'Andor' Season 1 Arcs fanedit

A very simple and straightforward edit I periodically visited from September to December of 2022, around other edits I was doing at the time. I also uploaded this to OT.com in Dec '23 but I think I chose the wrong discussion category 😕 (https://originaltrilogy.com/topic/Andor-Season-1-Arcs-fanedit/id/112924)
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I did this because it was clear the show was split into four dedicated story arcs – I’m fairly certain they announced and explained this before the show was even released. All I had to do was put the episodes in the right groups, and when I rewatched the series in one go via these giant mega-sodes, I can confirm the story was much more straightforward, leaner, easily memorable and tighter overall.

This four-part project was very simple since I just had to cut the credits off of two episodes, cut the introduction off of two others and paste them together four times over by merging them with maybe a second’s overlap to blend the different sound and video sources properly. There there were some other changes I made too; I preferred the series’ original logo than the one we got in the later posters and streamed episodes so I used that instead, I wanted each mega-sode to have a different introductory motif in the music and I changed the dynamic of Syril Karn and Dedra Meero.
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Arc 1: “The Man from Kenari” – 1hr44mins, all of the first three episodes “Kassa”, “That Would Be Me” and “Reckoning” all merged together. Nothing about this was changed, it uses the theme music from the first episode which is the standard theme of the series and there are no extra annotations. I chose that title because the first quarter of the season deals with Cassian the man: Morlana crime investigation suspect, Ferrix community member, Imperial site robber, family to Maarva and B2EMO, and a potentially valuable asset to Luthen Rael.
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Arc 2: “The First Mission” – 2hrs7mins, all of the fourth, fifth and sixth episodes “Aldhani”, “The Axe Forgets” and “The Eye” combined. The introduction music is right from the fourth episode, so that conveniently didn’t need changing and is a more action-themed take on the initial theme music, that fits into the events of the next three episodes nicely. There is one change I made by adding an annotative prompt in one location: in the aftermath of the Aldhani heist, they see the doctor “Quadpaw” on the moon “Frezno” in a forgotten sector in the Galaxy – this wasn’t relayed to the audience in TE, so I tracked down the font they used in the series and put that extra detail in myself. I went for this title because the Imperial payroll heist is the first (that we know of) mission Cassian takes against the Empire as part of a larger movement, like we see him doing as a captain of the Rebel Alliance before his death, and as Luthen has his finger in a lot of pies of the scattered Rebel cells it puts Cassian’s foot in the door for working for the Rebellion directly.
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Arc 3: “The Sentence” – 2hrs15mins, the seventh, eighth and ninth episodes “Announcement”, “Narkina 5” and “Nobody’s Listening!” mingled into one. This mega-sode uses the musical theme of Episode 8 – because the notes sounded higher (almost clinical) and a little like they were half-played and distorted, so I found it suited the prison arc very well with that kind of off-putting and eerie environment. I did make one change to the story in this arc: when Syril goes to see Dedra outside the ISB headquarters building, all leads to any sort of relationship or romance is removed – now they just talk about Cassian and their senses of justice etc and that’s it. That particular thread felt like – best case scenario: it’s just not necessary because not every story needs to have a love story angle shoved in – worst case: Syril is projecting very clear home issues onto someone and is being not-very-subtly creepy about it or going about it well – that’s just my take on that burgeoning dynamic anyway.

I found a lot of reasons to call it “The Sentence”: Cassian in prison of course, Syril starting his slogging journey to redeem himself on Coruscant and Mon Mothma learning the uncomfortable price of getting her family’s money back in her hands with giving away her own daughter into a marriage arrangement with the son of someone she despises as the main three. But also, Palpatine through The Empire and Colonel Yularen sentencing the citizens of the Galaxy to tougher lives and conditions through the PORD, and Bix’s capture on Ferrix – and her captivity and treatment by Doctor Gorst which left her stuck in a catatonic state for refusing to share information.
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Arc 4: “The Rebellion” – 2hrs6mins, all of “One Way Out”, “Daughter of Ferrix” and “Rix Road” bringing it all to the end of the season. The musical motif during the theme this time is that of the final episode where all the music tracks come together in a kind of orchestra, no doubt parroting the funeral procession on the Ferrix streets. No changes have been made to the story of the last three episodes and I called it “The Rebellion” for a small number of reasons: it covers the prison riot and the uprising on Ferrix against the Empire as the most straightforward reasons, but also Cassian’s formal induction into Luthen’s network and the attack on Spellhaus – if Saw agreed to help Anto Kreegyr, the combined efforts of their Rebel cells would have been exactly like the activity we saw in ‘Rebels’ seasons 3 and 4, where the Alliance of Rebels work together to achieve their common goal against the Empire.
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Because of the length of these mega-sodes, and the fact I worked and exported them in 1080p as always, the file size on each of them is generally quite large – 9 to 12GB apiece – just something to keep in mind before you try and download them.
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It’s a Mega link like the rest again
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Footnote: I am in no capacity a professional editor or VFX artist, so some areas are visibly mostly good as I have to be realistic with the footage in front of me and what I can do with it. If you do have any particular notes and feedback, feel free to give me your thoughts, but please be constructive and don’t be an ass about it.