Andor Is A Star Wars Masterpiece From 1978

As of April 23, 2023, this video has become the recipient of the Dilectio Sapientiae Award from the Miami International Science-Fiction and Film Festival. Thank you endlessly for your support and time, for giving this video a watch, and for sharing Andor with others. Long live the Rebellion.

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Andor tells the origin story of Cassian Andor with the lens of an ambitious, polished, and carefully crafted understanding of what makes Star Wars so unique. Andor is a masterpiece and easily the best Disney+ series released in the modern age. From fantastic writing, to incredible speeches and thrilling action sequences, there is nothing here to dislike.

Please remember, this is just one lone man's opinion. I hope you enjoy

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- At 9:26 I quote the great Hank Green with the following, "No one changes the world alone, and no one doesn't change it at all." I wanted to build upon this idea, as it stuck with me throughout the majority of my viewing of Andor. I hope my additional context did some justice to its message. Hank, thank you for inspiring me with this quote and for inspiring me to build upon it further. It is a profound understanding of the cost of living and I hope my rendition can bring some extra revelations, in the ways you inspired me.

This video is not possible without the themes that resonated with me thanks to so many of my favorite minds; reviewers, poets, speakers, and the like. From Hank Green and Rhystic Studies, to HiTopFilms and The Closer Look, to SkillUp and Implicitly Pretentious, these minds have fueled so much of how I appreciate art, how I think more critically/deeply about what I consume, and how I try to communicate its importance.

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This is my review of Andor. (to note, this is not an analysis of the show's fundamental components, just my review :) )
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[JasonCalungsod]

This is one of the best and most comprehensive pieces of analytical media I’ve ever seen. I adore the way you write and your ability to peer beyond the regular praise of this show and really understand this show as the piece of art it is.

[NTWoo]

It’s crazy that the actress playing Mothma went from being a background actor in a deleted scene of Revenge of the Sith to being one of the standouts in a new Star Wars show

[teggy]

I loved how Andor actually developed the bad guy characters and made them competent. They weren't used as punching bags or comic relief, they actually felt like a real and proper threat.

[nightowl]

As someone who has worked 12 hour shifts in a factory doing manuel tasks, I found the prison sequences particularly haunting and the old man struggling, not able to keep up, but not wanting to let his team down, it has been on my mind more or less constantly since

[MrStatement]

One thing about Andor that really stuck out to me is how amazing the world building is, how they took the time to create these little details everywhere all throughout the show to make the galaxy feel real.

[rumplebunny]

"I CAN'T SWIM!"

Serkis' character laughing at the dark, hopeless, final absurdity life dealt him really hit me. I know I'd react in the exact same way.

[aquapendulum]

Andor jumps from a C-tier character in the canon to the A-tier in just 12 episodes of origin story. This man was given a Han Solo arc that just happened off-screen back in 1977. Now he is a better written space rogue than Han Solo ever was. Clever, competent, brutal and even a bit of a lady killer, but not without some room left for a heart of gold. Such a good job by the Gilroy brothers.

[timothymclain]

This is the show I waited for over 30+ years. An adult take on a world invented for my 12 year old self. Thank you, Disney. More please.

[sharkyj]

I really liked the way they handled the separation of Cassian and Kino Loy’s separation. The 2 were set up to be such a good duo, and their chemistry was fantastic. But then they loose each other in an instant. It cut so deep within me and other audience members because it was so real. Life isn’t clean, it’s a mess. Time is fleeting, relationships are strained, and nothing is certain.

[jaysway]

One thing I really enjoyed about Andor was that you could actually feel the weight of the Empire as a soul crushing force.

[michaelwolf]

I had told friends that Andor has a weight that Star Wars hasn't felt in a long time, not in emotional content or dramatic weight, but just that the universe feels like it's heavy, that people are tired at the end of the day, that the things on shelves in the background of scenes have uses or sentiment, that the starships, guns, clothes, existed a year before the scene was shot. It feels like a centuries-old world you walked into rather than one that was assembled to tell this story. It had a profound vision for storytelling with intense detail.

[valley_robot]

The best star wars for a long time, to think I was bored and stopped watching after 2 episodes, I went back and really absorbed it, absolutely fantastic TV show, perfect in every way

[mre]

That silence at the 10:00 minute mark, that was a damn bold move in the age of tik tok, reels, and stories. But i felt it illustrated perfectly what you were saying. A beautiful peice of work to stand alongside Andor. Thanks for this man

[McSkullmun]

Andor gave us characters that weren’t just hero’s or villains. They were people, trying to navigate a world that was falling apart.

[MrSleegi]

I think you hit the nail on the head with Andor being "quintessential Star Wars". For years, we've had Star Wars be "action" or "drama" or "comedy", but Andor returns to the genre that truly started it all. An Epic. An epic space opera in a vivid, exciting universe filled with so much interesting people, lore, and life. Hope Disney continues to draw from the roots that make this IP as special as it is.

[RodCornholio]

_Andor_ is the tone that Alec Guinness' _Kenobi_ refers to - ("the dark times" and Darth Vader hunting down and destroying Jedis). _Andor_ is what Alec's acting conveyed so brilliantly.

[armaniv]

Watching this season of Mandalorian makes it even more apparent how amazing Andor is

[Elmgren]

I’ve said it before but one scene that really hit home was when Vel is about to jump down over the edge during the heist. She hesitated and was visibly scared of what she was about to do, almost to the point of having the mission aborted. This felt extremely real and gave her character weight in terms of story telling. In any other film she would simply have jumped down, shot all the bad guys and saved the day.

[PureSolace]

I'm an old man now. When I saw Andor, it was a flashback to the mid 80s rewatching the original trilogy over and over. They captured the aesthetic and feel, and even expanded upon it. I hope we get to see more of this from Disney in the future. It was very entertaining, nostalgic, and I often catch myself thinking about Andor even weeks after watching it.

[ompbobi]

andor was actually one of the last pieces of media to have me hooping and hollering out of my seat whenever the big payoff happened, both in the prison break and riot