Star Wars Andor S1E8: "Narkina 5" (continued more)
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Star Wars Andor S1E8: "Narkina 5" (continued more)

To some degree, this episode felt like emotional torture porn. Not enough to make me call it distasteful, but still, it was a lot. The more I think about it though, the more I think that the misery really was necessary, and that dialling it down would have weakened the story even if it would have made for a better viewing experience. We need to see what the stakes really are. What an ultimate Imperial victory actually means.

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Star Wars Andor S1E7: "Announcement"
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Star Wars Andor S1E7: "Announcement"

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."

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Star Wars Andor S1E3: "Reckoning" (continued)
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Star Wars Andor S1E3: "Reckoning" (continued)

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.

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Star Wars Andor S1E1: "Cassa"
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Star Wars Andor S1E1: "Cassa"

He made a mistake just now. He went into a bar. In Star Wars. Bars aren't for drinking at, in Star Wars, they're for finding people to fight to the death. The instant any character ever sets foot in a bar, one or more blaster-wielding thugs will become determined to murder them and them specifically for no apparent reason.

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