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Originally Posted by CaptainCrunch
Well now we've seen the true power of the Empire. Its ability to find zealots that are not Sith Lords, to do evil things, enjoy it, and justify it in the name of the noble pursuit of Peace and Order.
Spoiler!
We've really misread Dedra in this series. Up to this episode we saw a ambitious and competent ISB agent on the hunt for the Rebels. We saw her show care for her subordinate, and we thought, that she might be a good example of a good person in the Empire. But what we saw in this episode, is that she is brutal efficient and sadistic and ice cold. Her chilling fishing analogy before setting the smiling happy sadistic doctor was quite possibly the best piece of dialogue in the show.
The mercy killing of the old man by a fellow prisoner medtech showed that the Empire really doesn't care. On top of that the fact that you never finish your sentence, you just go to a different prison, followed by the power failure and the news that the Empire ruthlessly fried 100 prisoners to quell a riot because as Andor bitterly stated, "We're cheaper then droids".
At the same time Mon makes another idealistic speech and is heckled mercilessly by an Imperial Senate that's a combination of not caring anymore, and staffed by brutal Imperial supporters.
Even the fear in Mon's eyes over the missing 400k and the realization that she's going to need the help of a brutal thug to keep the Empires eyes off of her activities.
The blank and broken Bix scene was really well done.
Mon's husband is just unlikeable.
I was thinking that we might at some point see Grand Moff Tarkin in this thing as the primary enemy.
Seeing the last place team in the factory broken and willingly stepping into the box to be tortured for their failures, was a wow scene.
We're really not even at the height of the Empire, which will come several years later.
Ok a couple of other things. The people doing the costume designs has done a amazing job, especially with Mon.
The use of music was incredibly good and when the music went away it really upped the feeling of dread.
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Andor is showing us just how evil the Empire actually is, and the kind of people that enjoy working for it. It isn't telling us the Empire is evil or that things are this way because of the Dark Side, it is showing us just what the Empire does to people on the daily basis.
Likewise, the Rebellion is not a pretty, glamorous business. It is painful, ugly, and messy and a lot of people will die even when things go well.