april 2025 thread because andor 2 is coming and it looks fucking dope

[sonatine]

april 22

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AE4wxt70aUM


pretty fucking stupid soundtrack and its still got forest whitaker attached but somehow it still looks promising.

[sonatine]

going to drop in 3 episode chapters ever week, which is dope.

[gimmick]

So Andor got kinda screwed and Gilroy couldn't fix his own script.

The original script (at some level of finish) was planned for 5 seasons, with each season lasting a year and finally catching up to Rebel One. The 1st season followed that plan, but didn't do well enough for 4 more seasons. The way to "fix" that was by crunching the remaining seasons into a single final season, because reasons. It appears that because of lack of time s2 is mostly built out of cut pieces that are patched together to create a somewhat coherent story.

Now season 1 could have been tighter, but not 4x tighter. You can't keep the writing style with similar worldbuilding and characterization, if the whole thing is only 3 episodes long. Anyways it appears Gilroy wanted to keep the established characters and their arcs in some form with few scenes he liked while also adding the random comic relief scenes, few flight scenes and 40 easter egg average per episode.

The above is my best guess how the 1st 3 episodes of s2 came out the way they did. Random SA scene at this point is mostly just tanking valid criticism. We can all pretend that Leia was never a sex slave since it's not explicitly mentioned. It's a perfectly reasonable assumption that she was merely a pet or an ornament who just happened to be wearing a metal bikini and a collar. Not in my Star Wars.