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Andor 2x06 Full Reaction! (Patreon)

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Ryan

To start with the biggest attention-grabbing moment of the episode: Tony Gilroy has revealed that he tried long and hard to get Jimmy Smits for the show, but in the end he just couldn't make it work with his schedule for the new Dexter show. And honestly, I've been expecting a recast of Bail for a while. Smits is almost 70, which has made his definite endpoint in the franchise timeline more and more awkward (just think back to how weird it was that the Obi Wan show kept making a big deal about the sixteen years younger Ewan McGregor supposedly looking older than him). And while Benjamin Bratt isn't that much younger, it's still some much-needed breathing room for the moment. Plus, he's a fantastic actor in his own right and from everything I've read a super cool guy in real life, so I'm absolutely fine with this. And pleasantly surprised that my expectation of a certain subset of fans trying to tear him down by acting like his career consists entirely of Catwoman didn't come true. And then Gilroy made the utterly brilliant move of inserting him into this episode in a way that Mon could address him by name, so his actual major role in the story won't have to waste time letting us know who he is, plus giving the fans a week to get used to it so they won't be overly distracted by it (that didn't quite work out for your schedule, but it was a good idea anyway). Bravo on linking up the "Good soldiers follow orders" line to Luthen. I liked to describe Season 1 as "Imagine if John La Carre wrote a Star Wars story," and that vibe has lessened a bit this time as the show gets more into the specifics of its situation, but very much comes through in the idea of both sides having to do equally bad things until the ideology it's in the name of doesn't really matter anymore. Evil will always triumph, because good is dumb. And no matter how much anyone might admire Luthen, odds are you're PISSED at the sight of him laughing off a missed opportunity to murder Krennic immediately after we've seen Cinta gunned down on a job he sent her to because she'd do what Cassian couldn't. And that's clearly entirely deliberate, because this is a show that wants to make you think long and hard about your own sense of morality. At long last we get to see Genevieve and Ben work off each other, and it's as magical as I was hoping. Because of course Krennic is the kind of asshole who'd be making edgelord "the hero is really the villain, Cobra Kai for life" videos if it was a thing in this setting. This whole scene is maybe the most nail-biting the show has ever been, so it's a good thing everyone's Anxiety can take a break in the massage chair whenever it cuts to a mission we know full well ISB wants to go off without a hitch. At least until the thing happens. And I'm very glad you took this long to get here because I really needed that time to put my own thoughts together. First off, Gilroy has denied that Varada's schedule on Doctor Who had anything to do with this, and it was always how he intended Cinta's story to end, and I'm inclined to believe that. And I'll even go so far as to say this isn't just a standard Bury Your Gays, because this has always been the kind of story where no one is safe and I'm even fully expecting that everyone who doesn't appear in Rogue One (ie, almost the entire cast) is going to bite it before the end. I just wish they could have come up with a way to do it that doesn't so directly echo the "one moment of happiness, then they're dead" method of killing gay characters that was a hoary cliche back when it happened to Lexa, and even Tara Maclay's ending was pretty eye-rolling. And this is something I'm very comfortable blaming on the story crunch that's been this whole season (and Perrin's line about squeezing a year of insincerity into three days was 100% a direct reference to this, I'm calling it). Speaking of, we absolutely would have gotten a ton more about Gorst's death, and that's something to really sigh about missing. It's not even clear if Luthen put them into it or they went rogue, and that's kind of an important piece of the puzzle for whatever happens next. But I'm still glad it happened, because the show needed it at this point, just like we needed to see Captain Spiers run twice through Bastogne when we did. A reminder that good and bad things can happen to the right people on occasion as long as enough people care about it. And ultimately, that feels like what this show is about most of all. Now let's watch that good feeling get blasted to hell tonight.

Saltire

Seeing a new Bail was a surprise, but when I read to the reasons why Jimmy Smits couldn't make, and as Ryan said here, they recasted. And personally I'm fine with it, Jimmy is beginning to look his age unfortunately and this fella - who has a familiar face to me, thought I can't place him - does seem to have more vim and verve in the role now, which I'm fine with. I never cared for Cinta so her death meant nothing to me, however they hurt my girl Vel! I swear she better make it out of this series, I don't care about anyone else!! Well maybe Syril, who is such a contemptable little shit, that I can't help but love. I dread to think what Dedra does to him under the covers at night, but I'm sure he's all in on it. Bless! :D Mon getting increasingly tired of the senate; can't be far off we see her approach the end of her tether as the Ghorman stuff comes to a head, and fingers crossed, we get her Rebels scene; though I doubt they'll do that as Gilroy it seems only likes his own characters outside of Mon, Saw and Bail, so I'm not expecting to see Choppy Chop Chop, or our beloved Hera at the end of all this. Bix killing Gorst out of nowhere, but I'm not surprised. She can begin to move on, at least until she no doubt gets killed too, the way this is going. Diego looked so weird as that fashion designer, I just wanted to give him a slap lol! These two arcs haven't grabbed my attention really so far, but that could be more down to me being all in on Last Of Us 2 again just now, and that my focus isn't 100% here; though I hope they can have a big send off for the final 6 episodes to end this show. Fingers crossed.

Saltire
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One thing I did really like however is the lad we saw from the first season, who lost his father to Gorst and built the bomb. Now we see him using his talents with the increasingly insane Saw Gerrera; and that scene at the end with him accepting the coming madness as he joins Saw's crew, is a nice touch.

Thomas Corp
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As I mentioned, hours before the season premiere, a leak came to my attention about the Darrining of Bail. The result being the shock was gone. Kept quiet on the probable chance that the leak was bullshit. Though the age thing doesn’t bother me much, it is a reasonable thought. Benjamin is a cool dude, and I have been hearing how he’s respectful of the recasting whilst also being excited for the role of Bail. If fans were going to go down the Catwoman route, those that are unfortunate enough to remember that movie do recall that nobody looked good in that one? Seeing him as Bail, as I said, there was the “Well, shit.” moment of deflation, but since I had the week’s worth of the idea ruminating in the brain, making peace with it went well. Good call on the added scene, which again, talking with my brother, we both agreed that it also spoils him having the bigger role to come, as otherwise, you could just leave the Bail cameo on the cutting room floor. Not to mention how you don’t just get Benjamin, sort of like how Jess said about Jeffrey Wright in that you don’t just hire him for a small role. But yeah, the scene does well of allowing the fans the week to get it out of their systems, as if they’re Mike Myers yelling about the bloody mole winking him in the face. That was great how Jess linked the clones’ line to Luthen. The le Carré feel is still strongly present, albeit less overt as Gilroy merges it well with his style, and this arc has felt very René Clément, namely Is Paris Burning?. The Dark Helmet logic is why I feel so many fans are pissed off at the Disney era as it triples down on how the Emperor always wins, even when he loses, he still wins. I obviously am happy as a clam about that. Great words about the laugh Luthen and Kleya had about what shame it was that they didn’t put two in Krennic’s head, preferably when he would be asking how the Italian food in the restaurant is. Genevieve and Ben did mighty good work. I keep wanting to see Ian and Genevieve have at least one scene of the Emperor and Mon. If we don’t get that, then this scene of Mon and Krennic will do just fine. Krennic would make videos like the Cobra Kai ones. The tension in the scene was great. I liked how Gilroy is realistic on how fans would think that Doctor Who played a part in Cinta’s fate. The idea had crossed my mind. The statement he made, I believe him. The setting does allow this to not be your standard Bury Your Gays trope in action. Again, it’s FAR LESS offensive than what happened to Charlie. The thing of “one moment of happiness, then they’re dead”, yeah, that part is a mite problematic. Shared thing of the story crunch being at play. (And yeah, I caught that about Perrin’s line being a cheeky nod to that.) I thought it was obvious about Luthen set Dr. Gorst’s death up. They have the lines about the Emperor taking an interest. Lonni would undoubtedly spill that to Luthen. We do see Cassian getting called for a mission. At least, that’s the read I’ve had. I assume the good feeling getting blasted to hell tonight is going to focus on Bix at some point. Which, by the way, I see you liken her story possibly going Koba, though not the exact comparison used, that’s been my brother and I’s assessment as well.