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Andor: S2, Episode 3 (Harvest) - Patreon Version

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I can't believe the attempted rape of Bix and Jar-Jar Binks stepping in doodoo going "Icky icky goo!!" happen in the same universe. A real alpha and omega there.

Joseph Olson

The attempted rape scene surprised me the first time I watched this episode. I wasn’t surprised that Imperial soldiers would rape, because of course they would (in this show at least…maybe not the movies. But the movies are all about the Jedi and Sith, not the ordeals of ordinary people living in an autocracy). I was surprised that Disney didn’t censor it. As hard as it was to watch, I’m glad they didn’t. It was an important scene. Brasso was definitely protecting his friend Kellen. By pretending that Kellen turned them in, he was shielding him from suspicion. He got caught because he went looking for Wilmon, and he got killed because a stormtrooper took his time to aim (stormtroopers are much more deadly in this show than in the movies as well). RIP Brasso. He was a friend to the end. The actor playing Syril improvised laying down on the bed. It really captured just how beaten down he is by his mother. Dedra laying down the law almost made me like her. Almost. Mon Mothma took a lot of gut punches in this episode. The arranged marriage, her daughter lashing out at her when she tried to give her a way out, Tay Kolma’s blackmail, and Luthen telling her he was going to protect her by killing Tay, which might have hit her hardest, all are a little too much for her to handle at the moment. So she gets drunk and dances. B2EMO is my favorite Star Wars droid. C-3PO is whiny. R2-D2 and BB-8 are cool droids, but they can only beep, not speak. We only know what they’re saying when someone translates it in how they respond back. Plus, to me, Bee is more loyal and emotional than either of them. I’m not into collectibles, but if I were, I’d want Bee, Sorry for being so long winded, but they packed a lot into this episode, and the season only gets better from here.

pawpaw72546

The characters featured in each story line in this episode were faced with at first unpleasant, then uncomfortably heightened, than absolutely nightmarish scenarios. The stakes were just very, very different in each one. Also? Team Party Droid

Jon Johns

I've read a theory that the Chandrillan culture appropriated some Jedi 'costuming' like the layered robes, and the cutting of the braided hair. There are other examples, but I cannot remember them. It's supposed to show how the wealthy appropriate things from poorer peoples...

Mark Walston

Party droid didn't have much of a personality. But I still want a party droid!

Darian Harman

Rather macabre of me to say, certainly, but I really appreciate the unceremonious lens through which this series depicts death. It's war. You may not get to say your goodbyes. You're not going to know when it comes. You won't get any closure. It makes for great storytelling, in this particular show, because it has slowly crafted this increasingly burdensome weight that not only the characters must learn to carry, but the viewer, too. I feel like I cannot go into a single scene without actively thinking about everything that has come before, and everything currently happening; which, of course, leads to great anxiety about what's to come. Most impressive of all is that this show manages to do that with a PREQUEL! We already know how all of this shit ends, and yet, the tension is sometimes so high that I often forget to breathe.

Thadman

I feel a LOT happened in this episode. Some straightforward and big and some more subtle. On the subtler side, you have Luthen calling in Cinta to get rid of Tay and Mon, knowing that's what would happen to her oldest friend, can't do anything but get drunk and try to dance it away. I ask you to look at Tay differently in that he wasn't planning on any of this. He wasn't smug, but more oblivious, at the end. I don't think of him as overtly trying to blackmail Mon. If so, he wouldn't hesitate so much in implying that he needs money. Because of the kickoff of the Rebellion on Aldhani, the Empire has cracked down on a lot of things and he said that a lot of his investments soured and he blames the Rebellion. He was struggling financially and his wife left him. This is why the more we see him, the more he's drinking and yes, he was drunk when he walked into Mon's assistant at the party. (in a previous episode, even Perrin mentioned his drinking) He'd been trying to contact Mon and she kept putting him off 'cause she's really busy and when she finally gets a chance to touch base with him, he's already desperate, yet he still doesn't want to come out and ask her for money directly. While he was waiting for Mon to get back to him, he starts to admire Sculden 'cause he's still doing well financially. Tay is more of a pitiful character than some adversary to Mon. But, this makes him a liability to the Rebellion, so he had to go. He was more a weak link than an overt foil to Mon. It's more tragic than anything. Another good more subtle character thing was the reveal that Dedra was LITERALLY raised by the Empire after they arrested her parents when she was 3 and told her they were criminals (I personally don't believe when the Empire calls someone a criminal). This piece of info explains a LOT of who her character is and why she acts the way she does. She's completely devoted to the Empire. To say that she's socially awkward is an understatement. You never see her talk to anyone on a social level. The Empire is her life. The one good thing she did, IMO, is put Syril's mom in her place. The overt big things are the attempted rape of Bix and her killing that officer and Brasso's death. Brasso was a G. They were always planning on leaving Bee there on that farm. That's what Brasso was trying to make Bee comfortable with by saying the woman was nicer and prettier than him and she has his charger, etc. And Brasso was definitely protecting that guy by accusing him of turning them in. The guy was shocked at first but then nodded at him to show he got it. You asked about Luthen using his real name at the party, but we don't really know if that IS his real name. "Luthen" is definitely a persona he puts forth. That flamboyant antique dealer is how the people of Coruscant know him. Very few people know of his ties to the Rebellion and they seem to be only high value people, but he's already said as much to Saw that anyone who knows him who gets compromised has to go or risk exposing the whole thing. Once the risk of them knowing outweighs their usefulness to the cause, they're done.

James M

I think it's interesting how Mon cannot communicate with her daughter. It's so obvious here that she's projecting her feelings when she tells her daughter it's okay to stop the wedding. She never once asked her daughter what she's feeling. Also seeing Dedre set limits with her mother in law was fantastic. She's clear and direct and precise. I know she's an Imperialist but I sort of love her. Denise Gough did an interview where she refers to her somewhat sour expression as being the means to her success. She got this great role with her ability to look very dissatisfied with things and she uses that brilliantly as Dedre.

Dan Harris

It's become a trope that Stormtroopers can't hit the side of a Star Destroyer if they tried. But remember all the way back to A New Hope, when Obi Wan comments that only Imperial Stormtroopers are so precise with their aim when they find the disabled Sandcrawler and all the dead Jawas. Maybe as the rebellion lingered on and the Empire lost more men, the replacements were less skilled or experienced. Kind of like what happened as Japan's best pilots during WWII kept getting killed in combat as the U.S. planes and pilots got better, their replacements weren't as experienced or well trained either.

Eric James

I just noticed in this rewatch (for me) of this episode that the dinner with Dedra, Syril, and his mother, the tableware is the same set used in the movie 2001: A Space Odyssey on the spaceship Discovery. You can still get this set from the Museum of Modern Art in NYC (I have a set) they are from a famous designer Georg Jensen.

Clipped

Whoa you're right. Like I couldn't love this series any more than I already do and then I learn about stuff like this. So. Cool.

MaplenutsReact

I like your point about not getting to say goodbye... things like that add so much depth to this show, and help it to feel more real

MaplenutsReact

You make a ton of great points. Seeing Tay as more desperate than malicious makes so much sense actually. And I also hadn't considered that Luthen wasn't his real name!

Fangtorn

I don't think Tay was toying with Mon there. I think he knows he's essentially blackmailing her and is genuinely embarrassed and guilty that he's doing that to a childhood friend but can't think of a way to apologize that wouldn't admit that it's blackmail. I think he really is torn between his rapidly deteriorating financial situation and his relationship with Mon. I think a mix of resentment, desperation and booze is what pushed him to confront her, but in his more sober moments it isn't something he's proud of.