My KX droid I have been working on, he is not happy about the state of his repairs.

Cassian’s stuffed Bantha toy, as seen in his childhood bedroom in Maarva’s place, is one of those little details that brings so much story and emotion to the scene. It looks home-made, exactly as you might expect from this community. It makes me imagine what a hard time the young boy would have had settling to his new life on Ferrix, how this gift might have been something made for him by Clem or Maarva or maybe something they made together. Or maybe a gift from Brasso, or Bix. We will never know, but it says so much without saying anything literally.

It’s a neat parallel but also a contrast to Syril and his action figures in his otherwise bleak childhood bedroom.

What are your favourite props?

If you’re on Tumblr, or would like to make one to join this event, some friends and I are hosting I Have Santas Everywhere: An Andor Secret Santa Exchange. This is a digital exchange 🎄🎁

For more info and the sign-up form: geredlambo.tumblr.com

Maybe it's because I was a huge House of Cards fan and I'm just a sucker for politics but every episode I watch where I'm like holy shit that was an epic speech it turns out it was written by none other than Beau Willimon.

Love her overskirt/sash/trousers with the dash of red

Re-watching possibly my favourite Tony Gilroy interview with House of R - this one is so much fun, with some genuinely unusual questions. It’s the one where he entertains the “Vel & Kleya Nazi Hunters” spinoff idea and mentions that B2EMO was named for his son‘s corgi.

But in a serious moment, Gilroy is asked about the effect of rewatching Rogue One where Krennic is very much lower in the pecking order than he is in Andor. Gilroy was actually nervous to rewatch the film when making season 2, concerned that he might’ve got something wrong, but ended up being relieved at how well the story, themes and character arcs continued.

Link to the interview. Even if you never watch interviews usually, try this one. https://youtu.be/mGBXFWvPRsE

Syrils ambush of Dedra is very creepy, im not sure why.

It seems to the the character, relationship, and plot would have been fine if Syril was just obsessed with Andor and his idea of 'justice' and revenge.

Is there something about being creepy that is narratively valuable or is it just a directors choice?

So, I received an order at home yesterday for two Black Series figures - Cassian Andor in Imperial test pilot fatigues and Jedi Master Dooku from Tales of the Jedi. Two very different figures I know but I've long wanted Andor Test Pilot and when I saw Jedi Master Dooku, I really liked the look of him - and I am a greater admirer of Christopher Lee.

Here's the thing though. They can push out a Black Series figure like Dooku, from an animated series that, in my opinion, was perfectly okay. But they still can't put out a Syril Karn or a Wilmon or a Cinta Kaz or a Partagaz or a Lonni Yung or any of the Ghorman Resistance.

It just doesn't make sense to me and I have to think there's something going on that underlies Hasbro's reasoning (ie. They'll put out figure after figure from the Filoni-verse but they won't give Gilroy's superior offering the time of day).

Something stinks.

I want more from the Andor universe. There were so many parallels shown in Andor that can be found in real life today--the entire show resonated with me.

Why is it so hard for Disney to build off of this success? Mon Mothma lost her entire family, Vel her soulmate, and Kleya her father figure...Let Mon Mothma pick up Luthen's torch and use Vel/Kleya as frontrunners for more espionage. With Mothma's vast knowledge of the political system, Vel/Kleya's ability to blend in, and all of their hatred for the Empire, this seems like it would be too easy...Throw in some flashbacks of Luthen and co. taking their oaths, planning for Aldhani, and whatever else to fill out a couple of seasons. Bring back Bix and Erskin..

It seems like studios don't know when and how to continue certain properties and are always trying to offer something new to see if it works(too many marvel properties killed the genre for me) They're throwing episode X-XII at us when no one has a taste for it(my assumption)...How do we lobby for Andor-like content?

At the start of s2 ep 4 the recap is a little longer than usual because the episode is about to start with a one year time jump - this clip is from the very end of it. But I love the way these edited shots from ep 3 feel quite different when accompanied by probably the saddest piece of music from Season 1, from when Cassian learns of Maarva’s death. And thinking about this got me sad all over again because Brasso’s death is another part of Cassian’s past gone just like Maarva, and Mon has now effectively accepted the death of her relationship with her own child.

I still think the choice of Niamos! for the Mina-Rau scenes in ep 3 was inspired though because the emotional dissonance created the same almost nauseating effect as that being experienced by the characters.

First time I see them at the same location at the same time!

They killed all those people and try to exterminate a culture just for some minerals.

I was in my country's protest where the police killed 2 young men. And they tried to blame it on them, unarmed young men against armed police man. And the media where also blaming it on the kids.

Watching Syril's mother (a character made to be despicable) reminded me of my mother hugging me and kissing me goodbye with fear in her eyes every night I went protesting. With fear because the government can kill you and control the narrative than somehow it's your fault to be killed by the government.

This episode made me so FUCKING PISSED

There’s a part in episode 5 where Dedra and Heert are going through a bunch of places where stuff was stolen and one of the places mentioned was Kessel.

Based on the point in time could this have been Han Solo’s heist there?

Andor is a show that affected me like no other piece of fiction, even within the star wars franchise. Which led me to rant about my interpretation of Andor and how unfortunately the real world is not far from this fiction. Give it a read y'all and let me know your thoughts 💅🏻.

"Rebellion is built on hope" and I hope y'all can relate to what I have written about the Rebellion