Emre1601

Me waiting for Andor season 2

Andor spoiler:

Andor spoiler:

Andor spoilers:

spoilers for Andor:

“Star Wars: Skeleton Crew, an original series starring Jude Law, from executive producers Jon Watts, Christopher Ford, Jon Favreau & Dave Filoni, is streaming in 2023 only on DisneyPlus”: https://twitter.com/starwars/status/1529901534573568000
 

Deadline are reporting the first season of this has recently finished filming, which is good news as I thought this was going to be another one of of those announced Star Wars shows that never makes it to screen. Also from the Deadline article:

‘Directed by Jon Watts with Christopher Ford as a writer, Star Wars: Skeleton Crew is set to take place in the same timeline as The Mandalorian and The Book of Boba Fett. Watts said the new series is about “a group of kids who are about ten years old who get lost in the Star Wars universe.” The director also noted that although the show will have four kids as its stars, “it’s not a kids show.”’
 

The first piece of concept art from Skeleton Crew shown to the audience at Celebration 2022:

 
I think this was the show some fans were claiming (or hoping?) had a ‘Stranger Things in Space’ vibe? I hope we get to see a teaser or trailer soon. Maybe at Celebration 2023 in April.

VisualBarrage’s 4 minute The Brilliance of ANDOR (Star Wars at its Best) video says it all on how great the music for Andor is. How it contrasts with other recent modern Star Wars soundtracks, and how it is different in that it embraces the future, much like the Original Trilogy soundtracks did.

The actual soundtracks for Andor season 1 are available to listen to for free on Nicholas Britell’s official YouTube channel

 
Andor: Vol. 1 (Episodes 1-4) - https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=OLAK5uy_kz5rJYR89-HFxKDZ0kDJ9_gNcia7JStmk

Andor: Vol. 2 (Episodes 5-8) - https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=OLAK5uy_mFdPOf14SMBrLxZK9qz9gwaQBzihnMiIk

Andor: Vol. 3 (Episodes 9-12) - https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=OLAK5uy_mAQYMJ6sMf0FgFwZdOHJQIxpkTc0SVIP0

SuiteSoundMusic’s 36 minute mix of Andor music is a great listen too - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ttM37cbu7kc

Some articles and interviews I found interesting on the sounds and soundtrack of Andor’s season 1:

1. How Composer Nicholas Britell Created New Sounds for Andor at StarWars.com
2. Interview with Nicholas Britell: ‘ANDOR’ Composer - 30 minute video at Friends of the Force Podcast
3. ‘Andor’ composer Nicholas Britell conjures up ‘Star Wars’ magic with soundtrack at Space
4. Nicholas Britell Made Andor Sound Nothing Like Star War at Vulture
5. How Andor Uses Audio to Explore Oppression and Rebellion at The Artifice

All Andor Title Cards Episodes 1-12: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BopZl2FVLqk
 

Loose Spoiler:

‘This is what happens when all of Andor Season 1’s title themes are played together’: www.youtube.com/watch?v=c0hHD-FpcJc

David Crosby. A rebel himself.

https://twitter.com/thedavidcrosby/status/1577862034498023424

https://variety.com/2023/music/news/david-crosby-dead-dies-byrds-crosby-stills-nash-1235495467/

Marooned Biker Scout said:

Kino Loy - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TKB67KzjO4A

Luthen Rael - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-3RCme2zZRY

Nemik - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-asb8zTiuZ4

Maarva - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TaKrm5txGCQ

Nice! Finally some interesting and useful content on the official YouTube channel too. I wish they did more of this type of video, it’d be worth visiting more if they did.

Diego Luna is nominated for a Golden Globe: https://twitter.com/newsandor/status/1602335085746716673

“Diego Luna is the first actor to be nominated for a Golden Globe for a Star Wars TV series, and the second Star Wars actor since the 1970s to be nominated (Alec Guinness was the first for A New Hope). Bravo, @diegoluna_ !”

Edit: I posted some videos on Andor in the YouTube/Vimeo/etc… Star Wars video finds thread.

Videos discussing what to expect for anyone who hasn’t seen it yet, talking about the story, writing, direction, cinematography, characters, acting, settings, use of CGI, sound, costuming, Andor’s gritty and real feel, the tone of the show, and also how it has been received by fans, how it compares with other Star Wars series and films (and with other sci-fi), and so on.

And some fun videos on it too.

darklordoftech said:

https://boards.theforce.net/threads/rewriting-the-ot-to-suit-the-prequels-humor.50039598/

Some good and funny points made in there 😃
 

oojason’s unfinished ‘OT vs PT inconsistencies - 50+ issues list’ thread has some nice and amusing points too:

Original Trilogy vs The Prequels: inconsistencies, retcons, plot holes and discrepancies…

as a part of his George Lucas: Star Wars Creator, Unreliable Narrator & Time Travelling Revisionist… thread.

Superweapon VII said:

Emre1601 said:

I’d love to see that art of the serpent creature training Yoda!

Your wish is my command.

Thanks for that, that is very cool and fires the imagination. I’ve really got to start reading up on the books, comics and old fan content released before Phantom Menace and Prequel era.

Spartacus01 said:

Emre1601 said:
For example, I really enjoyed the Dooku segments of 2022’s Tales Of The Jedi. But I could not help but question just why we were not shown such material in the Prequels themselves, which would have made his character and story arc far more compelling.

There’s a thing called limited amount of on-scream time. The Prequels are supposed to be three films, so you can’t expect everything to be explored in detail in three simple films, unless you want to see 10 hours-long Prequels. But I sincerely doubt you would have liked to see that, wouldn’t you?

A few scenes with Dooku in the background of TPM, talking with Qui-Gon about his deteriorating faith or belief in the Jedi, then leaving the Jedi after the death of Qui-Gon shouldn’t add-on too much to the run-time. Or for that matter adding his battle with Yaddle shown in AOTC, his fall to the Dark Side (which could serve be a mirror of Anakin’s later turn in ROTS) and serving Palaptine and his schemes, shouldn’t either. Nor in ROTS where Dooku’s death would have had more impact, especially at the order of Palpatine at the hands of Anakin.

It is why I suggested a Special Edition of the Prequels are needed. To merge the films together more, for characters to have more impact on-screen, and to the story. To fulfill the viewer’s expectations, and also to fire the viewer’s imagination more. To maybe trim some of “the fat” for scenes that do not work so well also.

I hope a skilled or experienced fan editor on here does do a version where they marge that Tales Of The Jedi storyline into an edit of TPM, AOTC & ROTS. Or maybe in a 3 in 1 edit.

Though I still don’t understand why Obi-Wan and Anakin’s friendship, them becoming a team, and then closer like “brothers”, wasn’t shown in the Prequel films themselves; that it needed “a footnote” such as TCW to explain or show this.

Again, it’s a matter of limited amount of on-screen time. The Prequels are not supposed to be about Anakin and Obi-Wan’s friendship, the Prequels are supposed to be about Anakin as a character, his motivations for joining the Sith and becoming Darth Vader, and the fall of the Republic. It’s only natural that they can’t show everything about Anakin and Obi-Wan’s friendship, as it’s not what they are supposed to show in detail. Unless you want to see 10 hours-long Prequels, again.

I don’t expect “everything” to be covered, but I do expect to see certain events and relationships to occur on screen in the Prequels. The friendship between Obi-Wan and Anakin is an important major aspect of these films, and also to the Saga itself.

If the Prequel films had to run an extra 5-10 minute each: TPM’s 216 minutes, AOTC’s 142 minutes, and ROTS’ 140 minutes, to portray that friendship and partnership more effectively and emotionally, and Dooku having a more of a presence and a deeper more poignant arc in the films and to the story, then so be it.

The droid factory scene with Anakin, Padme, R2D2 and C3PO ran for 5 minutes. Uninterrupted. It was also a late addition to filming and was done as part of the re-shoots for the film. I would rather have 5 minutes of scenes showing Kenobi and Anakin’s friendship than that droid factory scene. Having such a lengthy scene shot in post-production re-shoots also demonstrates your “limited amount of on-screen time” claim does not really apply here to this.
 

Fans shouldn’t have had to wait for an additional animated series sometime later to show that friendship effectively. To expand upon that evolving friendship in a later animated series, to show more actual events, more actual adventures, and give it a “deeper dive”, for sure.
 

G&G-Fan said:

Showing Anakin and Obi-Wan’s friendship makes it way more devastating when Anakin turns and they have to fight. I think that’s more important then showing him as a young kid.

Absolutely this.

^ George Lucas in September 2005’s Starlog magazine, saying even in the 1st third of ROTS, Anakin is still a good person:

“Anakin was a good kid, and even though he was a petulant, whiny teen - which I can say from experience seems to be the way it works; even I was one of those once - he was still a good person. Anakin has been struggling with some issues, especially about his mother, but also with Padmé and [deciding between] doing his job and his own, personal thing. And even in this film, the first third of it, he’s fine. He’s a good pal to Obi-Wan and doing a great job. But this is the one where you see him get manipulated and twisted to a place where, even in the end, he still thinks he’s doing the right thing and still believes he’s a good person."

I think I did believe that Dagobah was Yoda’s homeworld, though couldn’t explain why I thought that. Other than the basics like his house being there, it looking so old and that it seemed to me that Yoda had been there for decades, or he he was so at ease, relaxed and at peace there.

Like screams in the void above, I did think we’d see Luke travel through there as a baby or young child in the Prequels, in reference to his line in Empire.

I’d love to see that art of the serpent creature training Yoda!