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"Let's make it worth it."

DIEGO LUNA as CASSIAN ANDOR in Andor, Season 2 first look

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Tony Gilroy speaking in 2022 about the structure of Andor season 2.

Playing with “the negative space” is something I’m really intrigued (and slightly worried) about. So much story is going to be happening in those gaps.

But season 1 already did this so well, providing a huge amount of backstory simply by showing the present situation and a few key flashbacks. It’s just that in season 2 this filling in of the gaps will be happening every three episodes. I’m really hoping that because it’s already been done so well, season 2 won’t feel rushed. These a-few-days-in-a-year arcs have been described also as “needle-drops” in the old sense. We’ll start each in media res and will really have to pay attention. Because this is a series that repays you in spades for doing exactly that.

Those hints about the stories? What the passage of time does the characters? Hmm. “People get crazy”… yeah, like me – waiting for April 22nd.

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It's a little thing, but I love that injuries matter on Andor. Cassian gets a blaster burn in "Reckoning," and he's still dealing with it two episodes later. He binds the wound immediately afterwards on Luthen's ship, and it's cleaned, bandaged, and checked/redressed in the camp on Aldhani. The other rebels immediately notice that he's injured and worry that it'll be a liability during the mission. People ask about his arm and how he's doing.

I realize part of it is that we're looking at a ramshackle fledgling operation without access to bacta tanks for quick healing, so instead we get patch-up jobs without pain relief because they need to ration their meds. But in a galaxy where we've seen people take a lightsaber to the gut and be up and walking the next day, it's good to see a show where even something as comparatively minor as Cassian getting shot in the arm can't just be shaken off as nothing.

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The boys are back.

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😚😮😳😇

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We are all of us stardust, held together by love for an instant.

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Vin would be the best Uber driver.

Don't want to talk? Excellent. Tunes? Already on. Windows? Down. Snacks? He's got them. He knows where all the cops hang out and where the speed traps are so you are Arriving On Time so help him.

As long as you don't require petty things like A door. Because he doesn't have those.

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I think a lot of the relationship conflict between Ezra and Maude can be attributed to the fact that Maude divides the world into marks and not-marks, and when she came to town the first time she made the very easy mistake of drawing the line in a different place from Ezra.

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Arguably, if M7 has a protagonist, it’s probably Chris, in that a) he’s in charge, and b) it’s kind of his story overall(kind of. at least we have the most consistent arc/continuing story/goal for him of all the boys). But I’d probably argue there isn’t really a singular protagonist, it’s the Magnificent SEVEN after all.

But what if there was?

What if there was a thread running through everything and it all came back to one of the boys, because it’s their story?

What if it was Josiah’s story, about putting his past behind him and re-learning to live in the present and to stop blaming himself for the mistakes a young man made because he didn’t know any better and he was young. About finding faith again, about being the oldest and the one they look to for wisdom more often than not and sometimes not having anything to offer, because he’s just a man at the end of the day, no matter how much he’s read and how much he’s learned. About slowly rebuilding the church and all the setbacks he encounters and the friends he makes and the advice he gives and the relationships they build while they’re sanding down pews and mending the roof after storms and painting the walls and getting covered in paint as JD and Buck chase each other around like children.

Listening to Ezra tell stories about his childhood when he’s willing to and believing them, and maybe one day asking Maude if she knew what she was doing to him. Listening to JD talk about the books he read when he was out East, longing to be where he is now, and how it’s all very different, isn’t it. Sitting in silence when no one wants to talk. Being the mediator in fights, not just between the boys but also with townsfolk because he’s not only trusted as a level head, he’s also big enough to crack sense into them if they need it. 

Trusting the others, not just Vin, with Hannah’s story, with his story, and finding ways to help her, even if it’s a little and slowly. Riding out to the reservation and making friends there and learning from elders and writing down what he learns, because Vin can see what’s happening because he’s lived it, and Josiah sees it too, because his father was a missionary - he’s lived it too, just from the other side. Watching the boys get in trouble and officiating Nathan and Raine’s wedding along with someone from her village.

Just, Josiah’s story.

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COMN FANFIC WRITERS !!

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Vin: *a single, distant, but very loud Yeehaw*

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Vin: Sorry ‘bout what happened earlier

Ezra: How did you get in here?

Vin: I’m not here to discuss your lack of home security, I’m here to apologize

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Ezra and Vin becoming crime buddies and going off to con and conquer together.

Ezra teaches Vin the finer points of lying to people’s faces and etiquette, though neither of them enjoy it! Ezra get a bodyguard with excellent people-reading skills who can Loom significantly in the background! They make money and have lots of fun!

But seriously though. CAN YOU IMAGINE.

Ezra gets the bounty taken care of because it wouldn’t do for Vin to get killed/kidnapped for the $500 in the middle of a con, and Ezra won’t ever admit it to anyone but he’s grown quite fond of him, and not to mention the good his bodyguard being a pardoned man will do - I mean having a wanted man working ‘for’ him makes him seem more helpless or badass depending on how he spins it, but there’s a limit to how useful it can be, and sometimes the law is actually on their side so it would be nice for Vin to be able to talk to them too without danger of arrest. Ezra lets Vin talk him into giving more of the money they make to people who need it and Vin occasionally lets Ezra talk him into staying in nice hotels, though he always scopes out the exits first thing, and leaves the windows open (and he may have slept on the roof once or twice).

Over time their cons become increasingly less predictable - sometimes they’re Bringing Justice to bear, mostly by fleecing a nasty cattle baron or guy who runs the local brothel and making sure the people he had oppressed get the chance for revenge and to stand on their own feet. And sometimes they become an elaborate practical joke - the mark isn’t a nice guy, probably just plain mean, and if he doesn’t have enough money to make it worth their while to take it, they just annoy the snot out of him and make his life a living hell (they are ridiculously good at this) while Ezra makes whatever money he can at the poker tables. They reach a point where they ride into a town, investigate it a bit, and when they see the mark, they just exchange glances and they know and they can work off each other and start the con without even needing to discuss what kind of a job this is going to be.

When Ezra finds out Vin can’t read he is appalled and insulted that a) this managed to pass unnoticed under his nose for so long and b) that Vin has had to struggle and scrape by when Ezra would be honoured to teach him, if he would allow it. (He does.) And when Vin lets slip that he writes poetry Ezra buys him notebooks so he can write it down, books so he can read how other poets use words and have expressed the same feelings over centuries, and encourages Vin to buy himself those things too (it’s OK to spend money on yourself, really, we’re making enough we can fill a wagon with books if you want. Vin does not want. But he does carefully select volumes, and has excellent judgement and always knows whether he’ll like a poem right away.)

Vin and Ezra, crime buddies, bringing justice to small towns (don’t tell Maude) and bad men down a peg, lining their pockets and kid’s stomachs wherever they go.

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Magnificent Seven Modern AU - Vin Tanner “The Sharpshooter”

Mr. Tanner is the best long distance contract killer in the south western United States.  He’s been on the run for many years.  It is believed he killed a rancher in Texas, but he vehemently denies it.  Vin claims that he was framed.  Chris and Agent Dunne were authorized to offer up a pardon to Tanner if he would assist the CIA.  Vin took the pardon but still swears to hunt down the man who framed him.