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  @teknoblast20632 күн бұрын

  I LOVE TRON RAAAAAAH

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  @shimonzanavi37286 күн бұрын

  Thank you, I've been a Star Wars as far as I can remember and your analyse expresses exactly how I felt watching Andor. Specially after the trauma of watching Obi Wan's show. May the force be with you always

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  @ElReporte6207 күн бұрын

  screw this video for so mant commercials

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  @alittlecreepywhenyou9 күн бұрын

  Correction: Cassian was sentenced to SIX YEARS not six months.

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  @unc0mm0n210 күн бұрын

  Rogue one was awesome. Your opinion sucks.

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  @socratesbleu12 күн бұрын

  I want to see an ISB baby in season two. The baby should grow up to be Thrawn

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  @tmuxor8 күн бұрын

  😂

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  @superslimjim648314 күн бұрын

  I don't like when people say "Oh this show is too good for star wars". Stfu Star Wars is allowed to be good get out.

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  @dreamermagister856119 күн бұрын

  What about the third part that was mentioned on ur first video? (It was mentioned as the second on that)

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  @ScreamingLake19 күн бұрын

  I combined ideas from the 3rd vid into the second so just 2 parts.

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  @sixx268320 күн бұрын

  Impressive... Reminds me of metro /stlaker games

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  @franklinkz245120 күн бұрын

  A year later we got the Acolyte soo

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  @PhantasmalBlast22 күн бұрын

  1:17:52 They actually executed his father. We don’t see it happen but right before the interrogation of Bix the officer asks Dedra if he can execute him to make a statement.

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  @Bleepurchin22 күн бұрын

  Thank you so much for creating such a wonderful homage to one of the greatest series in recent history. A fantastic tribute. Here’s something you might find intriguing; Kleya has her own theme under its own name sake. After its first appearance, the next appearance occurs during the prison escape. Where the theme is repeated over and over again, growing in intensity as the arc reaches its climax. Why was a theme entitled ‘Kleya’ used for such an important moment in the series unless the character herself has more significance than we currently realise? I find this fascinating. It may just be an economical use of music by the composer, but I choose to ponder it’s use with a greater significance.

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  @Azismaj22 күн бұрын

  Communist Russia (occupying European countries for almost 50 years after WWII) or China are also a example of the development of imperial rule that kills both the freedom of individuals and entire communities.

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  @johanvblack224424 күн бұрын

  This was so good. I forgot it was Star Wars.

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  @dcle94425 күн бұрын

  Oh, my god, is that aunt Petunia?

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  @musashimiyamoto58626 күн бұрын

  Well, I am equally glad to have watched this astute analysis as I was watching the series. Thank you so much for your hard work and appreciation for good storytelling. The original and really only worthy Star Wars trilogy from the 70s was made to probably cope with the aftermath of WWII and the threat of authoritarian regimes. Since then series and films have been made to enhance and prolong SW lore, but in most cases they only managed to smear and pollute the brilliance of our fond memories from way back then. Watching the newest desaster The Acolyte there is now, like in most other SW series or films, very little story and much less telling, only a seemingly desperate need to check all the boxes of social aspects like genderism and the empowerment of women in order to reflect how the producers view our modern and currently troubled world instead of just following what SW originally was and should continue to be.

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  @WCGOLD27NZ26 күн бұрын

  This was a brilliant video essay. Commensurate with the subject matter itself. Thank you for your in-depth and thorough analysis of a series that I think is not given its due as cinematic masterpiece, albeit in a streaming series format. I look forward to your next instalments regarding Andor and others.

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  @jparks654427 күн бұрын

  You missed the ENTIRE metaphor about the Empire. It is not about Nazis. It is about the fall of the American Empire. How the USA democratic ideals were falling and George Lucas was predicting how the rise of the authoritarian regime we now see would be taking over. How the people were so idiotic (Jar Jar) and not caring which allowed the political scumbags and power hungry to take over and enact ever more restrictions and remove freedoms. It amazes me that the majority don't see in the Prequels a study of the fall of America and the prediction of what we are seeing in modern day.

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  @mcglubski27 күн бұрын

  Music is so incredibly important to me in the media I appreciate. As well as music in general really. Andor had such a wonderful soundtrack and its been a great experience to encapsulate itself as one of the Star Wars greats. I felt the same with the new X-Men 97 soundtrack.

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  @2romanova192827 күн бұрын

  Andor is the best SW since "Empire." I'm binging it at the moment to purge the memory of "Acolyte". 🤮

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  @user-ou5dw7fp6n27 күн бұрын

  Я не верю, что обе части бегущего по лезвию создали люди. Это шедевры, это невозможно.

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  @musashimiyamoto58627 күн бұрын

  Andor to me is what the original and only SW trilogy should and could have matured into. Disney madness and fans that have been potty-trained on easy-to swallow crap too long that robbed them of all their patience and good taste, made that possibility void. Is there any chance that reasonable executives could finally see the light and revert to making good TV? If not, why would Andor star such a great cast? Skarsgard, Moss-Bacharach, Shaw, Serkis, O'Reilly, Lesser, and quite a few other well-known faces. Man, if that isn't dynamite, I don't know! Also, my guess is Dedra is Cassian's sister.

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  @justinezekwelu333511 күн бұрын

  Bro, his sister 😵‍💫🤯. That would be a crazy twist.

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  @tmuxor8 күн бұрын

  Interesting idea about his sister but I doubt it considering that the actress who played the young version of her has dark hair and eyes just like Cassian whereas Deirdre has fair hair and blue-green eyes.

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  @musashimiyamoto5868 күн бұрын

  @@tmuxor Well, maybe she changed all that in order to conform to what her job requires.

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  @stevei722129 күн бұрын

  100% correct. All hail Tony (no, you don't get to give me notes) Gilroy.

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  @user-ni6vu9dy1rАй бұрын

  Great piece got me by surprise!

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  @AshtonCoolmanАй бұрын

  Please do an analysis of The Acolyte and why its writing isn't on par with Andor's.

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  @bennlawrence1535Ай бұрын

  It's so nice to hear people saying that star wars is good. Thanks.

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  @jerrypalacio685Ай бұрын

  Love Andor also. Pls create more Andor content thnx

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  @BobbyCoolBreezeАй бұрын

  This series was done so well it doesn’t have to have a Star Wars setting.

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  @whhhhhhhhhАй бұрын

  I wrote this off at first then i was bored one day and blasted through the first 6 episodes and was super excited for every new release, it is probably my favorite starwars story minus the original trilogy

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  @Blazeit-rj3ebАй бұрын

  One thing I gotta say is it’s not a crashed republic ship, it’s a crashed CIS ship as shown by their symbol on the uniform.

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  @Alex-cw3rzАй бұрын

  The only problem I have with Luthen's speech is he says it to the wrong person the gall of this millionaire antiques dealer with a beautiful supportive wife, who seems to have sacrificed very little especially compared to a spy, to moan about how horrible his life. Let's not forget to a spy who is very worried he and his family are about to get tortured to d eath. If he said it to any other character it would have made sense.

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  @decades1912Ай бұрын

  Brxfst sandwiches, yogurt, yasso

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  @Alex-cw3rzАй бұрын

  31:48 I think something should also be mentioned is I thought it was good writing how the colonel said just take me let the children go. It made him much like an actual human and not some mustache twirling villain who would jump behind the children which we would have seen in every single other star wars property

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  @MelkimundАй бұрын

  57:12 .... Who's gonna tell him?

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  @anong8181Ай бұрын

  great video!😅

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  @VultRoosАй бұрын

  I want to come to the defense of Cassian a bit--he was shown to genuinely care about the rebellion far earlier than your analysis makes it out to be. In the Aldhani arc, when we realize he took on the name of his adoptive father Clem, we are also shown the complicated reasons why he did, and also what rebellion means to Cassian. here's the timeline: Clem died because some people on Ferrix were essentially rebelling by throwing rocks against storm troopers. Clem tries to stop them because at that moment there's no way it would end well for them. He tried to diffuse the situation. But because he involved himself and tried to help the ones rebelling, the stormtroopers thought he was involved with throwing rocks at them, and he was hung for that misunderstanding. But it doesn't end there. We also learn that after what they did, Cassian, as a child, decided one day to rush at stormtroopers guarding the publicly hung bodies that were still at the square in order to attack them for what they did to his adoptive father. As a result of THAT, he was essentially sent to juvenile detention for YEARS. Then after leaving prison, he was immediately forced into a war to fight for the empire. Granted, as a cook who likely never saw combat, and he deserted. But all the same, it's important to consider this piece of history that is revealed to us during this arc and how it informs on why he chose the name Clem. What might rebellion mean to Cassian at this point? Him choosing to rebel as a young child back on Kenari led to him being separated from his sister forever. Those years were taken from him. Him rebelling after Clem died led to him being sent to prison, and then being forcibly drafted into a war. Those years were again, taken from him. Cassian is by NATURE, rebellious. By nature, hates the empire and everything they represent. But he was also punished for that part of him over and over again. The moment his father, Clem, got slightly involved, slightly ASSOCIATED with rebellion, he was PUBLICALLY HUNG. I think Cassian took the name Clem as a warning for himself against his very nature as a reminder of what happens when a person gives themselves to a cause like he wants to. Rebellion is fine. But joining a cause = death. being sympathetic to a cause =leaving Maarva suffering, traumatized for years and unable to walk through Rix Road. It's not rebellion or a belief system Cassian is against at that point. It's specifically joining any particular group, because he saw them all as lost causes.

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  @VultRoosАй бұрын

  I absolutely love your take on the origins arc. The idea that the show is visually showing Maarva as a constant rescuer while Andor runs away is an angle I've never considered, and the next time I watch the andor (probably in like a day now after watching this, lol), I'm going to try to view that arc again through that lens. I haven't spent enough time trying to see through Maarva's perspective--I think there's a lot there I might have missed. My personal take of that particular sequence at the end of the origin arc was almost the complete opposite as yours, since I personally come from a perspective of being a former foster youth, so Andor's POV is intuitively easier to relate to. I saw that whole sequence where we cut back and forth between Cassian's present and past at the end of episode 3 analogous to a person being reminded of something and remembering a memory. Since there's so many close shots to Cassian, back and forth cutting in time between him as a child and as an adult, it felt like they were revealing something of Cassian's true feelings about what happened to him that day when he was separated from his culture and his sister. You see the look of open wonder when he first wakes up as a kid looking at maarva smiling, right at the camera....aaaannnd we cut right back to adult Cassian's face, and that is not a face of wonder or gratitude. That is a look of quiet anger and apprehension in my opinion. (His jaw is literally clenched and his nostrils are flared) It reads as a face of a man who understands much better now than when he was a young boy what the full ramifications of Maarva's actions had on his entire life trajectory. She saved him, she stole him away from his culture, his only family, his home. And maybe they are all the same things. And they were also all caused by the empire and by a corrupt/apathetic republic that came before. To call Cassian an angry person would kind of be an understatement, and that sequence at the end kind of put it all together for me of what I think the show was telling us about the kind of person he was in that moment. The fact that being on this ship with Luthen reminds him of being taken away by Maarva, and THAT face is what we see when he thinks about that moment when Maarva smiled at him kind of informed me why he immediately turned Luthen down when he tried to recruit Cassian completely the next time they talked. I think he was actively trying to prevent a situation like last time where he's recruited into a 'family' of sorts against his will. And I still think my initial interpretation is pretty good--or at least it hits at something true. But the idea of Maarva always trying to help Cassian while he constantly seems to reject it, constantly seems to not see his new home as his community, constantly seems to get into trouble and running away--that is also hitting at something very true. I think it also makes their relationship revealed later more ironic. When Andor comes back to try to take Maarva away, it's his own way of trying to rescue Maarva the exact same way she rescued him in the past. There's something tragic about Maarva immediately reacting to being taken away from her community the EXACT same way I think Andor feels about it at the end of episode three, but that causing friction and a lack of understanding even though THEY ARE BOTH SO SIMILAR TO EACH OTHER. Maarva's rousing speech about being surrounded by community in the end being a reflection of what Cassian may have always wanted as a child in Kenari, but also being able to make that speech because she was unknowingly inspired by her foster son's actions, spurred by a spirit of rebellion that he had even while still on Kenari (he freaking smiles and then has to hide it when he sees Maarva inspired by his actions on Aldhani). But also, the way Cassian was able to do what he did on Aldhani is because of the things he learned living with his foster family. The way Cassian, when he tried to get Maarva to leave with him, said he would always worry and that's why he wants her to come, which basically explains why Maarva did what she did in taking him away as a child in the first place. They're so close to understanding each other in that moment. I feel like all of that subtext is very intentional now. After thinking about this some more, my perspective of their relationship is leaning towards 'two people who want the exact same things but kept on talking past each other without realizing it. And by the time they both realized, the corrosive poison of the Empire that was the reason their relationship was so rocky in the first place also made sure they could never have that one last conversation for that one last real-time connection.'

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  @Sorayaclark1271Ай бұрын

  Also (and I'm sorry if this is mentioned in the video, I admit I haven't watched it yet) but I'm pretty sure Kleyla is probably Andor's sister. The actress looks a little like the little girl who played his sister on Kenari, and it would make sense with the story structure and themes if Luthen saved Kleyla like how Maarva saved Andor. That Luthen is the father figure like Maarva is the mother figure. It would also explain why Kleyla and Luthen seem to care about each other so much.

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  @Sorayaclark1271Ай бұрын

  What I love about Luthen is how messed up he is. He says he's setting himself on fire to make a sunset for others to bask in, for others to hope and love under while he sacrifices hope and love and humanity and yada-yada. But it's all cognitive dissonance. When the heist works, and most of the team dies, it's Luthen who goes into the back room in private and practically dances in raptured happiness. It's Luthen who set others on fire to bask in THEIR glow. Luthen said he made his mind a sunless place, he practically needs to set others on fire to feel the warmth, to carry on, to hope, because while he sacrificed his humanity yes, he sacrifices the actual LIVES of everyone around him and then conflates the two as being the same. And we see this again, and again, and again. I love Luthen because he is so fucked up.

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  @roberthansen4673Ай бұрын

  Very Well done.

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  @leightoncressman6188Ай бұрын

  I consider this movie unironically, an underrated masterpiece flaws, and all I don’t believe that a film must be completely flawless to be a masterpiece in fact, some of the flaws I find enduring. Also, I don’t hold the de aged Jeff Bridges against the film at the time I was blown away, and it was a technological achievement for its time. I also didn’t get the sense that the film was about the dangers of technology but more the Foley of human arrogance in thinking that we can create the perfect society, a utopia when we ourselves or imperfect beings.

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  @royrapoport1Ай бұрын

  Oh my gosh. On a long drive today I was introduced to your work by watching your Andor analysis, and just watched this analysis of Drive. Your thoughtfulness, passion, and love for this work are so evident, and make watching these videos such a joy.

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  @ScreamingLakeАй бұрын

  Thanks that means a lot!

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  @WalkerOneАй бұрын

  Who knew?

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  @athenovaeАй бұрын

  Regardless **

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  @TerribleTom113Ай бұрын

  There were some wack takes in this video, but the worst might be at 38:00. The Naxis (and the United States) were absolutely and explcitly stated by George Lucas to be the main inspirations for the Empire from the very beginning.

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  @The-Enthusiast47Ай бұрын

  I honestly really enjoyed this series I hope you get a season 2

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  @mishapurser4439Ай бұрын

  I feel like Andor is to Star Wars what Deep Space Nine is to Star Trek.

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  @nimay13Ай бұрын

  I wish they could give Heir to The Empire trilogy by Timothy Zahn a chance. Now Thrawn is just another villain in Disney Star Wars.

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  @Jacob-vc4ok2 ай бұрын

  Hello Music man

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  @woffordBC2 ай бұрын

  Cassian was sentenced to six years for a crime that before the resentencing act only carried 6 months.

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  @BarioIDLАй бұрын

  he wasn't meant to exit prison, anyway