day twenty one: escape

one way out…

DUNCAN POW as RUESCOTT MELSHI in ANDOR

Love the big reveal on Level 8 when Kino and Cassian open the doors pull back the curtain to reveal the great and powerful Oz  the prison warden who commands everyone every day on the loudspeaker with a mechanized voice and he is... Just Some Guy. 

The voice of fear itself is some random Imperial dude. One of a set who switch out according to shift. He’s nothing special. He’s not even as proud as Mr. Nasty, the guard who first greets them in Ep. 8. He is just there. Working the console. And when a greater authority enters the room, he just cedes the power that he never truly had, as he was programmed to do. “On program” indeed.

The levels of artifice in all of this and what it says about performance, of playing a massive game built on strategy but also chance, who people are behind their comms, their messengers, their radio transmissions, their clothes, their jobs, their smiles, their masks, and the extreme thought being put into it is , as usual, blowing my mind. 

Mon Mothma, sitting alone in her luxurious house covered entirely with state-sanctioned decoration, realising that the same position giving her influence is taking away her power...

just saw someone say the colours of the rebellion are orange and white because those are the colours of the jumpsuits they gave the prisoners in narkina 5 and "if you didn't want us to group you shouldn't have given us a uniform" and all that omg

So am I completely lost or did Davo imply he and Perrin were lovers? Is there more context for this conversation because I can’t remember it.

Davo: I’ve met your husband several times.

Mon (clearly uncomfortable): I’m sure.

Davo, laughing: I take it that’s not a corner we’re turning in this conversation.

Mon: It is not.

Davo, nodding: Many cultures don’t appreciate the clarity [transparency?] of the Chandrilan marriage. Even our own people are confused at times. Boundaries [arranged marriages?] can be liberating.

In pre-Revolutionary France, and probably plenty of other cultures, aristocrats in arranged marriages were pretty much expected to take lovers. So that’s where I’m getting this idea. Am I completely misreading?

The Tanakhic allusions went HARD in Andor Episode 10 and I am *here* for it

THE FUCKING QUOTATION MARKS IN THE CLOSED CAPTIONING - HIM QUOTING CASSIAN.

episode ten still sticks with me...

heres a screencap redraw of one of my favorite moments

all the swifties in the Ticketmaster queue today

Go back for a chair! Anything that can float man!!

I swear if they don't find a way to get Kino out of there I will steal everyones elbows and feed them to my hamster

andor episode 10 spoilers maybe??? super minor

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not this mf making me cry during this scene for the first time for this series😭

“I can’t swim” has got to be one of the saddest lines. And what is with these folks and beaches?? Melshi and Cassian are running across a beach at night and all I could think was, “You’re going to be running across another beach in about four years...”  💀💀💀 💔

He asks, "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 15 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. What is my sacrifice? I'm condemned to use the tools of my enemy to defeat them. I burn my decency for someone else's future. I burn my life to make a sunrise that I know I'll never see. And the ego that started this fight will never have a mirror or an audience or the light of gratitude. So what do I sacrifice? Everything! You'll stay with me, Lonni. I need all the heroes I can get."