#narkina 5 arc had me on edge in a completely different way

[technicalthinker]

also there is like an intimacy to Andor

like I think it is what made me so invested in the show, but it really is throughout. Not just in the writing, but in the acting and the way it was just overall directed and shot. Quiet moments when you don't expect it, moments where you get to sit with the characters' feelings for a bit, or when the characters are completely in focus, for example monologuing or in intense conversation, and the character feels completely bare to us as viewers

there's this one bit where we've last seen the prisoners calling for a medic for Ulaf, and next time we get back to them it's just Cassian and Kino sitting on the floor waiting by his side. Idk why that shot stuck with me but it really did. We got to see the hallway almost empty for the first time ever, and a more vulnerable side from Kino, and just it being representative of everyone caring and rooting for Ulaf. It also felt almost like... ordinary? In a weird sense. Reminded me of when something mightve happened to a friend in school and you got to sit with them outside in the hallway, kind of out of the usual routine. It's just so interesting that in such a simple scene, I could feel exactly like I was there with them. Like no barrier between me in the audience and the group waiting for a medic to show. I think the prison arc in general is especially great at letting the audience feel like they're there with them and feeling the same anxieties and emotions.

I keep coming back to the word 'intimate' when trying to describe what gets me about Andor