Who Are You?

What Tony Gilroy, Dan Gilroy, Janus Metz and the rest of the Andor Season 2 crew accomplished here is remarkable, this is the summit of everything the season has been building to since S2E1, such a touching, sad, horrifying and beautiful episode, Andor S2E8 will be remembered as one of the best episodes of modern television, what a masterpiece.

The Empire has never, been more scary than he is here. This is the kind of content Star Wars should be making more, this is the kind of content Star Wars needs more, I thought the One Way Out episode was unbeaten, but I'm glad to see I was wrong, Bravo, Bravo!

With everything we have been witnessing around the world, where we are all headed as humanity. The silence, the fear, the peaceful protests, the resistance, all of it. Our paths heading towards more restrictions, our path to using AI and droids to fight wars. The destruction, all of it. All of it broken down in such a way that anyone can understand the message, clear vision and warning this episode is sending out to the world. It is written to perfection. And yet we know where this story goes, and why there always needs to be hope at the end of the road. No empire will last forever. Fascism must end before it ends all of us. Power to all the resistance in the world <3.

The 3 episode stretch that dropped today might be some of the best material of Star Wars not only in decades, but the argument could be made for all time. Yes, this is that good. 1x10 was terrific as well as the S1 finale, but this is the clear peak of the series so far, and has made the build up until this point worth every second. Funny enough with Revenge of the Sith returning to theaters, Andor simultaneously airing as well puts a huge spotlight on this season that's very much deserving. After season 1 it was no secret this story had something special to it, but these episodes solidified it as one of the best experiences in modern television. Severance, Invincible & The Last of Us have shown some all time great tv already but this might just top all of them, and this year alone might just beat the stacked 2022 for best year of tv this decade. I think if it can stay more consistent then clone wars & mandalorian (which I think is likely) this'll be by far the best piece of Star Wars media in tv, and by the time next week comes and it's all said and done it'll have an argument for the best fictional Star Wars story from beginning to end.

Now I get why the rest of this season was almost entirely buildup. I swear my heart rate was over 100 BPM the whole time.

This episode expertly weaves character moments into an unthinkably tragic event. Star Wars has never explored this territory in this depth and I'm amazed at how well they pull it off in this episode. I had to remind myself as I was writing this review that I just watched an episode of a Star Wars show. Star Wars. Like, you know, Baby Yoda and company.

This episode feels like it was what Andor was for. Getting at the true evil of the Empire, and reminding us that these ideas come from real life. Real people can be this cruel.

One of the best episodes of television I have personally ever seen. The stakes, the tension, the emotion this whole episode were unlike anything I've seen before in Star Wars media. Hours and hours have gone in to building various character arcs for this moment, and safe to say it did not disappoint. You feel the weight of every decision made and so do the characters. I for one am glad to have been here since day one to see this marvel of show become what it is now! 10/10 for me, and I fear Star Wars may never see anything like this again. This is Star Wars at its best, at its peak, and like never before.