"Un-uhlaive? UN-UHLAIVE? Ma'am, that man has been killed. He has been MUHDUHED. To DEATH."

I've never been so surprised a piece of media avoided cannibalism

I can now very confidently state that Andor is not just the best Star Wars media ever made, it is one of the greatest pieces of antifascist art and I am so fucking baffled that this got made. How did this get made???

I know I’ve already talked about this shot too much

BUT COME ON

ANDOR episode 10 + tumblr/reddit comments

And what do you sacrifice?  Calm, kindness, kinship, love. I’ve given up all chance at inner peace. I’ve made my mind a sunless space. I share my dreams with ghosts. I wake up every day to an equation I wrote fifteen years ago from which there’s only one conclusion: I’m damned for what I do. My anger, my ego, my unwillingness to yield, my eagerness to fight, they’ve set me on a path from which there is no escape. I yearned to be a savior against injustice without contemplating the cost and by the time I looked down there was no longer any ground beneath my feet. ANDOR, SEASON 1, EPISODE 10

Zydrate comes in a little glass vial.

47 minutes after i did this elon musk started threatening people for impersonating him and other people. my work is done.

Those takes about the Jedi Order requiring you to “forgo your heritage” never made actual sense; we ARE introduced to Jedi characters who do things according to their people’s cultural tradition to the point of dressing or tattooing themselves accordingly. Sometimes a combination of both. Being a Jedi doesn’t actually mean forgo those connections.

You literally see a whole-ass government that actually suppresses the very things they attempt to blame the Jedi for & see it in how they dress. The Empire actively stomped out cultural traditions & had people ESPECIALLY in their military to conform to certain dressing standards deliberately.

Today is a special day for all Star Wars fans

“Shit” is finally canon in the SW universe.

Honestly, the last episode of Andor was so fucking great, and it’s all in the eyes.

Bix’s eyes as the torture helmet is slipped into her head and the horror slowly crashes over her. I love that they didn’t include the sound and just let us as the viewers imagine it as we looked into her eyes.

Derdra’s eyes as Syril grabs her outside of her work, a place where she’s supposed to be powerful and in control of everything, and he’s not letting her go.

Kino Loy’s eyes as the news comes filtering through about what happened on Level Two, how he’s scared shitless, but knows that he has to keep it together for the sake of his guys, because if he loses it, then his whole team will lose it too, and then they’ll all get fried. How he insists that as long as they keep playing the game correctly, everything will be fine and they’ll all get out eventually.

Kino’s eyes as Ulaf dies and the medic tells him exactly what happened on Level Two, when he realizes that the game has been rigged all along and that he’s never going to get out and see his family again. How he silently makes the choice to throw his lot in with Cassian and damn the consequences.

It’s just such fucking good acting, and it’s SUCH A FUCKING GOOD SHOW.

DIVERSITY WIN! Fascist female officer phycologically torturing local woman passes Bechdel test!

ANDOR 9. Nobody’s Listening!

Bix’s interrogation, Paak’s off screen hanging, the mass execution of workers on level two, the euthanasia of Ulaf, the tortured and murdered unnamed rebel pilot and the horrific description of the Dizonite genocide.

This show has really proven that Star Wars can be extremely dark and adult without ever having to show graphic violence of any sort. We’ve seen suffering and sometimes even brutality in this franchise but I’ve never been so deeply haunted by anything in Star Wars before. So that was a first.

The Andor crew once again, raises the bar.