Let’s start this review off with something that I really want to get off my chest, I don’t get it I just don’t get whats wrong with the star wars fan base….this show is freaking amazing but yet majority of the fans are like uhhh well this isn’t star wars enough blah blah blah whaa whaa…..honestly though that’s what I like about this show it feels different…we’ve been needing something different within star wars….the universe is expansive….its good to explore the lower classes of civilization…..see how they live…..u know getting away from the Skywalkers, the force, the lightaabers, the pew pew blasters….honestly this concerns me because I’m afraid Disney is gonna see that majority of the fans don’t like this show…..so that means Disney will no longer take risks in star wars like this and instead stick with the cookie cutter regurgitating star wars content we’ve been getting…..thats not what exactly I want but seems star wars fans either have a short attention span, or just care for cameos…like the MCU fans at the moment, or worse they can’t stand good writing and prefer the pew pew and the swish swish…zing zing lightsabers and all that……sign before I go into a rant…here are the trailers
Also heres a specific soundtrack that I really like the most and listen to over and over again…I’m gonna share it here
And whoever says this isn’t star wars music, I will argue with u on that….because this very much is star wars type music……I really don’t get u fans who say ohhh ewww this isn’t star wars music….sighh….anyways so this is gonna be slightly different….what I’ll do is give a run-down of the plot but the thing is every 3 episodes is its own story arc so then I’ll tell the plots of each….so basically the story boils down to this…..the show is about how the rebellion was created…..yeah thats the simplified plot because as I mentioned each 3 episodes is its own arc…….so im now gonna break this up….BTW I remember when this show was announced I was like groan….really a show about Andor who wants this….but turns out this show is amazing…..I’ll explain why….
Episodes 1-3: the arc kicks off when Cassian Andor accidentally murders 2 imperial cops…yeah u heard me, cops…..this is the first time in star wars we’ve seen cops…..we’ve seen the senate, the imperial officers, the army men (which are the Stormtroopers), the sith (which is Vader and the emperor)…but we’ve never seen imperial cops before….and I actually like this because it gives this show a more grounded vibe to it….so yeah Andor murders 2 cops….yikes….well one was completely on accident, he uh just shoves a cop at a wall and that kills the cop……did I forget to mention this show feels realistic? I mean we’ve never seen in star wars someone get shoved not to hard at a wall and die from impact…..oh btw he dies with his eyes open…so once again realistic….not like how Hollywood thinks people die which is with there eyes closed……talk about eerie, just a corpse looking straight back at u with dead empty soulless eyes……and as for the second cop…well he shoots so he won’t turn andor in……talk about a ruthless character who will do whatever it takes for survival…..anyways so he then becomes wanted by the cops……but only 2 cops are wanting to turn him in while the other cops don’t want to…there like just let this slip by stop dealing with it……yeah that’s what their manager says…then he says now if u excuse me I’m late for a senate meeting…he then grabs his briefcase and says while I’m gone don’t sit in my seat….like I said very down to earth this show is……so now with Andor wanted he has to find a way off the planet his living on…btw hes being raised by a woman named Maarva and they have a pet robot who has a speech impediment….which adds to the charm of the robot……btw we do find out how this woman and Andor know each other….for u see years ago more like decades ago on a mission she was on she found herself on the planet Andor grew up on….there they find a young Andor takjng apart at an emperial ship…also they found the majority of his people dead….slaughtered by the empire….so she takes Andor with then to raise him as her own….anyways back to Andor wanting to escape, he gets a chance to because luckily an opportunity comes up….where he is told to take this stolen imperial object to a buyer named Luthen ……he’s hiding in an abandoned warehouse of sorts…….BTW while this is happening our lieutenant cop guy who’s name is Syril Kan is forming a team of cops together to arrest Andor…..BTW here we see the cops do be working in work booths….once again something we’ve not seen in star wars before …..so they cops get ready to go arrest Andor….while this happens…..uhh Andor meets Luthen, they both don’t trust each other….Luthen offers him a job he says I came for that but I also came to seek out recruitments…..he then tells Andor everything he knows about him which is about everything actually….Andor gets worried and aims a gun at Luthen asking how do u know that about me!!?….he asks Luthen can I trust u? Which he says no but u have no choice…so he goes off with Luthen…they escape on a speeder…..BTW the cops blew up the wrong vehicle they thought Andor was on it and escaping from them…so they may have killed someone innocent….uh oh…..so they get to Luthens ship and fly off…now onto the next 3 episodes
Episodes 4-6: so in this arc Luthen takes andor to a remote planet where he’s been recruiting other people to join in on a heist to steal something from the empire….so hence why he brings Andor….BTW we find out little later only reason he brought Andor was to use him as a scapegoat if things go south…..once again this feeds into the whole is Lutehn trustworthy or not…anyways he leaves Andor alone with the group…..he goes back to his Day to day job which is a store owner where he sells items….on the planet of Coruscant…BTW he gets visits from Mon Mothma….they talk in code to not reveal to anyone their secret agenda…for u see behind it all she’s funding his idea to make a rebellion against the empire….yeah u need money for that I guess….BTW in this store we got Easter eggs galore….he has
Gungan shield
Shankara stones (from Indiana Jones temple of doom)
Sith and Jedi Holocrons
Mandalorian armor
Starkillers dark lord helmet (which I guess this now makes the force unleashed games canon….yayyy thanks finally)
Jedi Gaurd helmet
Queen Amidalas headpiece
Like I said Easter egg galore….but it’s nice to spot them out……so anyways guess what else this arc gives us….we finally get to see Imperial officers…there doing meetings. Discussing how to snuff out people who will rebel against them……plus there’s this female officer named (I forget her name to be honest) and she has some rival against another officer because he sees her as beneath him….plus he believes she’s wrong….for u see she had this theory that all the attacks that been happening are connected…and connected to this Rebellion group…..but the other officers dismiss this even here leader…..shocker…….so she starts snooping around behind her superiors back…..to dig into the evidence to help support her claim…….of course she does find some evidence, brings it to her manager…..he listens but this does happen over a period of episodes….I’m just summarizing up what happens…..also another key important note……remember that cop dude Syril…..well the imperial officers call him and his group plus his manager in……they fire them……even though the manager has nothing to do with his men causing an explosion…….but reason he was fired was because he did absolutely nothing to avoid this…even though he told his men to not go after Andor…..then they didn’t listen to him anyways….so yeah now there fired….Syril goes home where he will be staying for several episodes because I guess he’s just moping…….anyways back to what Andor is up to, the heist there doing is planned in a makeshift hut…..there heist Is planning on a scale model table….which I do like this because as we keep seeing the rebellion using hologram tables but since the rebellion isn’t created…..yet…..the only material they have is a table with small model using dirt and Grass and rocks….yeah they really aren’t funded yet…..do they come up with the plan….they go do the heist……so they complete the heist…but it kinda goes sideways, Andor learns that he is just there to be used as an escape goat….so he leaves the group after the heist….he takes his payment…..finds a woman, move together on a luxurious planet to get away from everything….. anyways one day he decides to take a walk on the beach there…..now if ur wondering what’s wrong with that? Well unfortunately on this specific day, there are imperial officers looking around for suspicious-looking people who might or may not be a part of the little heist that happened……Andor notices the guards questioning people so he starts walking back and forth the opposite way…which catches the attention of the guards….they pull aside Andor, question him……says he looks suspicious…..Andor said I didn’t do anything…all I did was walk on the beach….which the guards replied with u look awfully suspicious for a guy just randomly walking on the beach……..so then the guards see someone else running away…so they bring over a K2SO Droid to hold Andor….while they go chase that other person down…….so anyways Cassian Andor gets sentenced to slave work for the empire……..although he really didn’t do anything…….he was just walking on the beach away from the guards……BTW does anyone realize how F**ked up this is…..all he did was walk on the beach….saw these stormtroopers, walked away from them nervously…..then he somehow gets arrested by the guards because he just seems suspicious because the way he was walking away from them…..wow the empire is awful…….so now we go onto the 3rd arc…
Episodes 6-9: so in this arc, Andor gets sent to prison…..where he be doing slave work for the empire…..so he gets put into a prisoner outside, gets put into a group…..where we get introduced to the groups leader named Kino (played by Andy Serkis)….(btw great actor) he is kinda stern…..trying to keep his men in line…..we’ll find out later why he’s stern…but for now he’s just stern…..and they are working on something for the empire….something that doesn’t get revealed tell the end credits of the last episode of this season…..anyways they get to building whatever away……then at night they go to their corridors to bed……..anyways so Andor, of course, of course wants to escape, he tries asking Kino how many guards there are…..but Kino is refusing to say…..so at the moment he can’t get him to budge….don’t worry that’s all gonna change soon……for now they wake up go back to doing there slave work………anyways so while there walking to there work place….the sirens start to turn on…..then they hear screaming in another hallway across from them then gun shots…..Andor and the others wonder what did they just hear? But Kino isn’t hearing any of it…he says SERIOUSLY? YALL ARE WORRYING ABOUT A BUNCH OF PEOPLE THAT U DON’T KNOW OR INTERACT WITH!!?…. GET UR HEADS BACK INTO THE GAME MEN!!……so then the sirens turn off…they go to there stations…start working……but then guess what happens….guys u might wanna sit down because what I’m about to tell u has never been shown in star wars before….so one of the prisoners who’s an old man….who had 18 shifts left……all a sudden falls to ground suffering from a stroke……gaspps….so Kino and Andor drag his body up to the hallway……they ask for a medic…..they tell the guy he’s gonna make it…..but the medic comes and determines that the guy is dead….there’s nothing to fix……..so uh yeah, guys for the first time ever in star wars we just seen a man die due to a stroke……does uh any of this sound star wars enough to yall? Because I still think it does…..so then Andor asks the medic what that noises was earlier….he tells them the guards eliminated those other prisoners…there was never gonna be a way to leave this prison….BTW if ur wondering why Kino was been rude, it’s because he believes if he does what is being told and being able to keep his men in line so they will free them…..then they can leave…but now finding out the empire was never gonna let them leave….they both get up put there hands up start walking away…..Andor once again asks how many guards are there …which Kino finally says no more then 12……yes finally he’s willing to escape…..so anyways him and Andor and the others plan an escape….Kino tells his men the empire was never gonna let them leave…so now we have to escape….so if ur wondering how they escape? Well when they get down to there shift….they will try to grab gun from one of the guards….chasing a havoc…then lather guards will have to come down on the moving platform which then the prisoners will climb it…get to the radio room…inform all prisoners they should leave now…..which Andor and Kino do make it to the radio room…grab guns off the guards….shoot the men in the radio room…tell everyone we need to escape now…so they all start running, knowing the guards onto the ground…..make it to the end of the prison, where they find out this prison is located in the middle of the ocean…so they all start jumping and swimming….as soon as Andor is about to jump….Kino says I can’t swim….which Andor stops turns around looks at Kino says what? And stands there like he’s thinking of a different solution to get Kino off the place but the other prisoners knock Andor into the ocean…..so now there split apart, also this be the last time we see Kino…..oh no….so Andor escapes onto a tie fighter and leaves….now time for act 4
Episodes 10-12: so in this arc we do get Luthen shooting lasers out of his ship towards star destroyers…in space….to take some of them out….yes finally!!…this scene is epic…..also in some sad news, Andors mother dies…..off screen btw……thats depressing, what’s more sad is the robot is depressed and wants his mom back…..awww……anyways one of Andors friends is here so now he knows his mother is dead and will inform Andor later…..but for now the town folks have a funeral for her…..which get this the empire allows….yeah how…..kind?……the female officer says that the town should be allowed to do the funeral……so they proceed on with the funeral……BTW u want something grim? Well off screen they take her remains and make it into a brick…so they take her body, cremate it…..then use those ashes to turn it into a brick…so they can display into a wall……yeahhhhh uhhh…..skip…….anyways so Andors friend contacts Andor…..he tries saying I need to contact My mother……he informs Andor his mom is dead…..she dies……so then Andor now devastated returns back to home….which he comes to the entire town folks standing against the imperial guards…….Andors robot comes out plays a hologram message of his mother….saying something like we can’t let the empire get the better od us we need to fight and stand up to them….so now everyone starts attacking the guards…..they then pull up riot shields….which this is now starting to feel like those real life times when mobs of people attack police with riot gear shields…..anyways people getting killed….pushed aside……Anyways Syril shows up saves the woman officer from being killed…she thanks him…they escape…..so they can survive another day…..anyways the show ends with Andor returning to Luthens ship….where Andor confronts Luthen…says u came to kill me didn’t u? He said I came to do what has to be done….then andor Says ok fine do it then….then Luthen aims a gun at Andor……stares at him then the show ends…..so yeah thats how this show ends…on a cliffhanger….btw we get an end credits scene where we see the death star being put together….so tjose things Andor and the prisoners where building were pieces for the death star……..BTW the director said season 2 will be different it will take place in the spam of years….huh I like that idea….BTW I really hate star wars youtubers they suck…..there’s 2 specific youtubers who I won’t mention there name…who I lost faith in…they both hated this show….well some star wars fans they are….one of them quit after episode 3 because in there words not enough or any cameos or enough pew pew gun shooting…Jesus lord…then the other star wars fan stuck around for the entire season…..and his summary was eh I wasn’t a fan…..because the show didn’t feel like star wars…it had bricks and nails in it……ohhh joy who cares? Bricks and nails….wow pffd how dare they put bricks and nails in star wars….thats blasphemy…..sighhh anyways I highly recommend this show…..10/10…this is the best modern star wars show we’ve gotten…..highly recommend it….
Guys and gals plz plz go watch Andor…..u guys need to support this show ….we need a season 2….heck we need more content like this and not anymore of Obi-Wan Kenobi show or book of Boba fett show….we need quality star wars……not mediocre star wars, but the issue is I’m afraid Disney will look at how many views this show got then decide to stick to the same generic formulaic star wars we’ve been getting
