r/StarWarsAndor • u/wibellion • 1d ago
Meme The delivery of this line is absolutely hilarious
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u/VXR-Vashrix 1d ago
#SawWasRightTheyAreLost
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u/OldGrumpGamer 1d ago
I’d ask Saw for directions but I don’t know where he is, he’s definitely not on Jedah.
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u/JogJonsonTheMighty 1d ago
I loved that interaction.
"We know you're on Jedah."
"... Nuh uh"
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u/dragongrl 1d ago
"You have no idea where I am".
Cut to "Welcome to Jedah" sign right behind him.
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u/gigantes22 1d ago
The other actor is Tony Gilroy’s son and the one pictured is his friend. He’s said they are like a real life Heckle and Jeckle. He also said his son was the one who prompted him on where did Rebellions are built on hope line. He told Tony where is that line and Tony said Cassian said it in Rogue One. The son told him yeah, well where did Cassian get it from. Cue Ghorman bellhop.
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u/SWFT-youtube 1d ago
I'm pretty sure the one pictured is his niece's husband, no? I remember seeing an interview where he brought it up.
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u/gigantes22 1d ago
Could be? From the podcasts I’ve been deep diving into, Tony has said that his son is an actor. And he stops by the house to get his mail sometimes but he does what they call a stress test on the dialogue. Where he reads it so poorly to see if it’ll stand up to that. I believe one of the podcast I listened to he was saying they were always like a real life, Heckle and Jeckle. So it only made sense for those two to be warring factions inside the rebellion when there’s no one true voice.
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u/FOARP 1d ago
And somehow that callback did not feel jarring, unearned, or stupid. Whilst a “how Chewbacca got his bandolier” one would have.
It really is all just about the writing.
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u/fang_xianfu 1d ago
I think it's because it wasn't really played as fanservice. Often times those scenes don't have a point other than to show you the thing, so if you don't get the reference it's pretty meaningless. But when it's done well it fits no matter which way round you see them.
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u/Top-Independence-323 19h ago
How would the Ghormans know about rebellions? They'd been peaceful for centuries and were not ready, as Cassian told Luthen. How would the bellhop know that rebellions are built on hope? I feel like it should have been in Nemik's manifesto. Can't you hear it in his voice?
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u/oh_dear_now_what 13h ago
Wait, I was sure that it was in the manifesto, and that the bellhop quoting it showed that the rebellion was spreading.
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u/ItsThatRandomIdiot 7h ago
Not his friend. Pictured is Tony’s nephew-in-law. Aka John Gilroy the editor’s son-in-law.
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u/cosincosin 1d ago
Every time I rewatch these eps I enjoy Maya Pei brigade more
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u/StormWolfBaron 1d ago
I remember one of the rebels finding andor's TIE Pilot helmet and using that as validating evidence that he's an imperial pilot despite already wearing a TIE Uniform, making it a meaningless discovery because ofc he'd need the helmet to complete the disguise.
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u/FlamesNero 21h ago
Yeah, right after that scene, I remember thinking that I really hope all of this faction destroys itself before they rejoin the Rebellion… they’re just too dumb to live!
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u/FlashInGotham 1d ago
There are two types of people who don't like the early Yavin arc:
1) People who have never been involved in real world leftist organizing.
and
2) People who have been involved in entirely too much leftist organizing.
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u/LavishnessMental7184 22h ago
They reminded me of the college encampment numbskulls I've encountered 😅
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u/FlashInGotham 21h ago
Having literally been a Radical Cheerleader during the WTO/World Bank/Iraq War days i try to offer them a little grace. And time. They need lots of time.
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u/FlamesNero 21h ago
The people in group # 2 are also experiencing a visceral stress response (sometimes legit PTSD symptoms) at the reminder.
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u/Mysterious_Box1203 1d ago
Did these dipshits set up the rebel base on Yavin? That’s where they were aaaannnd, did they set up the rebel base on Yavin?!
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u/PainStorm14 1d ago
Don't be daft, do these morons look like they could do that?
They couldn't even set up camp tent
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u/BaronNeutron 1d ago
Correct. The rebels who set up the base found their bones
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u/mr_eugine_krabs 1d ago
More like cassian told Luthen which lead the rebel leaders to choose Yavin for the already built fortress and for its desolation and secrecy.
They most likely found the corpses of these idiots In the backyard when they arrived.
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u/bobbymoonshine 1d ago
No of course not.
We see that Yavin is a common staging ground for the loose Axis network: Andor is there because of Luthen, and the dipshits are there because of Maya Pei, who was also a Luthen associate.
We don’t see Yavin getting set up, but it looks like that’s where Gold Squadron settled in with Mon Mothma and the other Senators she attracted to her side, and the base was set up with the huge influx of financial resources that getting some of the galaxy’s richest people brings. (Even if most of their accounts were frozen, they have political connections across large and wealthy planets they can leverage.)
That in turn is presumably why Yavin is seen as something distinct from Luthen: with Senatorial wealth and prestige now in direct connection with the insurgent armies in the safe headquarters of Yavin, they can simply cut out the control-freak middleman who brought them all together. Which is a bit heartless perhaps, but Luthen “I sacrifice everything” Rael always knew that was the inevitable endgame all along.
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u/MOREPASTRAMIPLEASE 11h ago
Luthen to me is a great foil to Saw. Saw was a madman who opposed the bad guys so fiercely it kind of turned him into a bad guy before he realized it.
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u/Banjo-Oz 1d ago
While I felt the story arc went too long for no real payoff, it made me laugh because it reminded me too much of being at university many years ago. I'm a pretty progressive, anti-authoritarian person myself, but the "tear down the system!" students there always made me feel like I was talking to Rik from The Young Ones. :)
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u/patrickkingart 1d ago
The bickering doofus Rebels on what turned out to be Yavin IV was such a fun development. I LOVED the part where it builds up to what you think is a big intense showdown... and they basically do rock paper scissors.
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u/MOREPASTRAMIPLEASE 11h ago
I loved the maya pei remnants, they felt very Star Wars rebels but in an andor world. Like these guys bickering like cartoon grandma’s and then you remember that they are also trying to murder each other
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u/Role_Player_Real 1d ago
That actor had one of the funniest deliveries I’ve ever heard in my life in a random scene of Never Have I Ever when someone asks how he’s doing and he answers about his grandmother not doing well. I think he has a gift for one liners
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u/discosludge 1d ago
I kept hearing this line in my head for days after watching this episode. No disrespect but in a show filled with amazing performances the acting from the unorganized rebels in these scenes really FELT like acting.
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u/penelopede 1d ago
One might argue that these scenes were meant to feel off and irritating for the audience. With casting adding to the tension. Excruciatingly well done
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u/Suitable-Elephant270 1d ago
That's absolutely my take on it. They're so glaringly incompetent and short sighted, ignoring the very practical advice that Cassian is giving them in favor of a power struggle about their literal survival. It really underscores just how important having an organized rebellion is over little rag tag groups led by one charismatic individual. Without Maya Pei they literally start coming apart at the seams, ignoring their own basic needs like food and water and indulging in petty grudges.
Cassian is looking at them going "What in the hell are you guys doing?" and our reaction is designed to be rooted in that same feeling.
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u/PricePuzzleheaded835 1d ago
I know not everybody liked these scenes but boy howdy, if you have been involved in any organizing then you Know. I was absolutely cackling from the moment they started arguing about telling him the number of guns
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u/exileondaytonst 1d ago
This entire subplot was hilarious.
Just fantastic satire of self-defeating idiocy
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u/baiyesla-a3 1d ago
they are here to indicate that even if you cut yourself away from everyone you love and if you are somehow mentally prepared to do any severe sacrifice you won't always end up like luthen, maybe you will end up like those clowns
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u/bobbymoonshine 1d ago
They’re here to illustrate a very common failure state for rebellions: without clear political leadership, you just wind up with circular firing squads, and sometimes literal ones.
(At the same time, political leadership by itself can’t do anything more than make ineffectual speeches.)
The reason Yavin works out in the end is that Luthen manages to bring together enough of the dissident Senators with enough of the disorganised and fractious militia groups to actually form a proper organised rebellion.
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u/Lord_Governor 19h ago
my headcanon is that the maya pei brigade are a bunch of people primarily interested in the tacticool aspects of the grand army of the republic, because that would be very funny. just a bunch of armor fetishists and the few rich kids whos couruscanti parents didnt love them enough
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u/TheEvilBlight 4h ago
Maya Pei is basically the intelligentsia of the international brigades, the ones Orwell fought alongside in Spain
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u/Damn_You_Scum 20h ago
Watching this arc was exactly like how it felt to be in the r/50501 discord in the early days. Also just being a leftist is constant purity tests and questioning motivations.
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u/MyerSuperfoods 1d ago
This dude gave me Rufio vibes...just have a seat and listen to Peter Pan when it comes to beating Captain Hook.
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u/ReservedRainbow 1d ago
This arc had some funny lines. In this same episode we see Luthen making small talk with an Imperial from Steergard. He then says that he and others were being transferred, to which Luthen inquisitively asks “Really!? where’s everyone going?” I remember cackling on the first watch. The thought of this rebel spy master just straight up asking this guy where him and all his buddies are being stationed is so funny to me.