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Andor: One Way Out [1x10] ✦ Watchalong Reaction & Review
Added 2022-11-16 15:00:09 +0000 UTCWell, this show has my official and firm seal of approval because this episode got me to cry a couple times. We need to talk about these monologues, holy shiiiit. The writing in this show is phenomenal and this episode really highlighted that. Both Kino and Luthen's speeches will forever be embedded in my brain as elite moments in all of Star Wars media.
This episode is truly Star Wars at its finest, the people of the Rebellion at its finest, and delivers what Star Wars is all about at its core. I've had time to digest this episode since watching it (and speaking my initial thoughts) and I just really think so highly of it. [Direct link here.]
Couple things about this edit:
I forgot to edit out the first few seconds of the intro so you get me awkwardly adjusting my hair before I begin saying my words 😅
At the time of recording, I still firmly believed Episode 11 was our finale, so I say that a few times in this reaction. Just ignore me.
Looking forward to discussing this one because I'm sure many of you feel the same that I do.
✦ KL
Comments
Definitely a top Star Wars anything for me.
kaiielle
2022-11-18 23:52:26 +0000 UTCLonni being a spy was definitely a curve ball that was really nice. This show has SO MANY PEOPLE UNDERCOVER😂! RIP Xual, he will be missed, and RIP new guy and the other guy that was planning this with Cassian. The Chandrillian marriage is gonna be a problem though, like Mon wouldn’t we’d her soon to be 14 year old daughter off to the son of a Crime Lord, RIGHT!?!?😅😳 And then both Luther and Kino had INCREDIBLE SPEECHES this episode, like Star Wars doesn’t have that many Monologues but this episode had 2 of the best ones! A really good episode for sure.
Justin
2022-11-18 04:56:44 +0000 UTCThank you so much for sharing. Completely agree with you.
kaiielle
2022-11-17 16:49:49 +0000 UTCI've been waiting for you to catch up to post this comment. This episode completely blew me away, which I almost wasn't expecting after what felt like such a high point with "The Eye". I agree about the monologue at the end; I expected his answer to the question to more or less be "Everything", but I had no idea he would express it so fluently, with so much depth. Andor loves to take its time setting things up but the payoff is consistently amazing and exceeds my expectations, which I cautiously keep lower than "perfection" because it's rare that I'm watching a show and I feel like I see EXACTLY what I wanted to see. There's always some amount of compromise between what I want to happen, what I expect to happen, what needs to happen, and whatever the writers actually decided should happen. More often than not my biggest complaints tend to be about how things are wrapped up at the end of a story. But this show seems to always deliver exactly what I want to see, even if I don't know what that is before it happens. It may take its time getting there, but when it gets to it, it simply delivers. I'm really eager to see if they close out the season and ultimately the show with as much grace and aptitude as they have each of the smaller stories they've told throughout the season. A comment I saw about this episode specifically that I could wholly relate to called it "the embodiment of catharsis". It's just so satisfying to see the escape unfold without a hitch, barring some expected sacrifices. I was literally jumping out of my seat with my hands on my head screaming "HOLY SHIT, THATS AMAZING" when the water fried the station and the floor stopped working. Few shows get that level of reaction out of me. That's the kind of payoff you can ONLY deliver after several grueling episodes of beating the protagonist and practically the viewer alongside them down into submission, and making you realize how much you hate who the Empire is and what they are doing - which is where the show's pacing really works in its favor. Unlike so many shows and movies out there, even some of my favorites, Andor never has me second guessing the decisions of anyone involved in the production. At first I was convinced this was the best thing to come out of this generation of Star Wars - and it is - but at this point I've realized it's one of the best shows of its time, period. It's an absolute masterclass in modern serialized storytelling, a brilliant culmination of writing, acting, set design, cinematography, and music. It's a level of quality that every show wishes it could be, that I wish I could say more shows achieved. The last time I felt as good about the consistency of a show from episode to episode was the Battlestar Galactica reboot (which also had me jumping and cheering at times, and bawling at others)...but until I see Andor misstep at least once (something BSG almost never did itself), it could even be a step above that - and that's really saying something.
Turnt SNACO
2022-11-17 14:52:10 +0000 UTCYou're so good at writing these thoughts, I appreciate it a lot and totally agree with everything!
kaiielle
2022-11-16 19:33:12 +0000 UTCIt's a super powerful line that is heartbreaking.
kaiielle
2022-11-16 19:31:37 +0000 UTCI really hope so!
kaiielle
2022-11-16 19:31:22 +0000 UTCWhat an episode! Everything was brilliant, obviously the prison escape takes most of the episode, but other small developments are brilliant too. Let me point a couple of things out. First, Kino... I think Kino is one of the most briliantly written character arcs, we first meet him and he presents himself as a selfish man who manages the floor with a somewhat Iron Fist so he can finish his sentence and go home, he is sort of a collaborationist in this whole tyranny. But little by little we understnad that he cares not only about him getting out of there alive, but about others too, he is really sad when Ulaf dies relatively close to the end of his sentence, I believe his strictness at the beginning was his way of caring about others: "I'll make them work hard and not get into trouble so that as many of them survive and get home when their sentences are completed". Then there's the turning point when he realises that the numbers on the screen are just an illusion, that after their sentence is done they are not being freed, they are simply transferred to another level or another prison, and that truly breaks him and convinces him to take action. And he leads the break-out, I think from the start he knows he has no chance of escaping because he can't swim, but he still becomes the leader, and there's a part of that speach that is truly beautiful: he encourages everyone to take care of each other, to not leave people behind if they can be helped, he truly shows that he does care about other people. And all of that character development in just 3 episodes. Both the writing and the acting for Kino, really beyond stellar. But, hey, let's not forget other important sacrifices for the rebellion: first, Mon Mothma, I mean, such a tough spot she is in, she is an idealist and she is being asked to sacrifice her ideals, and even tougher, her daughter, we are left with her saying no, but I feel like she'll end up seeing she has no other choice. Then there's Luthen. Oh my god. Kino's speach touched my heart, but Luthen's monologue absolutely blew my mind. In my opinion, that speech encapsulates so well why Andor is such a great show: nothing is black or white, Luthen is a monster and a sociopath who singlehandedly makes decisions about sacrificing 50 rebels for the cause without their consent. I mean, one thing is being ready to sacrifice your own life fighting, and doing that sacrifice knowingly, and a different thing is having that decision made for you by someone you don't even know. But what is so beautiful and tragic about Luthen's monologue is that he knows he is a monster and deep inside he cares, he regrets being it, but he still decides to be a monster because he believes that is what is necessary... And perhaps, only perhaps, it was truly necessary, perhaps the shining heroes of the later rebellion, can afford to fight in a more idealistic and ethical way because Luthen sacrificed his morality in order to build up that rebellion in a time where it was too weak to be idealistic..
Michał Zawisza Alvarez
2022-11-16 19:01:57 +0000 UTCThe best two monologues in any show i have watch in recent memory. So powerful, so well acted. Kino better be alive some way somehow. :(
Guiguioh
2022-11-16 17:05:18 +0000 UTC‘I can’t swim’ That line, that god damn line destroyed me. This show is a masterpiece in my opinion, no two ways about it. Also you cried at the same part I did on my first viewing 😓 it got me a second time watching it with you as well
Sean H
2022-11-16 15:48:57 +0000 UTC
