Spoilers Andor - Season 2

[thribs]

Why wasn’t Vader invited to the wedding? He would have made an awesome wedding guest.

 

[Yistaan]

Wasn’t wasn’t Vader invited to the wedding. He would have made an awesome wedding guest.

They should've pushed the wedding off till 2 BBY, rewritten it so that Leida's actually perfectly happy with her new groom, Perrin is all smiles and not talking nonsense about Mon having an affair, and even Tay Kolma says everything worked out perfectly. Mon's happy, going to her daughter's wedding banquet, the door opens and...

Vader: We would be honored if you would join us.

Suddenly Mon looks at Leida, Perrin, and Tay who all now have very cold looks on their faces. She runs and makes a break for it dodging stormtrooper blasterfire and screaming on her comlink for Luthen to get her out of there.

 

[David cgc]

It is believed that within the next five years all shows and movies will have an intimacy coordinator as a matter of default, becuase that is the reality of the world we live in. For example, the current season of Doctor Who has an intimacy coordinator, and there's nothing sexually suggestive at all in that show.

If Doctor Who had had an intimacy coordinator 20 years ago (God, we're all so old), Captain Jack might still be making guest appearances. Heck, if the rumors are right, if Doctor Who had had a better stunt coordinator 20 years ago, the Ninth Doctor might still be making guest appearances.

 

[thribs]

Is that why Doctor Who isn’t good anymore?

 

[Yistaan]

If it gets out that Tay dies mysteriously and no one knows about Luthen's part, it would give the impression Mon's a heartless killer which in turn makes it more believable that Cassian genuinely thinks Mon ordered Galen Erso's death in Rogue One

 

[thribs]

I think it’s just more implied that she knows what will happen. She just doesn’t do anything to stop it.
I mean she does kill a lot of Bothans later on.

 

[Yistaan]

I think it’s just more implied that she knows what will happen. She just doesn’t do anything to stop it.
I mean she does kill a lot of Bothans later on.

Strangely enough in all the insanity they crammed into between ESB and ROTJ in the canon comics (Qi'ra's syndicate war, a carbonite auction of frozen Han, a droid madness, the Force going awry, Crimson Dawn somehow telling the Rebels about Death Star 2, an Imperial Schism led by Sly Moore, everything in Star Wars Outlaws, etc. and I'm probably missing other events), the Bothan involvement of the Death Star 2 plans isn't detailed.

 

[Nerys Myk]

If it gets out that Tay dies mysteriously and no one knows about Luthen's part, it would give the impression Mon's a heartless killer which in turn makes it more believable that Cassian genuinely thinks Mon ordered Galen Erso's death in Rogue One

It would???

 

[FredH]

Heck, if the rumors are right, if Doctor Who had had a better stunt coordinator 20 years ago, the Ninth Doctor might still be making guest appearances.

Interesting; I hadn’t heard this particular set of rumors (regarding a stunt coordinator). Can you elaborate?

 

[David cgc]

Interesting; I hadn’t heard this particular set of rumors (regarding a stunt coordinator). Can you elaborate?

The story is that the bad blood between Christopher Eccleston and RTD (and filmed Doctor Who by extension) was because there was a safety issue on the set of "Rose" involving a flaming sofa as part of the department store explosion sequence at the beginning of the episode. Some people were nearly hurt, Eccleston tried to take it up the chain, but Davies and Julie Gardner shrugged it off. There are Reddit threads discussing the rumors here and here.

I embellished a bit for the parallel construction, I'm not actually sure the stunt coordinator would be the directly responsible individual on set for that particular incident, though it seems like something that'd be within their purview as a dangerous effect taking place near actors.

 

[Turtletrekker]

My favorite comment about the first arc so far is Jessie Gender's comment that with Andor,Tony Gilroy is doing Rebel Moon better than Zack Snyder did Rebel Moon.

 

[FredH]

The story is that the bad blood between Christopher Eccleston and RTD (and filmed Doctor Who by extension) was because there was a safety issue on the set of "Rose" involving a flaming sofa as part of the department store explosion sequence at the beginning of the episode. Some people were nearly hurt, Eccleston tried to take it up the chain, but Davies and Julie Gardner shrugged it off. There are Reddit threads discussing the rumors here and here.

I embellished a bit for the parallel construction, I'm not actually sure the stunt coordinator would be the directly responsible individual on set for that particular incident, though it seems like something that'd be within their purview as a dangerous effect taking place near actors.

Thanks. That certainly sounds like Eccleston acting properly here, as opposed to other rumors I’ve sometimes seen that basically just assume he was being a prima donna or something.

 

[FredH]

My favorite comment about the first arc so far is Jessie Gender's comment that with Andor,Tony Gilroy is doing Rebel Moon better than Zack Snyder did Rebel Moon.

Makes sense, since Rebel Moon was Zack Snyder doing Star Wars much, much, much worse than either George Lucas or Disney did Star Wars…

 

[Turtletrekker]

Makes sense, since Rebel Moon was Zack Snyder doing Star Wars much, much, much worse than either George Lucas or Disney did Star Wars…

Snyder has said that Rebel Moon is Star Wars for adults, but Zack Snyder doesn't make movies for adults, he makes movies that 15-year-olds think are for adults.

 

[JD]

Lots of articles on the first three episodes:
IGN
Andor is Fleshing Out the Most Important Star Wars Conflict You Don't Know
https://www.ign.com/articles/star-wars-andor-season-2-ghorman-massacre-rebellion

Somehow Mon Mothma is Now One of the Greatest Star Wars Characters Ever
https://www.ign.com/articles/someho...one-of-the-greatest-star-wars-characters-ever

EW
Adria Aronja says filming first ever Star Wars rape scene in "Andor" was "acting Olympics"
https://ew.com/andor-adria-arjona-addresses-first-star-wars-rape-scene-11718287

StarWars.com
Secrets from the Set of Andor Season 2: Week 1
https://www.starwars.com/news/andor-trivia-guide-week-1

The Secrets of Mina-Rau & Chrandrila: Creating the Worlds of Andor Season 2
https://www.starwars.com/news/andor-season-2-world-building-production-design-feature

Behind the Seams: The Costumes of Andor Season 2
https://www.starwars.com/news/andor-season-2-costume-design
NOTE: This one will be updated as each new batch of episode is released

The StarWars.com articles are especially worth checking out, they have lots of interesting little bit of info about what went into these three episodes. I'm impressed by the fact that they actually great an entire field of ancient grains on location for Mina-Rau, until the strikes happened, then they had to harvest some of it and save it to set up a fake field at Pinewood Studios to finish filming the Mina-Rau scene. And both Tie and Bix, Brasso, and Wilmon's mobile home were complete interiors and exteriors together.

 

[The Wormhole]

To some extent, the problem is there's the risk hormonal and immature young people might get excited by that sort of scene and their biology warped into wanting to commit such crimes themselves (as people are born wanting to reproduce but not necessarily kill, and that genetic desire can be distorted by external factors into criminal desire).

Somehow I doubt anyone watching a scene where a man is killed by the woman he was trying to rape is going to be inspired to become a rapist.

I can't find the link but there was a convicted rapist who blamed watching Return of the Jedi in his youth for his life of crime as he said that once he saw Leia in that outfit while he was watching as a teen he was never the same again, or something like that. Now admittedly this is an extreme example but still...

Slave Girl Leia did not turn him into a rapist anymore than first person shooter video games make people grab a gun and shoot people. That guy had other factors in his life that made him do what he did.

 

[Crewman6]

it more believable that Cassian genuinely thinks Mon ordered Galen Erso's death in Rogue One

Cassian never thought that in Rogue One and the movie doesn't even remotely imply that. Actually quite the opposite.

 

[Yistaan]

Presumably next week it will be another "one year later" again. I wonder how the pacing will feel with the constant time jumps.

 

[fireproof78]

Presumably next week it will be another "one year later" again. I wonder how the pacing will feel with the constant time jumps.

If it's treated like 3 films in terms of arcs then it would be...like Star Wars.

 

[Yistaan]

If it's treated like 3 films in terms of arcs then it would be...like Star Wars.

Those time jumps were actually jarring especially for the prequels. They had to fit a tv show between them to make them feel less jarring