My Thoughts On Andor Season 2 So Far

Andor is the best series if you loved Rogue One and the original trilogy, it gets the tone of the Empire perfectly. I’d love to see what happens to Syril and Dedra after ANH.. I may revisit that comment after Andor ends.

I’m so glad “Andor” shows the Empire as frightening. They’ve really never looked like that before. It helps to right what I feel is one of the greatest wrongs of Star Wars: the idea that everyone, specifically Anakin Skywalker, is redeemable. I can never accept this. Anyone who murders innocent people, including children, murders his own wife, betrays and murders his peers…yeah, there’s no redemption for a guy like that. I think fans, in their hero worshipping of Star Wars, have forgotten that the bad guys are REALLY bad. Makes me wonder if this has something to do with how willing we are these days to ignore unethical and illegal choices of our political leaders, especially those that many seem 100% devoted to.

Andor has done what no other Star Wars movie or show has done, they've made the Empire truly frightening. They're a bureacracy. They have competent people like Dedra Meero and Major Partagaz, they're everywhere and they're relentless. Mon Mothma drinking and dancing at the wedding is her catharsis. She's been holding in her emotions about resisting the Empire, financing the rebellion, selling her daughter off to a thug and realizing her childhood friend needs to die. Everything is crashing in around her and she needs a release.

I think Bail Organa is going to appear in Andor again. So it totally fine that he appeared before that.

This is one I'd love to see you guys watch together; even though you've seen it would be fun to hear your reviews/perspective.

I think the introduction of Brat as the new Organa was not a one time. I think they are letting the audience see the new Organa so that they can return to him in the next two trilogies as the story unfolds. My guess is 7-9 is Gorman and then 10-12 is the aftermath leading to Rogue One.

I enjoyed that and agree with most of the things you said. Please do a recap at the end of season two, I'd love to hear your thoughts on the conclusion.

I thought the 1st season was pretty good, it looked from the trailrs that there would be more action this season. Hated Boba Fett, but thought Skleton crew was OK

I really love how well they're maintaining the tension on this show. Like, anyone who has seen Rogue One know how things end but the moment-to-moment twists and turns the show takes still make me tense and concerned that things go right.

I feel a great anxiety watching this series a feeling of a quiet but bulging prevailing evil. Its animalistic and in a great way it shows what the empire is really about.

I didn't get on board with Andor until just last week. I'd always heard it was great but I never managed to get past the first two episodes before. I finally did watch it and I'm so glad I did. The empire actually feels evil now, sure they blew up a planet and did some other bad things before but in my mind they never felt super evil, more like a bunch of assholes. Now we finally see why they are so bad, why people are willing to throw everything away to fight against them. As for season 2 I was worried at the start that it wasn't going to be as good, with the scenes of the group of idiots fighting each other and playing rock paper scissors. I thought it was going to turn back into goofy Star Wars, but nope we're back to good old gritty Andor as soon as he gets out of there. The SA scene is shocking but it absolutely makes sense, especially for this truly evil Empire that Andor is portraying. The scenes of Mon's breakdown at the party and it devolving into mania were incredible too.

My favorite character is Major Partagas.

I stopped after Spoilers came up. I’m just getting started with season 2. I agree with you on how good season 1 was. For me, Rogue One is probably my favorite Star Wars film next two the original trilogy, so I was glad to see how well done Andor has been. Episode 2 up next for me.

Andor is incredible

We just caught up with it yesterday here, and we're looking forward to the rest. I'd completely given up on SW some while back, and Andor was what lured me back too. I've liked most of the TV shows, but if it weren't for Andor I wouldn't have watched them at all. With one thing that annoys me (and I'll let it slide this time) everything is brilliant so far in season 2. I didn't know how they were gonna meet the expectations, but (knock on wood) going good so far

Glad you're enjoying it too Alex. Andor is hitting it out of the park. S2:E3 was one of the best episodes of TV I've ever watched. Apart from that banger of a tune... The dance scene must rank up there as one of the most emotional scenes in the whole of star wars. I would never have believed when watching Return of the Jedi 40+ years ago that I could be so invested in Mon Mothma. I hope we'll see more Star wars stuff which is a bit more 'grown up'

And as for the Bail Organa casting, I'm 100% sure we'll see more of Bail in this season. Otherwise they would've filmed Jimmy on a green screen wherever he's busy for something so small. Its most likely he's a big part in one of the upcoming arcs and Smitt's wasn't available for a multiday shoot. All this outrage over so small a scene is sort of missing the obvious here.

I took the dancing scene as Mon Mothma just overwhelmed by the realisation of everything that she's done, (sacrificing her daughter's future, her husband's trust and now her childhood best friend's life to the cuase) and just trying to loose herself to the music, to not think, to do too many shots and try to forget if only for a moment before she has to go back to smiling becuase its her daughter's wedding and she's the senator of Chandrilla.