DarthDementous

you're making this about racism now? what is actually wrong with the discourse around this show -.-

that is absurd to me. how have some people become this intolerant of something as normal as recasting, especially for someone who isn't even a major character? it does a great disservice to the great job Benjamin Bratt did in the series as well and frankly I don't really want that performance replaced with anything else because of how it hit all the right notes. recasting let's you actually have a full performance instead of some weirdly limited scenes where you're barely able to see the person which would be far more distracting and obvious, and it wouldn't have made sense or resonated as much for anyone other than Bail to be in this position it's a shame that Jimmy Smits wasn't able to be in a show that would've let him shine as an actor, because lord knows the Prequels, Kenobi, and Rogue One did not give him that opportunity - but he is so minor in the grand scheme of Andor's production that it would've been unreasonable to halt everything and revolve purely around his availability as for the whole 'how can you call Bail a senator' thing, and this is going to sound rich/odd coming from me, but who cares? this isn't talked about by the show and it has no bearing on it whatsoever. the important dramatic detail is that Bail is the one to directly aid in giving Mon Mothma the floor - that is it. if there's any future story that revolves around this detail in an important way then I'm sure they can come up with a reason that justifies it, that is how the expanded universe has rolled in the past and how it will continue to roll in the future. there is no point in being a slave to canon, especially obscure canon, if there's nothing to be gained from it other than connecting some dots on paper

wow yeah that gave me chills, very Williams-y. makes me want another Powell Star Wars score

you couldn't pinpoint the theme that plays in the intro of every episode? really?

I rewatched Rogue One now with the full context of Andor and I hated it. I could rant for hours as to why but I'll just say that everything was so much worse than I remembered, and my last feelings towards this movie was 'meh'. it feels like a bad adaptation of the show which is hilarious considering it came first

I've heard good things about a handful of those, and only read Tales of the Jedi which I would consider good but not great, the various arcs are inconsistent in quality which is the main thing that holds it back from that. it is an important building block to the KOTOR duology though, so you can't chalk that up to just the influence of the Prequels my main point is really that much like the OT, the PT was a bed of creativity that birthed great content that surpassed it. the West End Games sourcebooks were the urr-text for the EU as we know it today without a doubt, and I expect a lot of those PT-era EU works are still drawing from what is basically a map to how the Star Wars universe should function this to me feels like one of the most notable differences between the PT and the ST. other than Bloodlines which I thought was quite good but certainly not on the level of a Plagueis, I'm not aware of any great pieces of content that it has spawned and I feel that speaks to its bed of creativity being far less fertile than the PT's was it's kind of obvious, when you think about it, as this is Lucas' great strength as a storyteller. the likes of JJ and Rian do not remotely match that, even if the execution in parts demonstrates more competence

that put a big smile on my face, one of the most earned versions of that - and it sounded like a new recording too! I binged 8-12 all in one go (had already seen 7-9 but was watching with roommate who hadn't seen them) so it's gonna be a lot to mentally sift through but there were some stunning moments in that finale, especially some of the performances - holy crap Ben Mendehlson! K2 was everything I wanted and more this really did just perfectly T up Rogue One. in a sense, Gilroy has been tasked with rewriting Rogue One twice, I'll probably be doing a rewatch of 10-12 leading into Rogue One with some of my friends and I have a feeling it's going to be an unrecognizable watching experience to my previous (where I've fallen asleep multiple times) what an incredible show. not only were the highs incredibly high, but this is probably the most consistent quality show I've ever seen. I have a feeling this will go down in history as one of the all time greats, rewatching has just rewarded so many more insights cannot wait for the season 2 bluray that I hope they end up doing

I also had the feeling it was like a Chibnall episode but I think in this case I was just missing a lot of cultural context, and it sounded like for people more familiar with that mythology it landed so I'm happy to just say it wasn't for me the acting was quite good across the board as well

yeah I couldn't remember either, had to check out the scene to refresh my memory

as well as basically every great piece of EU content except for the Thrawn Trilogy

it's the first organized effort against the Emperor (then the Chancellor) but it's not the Rebellion which is an extrajudicial organisation, they were discussing an alliance in the Senate which Mon realises throughout the course of Andor is no longer a viable place to try and fight the Empire from even though it's deleted, that scene fits into the overall continuity

Dedra in a nutshell

that may be so but it doesn't make for compelling drama even if it's realistic it's very hard to tell how much of this is McTighe dropping the ball versus RTD, but a lot of the mistakes in this episode feel unlike RTD to me and given he doesn't have a co-writing credit I don't think he was super hands on with this particular script like say, The Well in a sense that's actually worse, because by two parter I meant a two parter for telling the story of Lucky Day so these concepts and characters are already fleshed out to then build upon. now we have a very thin and aggravating character who's going to get more screen-time, but maybe he'll be used in a way that won't matter too much, who knows at this point

I'm getting that feeling, and you're right about Luthen expecting this was always the direction things were going to go in. I hadn't really realized until this arc but Luthen is fundamentally incompatible with what the Rebel Alliance has become and yet he's such an important proto-phase of it, but his use especially by 1BBY I think is going to come to an end

that was an incredibly bizarre episode of Doctor Who, and by the end of it despite wanting Russel to be stretched less thin, I'm starting to appreciate his episodes this season a lot more after watching that Ruby was great and her emotional arc of dealing with PTSD from travelling with The Doctor is a really great direction to take the post-companion story in, but everything else was just ??? the boyfriend character was the most one dimensional and unbelievable asshole, unflappable even as he's being schooled by The Doctor which was just very unsatisfying to watch even if Ncuti was giving it his all as usual. the premise of the public turning on UNIT due to conspiracy is pretty brilliant and it's something I could see Big Finish doing but it needs to be a two parter otherwise you end up with an incredibly rushed conflict like this where a movement spawns out of thin air and then is immediately dealt with. Kate also felt way more impotent and imbalanced than I would expect to the point she felt out of character, but I suspect that's a consequence of the condensed timeframe of dealing with all of this as well as the antagonist being a joke I might soften on it later but right now this is ranking as the worst episode of the new era for me, it has the feeling of a Sleep No More where a valiant attempt to do something new ends up being a complete misfire. I almost wanted to rewatch The Well right after as a palette cleanser