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Commentary by Russian military journalist Boris Rozhin:
[ColonelCassad] Finished watching the Andor series today.
Basically, it's the best thing that's happened to Star Wars since Rogue One, which came out almost 10 years ago.
I watched the first film in the "Star Wars" series back in the USSR, in Brest in 1991. Of course, it made an indelible impression back then.
Actually, when you're 10 years old, that's how it should work. Then there were a number of good films, a number of average films, a number of bad films, and then there was the horror-horror of the Disney era. So I haven't expected anything good from them for a long time.
I decided to watch it more for the sake of it, and against the background of greatly reduced expectations, it frankly pleased me.
Actually, the creator of "Rogue One" simply went and made a prequel to the prequel of "A New Hope" (yes, that's how bad things are with scripts these days) and filmed it in the spy thriller genre. And, oddly enough, he succeeded. Despite the protracted nature of many scenes, the presence of an agenda (in moderate quantities) and a number of stupid moments, otherwise it's quite watchable. If after the end of "Rogue One" "A New Hope" immediately begins, then after the end of "Andor" "Rogue One" immediately begins.
This time there is practically no war in "Star Wars". Extremely rare space scenes and episodic action in small tactical groups. Otherwise, the film is about espionage, conspiracies, subversive activities, the work of special services and resistance cells. In the entourage of "Star Wars". Actually, about what happened before the start of the local civil war, which was shown in the films.
And oddly enough, it was more interesting than another meaningless pew-pew and waving of light batons for the sake of fan service in the style of "eat the Easter egg, bitch, eat it!"
Unlike the usual soy "Star Wars" movies, there is plenty of violence here with people dying, an attempted rape (in Star Wars) and even a frame-by-frame demonstration of the scenario "Unknown snipers shoot into a crowd of protesters and police officers to provoke a massacre." This is clearly not what you expect to see in the genre of light entertaining fantasy.
Therefore, it is not surprising that reviews in the style of "Boring! Boring" and "It is not clear where the Jedi and lightsabers are?"
It was filmed expensively and richly, no expense was spared. The lack of large battle scenes was compensated for by massive detailing of everything - costumes, interiors, panoramas of planets and cities, shown from a down-to-earth point of view.
Overall, the result is a pretty good fantasy, although not self-sufficient (without "Rogue One" its value drops significantly), but if you liked the 2016 film, then "Andor" will also go down well, despite all its objective shortcomings. Well, accordingly, now the phrase "Many people died to get these plans" in "A New Hope" now has twice as much context. As a result, we have a story when from one phrase they were able to spin a full-length film and a series for 2 seasons without shitting themselves. As a result, the story is developed not forward, but backward. And strangely enough, it works.
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