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Andor 2x10 Full Reaction! (Patreon)

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Ryan

The best compliment I can give this episode is I didn't even notice until it was over that Cassian wasn't in it at all. That's how you know a show has a great supporting cast around its title character. It's an especially nice touch that we begin and end with blinking lights, one leading Luthen to kill a man, the other signaling his own death. Regarding the first one, Robert Emms very much makes the most of his final scene, fully selling that this guy has just discovered something he can't comprehend the scale of even as he's trying to use it as a bargaining chip. I knew him from Chernobyl and His Dark Materials, and this adds another big notch to a promising career. Followed by the scene we've all been waiting for since the show began, and Stellan and Denise are both clearly radiating that excitement of getting to work together at long last. Luthen's line about there being two questionably authentic things in the shop right now instantly became one of my favorite lines in the whole show, and it built from there as Dedra starts giving the speech she's clearly been composing for years, except that after she finally gets to say "The jerk store called and they're running out of you," Luthen effortlessly tops it both verbally and physically. I've seen some people complain that Dedra looks stupid for leaving him alone with the knife, but I find it fits perfectly that after so long forming a mental picture of Axis as a hypocritical thug, she never dreamed he'd be so genuinely committed to his cause that he'd be perfectly willing to sacrifice himself for it. Luthen Rael has always been this show's MVP, providing a tremendous entry to Stellan's legendary career, and this whole scene is a perfect swan song for him. Which makes it a tad awkward that he's actually in quite a bit of the rest of the episode, but at this point I'm not turning down the chance for more of him. The popular speculation from the start has been that he's a Jedi and his cane holds a lightsaber, and I'm very happy they didn't go that way. Instead there's the far more interesting route that he's a former Imperial officer who at some point found the Nuremberg defense just wouldn't sit with his conscience, and now he just hopes if he does enough against the Empire, maybe the lambs will stop screaming. Stellan is flawlessly put back to Insomnia era with what seems more makeup than CGI, and April V. Woods is perfectly believable as a young Kleya. I had my doubts on how this could work so late in the game when it started, but I'm very glad they went for it. There's a beautiful irony in Dedra's downfall being even less dignified than Syril's. A "Who are you?" is at least something, but she doesn't even get to say her enemies took her down. Instead, the system she's devoted her whole life to ended up deciding she was just as disposable as all the people she's "taken care of" for it. Denise already digs into that outrage reminiscent of Olivia Cooke in House of the Dragon, and leaves you eager to see what more she can do with it. And as a bonus it also makes Kleya's job much easier as she just has to worry about the standard few mooks. Special mention to that one guy right outside the room who you can practically hear saying "What are you doing with that lead piping?" Leading into that bookending blinking light, and the end of one of the greatest characters Star Wars has ever given us. It'll probably be a while before we see anyone close.

Thomas Corp
>>174057431

Think I noticed about halfway through about the likelihood of Cassian not even making a quick appearance. Once the idea registered, I was fine with that as it does speak to the ensemble cast in this. Good catch with the blinking lights. Robert got the good final scene as Lonni. He has been steadily impressive, look forward to seeing more of him in later work. The entire scale of the Death Star would be something that devastating to the mind. Stellan and Denise were crackling with the energy. The questionable provenance line was really damn good. My brother would feel Dedra’s pain of having her big Costanza moment undercut by Luthen’s sacrifice. Dedra’s error makes sense with her overconfidence. The Emperor has that similar blind spot of it is something that he genuinely cannot conceive of any reason why someone would sacrifice themselves like Luthen did. Given the Imperial rhetoric that Dedra eats, sleeps, and breathes, it stands to reason that she’d have a similar blind spot, exacerbated by, as you said, the years that she’s built in her mind about Luthen. Luthen is in contention for best character introduced in this show. I keep trying to pick; I got the cluster of him, Dedra, Kino, Kleya, and Karn, and I love all of them so much, that it’s hard to pick. Likewise, hard to rank them. I had heard the Jedi speculation with Luthen coming up three years ago. My thought was, “...Possible. Not likely, but possible.” Supposing they took that route, I just would have wanted it to be well written. Instead, we have, as you described, an Imperial who realizes he can no longer stomach the Nuremberg defense, and that if he tears the Empire apart long enough, he will no longer have to wake up in the dark hearing that awful screaming of the lambs. The younger look on Stellan felt half cgi, half makeup, and it looked great. See we both estimated roughly the similar period in his career, appearance-wise. April was very impressive as the younger Kleya. Dedra’s downfall being less dignified than Karn’s: Tragic irony, or poetic justice? You tell me. Narratively perfect how the system she revered just eats her up. Denise and Olivia are magnificent with that internalized outrage. Was saving some talk about Kleya’s job being made easier for the next reaction, however, yes, once Dedra’s hyper-paranoid ass and her unit are taken away, Heert’s men, by contrast are comparatively lax. The one guy did have the Flanders energy, yes. The sound of the blinking lights say goodbye to one damn fine character in Star Wars.

Saltire

Lonni was a god damn hero of the Rebellion, not Luthen. Poor bloke worked for years in fear undercover in the ISB, finds the biggest of secrets the Empire is hiding, tells Luthen, then gets shot for it, and his family will be in trouble with the Empire. We know Luthen says he sacrifices his decency for this - to Lonni - but this was unforgivable; the clock was ticking and it was time to move to Yavin, Dantooine or any other Rebel Alliance hideout. By staying on Coruscant, everyone is in the firing line and putting a target on their back in broad daylight. Dedra comes for Luthen but its too late, as he says the Rebellion isn't there anymore, its too big, and there is only this pitiful little man in his wig and jewels left here to face the music. Dedra has risked it all to get him though, and the time is up not just for Luthen, but for her too. Yes Jess, that a copy of the stone tablets we see in Rebels. They won't be the real thing, but perhaps taken from elsewhere. They have been an easter egg in the show since season 1. ;) So Luthen was an imperial who was forced to commit an atrocity but wouldn't do it, and it was enough to break him and see the beginning of the evil this regime was capable of. I had to check the year and it seems it was 18 BBY. Some events in that year for reference : Ahsoka joins Bail in the fight against the Empire, and helps out early rebel cells get established; the Clone Army is dissolved and the Stormtrooper Programme is launched; the sacred Jedi world of Ilum, where the younglings went to get their kyber crystals, is taken over by the Empire to harvest the crystals; Kallus on his first mission almost gets killed on Onderon trying to find Saw, and sees a Lasat pick off his crew one by one. The most notable death that year, was our beloved Tech. Sometimes with all the jumping around, we need to see where things stand, and so this was the year that Luthen finds and raises young Kleya, and they start their own form of terrorism and "rebellion" together. Cool seeing Naboo again, why no Gungans though? I was wanting to see Jar-Jar jumping out of the lake! Too much for Gilroy "Meesa thinks!". ;) Yeah, no wonder Rex preferred his Phase 1 clone armour, at least that offered protection! We can see how cheap the imperial armour looks for the general imperial security, and stormtrooper armour is just as bad, though they were never designed to be elite soldier armour, merely police standard armour. Palpatine spending the good stuff on the Death Star and Project Necromancer on Exegol, as well as building up the imperial navy. So Kleya ends Luthen once and for all, showing him the mercy he showed her.

Thomas Corp
>>174885102

I have been hearing that the fans are particularly upset about Lonni. Feels like on some level, our anger is the intended response to what was the rather cruel and ignominious nature of Lonni’s death. If I recall correctly, the Dantooine location has been deserted for some time now. Dedra’s window of opportunity is closed as the Rebellion is gone, and only the little (metaphorically as Stellan’s I think 6’4”,) man in his impressive wig. Time’s run out for both of them, Luthen’s just the one to realize it first. Figured you’d catch the Mortis stone. Hearing a lot of fans are mad that Luthen was not a former Jedi. I entertained the possibility, but I was just waiting to see what his backstory would be, if we were to even get it. Former Imperial he is. Yeah, I factored in the younger look Stellan had, plus his age now and where we are in the timeline and surmised about four years post Order 66 at the latest, or more probably, as you’re saying, about a year after Order 66 at the earliest. Hell of an eventful year, 18BBY. Tech was the greatest loss in that year. Love the scenes that highlight Luthen and Kleya forming what was the beginning of a beautiful friendship, which graduates to being like that of a father and daughter. Ian McDiarmid did once say that if one could have an overarching subtitle for the films, it would be “Fathers and Sons”, here it continues that tradition of that continued theme of parents and their children, blood or not. No, yeah, I was delighted to see Naboo. Gungans would have been too tonally jarring, mesa thinks. I wouldn’t have said no to a Boss Nass appearance. Stormtrooper armor is cheap as shit. Love everyone’s continued jokes and observations on that. The Emperor needs all the extra bread to go toward Project Stardust, and to funnel it toward Project Necromancer that was on Tantiss, and by now, the nefarious project has undoubtedly shifted its site of operations to Exegol, lovely place that it is. Heard that when Kleya’s wheeling around the old granny, and they’re in the elevator that was playing The Niamos Girl from Ipanema, the puppeteer played around by ad-libbing the alien line, leaving Elizabeth to have her response of “What?” in genuine confusion, and they left it in. Kleya showed immense strength in ending Luthen for the greater good. Hoo boy did that scene get to me.