The irony that Andor has done all this illegal shit since he was a kid and then he gets arrested for absolutely no reason

This series acting is some of the best star wars has ever had, it’s a shame people NEED a random cameo or action to actually like it

The Colonel at the beginning of the episode is the narrator from The Clone Wars, the admiral who is always with Anakin. Admiral, now Colonel, Yularen.

It’s such a good show. Showing us the universe without focusing on force users. Is the lower viewership due to kids not interested? Such great acting.

didn't expect that Yularen cameo. he sure has come a long way from being just a unnamed character in new Hope lol.

So some people dug up some stats for audience interest on Andor, and it turns out that interest was very low before the show even started airing. It was the lowest audience interest show of all the Star Wars shows that have been coming out on Disney+. The problem is a number of factors from what I've read: 1, "Andor" is not a household name and it's not a good way to capture interest in a show for mainstream viewers and families if they don't even know who Andor is (even folks that might have seen Rogue One probably don't remember the character's name). 2, as audience interest was low before the show even started, it's clear that Disney did not put the money and effort into marketing this show, which I agree with considering the comparative marketing work that went into Boba Fett, Mandalorian, and Kenobi. 3, casual viewers that are just looking for something to watch don't feel that this is "Star Wars" enough for them - and by that, I mean your bog standard viewer who thinks of Star Wars and the image comes into their head of lightsabers and goofy, flashy, silly action hijinks and family-friendly fun, and this certainly doesn't tap any of those categories. It's extremely disappointing, because IMO this is the best Disney+ original show out there right now, and Disney will take the data from this show's poor performance and decide that serious, mature storylines aren't a good investment for them.

I’m glad you guys are sticking with this show. It really deserves all the recognition it can get. I really do hope they still go ahead and give season 2 the green light

Thank you for continuing to put up reactions Normies! This show is easily the best live action SW show yet, it's a crying shame it's not getting the attention it deserves. The performances are Emmy-worthy. Genevieve O'Reilly and Fiona Shaw especially are amazing. Plus the music, the cinematography, the set design, everything. SO enraptured by Cassian's story. I hope you'll watch season 2!

Cassian got arrested for walking while brown. And sweating apparently.

Galactic holos are like "Niamos man" while naked chases and shoots rancor for taking his crystal spice.

Did we just get 'Star Wars Florida' in this show? Kudos to Tony Gilroy for making the world actually feel big! Even with some VFX augmentation, hard not to instantly recognise the brutalist architecture of the Barbican Centre & Estate in London that the show uses as one of its locations! The show clearly has really good & creative location scouts particularly around the UK!

This show is the best live action Star wars show so far hands down. From story, camera work, acting, and atmosphere, this show is exceptional. I understand why this show isn't something a ton of people would flock to at least right away, but it's a shame it isn't being talked about enough right now. I think in time it'll get the eyes it deserves.

Cassian got 200,000. He payed the Doctor 30,000 for the ship

4:58 I just now caught that-- Luthen keeps openly offering her that metaphorical weapon of war and she keeps pretending like it's something she can keep avoiding.

I would be terrified of anyone who thinks that Karn's mom is a Role model.... It clearly shows why he thrives inside an oppressive system. I really like also how the show illustrates the Dangerously competent individuals inside the Empire.

Another great reaction! Chris has GOT to be some sort of teacher, my man just keeps dropping science/psychology on every video. I wish I was as smart when I was his age.

“Take it up with the Emperor” in six years Rogue One happens

The character development in this series is fantastic. I'm so glad you are sticking with it. I'd love to see a group of you on the Galactic Starcruiser and really get immersed in a Star Wars adventure.

FYI the show already has a second season planned with 12 more episodes

We already know he won't be in prison for 6 years because ROGUE ONE takes place less than 5 years later. The first ANDOR episode said in the caption text that it takes place 5 years before the Battle of Yavin (when the first Death Star blew up).

I am liking this show. It was a great episode. Getting to see how Mon Mothma becomes the true leader of the Rebellion is cool.

The fashions and architecture designs of Coruscant shouts out loud, “ART DECO!”

You guys won’t make the connection but the Imperial guy at the beginning of the episode talking about how the Empire will respond to the Aldhani heist is Yularan, who is the mustacheod Admiral that worked with Anakin in the Clone Wars. He’s in a lot of episodes/his voice is used for the clone wars episode intros

It's sorry to hear that the show is actually not doing well. I really love the show and I really enjoy watching your reactions to it. And watch Roger rabbit if you want to know about that "shave and a haircut".

Don’t ever apologize for being political. We are living with individuals who are actively promoting fascism and we have the right to speak out against them.

I love this series! So glad it’s been renewed for a 2nd season!👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾

This show is killing it and great reaction. I really don't know why more people aren't watching this.

Fun Fact - The Aurabesh at 19:07 translates to: Name: Keith Seymour Crime: Suspected Force sensitivity. Assaulting an imperial officer Sentencing: Twenty five years It probably is a reference to Keith Seymour, one of the concept artists for Andor.

The Empire's new motto is the beatings will continue until morale changes.

Thank you for reacting to it. We truly appreciate it ❤

I feel like Saw Gerrera will break him out of prison. Also I wish more people were watching this show. I'm in love with it and hope they can keep up the momentum. I needed this type of SW.

I like how smart this show is with dialogue. The climax of the episode was the whole scene with Isb officers discussing sector security. Battle of words like how early GoT seasons used to do it

Thanks for the reaction, love this show.

Both trapped in prisons of their own making. Cassian ran in the hope of being free of the Empire, and in the end he got arrested for it. Meanwhile, Syril ends up a literal worker drone, trapped away from his goals the outcome of all his actions.

The Shoretrooper who confronts Cassian at the end is played by Sam Witwer, the guy who plays and voices Starkiller in the games, and Darth Maul. Also the Admiral at the start doing the briefing is the admiral with the moustache and thin head who worked with Anakin and Ahsoka all the time during the clone wars, really cool cameo.

Viewership data be damned! GoT season 8 may have garnered lots of viewers but nowadays it is forever known for giving fans a bitter aftertaste whenever they think of that alone. Andor will hopefully be known for not only its quality storytelling but also serving as a blueprint for future SW shows.

Mon Mothma's old friend might be trustworthy, but it also sounded like he was trying to draw more detailed responses out of her. Definitely sounded like "speak up a bit and into my chest"

No Chris, there are 5 episodes left after this one and they're about to start filming the second and final season (12 eps). And side note, this is the best live action Star Wars outside of the original trilogy and Rogue One.

I will continue watching these reactions so keep ‘‘em coming! 😁👍

My mom doesn’t like Star Wars. Like, at all. She doesn’t even like sci-fi. But that being said, she really likes this show. She’s really into the story, writing, and acting. I think that’s what this show has accomplished. Being able to make people who don’t like Star Wars, to be able to understand what’s going on here, and then get interested into this world.

I love how much time you guys talked about the costuming. Costumes help tell the story as much as the script and scenery.

Absolutely love this show. Please keep reacting. It's doing just fine.

This is the best Star Wars content show or film ever. The storytelling, writing and acting is on another level to anything in the Star Wars cannon. It is Star Wars for adults. What is disappointing is this show has the lowest viewers of all the shows because many people have given up on Star Wars after the mediocre films and show and the hardcore Star Wars fans don’t like it because it doesn’t rely on nostalgia and is trying to do something new with Star Wars. For me after House Of Dragon it is the next best show on TV

I could be mistaken because I didn't go back and double check, but wasn't Cassian paid $200,000 credits for the Aldhani heist?? He offered the 4 arm doctor guy $30,000 credits to buy his ship, isn't that where the number 30,000 comes from? Y'all saying he got paid $30,000 for the job got me second guessing myself over here lololol. I'll rewatch eventually but if anyone knows off-hand that'd be appreciated 😊

The first show that springs to mind and has fantastic costuming is HBO's "The Nevers." It's a steampunk drama, but many people got supernatural powers from a celestial alien craft that flew over the city, and now everyone's adapted. The dresses, suits, and costumes there are next-level. Absolutely stunning series, HIGHLY recommend it. Criminally underrated (and an ORIGINAL screenplay, to!).

Thank you for keeping this show going. I'm hoping the HotD audience will move over after that show ends because this scratches a similar itch I think.

Considering this is taking place 5 years before Rogue One, I doubt he'll serve his time.

This could end up being the best Star Wars show and one of the best Star Wars stories ever if it keeps this up, it's so disappointing that it's not getting more attention. It does basically everything well. Writing, acting, plot, costumes, sets, effects, cinematography, music. So many things. The references are well done, there are interesting real life parallels (police brutality, standing up against fascism), and it just feels more real than Star Wars ever has. This is what I want Star Wars to be.

I am honestly surprised you didn't get into more of the trooper that arrested Cassian. That was absolutely a blatant scene of some one in power arresting a minority just because he could. Andor seemingly was doing nothing wrong but some complete asshole decided he didn't like the way he looked or was dressed or whatever and screwed him over. I think that scene was absolutely added in so that people start asking these questions about authority.... I mean, younger people that maybe haven't thought about it until now. I made this comment early. I'm glad it got talked about.

Love Marketa's shirt.

Not the most important, but Cassian scored 200K by being the heist's getaway driver. He paid the four-armed doctor 30K for his spaceship (that wasn't for sale) and now dropped 12K in all outstanding debts to his friends. Minus whatever he spent on food/fuel, he has some 158K left.

I think the shows gonna have legs, after it's all out I have a feeling people will binge it. It has a reputation as a tally show, which it is.

Thanks for the reaction

Love this show so much. Wish more people were watching. Thank you for sticking with it!

Pardagaz asking Meero walk with him at the end of the meeting was a huge flex for her, the boss giving her private time in front of everyone.

"He didn't do anything!" Well, he robbed a Imperial Garrison for 80 million credits. He got arrested for a crime he didn't commit, but his six year prison sentence was directly due to the policy changes caused by his heist.

the crazy thing it is the character whom show up saying that the plan of the Impere will be increase opression againt people is Wulff Yularen, what we saw in Clone Wars like a hero fighting besides Anakin and Obi-Wan.

The flashback was aback during the clone wars. Those were clones, not storm troopers.

Well, Cassian has time to read that manifesto I guess, maybe?

“Shave and a Haircut” is due to the syllabic rhythm with the knocking

The show is easily the best D+ series to date, it's too bad most folks are too dumb to appreciate it. I guess all those years nerds said they wanted a more mature form of Star Wars, they really just meant more blood, more amputations/decapitations in mindless action scenes. Honestly, at this point I'd take an entire series of Qyburn crisply dressing down his staff over ever seeing Obi-Wan or Boba Fett ever again, the ISB stuff is fascinating.

This show is straight up fire! Such great writing and character development!

Andor is going to have a season 2, and I would be pretty bummed if y'all stopped after this season. Best thing Star Wars has done since Empire.

Don't apologize for that shirt. That's a great shirt.

People who comes from a country that acts like the empire feels this episode very different.. love it but heart breaking

show is so much better than I anticipated

Did you catch that Mon Mothma's daughter (Lieda) is around the same age as Leia in those days (14 or 15 years old)? Maybe they will meet when Bail Organa meets Mon? What do you think?

"Yeah fuck, Skeen." Lol!

How are people sleeping on this show? It's some of the best TV out there right now!

I need that SCOTUS shirt

There’s 5 more episodes and a second season with 12 more episodes my guy. 👍🏾

Funny, it's weird to hear a PCB shoutout after living just across the bridge in Panama City for three years!

It is plainly obvious that a lot Star Wars fans don't have the patience for a slow burn, but I think if they had released all the episodes at once that would have done something to limit the drop off the show received. The difference between waiting 2 weeks for "something to happen" vs 2 hours. I think reception will change down the line, when all the episodes are out and people can binge it.

"is he going to do 6 years" in a show that started 5 BBY. GJ guys.

This show takes place 5 years Before the Battle of Yavin, if Cassian completes his 6 year sentence then he wouldn't be able to make it for Rogue One lol

Damn for a second I thought I was on the wrong site😂😅.

A Hedonismbot reference is pure gold...

It’s Wullf Yularen from the animated series.

People who didn't understand why Cassian got arrested should read The New Jim Crow.

28:09 Fun fact: Amidala's costumes specially on Episode I (the first movie) have a purpose to be so pompous. On the other movies they downgrade on scale and color, something more suitable for senate work since Padmé is now a Senator but Naboo is an art planet, they take politics, education and all art forms extremely seriously so of course the suits are very artsy and beautiful. Other senators also poses high end clothes but the Naboo take it next lvl. NOW, the reason Queen Amidala's dresses are so bright, big and ... a lot; is, because 90% of the time, the person wearing it is not the Queen. It is a decoy. The dresses are so much of everything because it is meant to be a target to keep the real queen safe. Not only that but they are so big and ornamented because they usually hide guns, communicators or frequency disruptors on them. The dresses are highly practical by being so pompous. I love it.

there is a second season but I would be really surprised if it doesnt do as well as other star wars videos by then. If Andor season 1 continues this good it has to pick up traction surely. COPIUM

Cassian's pay for the Aldhani job was two hundred thousand credits, not thirty thousand. That was just what the kyber crystal was worth, I think. And no, he's not going to do six years. It's 5 BBY, he'd overshoot Rogue One by a year.

Because Chris, it is the traditional rapping noise a person would knock on their mistress’s door when they were sneaking away from home with the lie of stepping out for a, “shave and a haircut”. It was the “you up?” of yesteryear 👴🏾

I don't know why I enjoyed this episode so much. The ISB stuff was top notch and Mon's scenes with Luthen and at the party was great. Pieces moving around. I don't know why Cassian went back to Ferrix. Stupid move. Plus it totally destroyed my theory of Maarva, Bix and some of the other workers that help Cassian being other tribe kids. It also makes no sense for him to be looking for his sister if all the kids weren't rescued from Kenari and she just recently ran off to just have a different life from Ferrix. Syril is ready for his Imperial job. I'm guessing that Dedra will look him up now that she has the files for the Morlana sector.

Chris; it is 5 BBY, there's no way he can do 6 years. It's amazing that a young man of color had a problem with police over-reach in Space Florida. Good thing that never happens here in our Florida. 🤔

i love this show

This show shows that even when the main character was someone no one knew or cared about before. As long as you put care and thought into the story and keep it connected, it will be an awesome Star Wars story. I blame the lack of views on Boba and Obi wan being failures. Everyone's thought was if they couldn't make awesome stories out of awesome established characters how are they can make a good story out of a B rate character? Boy am I glad I was wrong... Rankings for Star Wars shows Clone Wars Mandalorian Andor Rebels Bad Batch Obi Wan Boba Fett

Good call on the collars as it must be a deliberate comparison with the imperial style

This show 👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼

I've said it once and I'll say it again. Aside from a few moments featuring droids, "Andor" feels more like a sci-fi series made in the early 21st century than Star Wars. Also, the writing STILL NEEDS TIGHTENING. By the way, Trish Biggar's costumes for Padme Amidala was high fashion in a setting that is "a long time ago and in a galaxy far, far away". The costumes worn by Mon Mothma is sci-fi high fashion that can be easily worn by the elite in our world today. That is why I find Biggar's work more artistic and original.

hey just wanna say, i feel bad for what i say the other day and i want to apologize. i am sorry. especially to marketa and chris. i am sorry guys. if you guys want to ask the 75% that don't subscribe and watches, may i suggest to ask them as people who gave you their time, and provided you money (ads revenue), to thank them first for it, and then just tell the truth, you need the money, you want to grow, and please subscribe if they really dig it. honey instead of vinegar. i think that will go a long way, and will grow your base. and you will not have competition, since everyone else is putting their viewers down and scolding them to subscribe, some literally like preview'd that shouts at their audience and tell them to fix it. i guess in the end, in this short moment of life, who do you want to be when you die.

I enjoyed this reaction and discussion, but I'm just perplexed how this shows' fashion spoke to Marketta so much. The fashion in this show is mostly good, but it pales in comparison to the Original and Prequel trilogies. Maybe it's just my childhood nostalgia, but nothing compares to the beige jump suit Luke wore in "The Empire Strikes Back", the leather accented and dashing looks of Anikan and his "Jedi mullet", and Count Dooku's nice "proto-imperial chic" brown top with boots and a cape(!) to match; I even like the weathered and patched together look of Obi-wan's clothes in "A New Hope". And I left out so many other looks (not to mention some of the outstanding designs in the sequel trilogy (only one outfit Rey wears looks bad)). No hate directed at Marketta, though. This is just my opinion.

27:45 bruh... what... 💀

He can’t do 6 years. The first season is 5 years before battle of Yavin (New Hope) and this season will cover the first year. Season 2 will cover years 2, 3, 4 and 5, then you can rewatch Rogue One. This series is devided in arcs like the Clone Wars is, so he will be in prison the next 2 episodes and escape. The last 3 are the final arc of this season (or this is what I believe).

Cassian and Luthen agreed to 200,000 to credits not 30 k.

Well the show is already slated for a second season, but that season is the last, also 12 episodes, for a total of 24 episodes, so I hope you guys come back for season two.

Pretty much every story has some political dimension to it but Star Wars has always been about war, probably the most political subject there is, so any discussion about Star Wars will inevitably brush against real world society.

Hold up. Avatar Kyoshi gets a shout out here? Another reason why y'all are the best. 😎

This show is currently the best (new) thing on D+ imo. I'm gonna keep watching, I hope you do too :)

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