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EWAN McGREGOR & PEDRO PASCAL Star Wars Vanity Fair Cover Shoot | May 2022

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Andor spoilers below

We were watching that one scene with Bix getting assaulted while Andor is flying in, and my partner says, "Andor is coming".

He was expecting him to save her because we're from an older generation, and the hero racing in to save the damsel in distress was just how stories worked.

I can't tell you how happy I was when she saved herself.

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I love multilayered baddies. I'm cheering for her in this scene and then remember, oh yeah, fascist bitch who tortures people.

"I ultimately saw it as an act of love because it's a ball and chain around Syril’s neck and has been for his entire life. And even though there's power involved in it, and you are, in a way, dividing up the pieces of territory of Syril between you and Eedy, it is an act of love and saying, 'I’m freeing you from that. You can manage it in this way.' " [X]

ANDOR S02E03 Harvest

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AoS + text posts pt. 18/?

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I see alot of focus on Jod talking about being forced to watch the Jedi, who saw something in him, murdered but not enough speculation, IMO of the few pin pricks of light he's willing to kill for. 

Is he referring to the past and how he has killed already?

If so, did he kill the ones who killed his Jedi?

(Unlikely if they were inquisitors but possible if they were bounty hunters.)

Or is he talking about the present and, if so, what/who are those pin pricks?

-Things I think of while waiting in a coffee shop.

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“why do you still use tumblr?”

listen— i have to keep track of my hyper fixations somehow

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"Everywhere we went, even the worst places, there were good people, too. "

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Dramatic Bureaucracy Dads

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A few random thoughts on the finale

Spoilers below

Yay SM-33. Still helping his kids. My head canon is still that they make him the local librarian. As all of us book nerds will attest, stories are treasures so in a sense that would make him the, "keeper of treasures". He’d be great telling children stories and his captain and crew would visit often

I actually got teary eyed at the group hug when KB asked if they won.

Neel shooting space lasers at the pirate ship shows a big change from the timid kid we saw at the beginning.  All the kids had great character growth.

I know some of us, myself included, were thinking we'd get more backstory about Jod, but in the end, I think it was the right move to keep the story focused on the kids.  Jude Law was fantastic and his recounting of how he was found by a Jedi and what happened to her was all we really needed to know. It certainly fed the fic writers with a lot of potential. Also, any redemption would have felt forced and not true to his character. The way he constantly threatened but never followed through makes me doubt he actually has it in him to kill a child. This probably deserves it own post but IMO, we got a lot of subtle hints about his character in a very short time.

Finally, I love the fact that this show was made for kids to enjoy.  I was a kid when I fell in love with Star Wars and I think too many of us who watched the original trilogy as kids forget that. None of us cared about canon, or lore, we just loved watching space battles and making sound effects while fighting each other with wrapping paper tubes. There are kids out there who just fell in love with Star Wars because of this show and I think that's awesome.

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predictably i love skeleton crew. i love annoying children

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Crowley's pencil portrait is now framed.

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Arrr, thar be spoilers below

I love how a bunch of us were waiting for Jude Law to redeem himself and become space dad, and it ended up being the droid who filled that role instead.

I'm not even too concerned about what happens to Jod anymore. I'm hoping he survives, but I'm hoping even more that SM 33 gets fixed up and adopted into Fern's family.

He could be the local librarian who tells children amazing stories no one else knows.

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After the last episode, I'm thinking Jod isn't saving those kids. They're going to end up saving him.

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I made a Neel doll

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2 Theories on Jod Na Nawood's past

I won't be watching today’s episode until tonight but based on the first five, I have two theories on Jod's past.

Theory one He was born to pirates. When they realized their son was force sensitive, they wanted to keep him from the Jedi because his abilities would be useful to them. He was taught to fear the Jedi and was taught how to use his abilities for piracy. Then, shortly before the purge, his parents had a confrontation with a Jedi and were killed. The Jedi felt sorry for the boy they orphaned, took him in and tried teaching him more about the force and the Jedi ways even though he'd be too old to get approved for official training from the council. The Jedi is then killed in the purge and Jod is on his own so he goes back to the only thing he does know how to do being a pirate. This would explain why his understanding of the force and the Jedi seem incomplete and why he has obvious issue with the Jedi as well.

Theory two His mother was a Jedi, his father was a pirate and they both left those lives to be together and raise a family. Once they discovered Jod was force sensitive his mother tried to teach him but when the purge happened both parents were killed and he was taken in by friends of his father. He would have had to hide his abilities which would also explain why his education about the force is seems incomplete.

For both theories I think a lightsaber killed one or both parents. The way he looked at it last episode makes me think its significant in some way.