Last night’s episodes were amazing. I know that is the word going around online as well. Just… wow.
Compelling, wasn’t it? I was glued to the screen for all 2.5 hours; the stories, immersion, tension, build-ups, acting, monologues, costuming, action sequences, payoffs, the unpredictability, the surprises… as well as the usual high-end standards of direction, cinematography, editing, and sound… the whole range of emotions… it was exhausting to watch - in such a great enveloping manner.
The whole series has been a joy to experience - and feel like a big kid again in waiting impatiently until next week’s finale.
All credit and kudos for them sticking the landing with respecting and adhering to the ‘canon’ - with both more recently portrayals of events - and also the long past EU from the era of WEG Sourcebooks etc… beautifully and organically executed.
The whole show is a masterclass.
Dreena’s message and plea for help on the radio…
“Palmo One.This is Palmo One. This is the voice of Ghorman. This is Palmo One making an Emergency Broadcast on all open channels. This is Palmo One. This is Palmo One.
We are under siege. We’re being slaughtered. The Imperial murder of Ghorman has begun! There are hundreds of bodies at moment.
As I say these words, hundreds of murders Ghormans lay dead in Palmo Plaza. Thousands more on the streets. Mor every minute.
We’re being destroyed!
This is Ghorman reaching for any open channel that can hear me! If you can… if you can hear me… If you believe in truth, if you have any faith left in truth, please, please mark this message and pass it forward. This is murder!
The Empire built this fire! They made this fire and led us to the slaughter. Now they expect us to die without knowing why.
The conspiracy we’ve fears is real! It’s here today!
Imperial ships are already landing across… Help us! Is there no-one who can help us? Is there no-one?”
The Ghorman Resistance’s Final Message To The Galaxy - 2 minute video from the The Admiral youtube channel.
Mon Mothma’s speech…
“Fellow Senators, friends, colleagues… allies, adversaries. I stand before you this morning with a heavy heart. I’ve spent my life in this Chamber. I came here as a child. And as I look around me now I realise I almost have no memories that pre-date my arrival… and few bond of affection that cleave so tightly. Through these many years, I believe I have served my constituents honourably and upheld our code of conduct. This Chamber is a cauldron of opinions, and we’ve certainly all had our patience and tempers tested in pursuit of our ideals.Disagree as we might, I am hopeful that those of you who know me will vouch for my credibility in the days to come. I stand this morning with a difficult message:
I believe we are in crisis… The distance between what is said… and what is known to be true… has become an abyss. Of all the things at risk, the loss of an objective reality is perhaps the most dangerous. The death of truth is the ultimate victory of evil. When truth leaves us, when we let it slip away, when it is ripped from our hands, we become vulnerable to the appetite of whatever monster screams the loudest.
This chamber’s hold on the truth was finally lost on the Ghorman Plaza. What took place yesterday… what happened yesterday on Ghorman was unprovoked genocide! Yes! Genocide! And that truth has been exiled from this Chamber. And the monster screaming the loudest? The monster we’ve helped create? The monster who will come for us all soon enough… is Emperor Palpatine.”
Andor | Mon Mothma’s Speech - a 2+ minute video of Mon Mothma’s speech from the Gamertrix youtube channel.
Bix’s speech…
“My Love. You’re sleeping now. You look so peaceful. I wanna be brave, but I can’t. If I was brave, I would stay and do this in person… but I know you, and you’d just talk me around, and I’ve been thinking about this too long to let that happen.I have to leave. I have to go away. I’m not sure where or for how long, I just know I can’t stay here with you now. I believe what you said. It is a choice. It just can’t be me. I can’t be the reason you leave here. If you ever gave this up for me, I’d… I’d never forgive myself. We have to win. We have to beat them. And I believe you have purpose in making this happen. I need to believe that…
So, I’m choosing for the both of us. I’m choosing the Rebellion.
And when it’s done… when it’s over… and we’ve won… we can do all the things we ever wanted. Everything we’d know we’ve missed.
I’ll find you.”
Saw’s speech (S02xE05)…
Saw’s Speech: 90 second video at the official Star Wars youtube channel - www.youtube.com/watch?v=x0hXnZ42eJ0
Saw’s full 4 minute speech video: www.youtube.com/watch?v=d13oAUj4mtY
Saw: “I was younger than you are now… I was a prisoner. They made a work camp in the jungle. No droids, no beasts… just men and cargo. Onderon Jungle. Real jungle. Hot, wet, blistering jungle. Old men died fast. Just dropped where they stood. We came back… next day, there’d be nothing but a bone or two where they went down. Our clothes, just… just melted away. So they worked us naked. Two, three hundred men. Boys really. Back and forth until the only thing you could remember was back and forth. Then one day, everyone started to itch. Everyone, all at once. Even the guards. You could feel your skin coming alive. It was the rhydo. They had a leak. You could feel it before you could smell it. So they all panicked and ran away, but it was new to me…”
Wilmon: “It’s done. You can open the valve now.”
Saw: (to Wilmon’s machine) “Aahh ha ha! I have always loved you…”
Wilmon: “What are you doing?!”
Saw: “There it is…”
Wilmon: “How can you do that?!”
Saw: “Because I understand it! Because she’s my sister rhydo, and she loves me! That itch, that burn… You feel how badly she wants to explode? Remember this. Remember this moment! This perfect night. You think I’m crazy? Yes, I am. Revolution is not for the sane. Look at us: unloved, hunted, cannon fodder. We’ll all be dead before the Republic is back and yet… here we are. Where are you, boy? You’re here! You’re not with Luthen. You’re here! You’re right here, and you’re ready to fight! We’re the rhydo, kid. We’re the fuel. We’re the thing that explodes when there’s too much friction in the air. Let it in, boy! That’s freedom calling! Let it in! Let it run! Let it run wild!”
Making a Genocide | Andor Season 2 (spoilers)
www.youtube.com/watch?v=YNbozdc08IE - a 13 minute video from the Shawn Grenier | The Canvas youtube channel.