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Andor: S1, Episode 8 (Narkina 5) - Patreon Version
🕑 Added 2026-02-23 17:00:10 +0000 UTC
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David Perkins
absolute facts! furthermore, you can find this exact pattern in pretty much every bureaucratic dictatorship that has ever existed.
Chandra
Oh! Thank you!
James W.
I grew up on Star Wars, saw Empire and Jedi in the theater. As I grew up and re-watched the original trilogy, literally, hundreds of times over the years, I started to see most of the Imperials as a joke. They are inept, arrogant, asshats most of the time. As a grown up I couldn't really see how they could run a whole galaxy. Even with the hand wave of Palpatine doing a bunch of shenanigans in the Prequels, the Empire still didn't feel very threatening. Without Vader, or some larger than life threat, they felt hapless and doomed to fail. Andor largely solved all of that for me. The Empire are still a bunch of inept asshats but all it takes is a handful of truly amoral jerks to keep that machine rolling. Dedra's effectiveness at her job is scarier to me than Darth Maul. She doesn't need space magic to subjugate a planet, she just needs some GANT charts and Scrum meetings. Dedra would project manage the Empire to victory.
RP
Great reaction! Maybe not the first to remind you there is an after credit scene on e12. Adds some context 🍻
Clay F
As you may recall, in direct response to the Aldhani heist (the rebel attack on the Aldhani Imperial garrison), the Empire (the senate) passed the Public Order Resentencing Directive (P.O.R.D.) = a harsh decree increasing penalties/sentences for crimes affecting the Empire (e.g., Cassian's sentence for disrupting Imperial property increased from 6 months to 6 years), and imposing heavy fines (tribute tax) on systems suspected of harboring rebels.
Chandra
Hahaha very well put
Chandra
She's a very very interesting character!!
Clay F
Yep, the Andor series is so good.
Joseph Olson
I want to thank Jon Johns for editing his comment to remove a spoiler. It wasn’t a big one, but it did reveal something that we don’t find out about until the next episode.
Jon Johns
Fun Fact! The actress who plays Bel is Faye Marsay. Vel, who's working for Luthen, and in a relationship with Cinta, who's staking out Marva's house looking for Cassian. Anyway, you might know Faye Marsay from Game of Thrones, she played one of the Faceless Men, who beat Arya with a stick when she was blind.
Jon Johns
Don't fret about "what they're building". It doesn't matter, they are 'slave' labor. 🤷🏻
Claude Edwards
I have an unabashed love for Dedra.
Joseph Olson
In previous Star Wars movies and shows, we’re used to seeing the Empire as almost laughingly evil. The stormtroopers are “the gang who couldn’t shoot straight”, taking dozens of blaster shots at Luke Skywalker and friends and never hitting anything, and controlled at the top by a cackling wizard. What makes this show so good (and relevant) is that it shows the Empire as ruthlessly competent. They’re just people who believe in order, and that the best way to establish order is through tight control. And power. For every mustache twirling evil mastermind there are thousands of efficient Dedras looking to climb the ladder and grab a little bit more power for themselves.
Darian Harman
The episode in which we learn what's really going on without learning what's really going on.
N.T. Stars
You know when you're in the middle of the ocean, stuck in an electrified building with Gollum as your team leader that things aren't going well.
