Andor

The ReWatchers Re-watching the 1st season I stop to take some notes lest it all get forgotten - again. 2026 - Jul-Aug re-review. Various section of my usual drivel replaced with what I hope you find to be a more level presentation of my take on all things Star Wars. 1st & 2nd episodes Ferrix and Morlana 1 are both in the Morlani system. Cassian kills the two Pre-mor employees in the initial incident and became hunted by a deputy inspector Syril Karn We also spend time on Kanari - Cassian's birthworld and a ship coming to grief and his rescue by Marva Andor along with her friend Clem. We meet Bix and his friend Brasso who provides him with an alabi. Cassian now in a big rush to unload his stolen Starpath unit implores Bix to contact the off-world buyer so he can raise money to get off-world. He is introduced as a bit of a con-artist, thief and hustler and flyboy pilot. 3rd Episode, Gunfight on Ferrix en-route to Ferrix the buyer, Luthen and the Pre-mor men led by Syril Karn and Sgt Mosk in the big shoot-up in the warehouse with the suspended thingies. Bix's boyfriend Timm dies in the process. 4th and 5th episodes - Meet the ISB having recovered the Starpath unit, otherwise lost in the warehouse melee, we meet the agents of the ISB, Major Parthagas and Lt Deadra Meero, Lonni Jung, Supervisor Blevin.. and others. The team on Aldhani prepare for the theft. Pre-mor (corporate security or Corpos in Ferrix slang) are relieved and the planet put under permanent Imperial authority. Meero is convinced the thefts of Imperial technology are part of a pattern and uses this to increase her sphere of influence. 6th episode, theft of the Imperial treasury. Cassian (Clem was Maarva's friend's name), Vel and Skeen survive, Cassian kills the conniving Skeen, confronts Vel, buys the doctor's ship, returns the crystal, takes his cut and departs. The kid - Nemik dies on the operating table, Cinta guarding the hostages walks out of the facility to arrange her own way off Aldhani, Taramyn (the corporeal) is killed in the firefight - they were running late, The Commandant (Jayhold - wife Roboda) confronts Lt Gorn, Jayhold dies of a coronary, We think Gorn escapes. His cover compromised - not all the defenders died. Also of note: Col. Pettigar, the Imperial Engineer is present and draws his pistol on one of the 4 heavily armed men demanding the release of the boy - Jayhold's son, (which to me seems really dumb. If you're going to pull like that you take your shot). Alkhenzi is the place location given for Taramyn's men as they walk up to the other men but am not sure if that is local or another planet. 7th episode, aftermath of the theft on Coruscant where Luthen and Mon Mothma meet to discuss what he had done, she is a bit shocked. On Ferrix Cassian meets with his mother Marva who is fired up about the theft and wants to stay there and fight though Cassian urges her to go with him. Cassian also visits Bix giving her the money he owed various people around town. He winds up on a resort beach of Niamos as Keef Girgo then acting a bit too nervous gets picked up and sentenced to 6 years. Kleya meets Vel on Courescant to discuss handling and disposal of Clem and even more oddly also goes to Ferrix to watch Maarva's door right next to the Imperial squad while laying in wait for a chance to get the jump dangerous Cassian on his home turf! At ISB HQ Col Wulf Yularan announces the ISB to take the lead on tracking down the robbers. 8th and 9th episodes, Narkina 5 - the penal colony Cassian settles in with the his crew building components for the Death Star's Laser focusing mirror. Unrest, death of crew member Ulaf and find out no one is leaving breeds ideas of revolt. ISB thread building - Syril Karn interviewed and again meets Lt Daedra Meero. Ferrix thread - Bix and Brasso checking up on Maarva who is now ill, Bix desiring to inform Cassian transmits through the shopkeeper (name) . Imperials find out about her transmission to Luthen "Axis", Bix Kaleen arrested and tortured divulging information on Cassian, and getting a clearer picture tying Cassian to the heist someone finally suggesting a visual Cassian going bearded to beardless. (it seems their transmissions and interstellar tracking far more advanced than their facial recognition capabilities) On Coruscant Tay Kolma and Mon intrigue as to how they can continue to channel money from her family fortune to fund the rebellion. Mothma again on senate floor trying to convince her colleagues regarding the draconian measures being adopted and about Ryloth who are being targeted by the empire due to minerals needed for the Death Star. Space - Luthen travels to Segra Milo to trade with and convince Saw Guererra to assist with another mission, Guererra has his own ideas regarding other anti-Imperial groups, imaginatively labeling them "separatists" esp disliking one Anto Kreegyr. Episodes 10 -Escape from Narkina 5 Kino Loy is convinced of the necessity to take control of the station which they do and escape. Davo Sculdun meets with Mon Mothma desiring his son be introduced to Mon's daughter in return for his financial help. Mon declines. Davo not her cup of tea. Lonni Jung an ISB supervisor in Luthen's pocket begs to be done but Luthen declines and we get to hear a generally dull and dis-interesting dialog and some soliloquy from Luthen. Episode 11 ...And Anto Kreegyr Winding down the season and building up the death of Maarva Andor as the word spreads. Meanwhile Saw Guererra who has now changed his mind about Anto Kreegyr's impending attack on the Spellhaus Air Station, engages Luthen in a 2nd lively debate centering on the wisdom of burning 30 men and Anto Kreegyr to preserve Luthen's source. Luthen's orbital battle with an Imperial Scout ship and fighting off it's tractor beam and several Tie fighters. Ruescott Melshi and Cassian escape Narkina 5 with the help of a couple of friendly aliens and are dropped off on Niamos so Cassian can regather his box. Season Finale - the Funeral Fracas on Ferrix Maarva's funeral becomes a melee between the townsfolk and the imperials. Bee delivers Maarva's farewell message. The band, the Imperials, the riot, Meero and Kahn finding each other ending with Cassian bid to join with Luthen. Bix, Brasso and a couple others flee Ferrix. Season 2 - 1 year later Episodes 1 & 2 - Sagrona! The three day wedding Leida, Mon Mothma's daughter covering 3 episodes! It doesn't get any slower than this as we get under the hood of Chandrillian custom. Cassian's theft of an Imperial Tie fighter prototype and his encounter with a gag gang of rebels is almost comedic in juxtaposition. Bix and Brasso hanging out on the agricultural world of Mina-Rau. We see Director Krennic creating a high level group of Imperials to discredit the Gormans. Meero and Kahn are now living together while Mothma's money laundering difficulties, now smoothed over due to the marriage is complicated by her friend Tay's difficulties of which Luthen is now a close confidant. ReWatcher General Notes. 2025 Rewatch The Phantom Menace Episode 1 (1999). We start the story at a point in time where the Trade Federation of Newt Gunray has attempted to usurpt the planet Naboo in order to force a treaty that allows their presence on the planet to use as a base. (Taxation of trade routes and failure of the courts are issues Central to the Star Wars late Republic) Having sided with Darth Sidious and his apprentice Darth Maul we see them attempt various stratagems to take over Naboo, using Droids of various configurations. Annikin is a child, albeit one with a pod racer, Qui-gon Jinn's convergence in the force and the pod race. Race won, Annikin's freedom secured, needed parts obtained and we take oour leave of hutt run world of Tatoonine. The Trade Federation is defeated, kicked off Naboo, their orbital station destroyed, the ground army of droids de-activated. Overall a well paced and complete story that introduces the Galactic Republic, Jedi and Sith counterpart. 2025 Rewatch Attack of the Clones Episode 2 (2002) takes place 10 years later, Annikin has become an apprentice under Obi-Wan. Amidala's assassination attempt, placed under Jedi protection and sent to Naboo - Annikin's secret courtship with Amidala. The Courts try 3 times to get rid of Nute Gunray fanning Separatist sentiment. Separatists are led by Count Dooku/Lord Tyrannus. Nute Gunray feels betrayed by Sidious for the events of 10 years ago on Naboo. Gunray signs an accord with Dooku along with the banking guild and a robot representative of a mechanical world and defined as the Separatists along with a number of Dooku led worlds fed up with the increasingly weak republic. Perhaps in need of re-watching and in need of better elaboration on who the villains are while racing to establish the Separatist movement. In this episode we witness the transformation of Obi-wan from Jedi Knight to James Bond. And a shift in the movie from the sedentary Late Republic to Clone Wars mode. It is established that when his quarry (Jenga Fett) had escaped from Kamino, the shot-up Obi-wan should have consulted the council rather than sneak onto the Senate represented planet of Geonosis and let himself in through the back door. Kenobi is captured. He, Annikin and and Amidala made to participate in a gladiatorial bout against predatory creatures are rescued by the Jedi who in turn are rescued by Yoda along with a force of clones (all uninvited). Anyway at the end of the movie both sides appear on the Dug world of Malastare with an array of troops, tanks, transports, air and space ships marking the beginning of the Clone Wars. 2024 Rewatch Revenge of the Sith Episode 3 (2005) After 10 years of Clone Wars the action speeds up in the last of the 2nd set of 3 movies. Anniken fights and decapitates Dooku - Clone Wars over. Sidious uses Annikin's fear to turn him to the Dark Side and he attacks the Jedi Temple, killing everyone he find there within. Sidious overcomes Yoda in the Senate pod room. The transition from Coruscant to nasty lava world of Mustafar where we see Obi-Wan & Anniken, now Vader battle, Obi-wan wins the high ground imploring Anniken/Vader that the fight was over. Vader attacks and is defeated, Vader falls to a low lying rock amidst the lava flow and Obi-wan unable to reach him due to the searing heat, gives him up for dead and departs. Sidious arrives picks up the fully 3rd degree burned trunk of Vader, fits him with cybernetic legs and a breathing suit to assist life support of his ruined body. 2025 Watching Andor Season 2 and Rogue 1 (2016) and A New Hope (Episode 4 -1977) Given the roughly 37 year gap between Andor and New Hope, not a bad job of keeping the continuity. In Rogue one I wonder about the tactical need or rationale to visit to the Death Star base planet. (Of course other than to film Star Wars while it is raining) They knew where the Death Star plans were being kept, time was of the essence why not go straight there? Yet we sidetrack in a hopes of capturing the chief scientist of a heavily guarded Imperial facility so he can personally explain to the folks on Yavin about his booby trapped Death Star (the message was specific enough) or kill him? - Andor's secret orders which is likewise baffling, the device was already built. Interregnum Hardbound books from the early 1980's featured various science fiction images ensconced by commentary which in my case discussed the science fiction genre and some make-believe history of the Galaxy, probably as an extension of Issac Asimov's World and with it's various Interregnums. Later came "Dune" which took place hundreds of thousands of years in the future in which the mechanical minds of computers had been outlawed. It had been so long since Herbert's "Butlarian Jihad" that outlawed mechanical and artificial intelligence. Subsequently Star Wars genre of starting us off on a Dunish desert planet. Tatoonine's 2nd sun and "A long time ago.." line to make it looklike the similarities were circumstantial. Star Wars builds thousands of years after the foundation laid by Dune In similar manner we introduce breakages of more than several years in the Skywalker saga. 1st Interregnum Between 1983's Return of the jedi and 1999's The Phantom Menace - a 16 year gap in direct Skywalker - related story line. 2nd Interregnum Between 2005's "Revenge of the Sith" and 2015's "The Force Awakens" - a 10 year Skywalker gap. Book literature. Noteably: John Jackson Miller's 2014 novel A New Dawn and Chuck Wendig's Trilogy: Aftermath (2015), Life Debt (2016) and Empire's End (2017) deal with filling the 30 year gap between the events after the "Return of the Jedi", Briefly, the core worlds flock to join the Alliance forming "The New Republic", the remnants of the Empire collect, battle and are defeated a year later and flee to the outer rim and so-called "unknown regions" where they attempt to re-organize, rebuild and are infiltrated and pre-empted by Sidious and Snope and returning as "The 1st Order" utilizing new tactics and methods. Later Movies Episode VII – The Force Awakens (2015) Episode VIII – The Last Jedi (2017) Episode IX – The Rise of Skywalker (2018) The Force Awakens Set 30 years after the end of the original trilogy, the indecisive Republic vs. the "Empire" or "First Order". Hoping to catch elements of the original Star Wars (Disney acquired the Skywalker Saga in 2012) it's the Rebellion against the Empire with a new set of characters Poe, Rey and Finn, (a disgruntled stormtrooper). That this often overlooked movie needs re-watching is an understatement. It is the worst of the lot. The main male lead characters meet, hit it off then are separated until the end of the movie. When I first watched Star Wars I was about 13 and then only dimly aware of why I liked it so much - the interaction between the two lead characters. The fanzines such as Marvel's "Epic" magazine raved about this. Where would the entire franchise be without it? We can only guess.. Perhaps in the dump heap along with other science fiction big ticket productions such as John Carter of Mars - which was going well enough until they killed off Bryan Cranston's character or that Green Lantern movie where one of the leads clearly disliked the other. Both are well forgotten. Had they hit it off they could have been great. So why in The Force Awakens the main characters are separated is beyond my comprehension. Fringe Elements The Shroud of the Dark Side, Yoda senses Annikin's anguish half a galaxy away for having killed the Tuskans though he and Windu are unaware of Sidious' aura while sitting in the same room with him. Some high level force masking is going on which I believe had something to do with the unbalancing of the Father/Son/Daughter Force world people on Mortis. Obi-Wan and Annikin visit Mortis during the Clone Wars series. Surreal and outside space/time we witness the death of the father and daughter leaving only an increasingly deranged son. Annikin is described as the convergence of the force or as one who fulfilled the prophecy of bring balance back to the force. Annikin expressed an interest in assisting the old man, Upon re-watching it was Obi-Wan who indeed uttered "lets get out of here". The Force re-balancing is usually associated with Vader's betrayal of Sidious. I think Annikin returned to Mortis, created Darth Vader and sent him back to do his bit. Later we see Luke Skywalker do something like this creating a Force projection though in Annikin's case it is solid and real. Exegol In one of the later movies Sidious raises a fleet of Star Destroyers. I believe this is the same fleet that, after the third movie's Death Star destruction, receive orders of some kind to report to the Sith world Exegol where they are put on ice until later called for. The way they are portrayed - an entire fleet, whipped up out of thin air with little or no background or explanation. Going back to the 3rd movie- what would they have done? Return to Coruscant and elect a new leader. Empire and Rebellion conflict going on. Who is Annikin's Father? Shmee Skywalker said their was no father. To which I say poppycock. In the later movies we are introduced to the Force ability to move matter across distances. Krylo Wren in particular comes to mind having "died" but not before making a strange noise. Did you notice? I believe he force impregnated his female companion. Either that of Annikin's line died with him. Somebody was Annikin's father. Who? The Toydarian Watto? Not a force guy and not of the same race. Jabba the Hut? unlikely, again, not the same race. The force world's father? Fits better. His "son" was falling to the dark side (thus unbalancing the "living" force) Of all the Clone Wars I watched it was a complete reversal to hear the otherwise "jedi committed to the cause" Annikin express interest in helping the guy. Yes I had to watch it twice to confirm that it was Obi-Wan who expressed his interest "let's get out of here" in leaving the force world. They were immortal with god-lie powers. Force concentrated planets I believe some planets emanate more Force than others, Certainly Tatoinne and Lothal, where the Jedi temple had some time/space incursion device which we see Akosha utilize. Truly a very powerful device. One you would not find at all Jedi temples. The Force world of Mortis, existing outside the usual space/time continuum, topping the list. Others include Dathomir, home of the Nightsisters and Exegol, the planet we find Sidious on in the latter movies with his stolen cloning technology and mystery fleet. Jedi Indifference By the end of the 2nd movie the Jedi knew their powers had been lessened. This was at the beginning of the Clone Wars. Common sense would have indicated that a secret base on some forgotten temple world be established and over time as Jedis "retired" move some of their operation and training there. The Space Whales Somehow in the quest for Grand Admiral Thrawn we find ourselves in the Andromeda Galaxy where our intrepid band hitches a ride amongst a pod of hyperspace enabled whales that can travel between Galaxies. Where did they come from? In an attempt to bridge the Dune universe with this one we have to come up with a science fiction explanation for Tatoonine's 2nd sun. Late in the Dune series, it was felt that the planet was becoming far to watery, lawns, lakes, tourists. At some point they commissioned the Transportation Guild to locate and transport an appropriate sized sun and move it to co-orbit around The planet's main sun. A task never before attempted. The navigators realized it would take a considerable number of ships forming a grid around the star and that they might have to go outside of the vehicle in order to fold space around such a large and dense object so they surrounded their bodies with sand-swimmers, the juvenile sandworms and got to work. The endeavor once started transformed, elongated and metamorphosed their bodies into the space whales. Once the star was moved and with no longer any need for air, food, water or being within a ship they ventured off into the stars.