Star Wars Andor Thread

[Warren Peace]

this is everything i wanted out of a star wars show. it doesn't feel... vacant or sterile. the world feels lively and lived in. There are rules and causes and effects. Interesting environments (no more fukking sand planets)

great characters, great writing, an empire that actually feels like an organization and not just mustache twirling and vader chopping. They're doing great. imma run back rogue one when the season's done.

 

[Soymuscle Mike]

I only have ONE main complaint:

The lack of aliens (other than occasional background characters) on this show doesn't seem to fit with the established Star Wars universe. EVERYONE in Andor's prison (staff and prisoners) was human.

I could see the 'Elites' on Couruscant being mostly human, since the Empire seems mostly human dominated. But you would expect the prison population to look more like the prison population we saw on The Mandalorian.

It's a prison but also a labor camp, the labor seems quite specifically tailored to one species and it's human in this case.

We see the prisoners get divided up multiple times so I think it checks out.

We saw the Wookies and Utapauians get taken captive in Episode III, I'm sure they get put to work somewhere else. I feel like the Rebels cartoon showed us how the Empire uses some of the other species but I can't recall specifics right now.

 

[Jmare007]

It's a prison but also a labor camp, the labor seems quite specifically tailored to one species and it's human in this case.

We see the prisoners get divided up multiple times so I think it checks out.

We saw the Wookies and Utapauians get taken captive in Episode III, I'm sure they get put to work somewhere else. I feel like the Rebels cartoon showed us how the Empire uses some of the other species but I can't recall specifics right now.

I think the Gilroys didn't want to have aliens, maybe because of budget reasons and the fact that it's just easier to direct real people.

But the fact they can write their way to explain why it's mostly a human setting says it all when it comes to their writing. The big alien on Ferrix has been the only one getting any sort of play so far but I'm ok with it. I don't need aliens to believe this is Star Wars at this point, we've seen plenty of movies and shows to know they are present in other places.

 

[Tryna Makit]

I know Dave Filoni usually puts at least one of his animated characters in every live action show he touches.

Fennec shan, Cad Bane in Boba Fett
Ashoka and Bo Katan in Mandalorian
Saw Guererra in rouge one

Who's the guest animated character for Andor? It's should be somebody from the Rebels TV show....as none of them mfs have shown up in live action yet.......


The tone of the show seems to almost beg for a Thrawn appearance

 

[null]

I only have ONE main complaint:

The lack of aliens (other than occasional background characters) on this show doesn't seem to fit with the established Star Wars universe. EVERYONE in Andor's prison (staff and prisoners) was human.

I could see the 'Elites' on Couruscant being mostly human, since the Empire seems mostly human dominated. But you would expect the prison population to look more like the prison population we saw on The Mandalorian.

cos each alien species has different electric shock thresholds you're gonna need to split them up.

wookies would laugh at human level 3 shocks where that might kill another creature.

likewise some might have hairy, non-conductive sweaty or otherwise insulated feet.

some might not even have feet or feet which could conduct electricity into upper-body.

also human vs. human teams evens out the chances of the leader board.

4 armed beings like doc in ep. 6 might ensure some teams always win and ensure that others always lose (along with getting daily shocks).

part of the torture and productivity challenge is that any team can win/lose and that promise keeps them on their toes ... (so to speak)

 

[Jmare007]

I know Dave Filoni usually puts at least one of his animated characters in every live action show he touches.

Fennec shan, Cad Bane in Boba Fett
Ashoka and Bo Katan in Mandalorian
Saw Guererra in rouge one

Who's the guest animated character for Andor? It's should be somebody from the Rebels TV show....as none of them mfs have shown up in live action yet.......


The tone of the show seems to almost beg for a Thrawn appearance

Filoni doesn't have any say with Andor, he's not involved in the project.

We did just get Saw Guerrera in the last ep though

 

[Saysumthinfunnymike]

They made it pretty clear that the prisoners were split up and sent to where they'd best be utilized. These are labor camps.

 

[MajesticLion]

I only have ONE main complaint:

The lack of aliens (other than occasional background characters) on this show doesn't seem to fit with the established Star Wars universe. EVERYONE in Andor's prison (staff and prisoners) was human.

I could see the 'Elites' on Couruscant being mostly human, since the Empire seems mostly human dominated. But you would expect the prison population to look more like the prison population we saw on The Mandalorian.

Supposedly the lore has it that Palpatine/the Empire is prejudiced against non-humans, which is why there are only humans on the Death Star and all throughout their hierarchy. Realistically it was probably too expensive for costume department and CGI people to have aliens everywhere, so they used an excuse to explain it away. In-universe the explanation works, though.

 

[Tryna Makit]

Filoni doesn't have any say with Andor, he's not involved in the project.

We did just get Saw Guerrera in the last ep though

Lol I knew it had to be at least one!

Wait I see another one made the cut too.
Anakin's Admiral and the voice of the clone wars was in andor......

Guess he made his choice and chose Empire

 

[gluvnast]

I only have ONE main complaint:

The lack of aliens (other than occasional background characters) on this show doesn't seem to fit with the established Star Wars universe. EVERYONE in Andor's prison (staff and prisoners) was human.

I could see the 'Elites' on Couruscant being mostly human, since the Empire seems mostly human dominated. But you would expect the prison population to look more like the prison population we saw on The Mandalorian.

I think that's by intent and there's a throwaway line (I forgot which episode) that implied the Empire is doing a genocidal extermination of anything non-human. In the original trilogy, aside from Tattooine which is the outer rim and not under Empire control, their were limited aliens in that movie. Like for instance, I think Chewbacca was the last of his kind.

 

[gluvnast]

I know Dave Filoni usually puts at least one of his animated characters in every live action show he touches.

Fennec shan, Cad Bane in Boba Fett
Ashoka and Bo Katan in Mandalorian
Saw Guererra in rouge one

Who's the guest animated character for Andor? It's should be somebody from the Rebels TV show....as none of them mfs have shown up in live action yet.......


The tone of the show seems to almost beg for a Thrawn appearance

I was thinking of Thrawn appearance. I also have a gut feeling close to the end of this season we may get a Palpatine cameo. They been name checking him a lot.

 

[KalKal]

maybe it's a human only prison

It's not just that location, though.
For example, on the beach planet where Andor was a "tourist", almost everyone was human.

 

[thaKEAF]

the empire is fukked up

 

[Saysumthinfunnymike]

It's not just that location, though.
For example, on the beach planet where Andor was a "tourist", almost everyone was human.

There were some other species at one of the Senate dinners.

 

[KalKal]

There were some other species at one of the Senate dinners.

That's what I meant by "occasional background characters"