I am through ANDOR episode 10, and I am not okay. This show, I swear.

Everyone who's watching is giving pretty much that response.

It’s so good. It has no right being this good. We don’t deserve it.

It's legitimately too good to be Star Wars. It wouldn't exist without Star Wars, but nothing else in that universe is executed this well. There are more good hours of Andor than there are good hours in SW movies.

Oh man, that is true

It's fucked up, right? Pound for pound, the best Star Wars has ever been. There's no fat on the story at all. All killer, no filler, for 24 straight episodes. That's BANANAS.

I cannot think of an achievement like that in licensed media outside the first 10 yrs of the MCU as a social and cultural force. But even that has some wild ass misses in there. There is no Thor: Dark World in Andor.

And the fact that it’s not on more people’s radar is disheartening a bit. I mean, I like being part of the Cool Kids Club and all here, but I just wish more people knew how good things can be and celebrate it.

I was mad at season 1 because when I finished it I realized Star Wars could have been this good the whole time. After season 2 I need to revise that. It couldn't have. No way. This is some wild mutant that escaped containment. They're bricking up the holding cell as we speak.

But I look forward to ten years of other folks doing Star Wars and chasing this show, like all of scifi cinema did the OG film in the 80s.

Or learning the wrong lessons about why it worked, like the glut of Tarantino copycats post Pulp Fiction.

I saw someone on IG complaining about this season - particularly the first 3 eps, very angered - and it’s like, this show is a slow burn, it always has been. AND it ALSO has to cover 4 years of a major rebellion. This show is a gift, masterfully balanced. Adjust your consumption and savor it.

A legit slow burn no less. Most licensed TV pretends to be a slow burn when it's actually just 3 hrs of story crammed into 10 hrs of runtime. Here there's next to nothing wasted. Also the first 3 eps were great?

The only thing that's bugging me is the timeline seems a bit off given where we leave Andor. It can't be a year to the events of Rogue 1.

I’ll be rewatching Rogue One again tomorrow to get the whole timeline in my head to see the dotted Is and crossed Ts.

Ok, so I figured it out. 1bby is not technically 1 year UNTIL BBY, it's the whole year leading up to BBY. That closes the loop for me. Seems like until recently they had that year as 0BBY and changed it.

(I did start watching Rogue 1 immediately be cause it was sticking in my teeth and it couldn't have happened more than a week or two later, but looking online they've adjusted some of the labeling so it all works)