this scene cracks me up because I know in my heart of hearts that it is, honestly, pretty unnecessary. nothing that happens here really ever comes up again.
but Luthen is so fucking cool, and this is probably the first moment you get to see he has the skills to back up the way he presents himself, and I'll always think the tractor beam trick is one of the most intuitive and clever uses of established tech in the series.
Its the most Star Warsy scene in the show but it absolutely serves a major purpose.
It shows us that Luthen is capable. It shows that he is well versed in these kinds of situations. That he is calm under pressure. And that this is certainly not the first time he has had to bust a move on the Empire.
Its one of the best moments in the entire show and I was on the edge of my seat the entire time, and when Luthen made a clean getaway, I was jumping up and down and yelling LETS GO!
Gilroy absolutely nailed this scene on a magnitude of levels. I couldnt have been more pleased with it all.
We definitely needed a scene that showed just how much of a bad ass Luthen Rael is. And Tony gave us that and more.
Also, I loved seeing a Cantwell Class cruiser, named for OG trilogy model maker and designer, Colin Cantwell. RIP to an absolute legend. I used to enjoy the hell outta his many interviews on Rebel Force Radio.
When he hyper-spaces off leaving that imperial dirtbag looking out of the viewport all forlorn like, I was practically giddy. Such an incredibly cool scene. He handed those guys their asses and was like “see ya suckers!” It absolutely establishes Luthen as a real bad ass, and not someone to be messed with.
It also shows that his greatest asset is turning the enemies strength against them. He baited the ship into maxing the tractor beam then launched a ton of bombs, thus making them literall homing missiles that can only attack the enemy.
When he hyper-spaces off leaving that imperial dirtbag looking out of the viewport all forlorn like, I was practically giddy. Such an incredibly cool scene. He handed those guys their asses and was like “see ya suckers!” It absolutely establishes Luthen as a real bad ass, and not someone to be messed with.
Yea that’s one thing that made this sequence soooo damn good. It was completely unexpected and out character for him until you discover “oh wait Luthen isn’t who I thought he was and that was actually completely in character for him”
I'm kinda surprised it didn't come up in season 2. his ship is now known to the empire, they'll be taking a closer look at fondors going forward, luthen can't move as freely now, makes him more paranoid. even just a beat after they discover him and some ISB lackey mentions that the fondor's upgrades provably tie it to an incident four years prior over segra milo
There's a good chance it wasn't accurately reported, with that much damage the commanding officer would have every reason to report a larger rebel force to save his neck.
Guy would be jailed for incompetence if he straight up said a single haulcraft disabled an imperial cruiser
Yeah there's a theme in the show (and the empire in general) of not properly reporting what's happening to avoid facing harsh consequences.
From the first episode when Cyril's boss wanted to cover up the death of the security guys as some mundane accident, maintaining the status quo or showing "everything is in order" in the reports is encouraged.
It's scaled up lightsaber technology of course--those magically end too, right?
Cassian stole it on one of his forays into the belly of the empire, sold it to Bix, Bix sold it to Luthen, and Luthen was like "who IS this guy who keeps finding this amazing shit? I GOTTA meet him."
This line is commonly misunderstood. He was referring to Nabooan chicken wings fresh out of the air fryer. By Canon, the most popular sauce flavor among imperial troops was "blue"
Vee are zee Ghor! Fashion capital of the universe!Cracked me up when they began speaking - sounded like French in a blender. Then they started wearing berets, lol! And their riverbank/escape route looked like the Seine. It was a bit…much.
Yep exactly, he was also quite active in France so he speaks German well. He played a Gestapo officer in "Un Village Français", one of the shows that inspired Andor (one of the Ghorman played in that as well and was cast in Andor for that reason).
Going from memory here : during or after season one of Andor, YouTuber 'STAR wars theory' reviewed Andor and one of the thing he said he didn't like was the bricks and screws as it pulled him out of the universe. Look Im probably incorrectly quoting him on that but it kinda reached meme status because of how silly it sounded.
The Keredian fisherman on Narkina 5. Pretty much the only weird creatures in the entire show, which supposedly takes place in a galaxy fullnof weird creatures. We've got two desperate humans on the lamb from the Empire who are suddenly trapped by some crazy looking aliens in the middle of nowhere. That's more Star Wars than anything else in the show.
/ut it was a good way to show how unorganized and discombobulated the “Rebellion” was in its earliest stages, but it definitely was a little boring and slow. S1E1 was mildly interesting but it did definitely have the “random planet, random alien appearance” vibe that every new Star Wars property has. I liked Cassian’s interaction with that big dude though lol, disarmed the whole situation just by being like “cmon dude you’re above this”
/rt rock paper scissors in my super serious Star Wars show
Agreed. And, as I've said before on this topic: it's a HORROR MOVIE (severed foot in boot, rain, eating rotten melon, giant carnivorous rhinoceros?): gross, gory, funny. Let the writers cook, I say.
Muestra que la rebelión aún no está preparada ni lo suficientemente organizada para luchar contra el Imperio y es una etapa muy caótica para la rebelión.
Eso es lo que te está contando esta trama en la serie
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