Andor 2x08 Full Reaction
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Does anyone have the full length reactions? Many of them are now missing from Vimeo :( I really wanted to watch this reaction in full
"Who are you?" Syril dies unceremoniously. The last shot of the episode is one tear from his mother who will be the only person to remember he ever even existed, the only one who ever really cared that he did. Of all the thoughtful and exacting commentary this show makes, this is one of the most hard hitting. History is littered with angry, lonely men who simp for fascists, chasing a facade of greater purpose only to be chewed up and tossed aside like meat after their usefulness is over, to then be forever forgotten in time. Very much still happens today. They are the fuel that run the engine of fascism and dictatorships.
I'd highly recommend watching interviews with Tony Gilroy after completing the series. Denise Gough as well (Dedra), she's got some really interesting perspectives on her role being someone who has travelled through Palestine herself, and her previous life story.
Andor 2x08, Monster 71, Frieren 2x04. This will be a great week!
Hi Robert! Do you by any chance have a link to the 2x08 full length? The link has unfortunately expired and I was really looking forward to this episode in particular. Just trying to find someone who might be able to share the reaction if they saved it in their PCs. Thank you and if you don't have it don't worry.
11:29 "Rebellions are built on hope"
It actually gets harder to watch every time
I STILL tear up from this episode. FUQ!!!
The amount of anger and sadness is so repetitively felt too much throughout history 😭
That was the entire point and why this episode felt the way it did. Tony Gilroy pulled from some of the most historically brutal human massacres from around the world. The central plan of enclosing the Ghorman and slaughtering them in the town square is largely taken from the real life Jallianwala Bagh Massacre. Colonization and genocides: two sides of the same evil coin.
"This is Palmo One... This is Palmo One. We are under siege. We're being slaughtered. The Imperial murder of Ghorman has begun."
As incredible as the show is, that frustration (which is arguably the point) leaves me so drained once the screen is turned off. "Where did you think this was going to go? What did you think this was going to do? What were you thinking?" What is it going to take, how much more do you need to see, did it seriously have to get this for you to even consider? And even then its still not enough. Its getting better(?) but these stories get told and repeated again in again, you would hope people were better at recognizing it, fighting against it, not defending and excusing it.
I appreciate the perspective, and I tend to try and keep the peace, find common ground, meet in the middle, let bygones be bygones. But that limit tends to cut-off way before people start dying. Once people do, ignorance has long passed as an acceptable reason. And even then its one thing to second-guess or consider, but to still actively support and defend the hands with blood on them is something else entirely.
Dedra is perhaps one of the most tragic characters in this show. Stolen from her parents as a child. Mentally (and almost certainly physically) abused in an Imperial re-education camp. Twisted and shaped by a cruel system into a monster who believes she is the hero.
I don't disagree but lets not take her agency away here. She made choices. She grew up in this system but so did so many others and they didn't do what she did.
Oh man I've been waiting for this ep! Andor was already in my top 3 favorite shows of all time, but these last few eps easily brought it to #1
"i don't think we're going to feel depressed after watching it" 😬 oh sweet summer children
I remember after watching this episode when it first came out, how I was DYING to talk about it at work the next day. And when I got to work, I could tell who had seen it. We all had that blank "what in the hell did we just watch?" look. Didn't even need to say a word beyond, "Bro...episode 8..." Then both of us just collectively shaking our heads in disbelief.
The Battle of Yavin took place in A New Hope, which you have already seen. Right now we're in BBY2, so somewhere between 1 and 2 years before that battle.
Such an important episode of television. I could write endless paragraphs about it, but I'd rather go get some tissues and suffer my way through this again whilst internally raging against the seemingly unilateral rise of fascism around the globe.