![]() ![]() That grip began to tighten this week, as Wullf Yularen-an ISB bigwig who appeared in Episode IV, The Clone Wars, and Rebels and makes his Andor debut in this episode-says, “The only question we need to answer is how tight to close our fist.” “The more you tighten your grip, Tarkin, the more star systems will slip through your fingers,” Leia says in Episode IV. In “Announcement,” the Empire finally became the Empire by responding to the Rebels’ blow. In “The Eye,” the Rebellion finally became the Rebellion by striking boldly and directly at its adversary. Remember when Van Jones declared that Donald Trump had become president, and Megan Amram mocked him for years by tweeting, once a day, “Today was the day Donald Trump finally became president”? Today really was the day Andor finally became Star Wars, in the sense that it started looking the part. Just as crucially, the conflict at the center of the series has entered a new phase. Like the fledgling Rebel network, Andor “grows or it dies.”Īndor’s cast suffered more death than growth last week, but the surviving gang was all here this week, with a few new additions. ![]() “Turning back will be impossible,” Luthen tells Mon Mothma this week, and that forward momentum applies to this series as well. The seventh installment lacks the blaster bolts and bloodshed of the first two midseason “finales,” but it builds on the sense that the die was cast on Aldhani. Instead, “Announcement,” directed by Benjamin Caron ( The Crown) and written by Stephen Schiff ( The Americans), maintained most of Episode 6’s pace and scope. Had the series stuck to the pattern of episodes 1 and 4, each of which kicked off a mini-trilogy by the same writer-director duo, Episode 7 could have been a breather and retrenchment, introducing new settings and priming the pump for future highlights. The end of “The Eye,” however, was otherworldly and wondrous in a way I associate with more, well, scientific sci-fi.Īll of which is to say that the show could have gotten away with a brief refractory period. Celestially speaking, the galaxy far, far away rarely gets more exotic than a binary star system-the most common kind. For all the visual variety in Star Wars locales-your ice planets and lava planets, desert planets and jungle planets-live-action Star Wars series and movies often look like they take place on different regions of Earth. The last of those selling points sticks with me most. It had somber, emotional moments, it had a heist, and it had a heavenly light show. Episode 6 had set pieces, spectacles, and character deaths. Last week was the high point of the series so far-and in many minds, mine included, one of the high points for the franchise (and not only during the Disney era). Episode 7 of Andor didn’t have to go so hard. ![]()
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