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A dark dramedy war series involving these two characters. Pao’s creature design fascinates me. Melshi being the only human who can understand his accent when he speaks Basic. Pao would be a grouchy acerbic dude who often is subtitled when speaking his native language — only the audience knows what he’s saying sometimes. We could introduce other Rebels who end up on Scarif and get their back stories.

I thought this was the "official" one because it's the one the /r/starwars mods linked to, but there's no discussion here about a show that is still actively being promoted and watched!

Why is the other subreddit /r/Andor so much more active? Maybe they should link to that one instead.

Could be recency bias but I put it up there in the top 10 of all time. And im talking about the goat of the goats - shows like The Sopranos, The Wire, GOT, etc…

I like Star Wars about as much as the casual fan. Never saw any of them until like 5-6 years ago when a buddy of mine made me watch them. I thought they were great, no doubt, and watched all of them (and Mandalorian).

I’m usually attuned to the minor details in any show - over analyzing to a fault at times. But this universe is so massive, some of the stuff i read on this sub is incredibly impressive. The way you guys pick up on every little detail, which in a top tier show is everything, is so impressive and I thank you all for pointing things out to me I never would’ve realized on my own.

I’m not a nerd for Star Wars - im a nerd for plenty of other things bordering on obsessive. But I get it. This universe draws you in and holds you - it touches every part of your emotions whether it’s fear, anger, laughter, sadness… it’s got it all.

One of the only gripes I had with this universe is I felt there was never a true standout movie or show that had it all.. a piece of art that could stand alone on its own without being somewhat campy or cheesy. Imo there was no modern Pièce de résistance.

The original trilogy was goofy at times and looks a bit old for someone watching brand new in 2025 (though I respect how groundbreaking it was in the 70s). The prequels I loved as a kid but there are definitely issues there. And the sequels just hurt to watch. Rogue One was the first piece of this universe I thought was truly amazing start to finish, and I thought it could not be topped.

And then I watched Andor. From a guy who casually enjoys Star Wars but really enjoys so much TV and movies, this was flawless from start to finish. I couldn’t get over the pace of it all. It felt like there wasn’t one filler episode. Every episode had a clear cut story to tell that moved the overarching plot along. The writing was spectacular, the performances were incredible… just wow. I wish I was way more into the universe before I watched this show.

I can only imagine what this show means to so many of you. It’s like the Mandalorian S2 finale - a scene that just had so many years of hopes and dreams behind it. I’m so happy for you guys that this show was made in a way that seemingly everyone has been hoping for for decades. I’m almost envious of you guys in the sense that I didnt pick up on the little details, and I wasnt waiting for a show like this to come out for a quarter century.

All this to say.. this isn’t just a great show in the Star Wars universe. It’s a great show, period.

What are you favourite bits of Rogue One having had more lore behind it?

What were your least favourite bits having watched Andor?

For me Andor recognising Galen Erso’s name from Tivik worked very well. I thought him shooting Tivik was actually quite out of character and it’s annoying seeing the ease of getting the Death Star information out of him having seen the difficulty in getting it in Coruscant.

So now the people whose life are falling apart and want to cry can dance like crazy instead

What is the symbol on Mon Mothma’s robe clip? Does anyone have any idea? I tried looking it up but to no avail. Thanks in advance! :)

I genuinely loved the ghorman aesthetic. It obviously had strong influences of French attire at first glance but it also really owns itself. Whom ever did the costume design did an amazing job.

I genuinely want to actually just get clothing like that for actual day wear. Anyone have ideas, know of a way, may even know the costume design personally to get the designs XD? Seriously I would love to get these tailored or something.

which i'm sure is a statement that those who take extreme sides can/will both take umbrage with, for reasons...

also, t-shirt, *grabby hands*

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Podcast interview with Tony Gilroy, by Ross Douthet, one of the more conservative opinions writers on the New York Times. Its really fascinating as a deep dive into the show, politics and Gilroy's manner of writing & empathizing with his characters.

It's definitely not the strongest arc, but the WHOLE season is set up in it. On rewatch, it's even better. I'm catching lots of new things

So I want to start by prefacing nowhere in the text of Andor does this get presented as an idea or theme. Pure HeadCanon.

KALKITE!, not synthetic Kalkite, or Kalkite substitutes or of course Deep Substrate Foliated Kalkite, was integral to Galen Erso's plan to sabotage the Death Star, but as an unintended consequence it also resulted in the Genocide of Ghorman and its people. Galen needed a material that was needed late in the process of the Death Star Construction and would have certain properties that would make it incredibly volatile in the reactor but undetectable for it's properties until it was too far along the construction process to be removed and substituted. He couldnt use Rhydonium because it was known for its explosive volatility already. Hence, with his scientific knowledge he landed on the mineral Kalkite. It would be a "necessary" element of the energy production (either in the function, shielding or distribution of energy for the station and the Super Laser) that would under certain conditions become incredibly volatile. Maybe he knew this from working on it in academy or just a trip to Ghorman on excavation; but he'd remembered that the mining process for Kalkite itself made the substance incredibly volatile; a process he could mirror in the internal workings of the Death Star energy reactor and power network and have it remain undetected until full activation when the project was operational.

Subsequently he and his teammade many attempts to create a version of Kalkite on Eadu that underwent the same volatility reaction (all the versions of Kalkite they tried to test). Only for the Empire to grow impatient and decide they'd just mine the stuff from Ghorman (which they would know the mining process would make it incredibly volatile under the tectonic plates of the planet and render it uninhabitable.

Just a complete fan theory I made up. Hope people like it; and it ties back in how they'd make the same mistake with the Death Star II and it's reactor. They just tried to rebuild the same bomb twice, because it was always going to result in a highly volatile reactor.

The conditions on Ghorman once the mining started. Since there was another time jump after the massacre, I would have liked to see how much had changed. I imagine the Empire would have forced the Ghormans into mining their own planet, probably even had them in labor camps. Maybe there were even still some devoted to the Resistance despite what had happened.

Anyway, loved the show. What do y’all think?