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I just watched both episodes and enjoyed them thoroughly but it sounds like the rest of the show is depressing so I'm not sure if I want to check out more. I'd watch a series of this though so it's a shame that idea was another victim of the strikes. My favorite gag that no one has mentioned yet has to be Rocky, who has a hole in the back. They went back to that later (someone stuck a finger in there and regretted it) and I thought it was hilarious. Star Trek rarely goes for crude humor and who knows if we'll ever get another season of the Orville so I find myself a little lacking in smart sci-fi that also has dick and fart jokes. This might have had a tiny lampshade hung on it in the episode. Remember, the hospital had Nanette wired up to something to monitor her coma status. So there could be some hardware in her brain that can carry a cell signal. This article on air-gapped computers indicates that there are various ways to turn things into antennas, even if they were never meant to serve as such: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Air_gap_(networking)#Limitations

It makes more sense if the nation in question had been China but Disney doesn't want to alienate that market so they made Japan into the bad guys instead. Wolverine was explicitly (and I mean explicitly) dragged into the MCU by Deadpool in Deadpool and Wolverine. However, before that, the MCU snuck in as much as they could get away with. For example, in the Ms. Marvel series, Kamala Khan's powers are described as being courtesy of a mutation in her genes and as that is said, a sting of the X-Men theme music plays.

If the Empire is smart, they would have realized that they could save on money and prisoners by not having the floors set to lethal. Imagine Dedra stepping out of her cell thinking she's about to fry herself and instead she just wakes up the next morning with a headache. And then some prisoner tries the same escape route that Cassian tried except now with the floors turned down, they won't short out. Having said that, if she serves her time, eventually the Rebels will let her out when the Empire falls. And she's probably in the system as "Rebel Spy" so she might get a hero's welcome when she is finally released. "Oh yeah, Luthen. Him and I were best buddies. Nobody knew I was the mole at ISB!"

Then again, based on what we saw of his prowess this season, the kid could also be Wilmon's. (I am joking of course) Speaking of unexpected relationship developments, how about Perrin with Sculdun's wife? This seems to go back a couple of years (based on Mon Mothma's line about betrayal in the previous arc) and makes me wonder what happened to Sculdun. But also, why is Perrin still living the high life? I imagine Perrin's story would have been something we would have seen more of if the show had gone four more seasons instead of just one. I respect that they had to do it for plot reasons. It's just the perils of prequels. They're arguing over something we the audience have known to be true since 1977. FWIW, I think they did a great job. A Star Wars Youtube channel I like (Kyle Katarn) theorized that the stun grenade didn't work as well on Cassian and Melshi because of their exposure to similar tech when they were in jail on Narkina 5.

I knew it! I knew Bix was with child! Glad to see B2EMO wasn't totally forgotten about either! Nice to see the Force healer again too, even if just for a moment. Dedra's fate caught me off guard. Partagas too. I guess he knew he'd be held responsible for Kleya's escape? Interesting that he had Nemik's manifesto on his playlist, seems like it got to him in the end. One way out! Definitely a choice to have the finale be an episode where Rebels argue amongst themselves as to whether or not the fucking Death Star is real but I think it worked. This show has done a great job in showing that the Rebellion in all its many forms doesn't always align on things. I guess the "1 YR BBY" is actually set on New Year's Eve (New Yavin's Eve?)...? This doesn't seem like it is one whole year before Rogue One so it actually seems to be 1.99 years after the previous episodes. I assume all instances of "one year later" come with a side of "more or less". What even is a year in the Star Wars galaxy? In my personal head canon, Kleya is going to show up at Scarif with a ship and pick up Cassian and Jyn so they can fly out of there just before that blast wave hits.

Powerful episode, I appreciate that Kleya has been holding it together for so long that by the time help arrives, she just can't anymore. Props to Ben Mendelsohn for that amazing Gary Oldman tribute when he barked at Dedra for going after Luthen "ON YOUR OWN!!

There may have been a hint when she briefly mentioned to Erskin that she was familiar with being betrayed. It is weird that she didn't even mention her family when she knew she had to go on the run. Exactly. This isn't the part of the rebellion where we make an impassioned speech to our adversaries. This is the part of the rebellion where we smoke MFs like it ain't no thang.

I agree but I also had the thought that although this show is called Andor it isn't necessarily specific to just Cassian (as we saw with Maarva in season 1). So if we do have another Andor on the way, we could have a third season.

Episode 7 gave me the impression that Bix is pregnant, so she might also be heading off to some quiet corner of the galaxy to have a baby without Cassian knowing about it since there's no way he'd keep going out on missions with a baby at home.

So given this particular choice of shot... Does this mean that Bix is pregnant?

Wow, that was brutal. Incredible buildup in this episode. Incredible tragedy too, with the Ghorman rebels knowing full well that they are being pushed into this conflict but also knowing full well that they have no choice but to fight. More thoughts to come, I'm still processing this one.

They were basically stealing space gasoline. Wilmon has that special machine which can unlock the valves and let the gas flow. This has to be done within certain tolerances or else the gas will leak and probably explode. Wilmon was lent out to Saw's group as a subject matter expert on how to do this. He was only supposed to be there for a day so he could teach the other guy how to do it and then head back to wherever he came from. As for the gas itself, it is deadly and debilitating in large doses but a person can also get high off it if they are just the right distance away and inhale just a bit. Saw was basically saying to Wilmon "if you're a true believer, you'll huff this gas with me" and Wilmon is too young and shy to say no to drugs.

Yeah, couldn't help but notice those boxes they were stealing were about the size of a fridge. I'm not sure how Cinta got shot. She just caught a stray? I didn't see her running in to break up that fight. I wish we could have overheard more of the conversation between Krennic and Mon Mothma. Kleya needs more than one outfit. Even her nice party dress was just a variation of her shopkeeper outfit. Dr. Ghorst keeps a torture chair in his apartment? I wouldn't put it past him but still, kinda weird that everything Bix needed to give him a taste of his own medicine was right there. Edit: I just remembered another thing. Cinta said she got messed up in an accident. Was that how she killed Tay? She just drove the car into a mountainside or something. I guess we'll never find out now, unless Mon Mothma brings it up.

I love the vibe of the Ghorman scenes. So very French with the trenchcoats and the berets and the gloves. Old school spy thriller shit. Awesome, even if not much happened. Umm Wilmon, Saw just told you he was crazy. Don't take "when and when not to wear your safety gear" advice from him. However, other than that, I'm glad the methylamine heist went well and no kids died this time! On the other hand, Cassian says the Great Ghorman Train Robbery is a no. Thinking back to Aldhani are we? "All we have to do is roll the loot down this here tunnel!" Yeah, somebody is totally getting squashed if they do that. It's been a couple of years but it's still too soon. Props to Syril for being the ultimate spy. It would be hilarious if he bumped into Cassian at that cafe.

They're not speaking real French. I don't speak French myself but I know enough of it to know they are using a faux-French that sounds really good but doesn't line up with the words in the captions. Five seconds away from Cassian and she's into narcotics! You'd think in this universe there would be some wonder drug that makes bad memories go away.