#willow watches andor

[willowcrowned]

tbh from what I’ve seen people who love andor hate kenobi and some people who are insane for kenobi are more lukewarm about andor because they don’t come to Star Wars for that sort of thing. so if it does Star Wars emotions to you it might be new and different ones

thank you anon this is not at all comforting but very funny

[willie-the-tree]

Fic Writer Things & Tags

Aw thanks @nessrealta! It was fun reading your answers 💜 here are mine!

1. How did you get into writing fanfiction?

Andor. Had never read a fic in my life, let alone written one, until this show set my brain on fire and then I subsequently watched Rogue One and the Rebelcaptain brainrot took hold with a vengeance. I was like NEED MORE OF THESE CHARACTERS IMMEDIATELY AND ALSO AN ALTERNATE ENDING TO R1 and that’s when I remembered that fanfiction exists! Then, I liked the fics I was reading so much that I decided to write one myself!

That said, I always made up stories as a kid, often in my head at night to fall asleep, and often with my favorite existing characters.

2. How many fandoms have you written in?

Only Andor/Rogue One!

3. How many years have you been writing fanfiction?

1 year bb!

4. Do you read or write more fanfiction?

Read way more. When I say I check the Cassian Andor tag on AO3 every day…

5. What is one way you’ve improved as a writer?

By letting myself read and write fanfiction at all, and posting my writing on the interwebs for strangers to read. What joy.

6. What’s the weirdest topic you researched for a writing project?

Torture 😬 always feel sketch Googling that

7. What’s your favorite type of comment to receive on your work?

Literally any comment. And if the person liked what they read, even better!

One comment I always remember and hold dear to my heart is: “Take all the kudos. It’s a waterfall of kudos.” 🥹

8. What’s the most fringe trope/topic you write about?

I don’t think Cassian whump is fringe within the fandom, but it’s certainly fringe within the world.

9. What is the hardest type of story for you to write?

Heist/mission fics that are heavy on the plot.

10. What is the easiest type?

Characters’ feelings and inner monologues.

Hurt/comfort.

11. Where do you do your writing? What platform? When?

Laptop, often in bed, after work & on weekends, Microsoft Word.

Recently wrote some on a long train ride! That was fun.

12. What is something you’ve been too nervous/intimidated to write, but would love to write one day?

Totally got cold feet now that I’m at the whumpiest part of my current WIP. Would love to get through that and finish it.

13. What made you choose your username?

The weeping willow has always been my favorite tree. Underneath one, all things are possible.

No pressure Tagging @melyzard @cats-and-metersticks @absolutebearings @jynersq

[paulgadzikowski]

[Image description: Preview panel for the comic strip at the link below. Jen (SHE HULK) Walters and Matt (DAREDEVIL) Murdoch of She Hulk Attorney At Law stand with plates each holding a piece of pie watching Cassian Andor of Rogue One: A Star Wars Story as he reaches into a large cylindrical bin. Andor is carrying a talisman which indicates travel to this fiction-plane by means of the spell Willow Rosenberg invented. Unfortunately there are not image descriptions at the main Hero Of Three Faces site. End description.] 

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[missyourflight]

some stuff i read and watched in september:

my brilliant friend (s1-3): had a bit of ferrante fever and rinsed through this, i think it's v well done as an adaptation -- it's been so long since i read the first couple of books that the casting of the lads made them feel much more vivid than i remembered, also i Need to go to florence

foundation (s2): honestly entertainment peaked with deranged space emperor clone lee pace spitting blood in ben daniels' face and snarling i fucking love it, hope to see it back in 2-3 years probably!

the gold: finally got around to this bc they were talking about it on the watch lol, very cool the way it sort of sprawls out from the original heist and just keeps going, classic dcoop sketchiness, still mulling over casting jack lowden as lymond bc what other blonde scottish actors even are there

starstruck (s3): ROSE MATAFEO FOREVER etc. this season pretty much an anti-romcom which i'm on board with, the friendship stuff fucked me up, not to get into but phew re: being single in your thirties while all your friends are having kids etc

passages: really liked this but somehow didn't love it quite as much as i expected to, franz ben adele perfect, whishaw really come full circle since basically playing the franz role in cock at the royal court lol, beautiful knitwear outfits homewares

the best years of our lives: like 3 hours long but doesn't feel it, quietly devastatingly empathetic story of returning ww2 veterans, i need to watch the five come back series on netflix bc william wyler is so so good

a haunting in venice: i would also like to go to venice, kenbran's having fun at least my dutch angle king, i hope they keep letting him make these forever although i also rewatched tenet and nothing here tops the part where he jogs slowly backwards through time

the broken hearts gallery: the best of a bunch of recent-ish romances i watched, geraldine viswanathan is a Star

michael clayton: somehow hadn't seen this before but very satisfying like corporate thriller, tom wilkinson and tilda are great, i want to rewatch andor now

elena ferrante, the story of the lost child: finally finished the neapolitan novels, fuck me up elena. can't think of a comparable series of like adult novels that go this hard for me, maybe st aubyn? yowl

colin walsh, kala: this ripped actually, loved like the irish specificity of the voices

james frankie thomas, idlewild: literally took critical damage every time i had to read the word HoYay but this was great and painful about like being a horrible little queer teenager and codependent friendships and livejournal and annotated fanfiction etc

marilynne robinson, gilead: ow i loved this, i think it's a real skill to make like goodness compelling, looking forward to being devastated by the rest of the series etc

sylvia townsend warner, lolly willowes: 🧙‍♀️🍂🌝

katie kitamura, intimacies: more things should be set at the courts in the hague tbh! made me think about translation a lot and also black earth rising

cat sebastian, we could be so good: sometimes you just want to read a gay romance about being in love with your best friend innit

operation mincemeat: omg i actually went to the theatre, this was silly and very much The British Hamilton but i loved it and i cried and i ordered drinks to my seat, 5 stars etc

the effect: i didn't see the original billie piper staging but i love lucy prebble and i loved this cast, literally paapa essiedu can do anything, kobna holdbrook smith reminded me that i should carry on with the rivers of london audibooks, one in a long list of signs that i should probably talk to someone about my mental health lol

[chipthekeeper]

your top 15 favourite tv shows can say a lot about your personality

i guess I'm it. thanks for the tag @ireallyamabear !

i love getting tagged in things like this because the second it happens i forget every show i have ever watched (except for that one). so with the certainty that i'm leaving out something very important, here's a list, not really in order past the first two:

Andor

Sense8

Rebels

The Wheel of Time

Law & Order (original flavor only!!!)

I Love Lucy

Castle

Boy Meets World

Game of Thrones minus the last three episodes

Psych

Firefly

The Good Place

Willow (hashtag save willow)

this is when i ran out so.....old SportsCenter from when i was a kid

fucking...idk. any Scooby-Doo I grew up with

that was really difficult. clearly what this says about my personality is that not much leaves a strong impression on me unless i truly hyperfixate on it

tagging a few of the homies with no pressure: @e-the-village-cryptid @twilightstoned @rebelandrichgirl @whatimdoing-here

[nicola-coughlan]

reveal your watch & rewatch list

tagged by @brittas-perry my beloved <3

watching: mythic quest, abbott elementary, home economics, buffy the vampire slayer, wednesday, andor

rewatching: how to get away with murder s6 (so i can finally finish s6)

plan to watch: ginny & georgia s2 tomorrow!! i also wanna start willow soon

tagging @eddiediaaz @alincstarkov @eddiestattoos @nathanbyrne @staarfires @sith-maul @chikoriita @nataliaaromanovas and anyone else who wants to do it!

[endpoem]

Stuff I liked in 2022

‘Saul’ good (and other TV)

It’s not easy to say goodbye to Better Call Saul, the supposed end of Vince Gilligan’s Albuquerque cycle. I bought my dad the complete Breaking Bad on DVD for Christmas in 2014, and we watched the entire thing together, back before I had kids or a real full-time career. Jesse Pinkman, Nacho, Jimmy and Kim—these characters have meant the world to me for the better part of a decade, and Saul was absolutely the pinnacle.

El Camino, Saul season five, and the two halves of season six have been such a gift of flawless storytelling these last few years; sometimes they were the thing that got me out of bed in the morning. Logging into work on a Monday ain’t so bad when you’ve got more of Kim and Jimmy’s mischief to look forward to. Peter Gould, Gilligan, and company stuck the landing. If one of your favorite characters must die, you can’t ask for a more beautiful sendoff than “Rock and Hard Place.”

Bob Odenkirk’s book, Comedy Comedy Comedy Drama: A Memoir, was a great way to spend a weekend, as well, deepening my appreciation for an actor who’d already won my heart in the first couple seasons of Saul. (I’ll admit it: The character was never my favorite part of Breaking Bad. It took the Jimmy dimension to win me over and sell me on the idea of a spinoff. Mission accomplished, I guess.)

It’s a nice treat to see Odenkirk back in his home country of comedy, and it made for a good excuse to watch Mr. Show season one while I was waiting for Better Call Saul to come back from its mid-season break. Bob and I have a shocking number of things in common: five-nine, Irish-Catholic, Illinois guys, a cynicism born of trauma, severe impostor syndrome, et cetera. Anyway, I can’t wait to see what he does next.

I loved Atlanta season three; “New Jazz” was my favorite episode by far, probably because it focuses on Al (Paper Boi) and is weird even by Atlanta standards. I also enjoyed Stranger Things season four, which was a definite high for that series—Joseph Quinn was brilliant. And as a Halo fan going all the way back to 2001, I mostly dug the TV adaptation’s first season, though the finale was a bummer.

I’m a couple seasons into a Mad Men rewatch, trying to fill the void left by the Gilliverse, and it’s a different show now that I’m a father with two kids and more of a career. Unbelievably good.

‘The Rings of Power,’ classic Tolkien, and other fantasies

This was the year I got really into epic fantasy outside of, say, the Elder Scrolls games. The Rings of Power came along just in time to cure my post-Saul blues, and it certainly did the trick. It’s a gorgeous (and expensive) spectacle, with a rich, expansive world, mythic stakes, and some really great performances. And have you seen how beautiful that cast is? I’ve been known to develop the occasional TV or movie crush, Your Honor, but Morfydd Clark’s Galadriel is in a league of her own. My God. She’s great in Saint Maud, too.

After Rings of Power, I rewatched the extended cuts of the movie trilogy and bought a stack of books for good measure—The Hobbit, Rings, The Silmarillion, The Fall of Númenor, Tolkien’s translation of Sir Gawain and the Green Knight. I just finished Fellowship of the Ring, which is exquisite, and I’ve been reading The Hobbit aloud to my daughter. We’re about three-fourths of the way through that one.

I finally saw the original Willow and Legend (1985) earlier this year, and thought both were excellent. (The Legend Blu-ray from Arrow Video looks stunning.) House of the Dragon was pretty fantastic��as good as Game of Thrones in its earlier seasons, only more focused. And the Disney Plus Willow series is probably my second-favorite fantasy work of 2022; it’s playing around with the same kind of Lovecraftian terror as John Carpenter’s Prince of Darkness, and I can’t help but see it as a riff on the Star Wars sequel trilogy.

‘Andor’ and more

There was some good star stuff on the tube this year. “The Tribes of Tatooine,” the second episode of Book of Boba, elevated that series above the disposable feel of Mandalorian season two (“The Believer” notwithstanding). And Deborah Chow’s Obi-Wan Kenobi gave those of us who grew up on the prequels a magnificent bookend to the Obi-and-Ani relationship.

Light & Magic, the six-part docuseries on ILM, offered a phenomenal overview of special-effects history beginning with the inception of Star Wars and ending with the biggest breakthroughs of the CGI era. You could easily do a second season on the last couple decades of blockbusters and stuff like StageCraft, but maybe that’s a series for down the road.

But of course no Star Wars discussion this year could pass without addressing the main event, Andor, which can safely be called the best Star Wars story since 1983. Tony Gilroy is a masterful writer and showrunner, responsible for much of what people loved in Rogue One, and he brings all his intelligence and rage and love to Andor. He and his crew ought to be very proud. Who knew that all Star Wars needed was more Andy Serkis and Diego Luna? Gilroy, evidently.

Shadow of the Sith, a 496-page novel by Adam Christopher, was another Star Wars highlight in 2022. If you’re looking for a good Luke Skywalker book, or a good Lando Calrissian book—or some spooky Sith magic—you’ll find all of that and more in this moving Rise of Skywalker tie-in. For those curious about Rey’s parents, this is largely their story, as well, and it’s beautifully done. My favorite Star Wars book in years.

Always gamin’

I’m not a full-time games journalist anymore, so my gaming habits are a lot more relaxed than they used to be. Which is to say I play to have fun, now, and I can’t recommend it enough. I buy far fewer new games these days, for one, though I did love Lego Star Wars: The Skywalker Saga, Destiny 2: The Witch Queen, and several games I’ve started but not yet finished.

One of my biggest games this year was Final Fantasy VII Remake, which I finally finished on the PS5. Hell of a game—if any video game can be called a masterpiece, that one comfortably belongs in the category. I also rolled credits on Mass Effect 2 and 3, and thought the latter was far superior to the middle chapter in spite of the general consensus. Regardless of how you feel about the very end, that game is quite an achievement for BioWare, and I hope Dragon Age: Dreadwolf is even half as engrossing.

I spent a lot of time playing Fortnite and Call of Duty online this year—something I plan to do a lot less of in 2023—but had plenty of fun doing it. I replayed a lot of familiar favorites: Skyrim, Halo Infinite, Fallout: New Vegas, Miles Morales. Most of my hours on the Nintendo Switch were spent with KotOR and KotOR II, and I’m currently struggling through an attempt to replay Morrowind on the Xbox, which is both painful and rewarding. I’m rediscovering a lot of the reasons why I fell in love with it twenty years ago.

At the movies

I didn’t go to the theater much this year, but I did watch 209 movies—most of them at home on my 65-inch TCL 5-Series. My top ten films of 2022 were The Fabelmans, Top Gun: Maverick, Elvis, del Toro’s Pinocchio, Watcher, Everything Everywhere All at Once, Pearl, The Batman, Nope, and Hellraiser. Fabelmans and Top Gun in particular made my heart soar; it’s nice to see both Spielberg and Cruise still delivering career-best work a full two decades after Minority Report, which was my favorite movie for a long time.

Outside of those ten, I also loved Kimi, Beavis and Butt-Head Do the Universe, Weird: The Al Yankovic Story, Revealer, and Confess, Fletch.

As far as new-to-me classics, I had a very fulfilling year working my way through the gaps in my Carpenter and Mann viewing, if nothing else—They Live, Prince of Darkness, Elvis ’79, Big Trouble in Little China, In the Mouth of Madness, Cigarette Burns, Ali, The Insider, The Keep… I spent a lot of time studying my favorite Carpenter flicks last year as I wrote the treatment for a horror script that’s lived in my head for a while, but I didn’t want to watch Prince of Darkness till after I’d finished a detailed outline of the story. In 2022, I logged fifteen Carpenter films and seven from Mann.

I saw Citizen Kane, F for Fake, The Bride of Frankenstein, The Godfather, Part II, Solaris (2002), The Meyerowitz Stories (every bit as good as Marriage Story), Twin Peaks season two and The Missing Pieces, Killing Them Softly, Jaws, Your Name, The Gambler (the one with James Caan, not Marky Mark), Bonnie and Clyde, Near Dark, The Hidden, Silent Running, the original 3:10 to Yuma, Joe Kidd.

It’s been a hard, stressful, scary, transformative year. But I’m grateful for the strides I made, both personal and professional, and for the media and stories that inspired me along the way.

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[Image description: Preview panel for the comic strip at the link. Jen (SHE HULK) Walters and Matt (DAREDEVIL) Murdoch of She Hulk Attorney At Law stand with plates each holding a piece of pie watching Cassian Andor of Rogue One: A Star Wars Story as he reaches into a large cylindrical bin. Andor is carrying a talisman which indicates travel to this fiction-plane by means of the spell Willow Rosenberg invented. Unfortunately there are not image descriptions at the main Hero Of Three Faces site. End description.]

[pearlcaddy]

6, 13, and 19 for the TV asks! Hope you feel better 💙

Thank you 💚💚

6. which shows do you think are underrated and need more love?

Answered here! But I am once again asking people to watch We Are Lady Parts.

13. what genre of TV show is your favourite?

Fantasy, always.

19. are there any shows on your “to watch” list right now?

Andor, Willow, 1899, and The Law According to Lidia Poët. Unfortunately for all those shows, I'm currently unable to watch anything but Lockwood & Co on loop.

My partner and I also still have to finish The Expanse--we've been putting it off because we're not ready for the show to be over, but it's probably time.

TV ask game!

[willowcrowned]

meant to start andor tonight but I chickened out at the last minute because I’m too scared of what it might do to me. if it’s anything close to the kenobi show I’m not gonna survive. I don’t have that in me anymore

[lol-jackles]

Willow was so so bad. I quit watching around episode 5 or 6. My husband held on. Andor was slow and I really didn't care about it until the last few episodes when it finally picked up. IT really does feel like they are just trying to ruin our beloved shows

Willow sequel made me so mad. The actors were fine and the story could have been fine as a non-Willow standalone fantasy series, but Willow's people and their way of life was destroyed. That would be like Lord of the Rings sequel destroying the Shire and making the hobbits refugees.

[alexzalben]

Hi Alex.

I saw you answered earlier about Willow. And I was wondering do you think it's possible that Lucasfilm is waiting to announce the renewal at the Lucasfilm event in April? Cuz if I'm not mistaken they haven't even officially announced the renewal of Andor but we know it's happening because the main actor said so. Maybe they want to wait till then. Also does Disney+ every really show how their ratings work ? Cause I've noticed some article mentioned how the ratings work amazing but it was still widely watched. I hate how streaming networks don't really show their actual ratings like primetime tv.

Anyways, thanks again.

You mean Star Wars Celebration in London? Totally possible, there's a very good chance that's where they'll announce a lot of their upcoming slate. I'd imagine (if we haven't by that point) we'll get dates for Ahsoka, The Acolyte, Skeleton Crew and Andor Season 2. Or at least "release windows" which is all the rage now since nobody wants to commit on anything, even release dates.

For Willow, if they don't announce anything by or at Star Wars Celebration, that's a point I would start getting worried, tbh. Or at the very least, concerned, because Lucasfilm has been pretty muted on a lot of projects, since they got burned announcing too much too quickly.

On Andor, they've already confirmed -- and are currently filming -- a 12 episode second season.

And ratings are confusing for streaming shows because like you said, there's no clear standard. The main one I trust is Nielsen because they're Nielsen, but unfortunately Willow did not chart in their Top 10, which is, uh, not great. Doesn't mean much though because we don't know what standard Disney/Lucasfilm are basing renewals on.

And thank YOU for writing in!

[kaydear]

I posted 9,539 times in 2022

That's 2,529 more posts than 2021!

284 posts created (3%)

9,255 posts reblogged (97%)

Blogs I reblogged the most:

@violetbeetle

@dezmondmyles

@sootspritesprinkles

@kaldwinroyalty

@mintconditiondean

I tagged 6,679 of my posts in 2022

Only 30% of my posts had no tags

#queue - 5,352 posts

#star wars - 472 posts

#video - 453 posts

#art - 350 posts

#personal - 253 posts

#swtcw - 218 posts

#tbb - 190 posts

#andor - 147 posts

#mass effect - 96 posts

#spn - 94 posts

Longest Tag: 139 characters

#listen. ive never said this but early seasons eliot had just as much a chance of ending up in a nate+sophie throuple no i will not elaborat

My Top Posts in 2022:

#5

"may we have the room please" sir youre in a tent with no walls

15 notes - Posted April 14, 2022

#4

me holding a gun trusting not a single ted lasso writer like how are you going to break my heart. they're sick enough to make a no relationships endgame and it would be good and thematically satisfying and i will never be able to watch another television show ever again

15 notes - Posted September 6, 2022

#3

“Get back?” Darius repeated, arching a brow. “Where are you going?” 

“Oh!” Hunter brightened, straightening his back, eyes shining. “Willow’s dads organized a flyer derby game between Hexside and Glandus! It’s just a scrimmage, you know, since the regular season won’t start until spring, but the Emerald Entrails are going to show them we’ve been practicing!” This punctuated with a very… earnest chopping motion of his hand. 

But Darius was immediately skeptical. “Should you be flying around with Flapjack this soon? Dell said to be careful with straining the new staff until the wood is settled.” 

Darius goes to a flyer derby match. 

26 notes - Posted November 5, 2022

#2

andor starting with the 'BBY 5' like. this man will be dead in five years. he will die fighting for a rebellion he will never see completed. he will die but it will have been worth it. it will have worked. all of the power the empire is using to crush everyone under heel every single episode will fall because in five years this man and one ship's crew and a party of rebels fought back against impossible odds.

time is measured against the battle cassian and rogue one made possible to win. BBY 5. dead man walking biting killing yelling

45 notes - Posted November 13, 2022

My #1 post of 2022

57 notes - Posted April 25, 2022

Get your Tumblr 2022 Year in Review →

[jonberry555]

Today I created several videos

- Edited my reviews for Band of Brothers (12/7)

-Watch #Willow - Review recorded & Edited (11/29)

-Created a video talking about Thomas and Friends and nostalgia (11/28)

-Worked on my #Andor Complete S1 Review (11/30)

Not to bad

[bmalsuj]

Disney+ Series Rankings to Date

S-Tier: (Excellent) Andor Moon Knight Mandalorian

A-Tier: (Great) Loki Ms Marvel Star Wars: Visions

B-Tier: (Good, could have been better) She-Hulk Bad Batch Hawkeye Obi-Wan Ahsoka

C-Tier: (serious problems, but not without some redeeming value, and worth watching.... once) WandaVision Willow Tales of the Jedi What If Book of Bobba Fett

FAIL: (Why???? Just... why???? What the F*** is wrong with you!!!!) Secret Invasion

[re-bee-key]

Willow got up to 11%! :D we stay winning!

Current ranking is:

1. Andor

2. Clone Wars

3. The Original Trilogy

4. Rebels

5. Willow (Lets GooOOoO 🥳)

6. The Prequel Trilogy

7. The Mandolorian

8. Legends

9. Video Games

10. The Sequel Trilogy (where it fucking belongs)

Yall have another day if you want to change the ranking. Remember, shit doesnt circulate if you dont reblog. (Anyways. Vote Willow, its the funny option. And if you havnt seen Willow yet, what? You hate lesbians or something? Go watch Willow!)

For those not in the know

Willow is essentially Star Wars.

Not only is the magic system basically the Force. But the plotline for the show can be interpreted as a Star Wars Sequel Trilogy rewrite.

Anyways, I see Willow as Trekkies see Galaxy Quest.

"Technically" not actually part of Star Trek, but considered in polls by as part of the Star Trek lineup.

I dont think Willow will win this poll. Lol. But I think its fun.