What is your FAVORITE Star Wars Quote??? (And why...)

For me the line Braso delivers when he meets Cassian on the day of the funeral.... 'tell him..... I love him more than anything he could ever do wrong'.. just such a great line

For me what is fenomenal is that none of the dialog of Andor seens forced or out of place. It's not like the characters stood for a moment and look at the camera to say a big line, or to make a nostalgic fan service. Every line makes sense to the characters and the situation. So it never feels out of place or cheap.

I can't swim was the most impactful three words in any show I've seen. Just makes you love kino so much more than I already did because you realize he's not just a leader but a hero

Andor's true contribution is proving that there can be more than one GOAT. Luthen: GOAT, Kino: GOAT, Maarva: GOAT. 'nuff said.

My favorite line from the show is also a three-Word sentence, in this case one that Andor says to Kino: "Power doesn't panic"

Masterfully written show. The first time we see Cyril and he admits he tailored his uniform. What a great character moment.

Good writing takes an honest look at human nature, to reveal some fundamental truth. This is what makes it timeless.

"That's just love" line always makes me want to cry. It's so simple and yet so effective.

The idea that Andor is the successful synthesis of the setting and worldbuilding of the OT, the politics of the PT, and the social consciousness of the ST - all of which were in their own ways and to different extents, flawed - is excellent. Good shout.

“I’ve learned from Palpatine. I show you the stone in my hand, you miss the knife at your throat.” that entire scene was so good!

_"I'd rather die trying to take them down than die giving them what they want."_ This is where Cassian, after everything he'd witnessed in the prison, began to truly believe in what Luthen said to him. For first time in his life, Cassian was done running, and he was ready to stand for a cause he believed in.

I realized early on that this show was going to flex dialogue chops harder than we've ever seen in Star Wars after Major Partagaz's speech about how the ISB was not a security council but a "healthcare provider," identifying symptoms and locating germs If this show was a black screen with just the dialogue, it would still be the best piece of Disney Star Wars content.

Andor is so unbelievably good I have no idea how it was allowed to be made. Did they hide this from Disney execs or what? :D

The line that got me first impressed by Andor's dialogue was even in part a title of an episode: "The axe forgets but the tree remembers." So true.

I like that you pulled something out of Cyril's "motivational" speech to the troops. All of the videos that I've seen that focus on the great speeches / monologues are important, but his speech I think gives them even more contrast. Here's a weak leader, inexperienced in leading soldiers into combat (effectively this is what happened, not just police arresting someone). It was awkward, as much as Mosk told him "great speech." I don't think the writers did that by accident.

The line "That's just love" hit me with the same force it originally did because it sums up exactly what love is in such a simple way.

Luthen's line echoes very much the same sentiment of many spies and warriors, who all they know is death and have fought in a war. The Operative in Serenity very much said the same thing about not being able to live in the world he helped create. Love this show. I think it's really rewatchable to catch things you missed the first time around.

I never noticed when Vader enters at 4:28 he just puts his hands on his hips and kind of relaxes his stance.

This is superbly done! But another line of Kino Loy I find even stronger: "Never more than twelve". The ideal ending of the episode 9.

"They're so fat and satisfied" - my favorite bit of dialogue.

Andor is the first show since True Detective S1 that I have watched multiple times and loved every second .

It was also quite memorable how Kino encouraged the newly freed prisoners to help one another. See someone lost or fallen, you help them get out. I started tearing up.

Andor is so well written, directed and acted. The characters feel and talk like real people, which is something Star Wars often is bad at

People living under dictatorships just connect to this show on a whole different level. This show started streaming around the time our country Iran was going through a new massive wave of protests and anyone who's seen Andor felt these dialogues in their bones.

Maarvas speech gave me actual chills like that was such an incredibly pumping speach.

“That’s just love” was my absolute favorite line from this amazing show - it struck me because it was simple and true. In all, these and other quotes are simple, which is what makes them so great. There’s no high speech about honor or duty, just simple folks making simple sentences using simple words. Incredible.

Andor really strengthened the connection between the rebellion and the proletarian movement. Wage labour has never before so present in Star Wars.

As subtle as it is succinct is the best way to put it. When discussing it with my wife I kept mentioning how "efficient" the dialog was by playing with ambiguities in the implication space. They're speaking through an array of cohesive potential universes. It was so cool to chew over each line across multiple viewings.

Here's the thing, Cassian. The man who sees everything is more blessed than cursed. Look at that, here we go. Stand back, let it drip. Look how quickly that's cleaned up. Hard to believe, right? Two minutes. No longer, no shorter. You know why they don't make these anymore? Because they'd rather sell you a brand new system at ten times the price. I mean, how many we got? Sixty? Seventy of them? Just sitting there. Five hundred credits each. People don't look down to where they should. They don't look down, they don't look past the rust. Not us though, eh? Eyes open, possibilities everywhere. Just need to get this cleaned up before Maarva finds us doing this in the house.

Writing is everything in a movie or series!

My favorite underrated line line is when Sergeant Mosk says “Corporate Tactical Security is the first line of defense for the Empire.” By the end, you see Mosk sitting on some steps in Ferrix and drinking. Just thinking what the hell happened after the riots and rethinking what the “first line of defense for the Empire” truly means.

I definitely love Maul’s lines in S7 of the Clone Wars, the dramatic irony that the only two people who know what’s coming is the audience and the antagonist creates an immaculate feeling. The way that his lines are both vague to the protagonists and so crystal clear to the audience is amazing. Not to mention Sam Witwer’s amazing performance. The dread just floods from his voice.

“the axe forgets but the tree remembers”

"Smile :)" is my personal favourite rich and deep line in Andor. Not only pretending to have a light chat as to not arose suspicion in a party, but in general telling Tay to keep up appearances going forward. Also, and I might be reaching here, it's also in character with Mon's morality of doing good for good's sake, unlike Luthen's doing bad for good's sake. She's telling Tay "What we're doing is for the good of the galaxy, so we should be happy about it". Thus smiling is an attitude to keep while advancing the Rebellion, so as not to succumb to the darkness that Luthen has fell to. Worth mentioning that Luthen the Rebel, not Luthen the antiques dealer, only smiled twice in the whole show. Once after hearing the Aldhani heist news, which was more relief than contentedness, and the second was on board the Fondor when Cassian offered himself to the cause. It's like Cassian brought that light and goodness back to Luthen, even for just a little.

Whether we get a season 2 or not, Andor is a masterpiece that needs to be preserved forever.

I laughed so hard when Maarva was the first to bash in a head in the form of a brick. :) I have to say I was amazed by the casting of this show. I have nothing against young actors becasue ghawd there is so much talent out there but these older established actors/actresses added so much gravitasa to the characters. Alex Ferns ( Sergeant Linus Mosk ) damn his conviction was os believable and his support of Syril so obvious and occasionally funny...finally an officer who sees things the wayhe does Genevieve O'Reilly - outstanding performance she was killing it as Mon Mothma cant praise her high enough. Such nuanced acting on the party in her house, not just the dialogues but often just a look or an expression Stellan Skarsgård - damn...I mean jesus christ without this guy this show is nothig and its not that i dont like the rest but damn. When someone says Andor this man is the first I think of lol Forest Whitaker - great as usual, the writers and himself understands perfectly where is Saw Garrera at this point in his life, they placed him again, perfectly into the universe Andy Serkis - my precous :) Don't know what to say really, he killed that role so hard it could be heard in the neighbooring hexagon building in the next prison. I was in awe for the entirety of the escape scene. Gotta say the supporting cast in this show is amazing I am so happy that they were given a script that really gave them a chance to pull off these performances. Say what you want about Game of Thrones the acting was stellar in that show for the most part and the writing was amazing for the first 4 seasons. Gilroy did this for Star Wars and he is not even a SW fan by his own admission. So please for the love of god someone lock this guy down with a 30 years contract, send him over to work with Filoni and Favreou and give them creative control of Star Wars pls. Oh, and BTW you wanted strong independent female characters? Fuckin' pick one from this show you can start with Maarva you don't get more independent than that one. This is how it's done. This show along with Rouge One is so much above anything else Disney manage to disastrously pull out of SW than it does not even compare. ( not counting the animated stuff, thats pretty good also much better than the rest )

My fav "I have endless spinning plates and knives on the floor" and the rest of what Kleya says. It manages to repeat the meaning of Luthans speech in a nutshell and and add her frustrations.

"I can't swim." was so chilling. I kept hoping Cassian would grab a ship and go back for him. 😢

Andor is my favourite SW show by far, and the dialogue is a big part of why I loved it so much. But I've never been so worried for a show like I am for Andor season 2, the chances that Disney will increase the interference after seeing what was delivered in season 1 is too damn high.

The Mandalorian Dialogue meanwhile is 80% Exposition and Talking about what to do and 20% "This is the Way" .....

The brilliance of Andor can be summed up with a single example; tractor beams can be destroyed by releasing a lot of debris from storage. The simplicity of that escape was awesome and it is the perfect example of how the series is handled overall, very practical.

Luthen’s monologue was the most “Rebel” thing I’ve bee heard in Star Wars, to me it was just the best part in the whole show

Andor is one of my favorite shows of all time, everything about it is so fleshed out and well done

Andor is an absolute masterclass in writing. Every bit of a dialogue has meaning and doesn’t sound robotic or forced. There are numerous monologues throughout that made me even more emotionally invested in the characters. And all this is not even mentioning the score which Nicholas Britell did an amazing job on. This is the quality I expect of all Star Wars projects and its a shame it hasn’t been that way

In the middle of watching the Mandalorian season 3 right now, and now by watching your video essay that makes me reminisce the whole plot of Andor, I kinda feel like the 2 shows are now kinda mirror shows, where in Andor, we get to see not only the brutality of the Empire, but also how it is riddled with incompetent and arrogant officers, which led the Empire to its ultimate demise... While in Mandalorian season 3, we see how the New Republic is riddled with bureaucracy, carelessness and incompetence, which will ultimately lead to its demise in Force Awakens. While Andor does a much better job at showing the ruling system (and its flaws), it's kinda hard not to see the common theme of Star Wars, all the way from the prequels, in that it's always much harder to be the ruling party trying to maintain the status quo, front and center with nowhere to hide and open to any attack from any angle, than the opposition who can just hide somewhere deep in a pocket of the Galaxy, keep a low profile until they geet big enough to launch a surprise attack, commando style. I mean, the Old Republic got sucker punched from within by Palpatine, who got rid of almost the entire Jedi order, which was the secret central pillar of stability of the Galaxy, then he established his Empire for 20+ years, which then got wrecked by a scattered ragtag of misfits called the Rebellion, which would coalesce into the much frailer New republic, that would later on get massively wrecked by the First Order, which would eventually fall to the hands of the Resistance. If anything, the whole Star Wars saga is just showing us how the power is in an eternal pendulum that always swings back, and I'm now actually curious to know how the heck the Jedis and the old republic could maintain order for 1000 consecutive years.

Andor has better dialogue than any other movie or show in the Star Wars franchise. Some of the games are close, but Andor is in a class by itself.

Also, we had a number of strong female characters, none of which felt forced at all. Where the sequels failed miserably, Andor shined (as did the originals and the prequels).

My favorite lines are actually the Imperial Security Bureau meetings in their entirety. I've gone to school to be an intelligence analyst, just like most of the people in that room, and even though the Empire does things a little... distinctly different (lots of backstabbing and rigidity) I think it's actually the best rendition of intelligence analysis in any TV show or movie I've ever seen... Because, let's be real for a second, Jack Ryan only ever actually does the job of an analyst like 5% of the time. He's not one. He's an action protagonist. Dedra, on the other hand, gives us something very important; a competent villain(ess). Which is something Star Wars seldom has. Even in cases where the Empire is obviously superior on the larger scale - they have the ships, the armies, and so forth - they tend to flounder when posed against a handful of named characters. There are the occasional exceptions, of course, like Thrawn, but Andor managed to consistently frame the Empire as a serious, and overwhelming threat to be subverted - not tackled head on. At least, not tackled alone... While it's not *the* most important thing in a story, I would say with confidence that a hero can only be as good as their villain. If your villain is a bumbling fool, then what does that say about the hero? They must also be a useless fool, or they're just wasting their time tackling under-levelled opponents. On the inverse, if the villain pushes your heroes to their breaking point, and they both force each other to adapt, then you have a kind of character relationship going, and it makes them both better. Potentially character development not just between close members of the 5-man-band (or equivalent), but between whole groups of characters and individuals on both sides of the story.

Wow, this is a neat video essay! You definitely deserve to be bigger!

Honestly, the jump is far scarier than not being able to swim because if you hit the water wrong, you're dead. But sometimes you just gotta do it. He can see how it's done, no better way to learn than on the job and imitate everyone else until it clicks. And there's enough people that can help if he can relax long enough. #KinoLives

Luthen’s speech at the spy was one of the most chilling and emotional pieces I’ve heard from any Star Wars movie. Like Kenobi made me cry when Anakin absolved him of guilt, Kenobi telling leia about her parents and many others. But Luthen and Keno made me weep. And for the love of god, “I can’t swim” broke me.

How dare you say no one has the moral high ground when my boy Nemik exists

With Luthen's monologue, its not just that hes accepted being a hero who wont be remembered. All of the characters get there by the end of Rogue One and that whole schtick is pretty much the blueprint for revolutionaries. What sets him apart and makes him a uniquely tragic figure is that hes accepted not only that he'll never be revered as the hero he is, but those that do know his contributions will HATE HIM FOR IT. Look at the two scenes he spends with other rebellion leaders talking about his actions. Saw Guerrera threatens to unalive him when he learns that hes sending 31 men to their deaths in a 100% preventable way, and Mon Mothma goes to his store to scold him after the Aldani heist. The more telling line in his monologue is when he says "before long i looked down and there was no ground beneath my feet", admitting that it was his own ego and stubbornness above anything else that drove him down his path and lost him his very sense of morality and self, "condemned to use the tools of my enemies to defeat them"

I also love the foreshadowing for example in one scene where nemik tells cassian he can't sleep, cassion tells him "don't worry tomorrow you'll be able to rest" I realised what they ment by this where of course nemik dies. Lush details like that make this show

I regret that I can only like this video one time. So good.

'Climb!' has to be my favourite. Nemik is easily pushed to the background when you have bigger characters like Luthen, Mon or Dedra. But Nemik with his manifesto really stood out to me😢

The first Star wars story that feels based on real people and real live well done its really good

The speeches in this show are insanely good. I rewatch the final episode over and over again for Maarvas speech, but also for the excerpt from the kids manifesto.

Great video reminding me of one of the many reasons why I love this show, but I actually wanted to say I appreciate the Vivaldi and Handel in the background. That was icing on the cake.

The dialogue in Andor just hits different man, Luthen's monologue alone is probably one of my favourite dialogue pieces ever. I can 100% see it and several other parts of the show being used in film studies in the future.

Finally!! Someone finally mentioned how heavy those three words were…that poor guy knew all along…that’s just shattering…

I'm liking and commenting on every video about andor to help it spread

If only Disney put this much care into the rest of its projects, apart from a few good moments here and there in other shows/movies Andor, Rogue One and season 7 clone wars are the only things they've done well

Andor's writing was just so goddamn good. I honestly feel like, apart from the bit where the interrigatortells Bix about the origins of that alien scream, not a single line was wasted. They're all written so well for their context and are delivered amazingly

The best quote us Dedra quoting the ISB mission statement.

Talk about quotes! You said something profound at 5:29 -- "Corruption takes effort and constant maintenance. It results in a desperate clinging to the status quo, as opposed to progress, which happens naturally." I am going to use this quote! Thank you!

10:05 I feel like his expression was a combination of joy (that the other prisoners escaped) but also utter defeat because something in his face looked kind sad but that might just be me

God, the cinematography is so good on this show, every clip looks incredible. So much better than any other Disney show

absolutely incredibly well put, amazing video

Every line on this show made me go absolutely feral. I would become a raving madman just talking nonstop about them to my girlfriend. I can’t even pick a favorite line. Or monologue.

it’s amazing what good writing can do! great video! points out very well the themes present in the show with just a couple of examples of quotes

okay so i love the battles and the over the top stories and conflicts in star wars but seeing a mature and very grey area look at the rebellion and what change really is made of in a show like ANDOR is really what i need more of in star wars. The Nuances and the deeper meanings behind so much of the dialogue in this show is 10/10, for all of us as kids watching the prequels and hating on all the boring politics i never would have thought id be here today begging for them to make more stuff like Andor, which is strictly about how deep and how far something is willing to go to succeed. ANDOR was a unexpected 9.5/10 for me

Only halfway thru and can already tell this is an amazing video. Well done. Andor is one of the best shows to come out in years.

It gave me goosebumps. The monologues were so incredibly written.

Couldn’t have said it better myself! Andor is amazing!

It's not all Luthen needs. It's all Luthen has left.

5:15 your description of the nature of authority and control rings SO true!

thank you for validting how i feel and think.

Andor has to be one of my favourite pieces of star wars content that we have gotten, truly amazing in every aspect

Man I love this show, great video!

I feel like you're a bit harsh on Cyril. His idea of 'the right thing' isn't about dousing hopes and crushing spirits, it's about arresting a murderer. He happens to serve a corrupt, evil government, but he isn't trying to oppress anyone. He's only trying to uphold the most basic of laws.

Very well put.

Wow, you perfectly describe how watching these scenes felt for me. I think I watched the "That's just love" scene a hundred times. This is so powerful All of episode 7's dialogue is great

Maarva: take all the money you've found and go and find some peace Cassian: I won't have peace. I'll be worried about you all the time. Reminds me of Luke and how he at first couldn't leave cuz of his aunt and uncle, but as soon as they die he decides to leave and become a jedi and a rebel.

Rogue One, Andor and The first two seasons of The Mandalorian are the only Star Wars I recognise as canon following the og's. Btw what an awesome video and analysis it only made me love Andor even more. New subscriber here.

Okay. I love Andor. The content of this video is amazing. But. I couldn't help be distracted by the awesome background music. I just played in a chamber ensemble that did the Vivaldi double cello concerto (the second movement is gorgeous, and if you're seeing this comment, you should go look it up, I promise you won't regret it), and that was such a welcome surprise! Also the Handel Passacaglia is just the best. Great video!

masterful breakdown of a masterful show

It is absolutely the best writing in Star Wars. ITs also the highwater mark of a great show.

Best quality Star Wars I’ve seen in long time. Possibly ever

andor is SUCH an incredible show!! thanks for this awesome vid. also, i love the music in the bg of your vids! would love if you put the pieces in the description haha

I go back to Disney+ just to watch clips of this show and each of your quotes are scenes I return to often. Beautiful. "That's just love. Nothing you can do about that."

I love this show so so much. Amazing video.

BTW How fucking cool is Luthen's ship.

It’s crazy how much of a difference some actual planning and talented writers can have. Andor is the first (and only, so far) good SW content that Disney has released

I'd never realised the Kino knew that there was water outside. Of course, now that you mention it, it makes complete sense but when I watched, I assumed it was just a shock to him.

JUST FINISHED THIS SHOW AND ALL I CAN SAY IS WOW. From start to finish this show was Fuckin amazing. SLOWISH at the start but what show isn’t w/ explaining what’s going on. The writing was crazy good, how the characters portrayed themselves was beautiful. Luthen has to be the best character in the show (imo). And Kino Loy, I knew he would rally the troops to escape the first time I saw gollum 😂. And one of the best scenes to come out of Star Wars in honestly a long time, Luthens escape. Much better than the nostalgia bait Ahsoka was, or the Obi wan shows fight.

This video reminded me of the best parts of the show and made me cry Thank you

"until people realize they're fighting the same battle, change cannot happen" that is why class conscientiousness is so important to overthrowing capitalism and making the world a better place

The line I deeply appreciate not hearing watching Andor is, “I have a bad feeling about this.” The most overused and cliche Star Wars line ever. I hate it so much. Thank you Tony Gilroy and team for sparing us the claptrap.