Andor (Star Wars: Andor) - Disney+

[Hikuro]

6 minutes ago, Roy Focker said:

I have theory. B2emo's brain will be installed in K2so. Like how Lando's droid was installed in the Falcon. It would explain how they override the deflaut Imperial programming from taking over and how k2so acts.

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After watching Episode 3, I'm gonna venture probably not, I mean, they left B2 back on the wheat planet and all that. Who's to say they'll even come back? 

I dug the three episodes, 3 being the best one of the batch so far, but episode 1 was interesting. 2 I could not stinking believe 

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They were all gonna settle it playing F*)(&H rock paper scissors, my god....dumbest wanna be rebels I've EVER seen. 

 

[Mog]

Someone referred to B2 as a loyal doggo that misses his human.

I never get that feeling from K-2SO.  Bastard loves Cassian, but will happily kill anyone else (either physically or with his sarcasm).

Edited 15 hours ago by Mog

[Seto Kaiba]

Caught the first three episodes of Andor S2 in my weekly watch group.

It's good.  It's real good.

I am a bit disappointed, but not the least bit surprised, that Mon Mothma's part is once again a largely unnecessary sideshow about covering her own arse.

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Cassian's theft of that TIE Fighter prototype is delightfully awkward.  Everything's fine until he has to actually fly the bloody thing and discovers its controls are nothing like what he trained for, leading to some really spectacularly undignified figuring-things-out on the fly.

Even more undignified and entertaining is that rebel group who accidentally spoils his attempt to hand the TIE off.  Never mind a boot, those idiots would struggle to empty water out of a colander.  I'm not sure what part drives it home best... that they're trapped in the jungle with no survival training to speak of, that they almost immediately fall out over the question of command and start killing each other, or that they try to settle the matter with an elaborate game of rock-paper-scissors that not only distracts the whole group enough for Cassian to escape but also leaves them defenseless against the local predatory fauna.  With allies like that, who needs enemies?  

The Imperials on that farming world are surprisingly scummy even by Star Wars standards.  Hasn't Bix suffered enough?  First her idiot boyfriend sells Cassian out driven by meatheaded misplaced jealousy, then he gets shot dead attacking Pre-Mor security, then she gets captured and tortured by the Empire, and now an Imperial officer attempts to sexually assault her after she refuses his advances?  Yeesh.  Brasso doesn't make it out alive, and B2EMO is left behind.

Mon Mothma's portion of the story is rather disappointingly still focused on covering up her early financial contributions to the rebellion.  She's not really involved with any of the day-to-day business of running the rebellion.  She's just one of their sources of funding now that she has a proper money laundering apparatus in place.  She spends her segments of the story this time fussing over her daughter's arranged marriage to the son of the guy who's laundering the money for her... perhaps nonsensically so, as she's upset about it even though her daughter is clearly and unambiguously indicating she's not just a willing participant she's an eager volunteer who would be actively seeking out such a traditional union anyway.  The only thing keeping it relevant to goings-on at all is that her middleman for the arrangement starts getting cold feet about it due to how the rebellion is affecting his business, and so she has a breakdown and gets white girl wasted at the reception and starts drunk dancing while Luthen deals with that liability she's created. 

All in all, a pretty damn great story.  

 

Between this, Rebels, Ahsoka, and The Mask of Fear, I'm really starting to think that Disney or someone in charge of the creative team (e.g. Filoni) has something against Mon Mothma as a character though.

[Roy Focker]

I never really saw Mon Mothma as some great leader. Her first appearance in ROTJ she appeared to be more a figurehead. As an elder stateman she brought a sense of legitimacy to the Rebellion. Mon Mothma was part of the Senate when there was a Republic. It was people like Ackbar and Madine that really ran the Rebellion. As for her portrayal in Andor the years leading up to the Battle of Yavin. Mon Mothma contributions to the Alliance is her bank account, political connections and ability to freely travel about. She doesn't have to be a good senator to be of value to people like Luthen. Just being a senator makes her a valuable asset.

 

[Duke Togo]

I agree with Roy, I think her value is pretty clear.