FIRST TIME WATCHING: Andor S1E2

The reason Cassian waited for the buyer before leaving is because he didn't have any money lol. If you remember in episode one, Brasso literally told him "not to ask for money", hes broke.

I think when this first aired, the three episode arc thing hurt it initially because no one was prepared for it, especially on episode 2 since this episode was completely set up for episode 3. I know I was one of the people who quit at episode 2 because it felt so fillery. I came back once I had heard more about the series and loved it when I watched it in its entirety.

I like this show AND "Severance" so I'm all good

The battle of Yavin was Luke destroying the original death star, BBY 5 just means the show takes place 5 years before the original Star Wars movie

Yeah you don’t need to worry on knowing anything about the mine on Kenari. The 5 BBY timestamp is truly the only thing that you need to ground you in the overall universe. Everything else that is crucial for your understanding of the story will be explained in due time over the course of the season. The three-episode arcs are much more a Season 2 thing than a Season 1 now having the totality of the show, so however you’re able to watch the rest of Season 1 will work from here on out.

Yeah so these first episodes are what we hard core fans call a "slowburn." By slowburn, we mean we can't quite justify why it's incredibly boring and feels like they needed to introduce the character, set up how they got to the start of the real story, and also add a few extra episodes to the run time-so they stretched the beginning out as much as possible despite all of it being 1, mayyyyyybe 2 episodes worth of content. That's what we meant by "slowburn." It gets so much better after this little arc I stg

Can you please suck it up, set things right concerning your "family issues", and release 6 Andor reaction vids a day? Do all 6 hours standing up if you have to. Thanks! :D

might need to line up andor to 3 episodes per week since that's how it's grouped in the show

Such a tease posting this before u finish severance lmao

The mining accident on Kanari, killed all the adults. Hence why there aren't any, only children.

In my opinion, 2 incredible Star Wars characters are introduced in this episode: Maarva and "the buyer." Yeah watch them however you like. In Season 1 it was really just the first 3 episodes that were released together. The rest of the season did have multiple story arcs, but the episodes weren't so jarring with abrupt endings. And the second half of the season, the arcs weren't always exactly 3 episodes. Season 2 definitely was released 3 episodes at a time and they were definitely more separate arcs. But even then I rarely watched all 3 at once and it was fine. Can't wait for Episode 3!

I love how Cassian’s droid just has social anxiety and shuts down under stress lmao, same

Nat mentioned me at timestamp 4:22 ! Yay! (Well not by name, I'd commented the thing about the officer dying by a blaster ricochet and not by Cassian's head of steel loool)

Maarva, Cassian's mom, is played by Aunt Petunia from the Harry Potter movies! Also, one thing to remember is that the "lazy" Pre-Mor Authority employees are basically all contract workers in a sense, delegated by the Empire to do security stuff on planets not in the Core of the galaxy. Given the size of the galaxy, it kinda makes sense that they'd be a bit lax about their work haha.

I think it really doesn't matter too much when you watch the episodes. Back when season 1 released, a few people got confused because not every episode has the usual structure of set-up and climax. Instead, it's always spread out over 3 episodes. Like in this episode, nothing too dramatic happens. It's just set-up for the next episode, when everyone we introduced so far will meet up. If someone doesn't know that and just occasionally catches an episode, they might think it's a weird show with episodes that go nowhere. But watching it consecutively with a few days between isn't an issue as long as you keep that in mind. It's not like it's impossible to remember what happened in this episode a week later lol I think the "watch it 3 episodes in a row" advice is mostly so that people don't stop watching before it gets good.

you're not supposed to know anything about Kanari, so don't worry. a little correction: Andor takes place before episode IV not episode VI

I think your thought process makes sense. This is my first watch of Andor, too, and if everyone is correct about the episode arcs, you could easily delay starting a 2nd show and just watch Andor + movie per week.

3 episodes per week would be the best choice since most of the show is sectioned into 3 episode long arcs