‘Andor’ greets the first season demonstrating its excellence, now yes, with a poetic and emotional closure

In the first episodes of “Andor”, a series set in the “Star Wars” universe that has little to do with the galactic essence; the exceptional of the script has been diluted before a superb attitude of wanting to throw off the average spectator. Those pretentious dialogues, which resulted in lackluster comments from some followers relate the low audience of this television drama to the low intellectuality of its (tremendous) fandom; they finally found their place in an emotional and rhythmic balance that was difficult to find until the eighth episode. Of course, from the prison triad, with the excellent Diego Luna and Andy Serkis, ‘Andor’ masters the combination of its elements, hitting the spot in its intelligent approach and connecting it with the hearts of the viewers.

Namely, practically half of its season needed this Tony Gilroy-created proposition to get a constant hold of interest and finish placing chips. Again, all because of that peculiar narrative structure, of plot arcs to creative blocks that work like two very funny movies in the last few chapters. The journey proposed by Toby Haynes to direct and Beau Willimon to write the screenplay, which gave us three brilliant episodes of Narkina 5; It functions as a showcase for what would make “Andor” reach that perfection some advocate. A single episode with moments of tedium, followed by another in which the tension grows and a block that closes with a frenetic pace and tremendously refined content. If this could be extrapolated to all blocks, as Gilroy seemed to intend, perhaps said creative license in arranging storylines wouldn’t have been so distasteful to most audiences.. The fact is that these pieces: tone, emotion, revolutionary pamphlet, political intrigue, some action… do not make up a compact puzzle until its outcome.

Now, with Maggie Smith as the rebellion’s icon, a banner equivalent to what Princess Leia would have been in Skywalker’s history; with a sublime Stellan Skarsgård when it comes to defending the most artistic topics, with a tremendously charismatic Empire in the hands of Dedra (Denise Gough) and a more heartfelt Moon than ever; ‘Andor’ wins on all fronts.

Thus, the closure is certainly a flood of accolades and an avalanche of prestige, with that script demonstrating in the last strokes a dynamic so well cooked that the second season, if there are no setbacks, feels superior; but most likely the “mess” the creative team made early on, with Gilroy asking Disney for five seasons and saying the studio refused to address such obscenity, could have hurt the first steps. Fortunately for the definitive double episode, the initial snags were left behind, proposing, from the hand of Benjamin Caron to direct and Gilroy to the screenplay, a film that is hard to beat. ‘Andor’ says ‘see you soon’ with 1h 43 minutes, which is the best that has been seen in ‘Star Wars’, the best if we consider that this series launches a complementary line to everything we had seen in this saga until now moment.

More than functioning as yet another proposal within the adventures of our favorite distant galaxy, ‘Andor’ Creates Its Own Alternate Universe, Leaving Familiar Science Fiction and Adventure Behind, to Explicit Deaths Underscoring the Price of Rebellion. Some say she’s the sister of “Rogue One,” but that film doesn’t even scratch the surface of the realistic anchor its prequel boasts. ‘Star Wars’ is not what it should always be, in the opinion of those who forget what world we are talking about. That’s how ‘Andor’ has to be rated as the close jewel it is, a 10 that, only ultimately, comes close to the franchise it’s a part of, when he finally understands that entertainment is always necessary when it comes to reaching a true cinematic peak.

It’s not ‘Star Wars’…

Why not? Truly when the script is at an unbeatable point thanks to Willimon, director who mixes poetry and emotional connection thanks to his noble monologues; ‘Andor’ recalls that galactic magic that other films/series of the house emanate from the usual light-hearted approach. Yes, “Andor” gets as good as “Star Wars Rebels,” which is saying and really only has one unfortunate consequence: the proliferation of viewers who, to compliment this series, must despise everything else. We hope to remember that the beautiful thing about Lucasfilm that has decided to explore every corner of the universe that George Lucas has launched, is the variety, that ability to choose, to satisfy different niches of the fandom.

‘Rebels’, especially due to its format, animation, can be considered smaller in terms of viewership within ‘Star Wars’; like ‘Andor’, both from opposite ends of the spectrum. Is one better than the other? I say no. Should we celebrate the existence of such a diverse, ambitious and well-produced series within the galactic world? Of course. ‘Andor’ bids farewell to the top, hopefully it can break down the last hurdle, that of mass viewing, with its next few seasons.