The new Star Wars series Andor is an examination of the early days of the rebel alliance. Matt London was a fan of the show.
In Episode 533 of the Geek's Guide to the GALAXY, London says there's more to Andor than meets the eye. It is not passive looking. It takes an active mind to be engaged. It isn't a child's show.
Andor is a complex piece of story telling. There is black and white in every other Star Wars. There isn't a Crossover. The show is about moral confusion. Every single situation has a gray tone. This is an adult show for that reason. There is nothing black and white. Some choices hurt others. The way life is and the way war is.
The reality of power and violence is what Andor focuses on instead of the Star Wars staple of wacky creatures. The show's depiction of politics was completely believable, as was the fantasy author's work as a UN aid worker. She believes that there are people on the writing team who are students of spy novels like John le Carré and who are looking at how revolution has happened here on Earth and what that looks like.
Andor's ratings lag behind other Star Wars shows. David Barr Kirtley is the host of Geek's Guide to the GALAXY. He said it was so good. It deserves better ratings than it has gotten. I would love to see more shows like this. I have been looking forward to this show for a long time, especially the Star Wars show. Let us all support it as much as we can.
You can listen to the entire interview in Episode 533 of Geek's Guide to the GALAXY. Some highlights from the discussion can be found below.
There is a person on Obi-Wan.
I don't like little girl characters. They portrayed a spoiled little girl who ran off because she didn't want to do what she had to do, and in the process she got a bunch of people killed. That is never brought up. Everybody is supposed to love her. I want to apologize. She is a spoiled child who got killed because she didn't want to go to something with her parents.
David Barr Kirtley is a character.
There was a time when I heard a description of a deep character that was consistent with everything I knew about them. Andor has a lot of deep characters. In Star Wars and science fiction shows, the characters are one-dimensional in the sense that in every scene they have the same personality, and you never see them differently. You can see these characters in vulnerable moments where you can see different sides to them.
There are two people on this show, Dedra Meero andErin Lindsey.
The technocrats and the bureaucrats have different reasons for being in a government. The degree to which personal ambition is the sort of be-all and end-all of the characters in Andor is very clear. I would like to see a few characters who are doing the wrong things for the right reasons. Imperialism was enacted by a group of people who believed they were doing the right thing.
The Andor season finale features Matt London.
I was expecting more of a payoff in the last episode. Many people are going to be confused. There are so many amazing things that happen in the last episode. There is. There is a message in the show that if you want to defeat an empire you have to become a terrorist and die. The body count should have been higher in the spirit of realism. A ball of fire kills everyone. Some of these characters are still with us. Couldn't we tell them more conclusive conclusions?
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