We once played a game of Space Gothic that was set in a fantasy simulation game that used another ruleset. While it sounds like a fun idea, we didn't really play much Space Gothic in the first place, so we had two barely understood rulesets to play at the same, and I was really hoping to play...

AI needs hardware resources that needs electricity and produces a lot of heat (and cooling is a concern in vacuum), and the components also degrade from radiation. And innately, computers have absolutely no self-repair capabilities. To some extent, you can turn off defective processors or...

The thing is "asteroid colony" is making the assumption that you can fit what you need for a society of generational starship travelers to survive, and the machinery not to break down, before they arrive. But does it? And are there any asteroids that would be the right size, and can we get all...