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[the-kittylorian-writes]

Today in I should be having lunch but I wrote this instead:

Now that we’re done with ANDOR’s second three-episode arc…

Possibly a number of viewers would keep believing that the show is going at a snail’s pace and all its moving parts are still clicking into place, and we are already six episodes in.

But ANDOR really is different in tone, mood, and in its overall storytelling. It digs deeper into every explorable crevice (sounds gross but yea) rather than pushes linearly, which has been the style of classic novels (like—no surprise, Victor Hugo’s LES MISÉRABLES.) It moves like those novels that explore a person’s eye twitch in five paragraphs before moving on to describing the cold somber afternoon and its townspeople in another twenty before we can even get to some discernible dialogue.

It’s definitely not for everyone, especially those who lead busy lives and love the rush of everyday fastness and snappiness. The culture behind ANDOR is distinct from the culture behind THE MANDALORIAN, for example. ANDOR is ponderous and psychological on the get-go while THE MANDALORIAN is striking and exciting with its straightforward elements. Both have their strengths and weaknesses.

The Rebellion had a philosophy and a common cause which glued the alliance together, and seemingly for ANDOR, what starts as a common hate for the Empire slowly becomes open concern and love for a fellow “struggler,” and in a wider search for every one of these strugglers, no matter the origins, status, and species (where are the Bothans and their spies? Coming soon to an episode near you? Lol), the Alliance was born.

I won’t go into further tirade about how ANDOR is both flashy and deliberately crawling at the same time, but the show is unmistakably something that can make one think if they allow a space opera fantasy to. STAR WARS means differently to different people, and ANDOR goes into a discussion of the heart, mind, and spirit—in all its pragmatism and idealism—which ignited the Rebellion against a huge, galactic Evil still lurking in the shadows, a machine fed by the resigned and the ambitious.

I really hope ANDOR doesn’t let the fans as a whole down in the end! 🥲For me, this seems like a good thing to get the franchise back on track, and by the gods I will check out once I see a flock of shiny vespas on a planet other than Coruscant or Nar Shaddaa whiz over to Cassian and the gang to the rescue. I’m kidding. Or not. 😅😅

SPOILERS: Cassian began to believe the moment he took Nemik’s manifesto book… and he must have kept it for a long time.