I know what you mean. On one hand, he's a role model for leadership and it can be fascinating to watch someone reasonable and competent getting things done. But then you have to remember that what he's doing is furthering the goals of an oppressive authoritarian regime.

@@flaminyawn lol true

Good thing it’s fiction

@@shawngiver5570 "Fiction"

Space Gestapo is an understatement, the ISB controls everything halfway through Andor. They're closer to the CIA if anything. It's the ones behind the desks who are always stronger over the ones with a weapon.

Yep. More of something new and less of 'Hey, it's ___! Now clap and cheer.'

Imagine Boba Fett's story told in the style of Andor.

@@Thareldis I wish we got it.. Hopefully they take on board the criticism it got and take Boba fett back to be more brutal and keep his helmet on...

@@Thareldis Tony Gilroy would need to think it was a story worth telling. It isn't. You can't just copy and paste the "Andor" blueprint onto another story. "Andor" is something ultra-special ... proper practical sets, and real locations. And a depth of writing that attracts the very best actors. The writing, by Tony Gilroy, is what makes it stand out. What warped imagination could create that Imperial prison factory and its horrendous regime? You can't hand that off to jobbing writers - themselves a part of a Hollywood regime that demands they churn out dozens of pages on time, or be fired (fried) Only a unique, extremely talented writer, allowed to fulfill his vision, can hope to achieve this level. I'm still amazed how this got made by the very evil empire I'm talking about, Disney! Maybe there's a Mon Mothma in Disney that greenlit the project.

@@jazzx251 If only there was a Mon Mothma in Illumination when they made The Lorax…

Never met a teacher like that

..and, the ability to recognize potential in us that even we are not aware of yet..

@@chong2389 "I like to think I see things in people." _Poisons a child_

​@@hiddenleafshinobi2608 I've met several.

Thesis, please?

And one of the most intelligent.

@@CloneScavengerVulpin8389 not that high of an accomplishment unfortunately

@@hydra9476 in other words her plan seriously backfired.

@@CloneScavengerVulpin8389 I think it will ultimately help her because it does kind of show just how bad the "disease" of the rebellion is it just hasn't been brought to light yet.

@@BadwolfRuin she learned or will learn that underestimating your enemy is a deadly weakness.

I thin the actress said that we were initially supposed to root for her as this woman in a man's world, but then realize that she's also a fascist in a world of fascists and power can corrupt women just as much as men.

@@RorikH It certainly worked and is some great acting on Denise's part.

@@StraightOtohGunga as usual. This lady won an Olivier Award for her stage performances (until now, her chosen place to act ... but she's going to be swamped with TV and film gigs now, that's for sure) But I only watched Andor because I played one of the greatest computer games ever, Witcher 3, and she stars as Yennefer of Vengerburg, the main female character - a magician who is a bossy-boots with a heart of gold. So when I heard she was in Andor, I knew I had to check it out - even though she wasn't in it until episode 3 ["It will probably look nice, but this is 2 episodes of Disney Star Wars I'll have to get through before I get to see Denise on a screen for the very first time! ... (little did I know that those first two episodes were going to be awesome as well!)]

That would be dope 🔥

Like a cleaned up Imperial "Hill Street Blues"

I would love to see that chaos of them disbanding the imperial senate, from riots on the streets to the isb just doing damage control up until the death stars destruction

A lot of British actors or those who went in British acting schools are excellent

Hi greetings from mexico. That series was stacked! pure talent. i have watched that one the same times i have watched hbo's rome

Keeper. Yes.

He's better in many ways than Keeper. While one of the better Charakters in one of the best storylines, Makor Partagaz is so far written even better in his few scenes.

Partagaz never sold you out to be brainwashed LOL.

Do we know who was the director of ISB after Yularen died?

@@jirdan4870I think it was Admiral Versio but I might be wrong

They should assign her a post on the first Death Star

Meero is going to take a LOT of flak for the disaster on Ferrix. I'd love to see her expanded, but she'll have to pay for that mistake first.

@@peterbrazukas7771 A big success can cover for those failures, and there's plenty of time for her to make up for them. Besides, her subordinates escalated the situation on Ferrix; she can always point out that her plan was sound, and might have worked well. Andor could have been caught, had Dedra's imbecile commandant on Ferrix not poured gasoline on the raging fire that was the locals by pissing on the funeral of a very respected member of their community.

I agree with all that. And I'm also pretty sure that the Prefect will take the fall.

Ironic because Axis didn't actually do anything on Ferrix

​@@conalkeaveney9314I mean he did just not directly. He was the mastermind behind Aldani which inspired Marva to speak up. His fingers are in all the pies

Funny the Critical Drinker was also for me one of the reasons i gave Andor a chance

He absolutely was.

I thought one of the primary purposes of information silos is to be better able to track leaks. If the Intel in each silo is slightly different, it is easier pin down a mole.

​@@aawillma Information Silos are more for preventing leaks in the first place rather than detecting leaks. The fewer people who know a secret, the less likely it will be shared. However, tearing down information silo's is extremely important for tackling larger problems. For example, You hear a lot about serial killers from the 60's and 70's, but you don't hear about a lot of serial killers into the 80's and later. It's because there were a lot of reforms in law enforcement to better share information across jurisdictions, leading to would be serial killers being caught a lot sooner. Tearing down the silos can also help with resource management, instead of 3 teams from 3 agencies chasing the same info and getting in each others way, they could be sharing resources and chasing down different parts together. Or even worse, they all just have a petty piece of information not worth acting on.

@@aawillma Silo-ing is an excellent way to control the flow of information and it is also an excellent way to strategically control when to release which leaks to the press, among other uses.

Ohhhh that'd be lovely. He'd be a great principal.

@@patrickwalker6698 I didn’t realize until now how Wednesday is like a comedic version of Dedra in a lot of ways.

Waste of time. They’re not there to do the work, they’re there to understand what’s going on so that those doing the work aren’t wasting their time.

​@@Justanotherconsumer thrawn did MMA

@@jacobdreilinger2508 thrawn has his own principles. Not to mention being a Chiss, he's more capable of handling the burden of both office work and real time combat. Not something everyone could or remotely want to do.

He’s obviously deeply immersed in the Star Wars universe. There are too many books, video games, animated series, etc. for us average commoners here in the Outer Rim to digest. I’m amazed at and appreciate all the content he keeps pumping out.

Did it? It was mostly a grassroots uprising while she was looking for one central figure who never even showed up.

@@RorikH It started as a grassroots uprising, but what she noticed was that someone (namely Luthen) was organizing it and that the uprisings were growing. She had underestimated Ferrix and screwed up there, but she did confirm a lot of things. It was certainly enough of a screw up to be a major setback, possibly getting her fired, or demoted; even a reasonable organization would have a hard time forgiving that much stupidity and The Empire is anything but reasonable and forgiving. But it did confirm her theory and uncover enough evidence to potentially prove it.

@@RorikH Unfortunately, I agree with you. No Cassian, no Luthen. She didn't even have the luck to sus out and catch Val or Cinta. It wasn't entirely her fault. Some of the things that happened she couldn't have anticipated, like Cinta being there to kill her spy, or the tunnel under the hotel, or Maarva's inciteful speech. But she also failed to anticipate the consequences of letting the Prefect hang a guy and double-down on his show of force. Rix Road was a powder keg waiting to blow, and she got nothing out of it. She probably never found out for sure if Cassian ever came back to Ferrix or not.

Question is whether she gets thrown under the bus for it. Partagaz recognized that she wants to get ahead by being good at her job, instead of getting ahead by making others look worse. Her colleagues seem to be more of the latter.

@@mitchellhayward6492 Which is why I wouldn't be surprised if she's out of the ISB altogether. The only thing that could save her is the proof of an actual organized rebellion. There will be consequences regardless. Most successful failures are still failures. Nevertheless, she did prove that all her dissenting colleagues were wrong about the locality of the rebel groups. She could save her career - barely - by playing only-one-to-spot-it card.

It was announced months ago

@@felicitys3621 Thanks for telling me that! This is because I barely follow the news about series and media, of course.

@@lerneanlion But yet here you are...

I'm betting that by the end of Season 2, Yularen will have brought both Dedra and Syril onto the Death Star with him, and both of them will be thrilled.

He’s the leader of the Imperial Navy and he’s also the only one who could meet with Palpatine directly

@@felicitys3621: Yeah, but he’s also part of the ISB. How does the machinations of said ISB affect him?

He's not the leader of the Imperial Navy. The ISB is not the navy. He served in the Navy during the Clone Wars, but at some point between then and now, he transferred to the ISB and rose to the rank of colonel. I believe Motti was the one in charge of the Imperial Navy.

@@mitchellhayward6492: My question was what was his role in all this. How does or did he fit into this?

@@jameshanlon5689 he’s basically Palpatines contact within the ISB which means that any new thing that happens instead of telling them directly he will tell Yularen and then he will tell the other members of the ISB. He’s also most likely responsible for training almost everyone in that room.

Maybe a DNA joint clone...

Also, I don't think Palpatine vastly expanded his state power because he was afraid of the rebellion. I think he used fear of the rebellion to justify his crackdown and power grab. The draconian reaction played right into the rebels' hands, sure, but the rebellion's counter-reaction played into _Palpatine's_ hands, to be used just as he'd used the Separatists and the Clone Wars. By uniting and consolidating all of Palpatine's enemies into one organized rebel alliance, he was luring all his fish into one barrel. Once eliminated (via the Death Star), the Emperor would be not just the greatest power in the Galaxy, but very nearly the only one. Who benefited from such polarization? Ruthless, extreme partisans like Luthen and Palpatine; this was at the expense of neutrals, independents, and moderates. Note how Luthen dresses and acts like the Senator Palpatine of the prequels. Eventually, he comes out and admits that he's been emulating the Emperor's tactics. That's not an accident. This works in reverse, too. Palpatine's opening foray to Queen Amidala in TPM was to complain about corrupt, relentlessly political, and often incompetent Republic bureaucracy. A similar line was how he got Jar-Jar Binks to propose granting him Emergency Powers. Never let a crisis go to waste, sure... but notice how, by the end of the Clone Wars, the bureaucracy was stronger than ever, with Chancellor Palpatine effectively at its head. At nearly the beginning of Episode IV, we see Grand Moff Tarkin announce that the Emperor had dissolved the Senate, and would rule through the bureaucracy directly. The same forces that made that possible also made the bureaucracy even more corrupt, political, and incompetent. The Emperor may have wanted men like Major Partagaz running the show, but his policies made it inevitable that eventually his empire would be administrated by men like Blevin. Promoting Blevins and ruining Meero and Partagaz will help illustrate the gradual rot within Palpatine's new Empire. Ultimately, despite their reputations for ruthless efficiency, both communism and fascism were incredibly _ineffficient,_ the gears of their state machinery were grinding to a halt thanks to (you guessed it) corruption, politics, and incompetence. The Empire is no different. Without oversight, the ISB is free to act without restraint, but the officials who staff it are equally free to enact their personal agendas without restraint as well. That's the fate of the whole Empire, even if no Jedi ever came to the rescue.

I suspect they'll be able to plant all the blame on the Empire's governor on Ferrix.

Since the 80s ive always been of the opinion that Palpatine is just spitting bs when he talks about his powers of clairvoyance. Sure, like alot of potent force practitioners he can glimpse flashes of the future, but i think he plays up his abilities in that department to make him seem insurmountable to his foes. Otherwise theres no way he'd have missed the destruction of either Death Star or his own apprentice turning on him

There was always going to be rebellion, and he was aware of that. Any smart leader expects a threat to their regime, whether it's external or internal. That's exactly what the ISB and the Death Star were for. There were even rebellions against the Republic. Palpatine did not directly interfere until Return of the Jedi because he figured his underlings like Vader, his Navy, his Army, his legions of Stormtroopers, and his Imperial Security Bureau and Intelligence Agency could find, snuff out, or defeat any rebellion. But make no mistake. For 19 years, they were pretty successful. Palpatine did not directly involve himself until Return of the Jedi because they had finally done enough damage to piss him off and decide to handle it himself. Even then, he flatout calls the Rebels "insignificant" to Luke's face, even calling them a "pitiful little band". His plan for Endor would have worked. He had a trap set for the Rebel Fleet in space and a trap for the Rebel Strike Team on the ground. He could not have anticipated that the Rebels would meet the Ewoks, communicate with them, ally with them, and then that the Ewoks would ambush his ground troops when his trap was sprung. The real question is: Why did the Rebel Strike Team take a translator droid on a dangerous hit-and-run bombing mission?

like Yoda says, In motion, the Future is...

I see this. The only part that didn't work during the riot was Dedra walking into the crowd with her blaster drawn as if she were military... That's BS! She should have assessed the situation from the balcony like an officer and adjusted. Stayed back as the advisor she was. Seriously, an FBI analyst wont be firing shots in the crowd once it becomes an active riot.

@@waltciii3 Television and movies _constantly_ put FBI and CIA desk analysts out into the field (did Tom Clancy start that trend with Jack Ryan?), which would never, ever happen in real life. In Dedra's case, however, she just happened to be on the street pursuing her particular mission of locating Andor when all hell broke out around her. She was more shooting her way out than shooting her way in.

Her failure was Ferrix. She got what she wanted in preparation for the funeral. A lot of things that went wrong did go wrong because of circumstances that she could not have predicted, like Cinta being there to spy on them and kill her own spy, Maarva's inciteful speech, and the tunnel under the hotel that Cassian used to sneak around. Kreegyr's death was unrelated to the Ferrix incident. But I agree that taking him alive would have provided a spare lead to Luthen.

​@@mitchellhayward6492 Ferrix was 100% her own failure and shows that while she is a great analyst, she is a terrible people leader. She kept Blevin's people in place and gave them free reign of the planet because she was so focused on her Axis Hunt. She knew that greater oppression was playing into the rebel's plans but she allowed it to happen. She had intel that should have told her that Ferrix was a powder keg and ignored it. Like Andor said, She was too complacent to imagine a funeral of a prominent citizen could spark rebellion.

Maybe Dedra is younger than her actress, perhaps in her early thirties.

In mine . . . these days . . . unfortunately . . .

@@michaeldemarco9950 40 is middle aged not young. Seriously people on average die in eighties

@@THE_GUY_ONE honestly early thirty isn't young. But it isn't old as well. In between

@@MohamedRamadan-qi4hl, I’m now 59; Forty looks pretty young to me. It’s all relative.