Andor, Season One
- DB
- May 28
- 3 min read
A rebellion is born in some style.
Thanks to moving house, I've been fairly busy and so I've been able to keep to a main 'featured' thing to write about each week, but kind of want to change that up as there are a lot of movies I'd like to watch and/or re-watch, but don't want to force myself to write at length about them.
Long story short, I'm hoping to write about a lot more different pieces of media each week, but how much I write about each will be a lot less unless it's something truly special.
Anyway, on with what I've been playing and watching over the last seven days...
MOVIES
Related to the above, I haven't really had the the time to watch or re-watch any movies in the last week, and when the urge has come up, I've not wanted to set aside the time to write about anything either.
Hopefully, the new format I'm planning on using will increase my movie-watching by quite a bit...
GAMES
Arrow a Row
Game summary: A game in which you shoot arrows (of course) in a row! or maybe two rows! (maybe three?) Choose your power-ups and defeat the Boss. (Steam)
You know those adverts for games that you see online where you can control a character and move them from side-to-side to power them up and see how far you can get?
Well, Arrow a Row is one of those and it's not actually bull-shitting you either by pretending to be something it isn't.
It's a decent enough distraction for a short time and it's free, so why not try it out? [7/10]
I've played a little more of my Dark Urge drow playthrough, but have changed from a monk to an Eldritch Knight Warrior and am using the tadpoles to give myself extra abilities so I can effectively roleplay as a Sith. Fun so far!
I've finished another playthrough in my own copy after first beating the game through Game Pass and it's amazing how different my journey to the ending was this second time through.
First time through I stumbled on the ending after around 40(?) clips - this time it took what I'm guessing was about a couple of hundred!
Still an excellent game too.
TV
Andor, Season One
Episodes 11-12, "Daughter of Ferrix" and "Rix Road"
Another pair of damn fine episodes to close out the first season, especially Rix Road and the first large-scale violence against the Imperial forces on Ferrix.
However, there's a problem I have with Andor's first season that has been nagging at me more and more as the season has gone and I'm hoping the second season will eventually address.
That problem is: where are the aliens? This is a Star Wars TV show, right? I get that doing the make-up, prosthetics, costuming, puppetry and/or VFX work, along with everything else it might take to add some variety to the groups of people we see would be expensive, but come on!
I fully accept that this series is more focused on the 'normal' people - by which I mean there are no space wizards with laser swords flinging shit about in their endless feuding - but the sheer variety of strange creatures you might see are also a big part of what makes Star Wars what it is too.
Andor is a truly excellent sci-fi show about a culture dealing with a growing resistance forming under the boots of a fascist government, but I'm not so sure it's an equally excellent Star Wars show.
In fact, it reminds me a fair bit of The Dark Knight (a movie I love), which is an absolutely fantastic film about a bat-themed, gadget-based vigilante facing a clown-themed criminal/terrorist, but I don't think is a particularly great Batman vs Joker movie.
While I do still have season two to get through and see how it eventually builds up to the events of Rogue One, I don't see right now how it could ever work well, because I think Andor is just missing that little bit of the odd and fantastical which makes Star Wars stand out from other science-fiction settings.
Again, Andor is a truly excellent series about some heavy themes that the rest of the franchises only risks brushing up against every now and then, and I absolutely recommend watching it as soon as you can, but it can often feel like it's taking place in a similar setting, rather than being part of a larger whole. [9/10]
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