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Apr 22, 2025 - 9:57 AM
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Ado
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Just opinions, of course. I'm with Yavar here. I rarely listen to this music away from the show – so (to me at least), it doesn't fulfill that function of the type of film score that you can listen to separately to relive the heroics of the story. But I think it has real emotional resonance within the show, even if it's not as memorable outside it. (Granted, that resonance snuck up on me as I watched the series.)
I'll also say, it didn't take the mediocrity of "Ahsoka" or the ineptitude of "The Acolyte" to make "Andor" a great show by comparison. Of course, you're free to dislike it, but I think "Andor" is fantastic on its own.
The score works well enough in the show, I think as well. Andor is a good show, a very different show than most fans expect, which is reason that is good, and the reason that a sizable portion of the fan base does not like it. The Star Wars fan community is much of an odd lot, they want a lot of product, but a fair number of them want not terribly inventive product. If it invents too much, changes tone, or breaks up a new cast, they can be fairly pissed about it.
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Apr 22, 2025 - 10:46 AM
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Erik Woods
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I was rather lukewarm on Andor. I appreciate a lot of what it was doing but I really disliked the screenplay, teleplay, or whatever, due to it being a rather bloated piece of writing. It really needed a script doctor to come in and snip that baby down by half, at least, in my opinion. But what I did like was done extremely well, especially dissecting the inner workings of the Empire. But after watching Ahsoka and The Acolyte, I began to appreciate what Andor was offering. And Skeleton Crew gave me that boyhood Star Wars fix that I've been missing since Solo.
Having said that, I haven't returned to the series for a rewatch, but I am very interested to see what they do in season 2. It's unfortunate the music hasn't improved... at least based on the cue above, but maybe it gets better as the series moves along.
-Erik-
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Apr 22, 2025 - 11:34 AM
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Ado
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I was rather lukewarm on Andor. I appreciate a lot of what it was doing but I really disliked the screenplay, teleplay, or whatever, due to it being a rather bloated piece of writing. It really needed a script doctor to come in and snip that baby down by half, at least, in my opinion.
We'll have to agree to very much disagree on this front.
Yeah, I think it is pretty close to just right timing wise, it is tightly scripted and edited, but it is not rushed. Mandalorian turned into a very bloated show, especially the later seasons, it came across that there was not really that much story to tell. Andor has plenty of story to tell, and sometimes allow pure character moments to reveal how they think and feel, that is because Gilory is a gifted writer and director of both television and film. The only thing that slags it is cereal boy and him mom, and I am not really where they are taking us with this odd guy, but it may well end up somewhere interestingly nutty with him. The rest of the show moves along entertainingly and briskly, and still allows moments to tell us things about his mother, the community they grew up in, and not just have action all the time.
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Yeah I'm with you two. Even the first two episodes of Andor, which initially struck me as too slow to the point that they should have been cut down and combined into one... well, they work for me now, and I appreciate the slower pace and character development. Don't think there is anything I would cut out of the first season at all, now.
And Ado, cereal boy is my wife's favorite character, and she is greatly entertained by all of his sad interactions with his mother! 
Erik, I'm curious whether Andor improves for you on a rewatch, as it appears to have done for many people.
Yavar
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Apr 22, 2025 - 12:12 PM
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Ado
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Yeah I'm with you two. Even the first two episodes of Andor, which initially struck me as too slow to the point that they should have been cut down and combined into one... well, they work for me now, and I appreciate the slower pace and character development. Don't think there is anything I would cut out of the first season at all, now.
And Ado, cereal boy is my wife's favorite character, and she is greatly entertained by all of his sad interactions with his mother!
Erik, I'm curious whether Andor improves for you on a rewatch, as it appears to have done for many people.
Yavar
Hey Yavar, That is funny, I mean, he is different, that is for sure. Honestly, at first I though the mom was pretty awful, but then I got to rather enjoy her endless torment and teasing of her oddball son for his career failures and his habits of customizing his outfits. I feel like the actress playing his mom is having a great time with it.
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I think so too, lol. This show actually has some pretty underrated humor going on throughout it, despite all the serious examination of fascism and rebellions against it and whatnot...
Yavar
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