TPToA Podcast 408 – Andor S1-S2 & Rogue One
Description
Andor and Rogue One
9 Years ago (BBY?) Rogue One was released and a lot of people enjoyed the darker, more serious take on the Star Wars universe. However it felt like an outlier, and for many it didn’t fit in with everything else in that galaxy Far Far away.
3 years ago Andor was released. It was show many thought was unnecessary, exploring the backstory of a secondary character many hadn’t really embraced. “nobody asked for this” was a regular comment. Oh how that attitude was to change upon it’s release!
Today, the two seasons of Andor are a high water-mark for not just Star Wars, but TV dramas in general. And they way that they have re-contextualised Rogue One is nothing short of revalatory.
In this podcast we look back at the two seasons of the show, and then dig down looking for the deep substrate foliated calcite at the heart of these shows and movies.
Dion is our rogueish hero, Jill is the far less creepy non-cgi Leia at the end of Rogue One and Quinny is definitely the Glub Shitto of this podcast.
Synopsis
this story follows Cassian Andor, a thief and mercenary, five years before Rogue One. He’s seeking his sister, Kerri, and becomes involved in the nascent rebellion against the Empire after killing two security guards. He then seeks refuge on Ferrix, where he and his friend Bix are drawn into a black market deal involving an Imperial tech unit. Season two then spans the intervening 5 years leading up to the events of the movie which will ultimately dovetail into Star Wars Episode IV: A New Hope
https://youtu.be/d2vka9fev3A
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Season 1
https://youtu.be/cKOegEuCcfw?si=6L9FjIENd6osOwDU
Season 2
https://youtu.be/AE4wxt70aUM?si=2Qi0IuJiqa1DFu-L
Rogue One
https://youtu.be/frdj1zb9sMY?si=KGy9FgH5tJMEK_kE
https://youtu.be/bmVtF6DWfR0?si=AsM4BdwnVHbHDFie
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Transcript Speaker Spice. Several tears. Speaker 1 Assassins. Speaker 2 Well done, terrible things on behalf of the rebellion. Speaker 1 Cassie and Ender. No matter what you tell me or tell yourself, you’ll ultimately die fighting these ********. Wouldn’t you rather give it all at once? To something real. Speaker We’ve chosen a site. We’re fighting against the dark. Speaker 2 There is an organised rebel effort, drill down and get a hunt started. Realize what you set in motion. People will suffer. Speaker 1 Time must come to force their hand. Speaker 2 At what cost? Speaker Everything. Speaker 1 Every day we wait, they get stronger. Speaker Let’s take them by surprise. Speaker 1 For the greater. Good. Call it what you have. Speaker Let’s call it. People are standing. Up there are straight and right now they’re afraid. Speaker 3 Let’s go. Speaker Star Wars and or three episode premieres streaming September 21st. Speaker 3 Bow shooter? Dion Pinky. And greetings to everyone out there. Hello. Welcome to the periodic table of all. My name is Dion, or for this side, the person that you’ll have to get to be muted because he’s not going to shut up. And that’s Jill and Quinney anyway. Getting into what I want to. Talk about. Quinny Anyway. We should all welcome the. Key deal, which apparently means mighty, but I call. Dion ********. I’ve got a wonky Chewbacca, which is a a lovely little pneumonic about that. So that’s a different scene. This is different movies. This is all fine. OK, we’re going to get into this. It’s fine. How is everyone? Hello to everyone in the chat. It’s very nice that you all joined. Jill Ah. Dion Thank you. In the. Oh, yes, there’s Casper. Just and they said like, thank you for subbing. You’re going in there getting straight away. It’s good to see. OK. Quinny Trading. Something like the machine gun that he is and would love you for it. Thank you, Casper. Dion Now. Yes, love it. Thank you. Thank you. Hello, Jill. Hello, queenie. Peter couldn’t make it. And also she hasn’t watched it. So that’s why she’s dead to us now. She’s got a little. She got a little TV show that she’s got that she’s currently massaging into the world. So we’re gonna give her a pass on that one. Speaker Hi. Quinny Wow. Yeah. Dion Excellent. Now when I did a little bit of a thing and went back and checked on when we reviewed certain things. So going all the way back to 2016 when we reviewed Rogue One. I know right, that’s 10 like almost 10 years ago. And then we never really did a full episode. Jill OK, OK. Wow. Quinny Oh. Dion On and or season 1 and we and then we never really did a full show on end or season 2. We only did a few episodes. So that’s why even though it feels like we have reviewed all of this, this is just one show dedicated to all of the Gilroy girls. Speaker Didn’t. Jill Interesting. Dion Which is what I want to call it now forever and a day. Jill Just for people that aren’t awa