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Quotes from "ANDOR" which keep haunting me:
"Gets to you, doesn't it? That's what a reckoning sounds like."
"That's just love. Nothing you can do about that."
"But this time... You can't stay and I can't go."
"Power doesn't panic."
"I burn my life to make a sunrise that I know I’ll never see. And the ego that started this fight will never have a mirror or an audience or the light of gratitude."
"Never more than twelve."
"ONE WAY OUT!"
"I've made my mind a sunless place. I share my dreams with ghosts."
"I can't swim."
"Let's call it war."
"Tyranny requires constant effort. Authority is brittle. It breaks, it leaks. Oppression is the mask of fear. Remember that."
"Freedom is a pure idea."
"I show you the stone in my hand, you miss the knife at your throat."
"Tell him I love him more than anything he could ever do wrong."
"The Empire is a disease that thrives in darkness, it is never more alive than when we sleep."
cassian never sees the death star plans.
he never knows that he was forced to build the very weapon that they used to kill him, kill millions of others.
he never knows that so many men died — were tortured, and traumatised, all so that the empire could kill millions more.
he never knows any of this, because they killed him with that same weapon too.
I have hope in Andor Season 2, not because I trust Disney, but because Tony Gilroy seems unhinged enough to rip Disney apart with his bare teeth if they tried to touch his show, like he’s completely off the rails what kind of man says “we are all living in a prequel, we are all going to die” he’s unhinged and I’m obsessed with that-
There is no sun, there is no sun, there is no sun, there is no SUN IN THE LAST EPISODE OF ANDOR. EVERYTHING IS DARK OR CLOUDY, NO SUNSETS OR SUNRISES. THERE IS NO LIGHT ON CASSIAN’S FACE EXEPT FROM THE TIME THEY’RE TALKING ABOUT MAARVA IN THE TUNNELS, BECAUSE THE LAST TIME HE TALKED ABOUT MAARVA THE SUN WAS HIDDEN BEHIND THE CLOUDS AND HE LEARNED SHE’S DEAD.
THERE IS NO SUN!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
tony gilroy watched rogue one, laughed and then said “you think that’s pain? hold my b2emo”
oh its the pieces of the death star? oh they’re being inserted into this weapon of mass destruction in the most stunningly horrifying shot ive seen in my life? oh cassian and melshi were really building the weapon that would bring about their deaths all along?
The thing that in the last episode of Andor a guy just casually whips out Luthen’s kriffing LIGHTSABER?!…I am…just….I can’t I just can’t….I have to go scream for a couple of hours I mean holy shit-
If I watch one more person die after yelling “climb” in Cassian’s general direction I’m gonna start throwing stuff
"And what do you sacrifice?"
"Calm. Kindness. Kinship. Love.
I've given up all chance at inner peace.
I've made my mind a sunless space.
I share my dreams with ghosts.
I wake up every day to an equation I wrote 15 years ago from which there's only one conclusion: I'm damned for what I do.
My anger, my ego, my unwillingness to yield, my eagerness to fight, they've set me on a path from which there is no escape.
I yearned to be a savior against injustice without contemplating the cost and by the time I looked down there was no longer any ground beneath my feet.
What is my sacrifice?
I'm condemned to use the tools of my enemy to defeat them.
I burn my decency for someone else's future.
I burn my life to make a sunrise that I know I'll never see.
And the ego that started this fight will never have a mirror or an audience or the light of gratitude.
So what do I sacrifice?
Everything!
You'll stay with me, Lonni.
I need all the heroes I can get."
It has just occurred to me that Kino probably knew the entire time that he wouldn't be able to escape with the others. He knew the prison was surrounded by water and that he couldn't swim. He's always known that his only way out was to get to the end of his sentence and once that got taken away, he'd have been entirely justified in just giving up but instead he helps literally everyone else escape instead, without ever letting on that he knows he can't join them.
No way out, indeed.
Some Imperial somewhere: you're never going to believe who just organised a massive prison break
I know I’ve already talked about this shot too much
BUT COME ON
Oh. OH. *sits here with eyes wet from emotion*
THAT’s why the colours of the Rebellion are orange and white…
me after episode of andor: this might be the best piece of star wars i’ve ever seen
me after episode 10 of andor: *shaking, crying, throwing up* this might be the best piece of star wars i’ve ever seen
sometime after scarif i sincerely hope that someone in the isb finds out cassian andor was involved in stealing the death star plans and is just so impotently mad because it’s that guy. funnier if dedra lives for this scenario.
there’s something so darkly funny about how cassian keeps saying that the empire doesn’t care about anyone when they care a great deal about his whereabouts specifically.
andor is a masterpiece why aren’t you watching it and talking about it please
AND HE’S RIGHT!
Everyone else in Star Wars canon: “Nooooooooo you can’t defeat the Empire by just blowing things up!” Saw Gerrera:
every single week when the episode of Andor ends my reaction is always: that’s IT. I WANT MORE. literally a surprise every single time when those credits start
cassian is just straight up disassociating at this point. man’s soul has vacated.
I’m this close to theorising that he was a Temple Guard. THIS CLOSE
that's
that's jedi temple guard mask
I can’t believe the first time we see a KX droid in this show it’s on a goddamn beach bro wtf—
[redacted for spoilers] in Andor ep06, in the middle of the heist: “Climb. Climb!”
Me, audibly, clutching my blanket in horror: “FUCK YOU”
I find it interesting how the keep coming back to the fact that Cassian was introduced to audiences in Rogue One with the murder of the informant. And in that moment, we see what kind of person he is and the arc he's going to go on. Because he DOES try other options, he doesn't kill the guy immediately, and even once he clearly decides that the only way they don't both die is to kill the informant, he doesn't necessarily do it in a cruel way. And the first thing we see in the moment afterwards is Cassian's face looking VERY upset. He's immensely distressed that he just had to murder someone who was on his own side, but he did it anyway and then just has to move on. We learn later that this is far from his first kill, that he's done a LOT of things like this for the Rebellion and it's a large part of what drives him.
It is a defining moment for Cassian's character, obviously. And so it's quite interesting to see them keep coming back to it.
In the pilot episode of Andor, we see Cassian shoot the guard, but it does take him quite a while to really weigh those options and decide he can't trust the guard enough to let him live and there's really very little sense of remorse or regret in the aftermath of that.
And of course now, we see him kill Skeen. Skeen who he related to a little and was beginning to trust. Skeen who then turns on them all and proves himself false. Skeen who places a choice before Cassian, to betray Vel and Nemik and Cinta, or to probably die because Skeen is unlikely to let Cassian live now that he knows the truth. Cassian doesn't want to betray the others and he doesn't want to die, so he's left with a single option before him. You can SEE him weighing all of those options as Skeen keeps talking, you can see him attempting to find another way out of it and see if he can talk Skeen out of what he's suggesting and it doesn't work. And so Cassian doesn't hesitate. He does the one thing that will save himself and allow Vel to keep the money for her rebellion. He does what is probably arguably the most morally correct option, but he also is aware that Vel is never going to believe him. She doesn't trust him enough to take his word about Skeen. And so he runs. Again.
There's more nuance this time, and we do see him really not WANTING to kill Skeen, but doing it anyway not just for survival reasons but to protect Vel and Nemik and Cinta and their rebellion, as well. He's not going to just let Skeen esacpe with the money they all fought so hard for, that Taramyn and Gorn and now Nemik died for. He kills Skeen for the cause, but he's not been a part of that cause long enough to be able to keep fighting for it afterward.
Which is likely where Luthen will come in. Who will get the necklace back and hear about how Cassian didn't take the money and be able to read between the lines enough to chase Cassian down again to keep trying to recruit him.
I love watching Cassian start to become the person who WILL kill, but kills for a CAUSE, he kills to protect other people, he kills because the greater good requires it. I wonder if we'll keep seeing more versions of this scene, more call backs to how he was introduced, as mile markers to show how close he is to becoming that person.
What Is Star Wars To You?
Hey, everybody!!!! I'm working on a rewrite of the Star Wars sequel trilogy, and I'm trying to get lots of people's thoughts on what Star Wars is to them and what really makes Star Wars *Star Wars*, ya know?
I'm really curious, because for me, most of Disney's Star Wars content has really just not felt like Star Wars. I really did not like the sequel trilogy or most of the live action shows, but I absolutely adore TCW, TBB, and Andor, because they all really hit whatever it is that is Star Wars to me.
Anyway, I would love to hear your thoughts!! Also, no hate to anyone who does love the sequel trilogy or other Disney Star Wars content, I would love to hear what it is about it that makes you love it and makes it feel like Star Wars to you!