DarthDementous

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

that's fair and it was ultimately an unproductive pursuit anyway so I'm much happier disengaging from that particular argument so the discussion environment is better for all for the sake of fairness I will point out the last message I responded to was edited after the fact, so if people want to see the particular message I responded to then take a look at the quote

when people said this was the arc K2 was going to be introduced, I was not expecting it to be like that. was I imagining it or was that Ghorman Front lady's neck completely bent the other way when she landed after being launched in the air? chilling stuff

I heard allusions to the Force theme and I believe one of the Rogue One themes is similar to it, so maybe that's what it was?

the moment when it clicked for me that the Ghorman theme we've been hearing all throughout the series was the Ghorman anthem was really special, and wow those vocal cues were stunning, especially the operatic one in the end credits of episode 7. it gave it this feeling of timeless tragedy. I think it was what Dedra was listening to in episode 2 as well which is especially chilling

I thought I was losing my mind by how much I just openly and loudly wept and sobbed at the end but it's good to know that episode was just that affecting. I'm never going to forget the scene with Syril choking Dedra out of abject horror and Dedra completely breaking down at the end as the weight of what she's enabled hits her all at once I don't think I've ever had a watching experience like it, what made it especially intense is that I've been having issues with hypertension in my upper body, and because of how much that entire episode made me clench my muscles, right around the point the massacre started and Syril absolutely gunned it for Andor the muscle tension was starting to cut off my blood-flow so I felt like I was nearly going to faint. certainly made it more immersive as if I was actually in the chaos of that plaza but jesus christ, I seriously considered whether I should've just waited to watch episode 9 another time but my body eventually calmed down so I persisted I was in a slight fugue state for episode 9 so that's definitely going to need a rewatch legitimately can't stop thinking about this arc even the day after watching, wasn't ever expecting Star Wars of all things to traumatize me

fair, but did you also issue a warning to the person I was responding to that initiated the personal attacks in the first place? I'm blocking him anyway for the sake of my sanity, I can only take so many wildly off-base remarks