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Py Writ I stayed up until midnight to watch Andor’s three-episode premiere, like I do with all Star Wars shows, expecting anything ranging from disappointment to mild enjoyment. Despite being a Star Wars fan, my pessimism came from Disney’s handling of mainstream Star Wars. Aside from Rogue One,

RK Upadhya What drives people to rebel? And what can revolutionaries do to facilitate this process? These are key questions that all would-be revolutionaries must ask themselves. And surprisingly, these questions are also at the center of Andor, helping make it one of the most interesting and politically-charged pieces of

Mike Towill Partly seen through the eyes and interactions of its title character, Andor plots the evolution of a loose covert network of anti-imperialists, to the organised military of the Rebel Alliance, and the beginnings of the Galactic Civil War. This movement, the proto-Rebellion of Andor's season 1,

Alasdair Stuart Andor is a series simultaneously steeped in Star Wars lore and relentlessly focused on rebelling against it. Andor himself is just one of a half dozen characters who would be straight-forward heroes in other shows but don’t have that kind of luck or moral certainty here. refutes

Fiona Moore Andor has frequently been identified by reviewers as an example of retrofuturism.87 That is to say, it is a series which, aesthetically and/or thematically, evokes past imaginings of the future rather than contemporary ones.88 Most of the literature on retrofuturism categorises it as either conservative,

Ted Marsden Coruscant is the centre of the Star Wars universe. It is a science-fiction fantasy come to life. This ecumenopolis, meaning planet-wide city, acts as the undisputed capital of the galaxy. It’s a mind-boggling marvel to behold: a city built over every square inch of a planet–so

Brian Howard “Tell them what to do. It HAS to be you Kino. Tell them what to do.”, Cassian Andor, Season 1, Episode 10 Throughout Season One of Andor, the protagonist Cassian Andor develops from a womanizing thief just looking out for himself, to a radicalized, aspiring revolutionary. Cassian’s

Fabio Fernandes 1. Star Wars has always been predominantly a universe of contradictory characteristics. Princesses and emperors coexist with apparently democratic parliaments and congresses, but which more closely resemble a kind of Austro-Hungarian Empire with a galactic scope, with intrigues that are much more feudal than Byzantine. 2. This comparison

Eóin Dooley In the wake of the season finale of Andor, a YouTuber by the name of Star Wars Theory opined that while the “acting was great, cinematography was great, [and] the writing was good” the show itself was, ultimately, “forgettable”.57 The reason for this, as he put it,

Rykie Belles When Cassian Andor’s mother died, he sprung his ex-girlfriend from jail and joined the rebellion. When my dad died, I got my tragus pierced and forgot to wash my hair for two weeks. We are not the same. But this did happen at the same time! Some

Sejuti Bala If there’s one thing to be said about the political geography of the Empire in Star Wars, it is that its presence is arguably onerous, and its reach near-omniscient. Ever since the inception of Star Wars, the looming threat of the Empire has served as the intimidating

Christoffer Bagger Star Wars: Andor in its first season of twelve episodes shows not a single lightsaber, has no one shooting lightning from their fingers, and nobody mastering their personal inhibitions by hearing the ghosts of deceased mentors. Instead, the protagonists of Andor are often reluctant working-class rebels, scrambling for

Jamie Woodcock This collection of essays covers the first season of Star Wars Andor, the fourth live-action TV series released since Disney purchased the franchise. This introduction to the collection lays out some of the key issues that make Andor worth exploring in the following essays.1 The main reason