>RE: Episode 6. This show is legitimately AMAZING. >
>The dialog, the story telling, the intensity, the action, the
>characters, all just AMAZING.
>
>What the eff is the budget for this show??? That escape during
>the eye was better than most major films.
>
>I’m not going as far as some saying that all Star Wars
>should be just like this - I think SW is huge enough to have
>different types of story telling that all work great. But this
>show is absolutely an example of how to do something smaller
>scale that still has stakes. It’s cliche to even say at this
>point, but there were more stakes in the small moments in this
>episode than anything in the sequel trilogy which was supposed
>to be galaxy wide impact. The MCU could also learn from this
>in terms of smaller stories they feel intense.
>
>Also - I have to mention just how consistently they are making
>us care about the characters by showing us their families. It
>seems like common sense but it's so rarely done. Last week we
>saw Syril with his overbearing mother and that added context
>into why he'd be pushing so hard to advance his career. Also
>last week seeing Mom Mothma deal with challenges at home gives
>way more depth to her double life as an Imperial senator and a
>rebel leader. Same with Luthen and seeing him with his wife.
>Also on the heist you got the Imperial on the inside and him
>falling in love with the native.
>
>Then in this episode we have the commanding officer from the
>Empire and meet his wife and son with some great dialogue
>before they are all held hostage. These are all three
>dimensional characters. Also if was interesting that last week
>we got to know the heist crew with the exception of Taramyn,
>and with one quick line in this episode "he was a
>stormtrooper" we got depth to his character.
>
>Just REALLY well done.>

100% agreed....

i am so into this show...mainly because of the characters...ALL of them, even the 'minor' ones are expertly created/crafted/presented: (JUST the right amount of dialogue, without over exposition. Just the right amount of background info, providing various levels of grounded motivations. All performed with excellence. *CHEFS KISS* on ALL of the characters, big AND small!)

oh yeah, its a 'Star Wars' IP right? so what about the 'cool spacey stuff' you say? i say YES!! ITS here TOO! What i dig about it is that the 'cool spacey stuff' is SO VERY WELL INTERWOVEN in that it feels friggin NATURAL. it feels REALER than some the other Star Wars projects. It sneaks up on you in this show, sometimes very subtly in the background, sometimes blowing your mind right in your geeked out face...but always with JUST the right 'touch'.

i have not seen EVERY Star Wars thing yet...but, of what ive seen, my faves to this point are (in no order) "Rogue One", "Empire Strikes Back", "Mandalorian", "Bad Batch"...and now "Andor" is officially in my top tier as well.