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I’m watching Andor again from the top.

Given The Big Speech that comes much later on, and my now foreknowledge of that, I’m impressed at just how well realised Ferrix was from the get go.

Like the best Star Wars, the place is a bit tatty, has definitely seen better days, but still feels well cared for. The guy banging the gong in the tower is an important part of that. The hammers and gong thing are gleaming. And as we can tell by his stances, there’s a real pride in him banging out the hour.

The day to day life just goes on. Folk keeping themselves to themselves, doing their day job. And as Maarva’s speech shows, that’s all they really wanted. They’re happy to do their part, they just want it be left to get on with it. And provided that happens, the folk themselves don’t particularly care who the High Heedyin actually is.

As a microcosm of the worlds of Palpatine’s new Empire, it works so well in explaining why the Rebellion gained so much support.

Also, we’re promised a new Mando trailer tomorrow morning.

Dunno if that’s U.K. time or what.

Yay. TIE Interceptors!

Who will promptly be blown with contemptuous ease by the good guys no doubts.

I wonder if we'll see any form of explanation as to how the Remnants trounced the Mando's Enclave at the end of S1, or if we'll just see the Mando mowing down Stormtroopers without efforts.

Well, I’m hype!

Finally got around to last week's Bad Batch. It's just not my favorite show, but I have to say this was actually quite good. Making what is essentially just a classic Clone Wars episode under the new regime is pretty inspired and there's a lot of nice touches throughout to ensure that while the script is the same, the feel is definitely not.

 Bobthehero wrote:
Who will promptly be blown with contemptuous ease by the good guys no doubts.

I wonder if we'll see any form of explanation as to how the Remnants trounced the Mando's Enclave at the end of S1, or if we'll just see the Mando mowing down Stormtroopers without efforts.

They were special stormtroopers, and the last one died just after getting the almost last Mandalorian.


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Thrills! Spills! No peril though, because he is immune to all known weapons and the enemy are mooks with no training.

Given the brief lightsaber snippet and how Book of Boba went, I wonder if this is going to turn into Luke and Ahsoka's Jedi Training Academy for a couple episodes. In the middle of season, for no apparent reason (beyond setting up another show)

The lightsaber bit was just Grogu's Flashback, wasn't it?

Everyone on the Twits was reacting likes it’s another Order 66 scene.

That was my assumption.

Could be even older, as for all we know, it’s a visual for a spoken history of The Mandalore.

 AduroT wrote:
Everyone on the Twits was reacting likes it’s another Order 66 scene.

Yes, it's obviously an Order 66 scene. My point was that it's likely just Grogu's memory of it.

Probably how they got him out of the Temple/off Coruscant during O66.

Fun episode of Bad Batch this week, if a bit By The Numbers, with no surprises up its sleeve.

Plenty enjoyable like, and I’m interested to see if the last minute warning bears any fruit later on.

Chekhov’s Warning.

Hard to say.

The season opened with "you boys can't stay here forever". Pretty well set the stage for what would happen by the end.

That was in relation to the expanding Empire eventually reaching Ord Mantell though, wasn't it? That doesn't mean that they have to part on bad terms.

 Geifer wrote:
That was in relation to the expanding Empire eventually reaching Ord Mantell though, wasn't it? That doesn't mean that they have to part on bad terms.

Right. It's just that they're building them leaving as a major story beat this season.

That episode just felt like filler to me. It was fun though.

It was a very filler episode, but that’s fine.

I said this right from the start, I'm far more interested in seeing the setting expanded in the show than whatever the main characters are up to, so filler or no, I'm quite happy with episodes like the latest one.

We just ignoring it was a rehash of a chunk of Phantom Menace?

Yup!

No, this is completely different from pod racing. Just because they are both high-speed, full contact, chariot races on obstacle courses, where a human’s reaction time is not good enough, does not mean they are the same!

On dry planets with crime syndicates betting on them? Coincidence.

Did they do more with podracing? I haven't seen all of Clone Wars but just assumed there were some random episodes.

 LunarSol wrote:
Did they do more with podracing? I haven't seen all of Clone Wars but just assumed there were some random episodes.

Honestly, I don’t think so. I might be forgetting though, it’s been a while since i’ve watched them.

I was just sarcastically agreeing that the last Bad Batch episode was basically the pod race bit from Ep 1 with the details not even filed off/changed very well. It was a fun little filler episode, but not exactly groundbreaking on any fronts.

It may prove slightly less filler as the episodes roll out. We now know Tech is an excellent pilot, whereas previously he was just a pilot. And of the course the last minute warning.