FIRST TIME WATCHING: Andor S2E6

LOVE that Cassian was like “my girlfriend has ptsd so we’re gonna go kill her abuser to make her feel better.” like wow, a man!!! ❤️❤️❤️

Should we take bets on the number of tissues she’ll need for the final six episodes?

Superb acting by Adria in the final scene as Bix. Subtle facial expression change at the end that tells you she feels free of the trauma from Gorst, knowing now that he'll never haunt her again.

The Gorst set up is even better. So Lonni learns of the new program through Partagaz. He tells Luthen about it sometime inbetween. Luthen can kill 2 birds with 1 stone: rest bix's councience and kill the gorst program before it starts, so he sends bix and cassian on the mission. Lonni won't be suspect, because they established Military and navy intelligence got involved in it, which Partagaz referred to as "idiots". He'd easily pin the blame of the leak on them considering he views them as incompetent already

It's not the end

Glad you were able to take your pause after the end of an arc. The tension only ratchets up from here. I do feel like Cinta's death was a bit on the nose and cliche. One of the weakest bits of writing in an otherwise stellar episode. But it led to another great monologue this time by Vel. She could have made that moment all about her grief, but she used it to glorify Cinta and educate that kid on the consequences of mistakes. And Krennic vs Mon or should I say Ben Mendelsohn vs. Genevieve O'Reilly was just chef's kiss! Hope you have a wonderful month off!

I think that's why they made a point of Lonni discovering that Ghorst's project was to become an actual initiative with its own personnel and facilities. It gave it the importance that was needed for Lonni to pass it to Luthen, and then for Luthen to pass along to Bix and Andor. Combine that with Andor's command to Luthen to assist him in "fixing" Bix, there was only one way the ending was setup to go. Bix had to be the one to first torture Ghorst with the machine. And then, the cherry on top, she had to be there when Andor blew him up along with probably all the research and equipment. Super satisfying and just the closure Bix needs to continue her work with the Rebellion.

I like how Lonni immediately passed the Gorst-project to his colleague because it would be bad to be associated with its inevitable destruction.

I really loved this episode~ And Gooosh the party scenes were fantastic. Krennic and Mon interacting was not something I'd had on my Bingo Card but holy heck. Lol I also loved the subtle double take Lonni did when he saw Luthen once everyone was standing in the same place, since I'm sure he'd never seen that "version" of him prior.

You just need to "calibrate your enthusiasm" for this break that you're going on. 😏

How dare you have a personal life :)

This was NOT the first time we've seen Vel and Cinta talk together like this. There were a couple of conversations like that in the first season. It irritates me when someone makes comments like that based on them not remembering.

Maybe it's a nitpick, but this is my least favorite episode I think. It feels very rushed, even by the standard of season 2's quicker pacing. 1. We find out Dr Gorst is being moved to Coruscant and bam! he's killed by Bix. 2. We finally get an honest to god prolonged tender scene between Vel and Cinta, and bam! she's now dead.

Bring tissues for the rest of the series

Great how the show has two people standing across from each other in an art gallery being a more tense and suspenseful scene than a lot of grandiose battles and action scenes. Lots of credit goes to the writing and directing of the show. And not sure if someone else has already commented it, but Andor was originally meant to be 5 seasons with each season being a year covering the 5 years leading up to A New Hope. Due to season 2 coming out 9 years after Rogue One, people aging, as well as the poor viewer numbers on release of season 1 despite high critical acclaim (the viewers trickled in after it's full release), the next 4 seasons were compressed into 1 so unfortunately a lot of smaller story arcs feel rushed or were entirely omitted. Still a masterful result given the altered format.

Syril doesn't know about the kalkite mineral extraction and Krennic part. He only thinks it's an ISB operation to root out non-Ghorman rebels operating in Ghorman.