Harvest

No spoilers: The sets were incredibly designed. Acting is the best for any Star Wars movie/show. The story is very detailed and deeper than expected. The dialogue is calculated. Impressive, most impressive. I also felt the editing was paced perfectly as the episodes' intensity grew. Since we know the next 3 take place one year later, I can appreciate Gilroy's detail in showing you every character of the story and where they are today and what they are going to be doing in the future episodes, at least what it seems they will be doing. Paying attention to dialogue is of most importance on these 3 episodes. A rewatch might be needed. Enjoy Star Wars at its best.

I'm not one to memorize all the details if any certain movie it tv show. I watch for how it makes me feel.

Each of us different but for me, nothing made me FEEL the weight of the story, characters and outcomes like Star Wars, empire strikes back, rogue one and Andor. This episode embodied that spirit. Will they survive, will they be victorious or is this a loss that must be regroup and be rallied around. I'm not one to cry but there are moments that really affected my allergies.

The pace is quickening and has most if all aspects in this episode that should make everyone happy

I think this 3 ep release schedule is awesome. It's like watching a movie. I'm nderjng if each week will cover 1 bby it charting the timeline is not as critical as main story elements that take us to rogue ones door step. Time will tell.

How blessed we are to have something like Andor. It is the only great thing (maybe even the only truly good thing) to come out of the post-Disney Star Wars era, it's the best that Star Wars has been since the franchise first began, and perhaps most impressively, it is the only piece of Star Wars media I could recommend even to people who don't much like Star Wars.

The reasons for this are several: It is mature in a way that the other films and shows aren't, it goes to different corners of George Lucas' galaxy that don't involve (or demand the viewer's knowledge of) the same old characters and concepts, and it aims to first and foremost tell a good, complex, resonant story of revolution instead of getting bogged down in precisely that -- call-backs to characters and places you already know and whose mere mention you're supposed to soy out over.

The characters act and speak like fully fledged human beings, things move with heft and weight, its political messaging goes beyond modish buzzwords, and the Galactic Empire feels like a threat in a way you'll never see in other Disney-Star Wars media -- where Din Djarin or Boba Fett or whoever dispose of Stormtroopers like they're mere video game enemies. Andor understands "quality over quantity" better than the Sequel Trilogy ever could; it doesn't just throw 100 superlaser-equipped Star Destroyers (that then get easily destroyed because "they don't know which way is up") at us. Last season, one single TIE Fighter (the ship that exists in a swarm of disposable "mooks" during most of the franchise's space battles) was presented with all the terror of the WW2 bomber that inspired their sound design. In Season 2, we get scenes that demonstrate how fascists make their ideas more palatable to those on the fence; these aren't simply mustache-twirling villains, which would be the easy way of doing it.

Certain fanboys are, of course, testy about all this: from complaints that it "doesn't feel like Star Wars" -- even though my father, a fan since the 70s, argues that the fact that it treats us to new sights makes it "feel" the way witnessing Star Wars felt at the very beginning -- to complaints that the franchise that gave us The Slave Bikini "suddenly" regards sexual abuse. They also think it's boring and that nobody cares about Cassian Andor, which may be the same mentality for why Disney execs let Tony Gilroy cook, meddling-free, vs if he'd used more marketable characters and stories.

You'll get your keys plenty jangled some other time, guys. Let the adults have something.

The pacing and growing tension leaves me feeling anxious for characters I seem to genuinely care about. This episode left me sat silently at the end processing the arc so far.

Twists and turns from the previous series and the two previous episodes culminating in a crescendo of emotional blows that hurt because of the time and skill invested by everyone working on this show.

Dedra brings an E-WEB to a knife fight in a series of scenes so unexpected and divergent from the pace of the rest that it is more arresting and engaging for that difference.

If the remainder of the run continues at this pace and with this quality it will be a lasting testament to all involved and to what sci-fi can be even in this era.

So far season 2 is just as good if not better than season one. Great script fantastic cast and riveting plot. But most importantly it feels like real Star Wars for grown ups. I'm really happy. Episode 3 last scene is so mesmerizing and unnerving at the same time I couldn't stop watching it for a while.

Let's hope show makers keep the good work up.

Terrific production, script and depth of accomplished acting performances - tremendous - give it a gravitas to have you salivating if you ever so much as tingled at any great Star Wars movie. I don't know if Star Wars: Andor justifies the existence of Disney's Star Wars but it is a compelling argument by itself.