General Star Wars Discussion

[BrianL]

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... K2 is there at the right moment for Cassian.

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I always did kinda think that K2 was Andor's romantic interest! I mean, not literally...but also....maybe? There's an awkward tension between them. My friends and I have always joked about it.

I never really saw it with Jyn - I mean, maybe after if they had all survived, but there isn't a lot there.

 

[mdmost]

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I always did kinda think that K2 was Andor's romantic interest! I mean, not literally...but also....maybe? There's an awkward tension between them. My friends and I have always joked about it.

I never really saw it with Jyn - I mean, maybe after if they had all survived, but there isn't a lot there.

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K2 being a child who feels he's being cheated while playing the game was great.

 

[Kit Jackson]

So...we give everyone a couple of days to finish "Andor," and then we have a "Rogue One" viewing party on Friday night??

My plan was to wait a bit, then rewatch all of Andor over multiple nights. I would time it so the last night is a weekend, so I could watch the final episode of Andor, followed by a double feature of Rogue One and A New Hope.

@leiaorgana Andor never had a bottle episode. A bottle episode refers to an episode that uses only existing sets and a minimal number of additional actors/characters (actors not in the main cast that are paid for every episode).

 

[irlandaise]

My plan was to wait a bit, then rewatch all of Andor over multiple nights. I would time it so the last night is a weekend, so I could watch the final episode of Andor, followed by a double feature of Rogue One and A New Hope.

I realized after watching "Andor" tonight that I need to watch both of those movies, too. So I've added "Star Wars" (you'll never get me to call it anything else! ) to my schedule this week after "Rogue One."

@leiaorgana Andor never had a bottle episode. A bottle episode refers to an episode that uses only existing sets and a minimal number of additional actors/characters (actors not in the main cast that are paid for every episode).

Well, okay, maybe not technically a "bottle episode," but it only had a handful of the show's usual characters and had large swaths of flashbacks. I was sitting there thinking, "The writers do know that the show is called 'Andor,' right???"

 

[leiaorgana]

@leiaorgana Andor never had a bottle episode. A bottle episode refers to an episode that uses only existing sets and a minimal number of additional actors/characters (actors not in the main cast that are paid for every episode).

The Walking Dead used the same format as episode 10 did for a lot of there episodes with their main characters in the later seasons and they were indeed bottle episodes.

 

[nancipants]

@leiaorgana I agree completely with your review! It's a bummer that the show had the problems it did - and unfortunately they are extremely typical for Star Wars - because otherwise Andor is a masterpiece.

 

[BrianL]

Yeah, while I generally feel the show was great, I do think the season structure was limiting in some ways. I feel like they needed a bit more time - maybe not four full seasons, but just a few more episodes (or even just longer run-times). Overall though, it was well executed. I think it may be a tad "overrated" right now, but that may be newness-bias.

 

[Kit Jackson]

Well, okay, maybe not technically a "bottle episode," but it only had a handful of the show's usual characters and had large swaths of flashbacks.

The Walking Dead used the same format as episode 10 did for a lot of there episodes with their main characters in the later seasons and they were indeed bottle episodes.

I never watched The Walking Dead. However, if the episode is using brand new sets/locations and a large number of actors/performers who are not the main cast/regulars, then it's not a bottle episode. I'm sure there is a name for this type of episode, but it's not a bottle episode.

 

[mdmost]

Yeah, while I generally feel the show was great, I do think the season structure was limiting in some ways. I feel like they needed a bit more time - maybe not four full seasons, but just a few more episodes (or even just longer run-times). Overall though, it was well executed. I think it may be a tad "overrated" right now, but that may be newness-bias.

They just couldn't make it any longer than 2 seasons post Covid and Gilroy had to kind of blow it out in 2. Financially, this show costs so much that more seasons just weren't going to be possible or desired by even Gilroy and Diego Luna. None of this was shot in The Volume like Mando or Ahsoka. Real sets, shot on site in places like London and Spain. That costs so much more now.

I think we're looking at wrapping up season 2 of Ahsoka and then that's it for Disney+ live action Star Wars. I just don't see Disney wanting to keep funding these shows going forward except with animation. I look at it as we got almost 2-3 movies out of this one series. The total runtime of this series is almost 10 hours.

 

[BrianL]

They just couldn't make it any longer than 2 seasons post Covid and Gilroy had to kind of blow it out in 2. Financially, this show costs so much that more seasons just weren't going to be possible or desired by even Gilroy and Diego Luna. None of this was shot in The Volume like Mando or Ahsoka. Real sets, shot on site in places like London and Spain. That costs so much more now.

I think we're looking at wrapping up season 2 of Ahsoka and then that's it for Disney+ live action Star Wars. I just don't see Disney wanting to keep funding these shows going forward except with animation. I look at it as we got almost 2-3 movies out of this one series. The total runtime of this series is almost 10 hours.

I get that there were pragmatic concerns, but that doesn't mean that the narrative didn't suffer a little because of them. I don't think a little extra run-time was too much to ask. Heck, we already know about a couple of deleted scenes - which in my opinion would have been great to see incorporated. Considering the reception Andor S2 is getting, I feel like it would have been an easy win.

 

[mdmost]

Rogue One certainly hits harder after watching Andor. Gilroy did a great job of weaving the story well from the series into the movie. Certain lines hit differently now.