The Galactic Empire is really a masterclass at making friends, isn't it?

Star Wars Andor has been accurately described as a scifi spy thriller, or political thriller, or dark adventure story. Looking at the ten episodes I've reviewed so far, I'm going to propose an alternate interpretation. Not as a replacement, to be clear, more of a supplement.

Andor is a horror story in which violence itself is the monster. Like many horror stories, this one sees the monster winning.

For all that it also did right, there's also just too damned much that bothered me.

In short, and with the benefit of franchise context: they're building components for the death stars.

I'll just finish this off by repeating one more time how fucking amazing the Narkina factory interiors look.

It kinda makes her an even more pathetic figure than Cyril himself. He's able to pick up and restart his life after losing Preox-Morlana, albeit with difficulty. Without the ISB, she'd melt like the wicked witch of the west.

Seriously, the Narkina 5 rig is some of the best environment work I've ever seen.

I hate it. Thanks.

I take back what I said before. This is worse than Cyril's new job.

Does Cassa realize that this - the increased suffering of the people he knows and cares about - was an intentional part of Luthen's strategy? Probably not, I don't think. But then, as has already been discussed, this was always going to come sooner or later.

Doesn't he realize how much suffering his actions are going to cause? How many people are going to be killed or tortured? How much worse the oppression is going to be for those already suffering the most under the imperial yoke? How much more awful he's just given Palpatine permission to get?

In response to her line of questioning, Luthen smiles and says "That's the point."

Last flight, I'd gladly trade my life, for one night as a justice acolyte.

I wonder if that kid is going to end up being a more important character, of if he just exists to make us hate his dad a little bit more than we would anyway.

Before the rebellion was about magic space knights learning Daoism from frogs, it was about the blood, sweat, and tears of the decidedly nonmagical and nonchivalrous Cassian Andor.

I, uh, well. I've got to say. These guys have a loooooooong way to go before becoming the organization that destroyed the death star.

This arc is off to one hell of a strong start.

I've mentioned that I don't like beards, I think? Well, I don't, and without his Cassa is pretty bangable I must say.

Now that there is thinking like an insurgent!

I find myself caring about Wars in a way I never did previously. All these names and bits of trivia that I absorbed by osmosis and have been more or less dead weight in my brain for decades are suddenly lighting up and forming patterns.

It's honestly a kind of surreal experience.

That's another quirk of Star Wars, isn't it? People are really extemporaneous in their landing sites.