Well I would expect that we're going to hear about an overwhelming Imperial response to that riot next season.
The Rebellion got what it wanted which is a slaughter and blood shed. I expect that Palpatine is going to come down hard. We're talking the Base Delta Zero initiative that we heard about in Rebels where they don't send troops down, they slag the planet.
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Now that we've seen the Death Star construction, if Tarkin is going to be somehow involved next year.
Also bravo for the subtle changes in Dedra's look through the season. She almost looked reptilian when she was looking at the potential spots for the trap of Andor.
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I am interested in how the tone gets set with the Imperial commanders in terms of their lack of deference to Vader when we see him in SW:ANH.
The first few months of Vader's adjustment is an interesting concept in itself, because he was uncertain and wasn't really Vader, he was more of a pissed off and uncertain Anakin with a lot less power due to his injuries.
In Dark Lord, the Storm Troopers respected him right off of the bat. They saw him as one of them, a armoured warrior. It also didn't hurt that he lead from the front and frankly a 7 foot 2 asthmatic brutal killing machine leading from the front saved clone lives.
The Imperial Navy commanders and admirals saw him as a lacky with no naval command experience. And Vader wasn't the choky choky killer that he was in New Hope. Usually when an Imperial Navy commander argued with him he's ask if they'd like to discuss the matter with the Emperor, which made them back down. They didn't see him as serious until he basically burned the wookie homeworld to ashes and enslaved thousands of wookies to work on the Death Star. He showed a brutal efficiency that gave him grudging respect from the Navy. He later established that it was better that they feared him then respected him, which is where the capricious temper came into play and the willingness to murder Incompetent officers came from.
If you look at the Vader in Obi-Wan, that wasn't Vader yet. The Vader that Obi-Wan later told luke betrayed and murdered his father. The Vader under the mask in Obi-Wan didn't care about overall strategies, or progressing the New Order or conquering worlds. That Vader was simply an extremely hurt, betrayed and angry Vader in armor He was basically a rage and vengeance machine and you saw it on the bridge of the Imperial Star Destroyer where he let the refugees and rebels go to chase down Obi. I expect that most of the People on that ship didn't really respect that decision.
Dark Lord was a great book that bridged Anakin to Vader and in the end you saw the change in him to full on Vader instead of raging rampaging Anakin.
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Late to watching Andor - I found it started boring and then episodes 3-6 were really good. 7 and 8 have been a total bore though. Does it pick up again soon? I only really have time to watch one episode of a show each night so it was a drag this weekend to almost be put to sleep by this show back to back nights.
You've made it this far, you should finish it. There was a lull for episodes 7 and 8 but 9-12 are fantastic.
Yeah, if it picks up in episode 9 I'll keep going, I've heard good things. I found the prison stuff kind of cool and interesting but all the cutting back to the uninteresting and lifeless political "drama" (which is really just hushed conversations at dinner parties about moving money around) on Coruscant pretty drab.
I think I really liked it for the same reason why I liked parts of the prequels.
In the prequels you had Sidious moving pieces around in the background, and not doing what the typical Sith does, which is blatant displays of power. Instead he played the political game, Created a false war and used that to topple the Jedi and the Republic.
the strength of Andor for me, is that this is a series about moving pieces in the background.
Dinner parties, arranged marriages, the games of intrique in the ISB. I love that stuff.
Meanwhile the Rebellion members are playing each other.
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Interesting possible spoilers from some pod casts that I listen to concerning the Acolyte, the Sith based animated series that takes place at the end of the High Republic Era which ends about 80 years before the Battle of Yavin. We got a hint of this with the Dooku animated shorts. Other key characters that would have been possibly around Darth Plagueis, if they borrow from the EU Darth Tenebrous. Yoda, a young Dooku, But those aren't the spoilers
These two pieces are.
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They are going to pull Darth Revan into the current exanded universe, thought holocron's that the Acolyte is trained with.
WE know that Clone Wars did canonize Darth Bane, and even though there were cut scenes of Revan making an appearance in the 6th season arc with Bane, it got chopped.
The other thing is if they pull Revan into the new Disney Star Wars, there is now a rumor that they are looking at a KOTOR era animated series that will show the fall of Revan to the Dark Side and the rise of the Sith under Revan and Malek during the Mandalorian Wars prior to the events that we saw in KOTOR.
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