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Neill Shaughness

This episode is incredible. Probably the two best monologues in a show full of brilliant monologues

Yannick, from Montréal

Definitely my favorite episode of the first season. 2 amazing monologues (Kino Loy, and Luthen) just proves the quality of writing in here.

Erin Mileur

About how many make it out of the prison always reminds of a quote from the movie Von Ryan's Express "If only one gets out its a victory".

Yannick, from Montréal

In regards to Disney's release schedule for Andor, it was the first 3 episodes in one shot, then one episode a week until the end of Season 1. For Season 2, they released one ARC per week (3 episodes per arc). So it was completely released after 4 weeks.

Lola Lirola

It's not lame to be excited for greatness!! I have been waiting for this all week too, and it's not even my first watch!

Suzanne Whyte

It’s not my first watch either and I was sitting there refreshing Patreon until the guys uploaded it. It’s such a great episode.

Suzanne Whyte

No Emmy nominations for Stellan Skarsgard for his role as Luthen…

JC

Props to Andy Serkis for holding the prize of best Star Wars speech for around 10 min.

Kristi Govertsen

ONE WAY OUT! ONE WAY OUT! Andor is one of those shows that just keeps getting better and better as it goes on. Having now watched all of Andor many times, it’s hard not to think of both seasons as one complete story (or one very long movie like the LOTR trilogy). But if I step back and gauge each episode on its own, episode 10 in season 1, and episode 10 in season 2 are probably my two favorites. Also, Lonni > Luke is a hill I will die on.🙂

Yannick, from Montréal

After they removed the body in the hover gurney, Kino and Cassian are talking ("I call that power..." "Power doesn't panic") in the antechamber before going into the dorm. That's when you see the switch of leadership from Kino to Cassian, as he's the one saying to Kino "On Program!" to not raise suspicions in the end. "I rather die trying to take them down, then die giving them what they want..." (re-used by Kino in his own speech to the whole prison). And Cassian is always moving off the floor at the last second, showing he's going to comply as little as he can every single time! And later on, when Kino tells his crew in the morning after "Play it how you want, but I'm going to assume I'm already dead...", well he knows (in fact, everybody knows they're in the middle of the sea as they saw the spaceship leave when they got there) that not knowing how to swim, he's going to be dead. But he does it for all of the inmates around him.

Yannick, from Montréal

For everyone's pleasure, here's THE speech: “Calm. Kindness. Kinship. Love. I’ve given up all chance at inner peace. I’ve made my mind a sunless space. I share my dreams with ghosts. I wake up every day to an equation I wrote 15 years ago from which there’s only one conclusion, I’m damned for what I do. My anger, my ego, my unwillingness to yield, my eagerness to fight, they’ve set me on a path from which there is no escape. I yearned to be a savior against injustice without contemplating the cost and by the time I looked down there was no longer any ground beneath my feet. What is my sacrifice? I’m condemned to use the tools of my enemy to defeat them. I burn my decency for someone else’s future. I burn my life to make a sunrise that I know I’ll never see. And the ego that started this fight will never have a mirror or an audience or the light of gratitude. So what do I sacrifice? Everything!”

Lola Lirola

"It's bigger than me. It's bigger than you, Lonnie... And you know what the sad thing is, too? It's bigger than Andor." THIS is why I love this show, and this is what both the prequels and the newquels fail to do. The sense of scale vs lore on this show is absolutely incredible. Where all the post-trilogy shows and movies bend into irritating pretzels to try to make every single thing a reference, this show has taken us into so much unexplored territory: the prison, the shooting star festival, the dull bureaucratic offices, the grimy spy network, the rich salons... It's incredible how much wider this world is than anything we've seen since 1983. And it's not like it stubbornly refuses to hint at lore either! We do have Mon Mothma, we see old school stormtroopers... The references *are* there, but the show is completely disinterested in being referential, and that is so invigorating. Also, I agree with everyone saying this episode has the best monologues, and Joe I also get choked up seeing Kino/Serkis say he can't swim. I love how this show is willing to go down into the mud of what revolutions entail. Even in the original trilogy, the good and the evil were too clean. This show has guts.

trenton gragg

Beau Willimon wrote episodes 8-10. Willimon was a co-creator and writer on house of cards, executive producer on Severance and received an Oscar nomination for writing the 2011 Clooney and Gosling film The Ides of March. He is currently working a screenplay for the Game of Thrones prequel, Aegon’s Conquest.

dys

You guys went into this assuming everyone was excited for the prison break, and yes we were excited for that for sure... but the CHILLS from Luthen's speech, that's even more memorable. This show continues to feel prescient for what was to come a few years later, with not wanting prisoners or the public to know what is going on in prisons, there are a ton of parallels with what is happening in ICE detention facilities now.

Mark Walston

Now thats a hell of a movie!

JC

I can see drama/public speaking/acting teachers starting to get bored of it but for the rest of us never gets old.

Toban Allison

Pssst Kino sacrifices himself to help others escape, which is exactly what Luthen describes in the next scene: giving everything for a future he will not be able to participate in/burning his life for a sunrise he'll never see. Best written Star Wars and it's not close.

Neill Shaughness

Once it's revealed that Kino can't swim, his expression when Cassian says "I'd rather die fighting them than die giving them what they want" takes on a new significance

Neill Shaughness

Luthen might be my favorite character in all of Star Wars. I love that this show understands that successful rebellions need men like Luthen and men like Saw. Real revolution is ugly work.

Neill Shaughness

As per your post mortem question; unfortunately despite it's critical accolades, this show was one of the least watched SW shows. So much so that it was a small miracle that it even got a second season, so I doubt Disney is eager to greenlight more projects like this.

Paul T Hewes

-Disney released season 1 weekly. When season 2 came out, it released the 3 episodes in an arc every week. It was done perfectly. I recommend watching it that way. -The actor they got for the Davo the loan shark was top notch. He oozes sleazy confidence. -The scene between Mon and Davo was done so perfectly. Mon was married in "Chandrilan Way" and she really does not like her husband. BUT her daughter is way into the old religion/way of Chandrila. -The prison break was done so well... -for the record, every reactor and every one i know did the same thing: "Yeah! New GUY!" "Aww...New guy :-( " -Kino Loy (Andy Serkis) is meant to represent the people in the rebellion, who give it all and never see the end. -Lonni Jung is the ISB mole. Luthen calls him a hero. And he wasnt lying. -Luthen keeps everyone at arms length not knowing the whole picture. You cant have stuff tortured out of you by that bastard Gorst if you dont know it... -The epic music at the end of the episode is titled "Heroes"

Michael Bennett

This episode makes me consider the morality of killing or sparing the control room workers. It's pretty easy to justify sparing them by saying they're no longer in your way, but at any point, they could reactivate systems, they could communicate with other guards, etc. Even if you assume the hydro power or whatever is gone for good and they can't do anything -- they were employed at keeping you here. They almost certainly knew the sentencing was BS and that prisoners were just being shuffled around instead of let out. And they supported that, they made keeping that system working their business. Am I too radicalized?

micah

im pretty sure the second season started filming while season one was airing. the two seasons were the plan no matter the viewership

Neill Shaughness

Disney signed a two year contract yes, but it is unfortunately very common these days for studios to eat contracts if it will save on production cost (which in this case it would have)

Roland

I dunno for sure, but I wouldn't be surprised if one possible inspiration for Lonni is the internal security officer that was a key agent in Christopher Felix's resistance network in Hungary during the Soviet occupation. It's described in Felix's superb book "A Short Course In The Secret War". I've generated a synopsis of that segment below (caveat internet emptor). The book itself is an amazing read if you're into espionage and resistance (which Gilroy obviously is). https://a.co/d/0f4JCsG6 > This is one of the most remarkable cases described in Christopher Felix's (James McCargar's) memoir, A Short Course in the Secret War. Although Felix disguises many names and identifying details, he recounts recruiting and handling a senior officer within Hungary's internal security apparatus during the immediate postwar period, before the Communist regime had fully consolidated power. The account serves both as a true espionage story and as an illustration of the principles of agent recruitment and handling. The officer occupied an influential position within the Hungarian government's security organization, giving him access to investigations, surveillance reports, and information on Communist efforts to eliminate political opponents. Felix emphasizes that the officer was not motivated primarily by money. Instead, he was driven by a combination of patriotism, opposition to Soviet domination, and growing concern over the methods of the Communist security services. The relationship developed gradually. Felix argues throughout the book that successful recruitment depends on establishing trust over time rather than relying on coercion or financial incentives. Once recruited, the officer became one of Felix's most valuable sources. The agent provided: - advance warning of arrests and security investigations, - insight into the internal politics of the Hungarian Communist Party, - information on Soviet influence over the Hungarian government, - and details that allowed Western intelligence to protect other agents and resistance contacts. Felix describes the constant danger surrounding the source. The Hungarian security services were becoming increasingly efficient, and any suspicion could have resulted in arrest, torture, and execution. As the Communist regime tightened its grip through what Felix calls the gradual destruction of democratic opposition (often described historically as "salami tactics"), the officer's position became increasingly untenable. Eventually the expanding power of the security apparatus made continued contact impossible. Like many of Felix's networks, the relationship ended as the Soviet-backed regime established complete control over Hungary. Some members of the wider network escaped to the West, while others were imprisoned or disappeared. Felix presents this case less as an adventure story than as a lesson in espionage. He argues that: - the best agents often come from inside the opponent's own institutions; - ideology, patriotism, and personal conviction are usually stronger motivations than money; - protecting an agent is more important than collecting every possible piece of intelligence; - and even excellent intelligence work cannot always overcome unfavorable political realities. In Hungary, the Western intelligence services ultimately could not prevent the Soviet-backed Communist takeover despite having valuable sources. <

Roland

I love that movie.

Roland

While researching Christopher Felix (aka James McCargar), I came across a State Department interview which is essentially an autobiography of McCargar's fascinating career. He was in Moscow and Vladivostok during WW2, and got up to all sorts of shenanigans. (The NKVD ended up installing searchlights around the consulate accommodation because he and his colleague kept sneaking girls in over the back wall...!) https://www.adst.org/OH%20TOCs/McCargar,%20James.toc.pdf

Zach Hershman

I'm not sure they had a choice. They'd be prisoners themselves if they spoke up against what was happening. That doesn't absolve them of the crimes they committed against the prisoners but it's enough of a reason for me to leave them alive. Also, those guards will most likely be imprisoned for allowing the escape to happen. They will face a similar justice.

Michael Bennett

Yeah, I guess it illustrates the danger of getting sucked in. Like no one applies to be a prison guard thinking they'll be guarding people who never committed a crime and who will never be released, and who will be used as slave labor and tortured with electricity for not producing enough. And once you know all of that, they're not going to just let you leave and tell the galaxy about it.

Youtalkingtome

Thank you! All week I look forward to watching Star Wars with you guys 🤓

Youtalkingtome

It's up there with the speeches from Braveheart and Gladiator. It was truly amazing

Youtalkingtome

It is bigger than Andor, the weight of this entire episode hit me at the end and it's just fantastic writing

Youtalkingtome

Hopefully word of mouth changes that. Everyone I know who has seen this show is in love with it

Youtalkingtome

I'm right there with you. I was on board with blasting them

Toban Allison

Both speeches are outdone later this season and in season two, in my opinion. There's at least four in a dead heat across the series.