Andor 1x03 Reaction
Added 2025-10-08 23:53:41 +0000 UTC
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I think the biggest danger of meeting violence with violence is provocation. What I mean is in the earliest days of a fascist takeover & authoritarian rise those trying to make a police state look for any reason to justify their brutal takeover. When violence is used as answer it gives the oppressors the ability to use propaganda & moves the needle in the citizens enough that small steps toward Totalitarian, Facist & Authoritarian become giant leaps. I know presently in the US we are seeing an administration that is salivating over their planned attack on those that don't share the ideological beliefs they have. The 7 million people who protested across the US in the No Kings rallies really pissed the administration off because no violence was used. Every day that violence doesn't come damages their plans because if the Needle has moved any amount for the public it has been against their narrative. Thus far those who oppose the administration have found some extremely creative ways to disrupt their propaganda & grow support. People have dressed up in blow up costumes, had lawyers with megaphones challenge & explain police action, held naked bike rides & continously record policing actions and thus far it hurt the authoritarian narrative about the enemy & nature of the how to fight the power.
Jason Sadowski
2025-10-23 08:49:41 +0000 UTCWe lose and lose and lose, until we win
My Toasty Toast
2025-10-09 22:44:31 +0000 UTCThis is correct. In Belfast, Derry and other places, residents would bang metal bin lids (trash can lids) on the pavement to alert the community when soldiers were raiding: https://www.reportdigital.co.uk/cache/pcache/00129924.jpg It was also something women (often older women who couldn't fight) could do to help: https://extramuralactivity.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/08/binlids-derry-1970s.jpg
Kara
2025-10-09 20:03:19 +0000 UTCEast Germany was peaceful, but that was more the exception than the rule.
Robert Dirk H.
2025-10-09 19:33:10 +0000 UTCSomeone on youtube said that the banging of metal to warn the community was inspired by people in Northern Ireland who did the same during the Troubles
refo44
2025-10-09 18:36:28 +0000 UTCIts not particularly relevant for LM but the ship is even more interestingly a proto-CIS (Separatist) ship. We see an early version of the CIS logo and you can draw an aesthetic line from this crashed ship, to the separatist forces, to the Imperial tech of Andors era. This somehow makes it even more clever becahse it reinforces that "modern" Imperial tech is built on CIS tech which didn't come out of nowhere, it was one type of tech being built in the Republic by factions which would later break off and form the hardware basis for the separatists in the Clone Wars, and later is fully embraced as the Empire's entire aesthetic of ship and weapon design.
Kara
2025-10-09 18:20:15 +0000 UTCOne of the most anti-fascist pieces of art in modern times and its only just begun. Love the reactions so far
Sverrir_Thor
2025-10-09 17:38:41 +0000 UTCIdk how im supposed to survive on one episode a week!
Mikey
2025-10-09 15:12:36 +0000 UTCGiving oneself over to any system of authority is the path to the dark side.
Thomas Fahey
2025-10-09 14:18:22 +0000 UTCA big theme of this season I think is Cassian running away. In his first scene he kills two cops and runs away. He gets back to Ferrix and we find out he's been running away from his debts, we learn in childhood he had to run away from his home being destroyed and now in adulthood he has to run away from his new home. Something to think about as the season continues
hman70
2025-10-09 13:43:33 +0000 UTCI think it's a cool detail that the ship that crashed on Kenari wasn't the Empire because the Empire didn't exist yet, it was still the Republic. It's rare in Star Wars that the Republic is ever portrayed in anything other than a positive light, it usually represents the idyllic 'before time' before the Empire came to power. But here the Republic is basically a stand in for the same entity as the Empire. The Republic shot that girl, they presumably built that strip mine, they may have had something to do with the fact that Cassian's tribe seemed to lack any adults, and the interior of that crashed ship was clearly designed by set designers to look Imperial with the red stripes on the walls. It makes me feel like the show's saying the Empire didn't originate out of a vaccuum. The Empire may be young but the injustices that need fighting aren't. In the same way these pre-mor cops aren't technically stromtroopers but they'll still put their boots on your neck if you lay down and let them.
hman70
2025-10-09 13:36:56 +0000 UTC‘Don’t you want to fight these bastards for real?’ Insert flaming pen gif.
Patrick
2025-10-09 12:48:16 +0000 UTCcassian flying away from the people he loves (his sister, maarva) to escape death, my poor son :( i like the idea of him flying into the light/sun representing a new hope tho.
jweher
2025-10-09 08:26:29 +0000 UTC“Thats what a reckoning sounds like” it was at that moment i knew this show was gonna be an all timer 😮💨🔥
Daniel Molina
2025-10-09 06:15:10 +0000 UTCTimm did suck a lot. +1 for Stellan Skarsgard.
Clay F
2025-10-09 06:08:39 +0000 UTCRIP Timm. You sucked a lot. Obviously not an original thought -- or the last time we'll talk about how prescient / timely / of-the-moment this show has turned out -- but those corpo shitheads stomping around Ferrix and shouting about having a warrant for Kassian... well, it's timely! I figured "Don't you want to fight these bastards for real?" would be the 100% buy-in moment for you two and wasn't disappointed. That did it for me, too. Shout out Stellan Skarsgard. (Not the last time we'll say that either.)
Mike
2025-10-09 04:12:55 +0000 UTC"I am the one who knocks.... down walls with slap charges"
Michael M
2025-10-09 04:03:01 +0000 UTC"NS-9 starpath unit" didn't exist before this show. it's not a lore thing that needs explaining.
Kara
2025-10-09 03:37:09 +0000 UTCAs horrible as it sounds, I don’t think there has been any significant social/political/economic change that has happened without violence. History has been whitewashed to make it seem like peaceful protest is the only right way to right wrongs. And while I would love to live in a world where that is the ideal, it’s not the truth of the world we live in.
My Toasty Toast
2025-10-09 03:34:42 +0000 UTC*Andor* “you can come back if you’re unsatisfied.” *Luthen* “6353 Juan Tabo, Apt 6”
My Toasty Toast
2025-10-09 03:30:48 +0000 UTCThe dark side of the force is a pathway some consider to be unnatural
My Toasty Toast
2025-10-09 03:29:12 +0000 UTCCan you tell me something you haven't seen yet but want to so I can spoil it for you?
Michael M
2025-10-09 03:21:39 +0000 UTCthe item being sold is a starpath unit. it can track every imperial ship and asset nearby. useless for most people but useful if you're part of a rebel group
JustAMeloPancake
2025-10-09 03:20:37 +0000 UTCWas about to make the same comparison with Ireland. This show's writer room has a knack for weaving in historical acts of resistance, both big and small. It tends to resonate with people even if they aren't aware of the particular reference. What a brilliant show.
Berezant
2025-10-09 03:10:34 +0000 UTCThe dead soldiers in the ship aren't stormtroopers btw...but don't you worry...there will be stormtroopers later on...
JustAMeloPancake
2025-10-09 03:10:20 +0000 UTC1:25 timestamp foreshadowing Bocchi’s winning percentage
Omar O
2025-10-09 03:02:57 +0000 UTCwhen you tell the customer if he's not happy he can come back for a refund and he starts quoting your social security number and full prison record 😩😩
Kara
2025-10-09 02:49:06 +0000 UTCRewatching the episode with y'all reminds me how fucking good the rest of show gonna be. Luthen seemingly had a "bad guy" introduction in episode 2, but through his conversation with Cassian you can really feel there's so much background (like he knows so much info about Andor) and unexplored history behind his drive of rebelling against the Empire. Really excited for y'all to watch the rest of the show. Like others said, it only gets better from here 😮💨
Raphgod7
2025-10-09 02:37:38 +0000 UTCI used to be one of those people and over the last ~5 years i've fully come around to thinking that real change seems impossible without the use of violent resistance. Listening to Revolutions podcast by Mike Duncan genuinely helped (also a source of inspiration for Tony Gilroy on Andor). I struggle to see how we affect meaningful change without some level of violence. To build on what you're saying: Martin Luther King was memorialized as THE hero of the civil rights movement purely because [edit: he was reframed to stand for] 'peaceful protest' which is convenient for a state that wants that to be the only method of resistance. There is no federal Malcolm X day, there is no Roger F. Williams Day. The suffragettes smashed in shop windows and firebombed politician's houses (when they were away). There has been a concerted effort to sanitize these movements. Stonewall was a capital-R Riot, not a fun march or party.
Kara
2025-10-09 02:23:33 +0000 UTCI think this is one of the reasons I get so frustrated with people who say that all resistance and demonstrations have to be peaceful. No. No large social change in history ever happened solely through peaceful resistance and protests. The women's suffragette movement, civil rights, gay rights in the US were all fought for and all those fights involved violence. Revolution isn't bloodless and the ones that have their boots on our neck will never give us an inch unless we make it too costly to ignore. Violence is necessary, sadly.
Brakthir
2025-10-09 02:09:37 +0000 UTCLola is on fire spitting hard truths in the post-episode discussion. Preach girl.
Michael M
2025-10-09 02:05:14 +0000 UTCMore than ever I think this is the perfect show for the perfect channel at the perfect time. It heals but it stings, like antiseptic sprayed on a wound. It really is a perfect thing, even this early on. I cried at the ending, again! And we have ~7 more arcs to go 😭 A lot of Andor is inspired by real history and revolution. The Ferrix community banging metal to alert the town is drawn from Ireland, where locals would bang pots / pans and trashcan lids to alert when the police or paramilitaries were coming. Also drawn from real life, removing street signs so it's harder for outsiders to navigate. I was mostly sold by this episode but there's even more greatness to come. Andor does what many great shows do which is present people and concepts as complex, multifaceted things. Timm is an awful snitch, but doesn't deserve to die. Syril Karn is a wielder of oppressive force, but also a sniveling boy who immediately gives up his team when in danger. Maarva saves Cassian's life, but also colonially kidnaps a kid from his home + tribe. A lot of Star Wars is about Good and Evil as ontological binary concepts and Andor feels "real" despite having laser guns and planet-hopping spaceships because it builds a world that is shades of grey all the way down. It being grounded with amazing performances, writing, production quality + historical precedent only helps this. It's just a really, really good show and I'm glad you loved this ep! Bonus thoughts: The gun Cassian uses in the present day is the same gun we see his (presumed) adopted father Clem use in the flashback. B2 being a 'salvage droid' makes his shape + functions make a lot of sense, he's like sentient luggage 💀. I love that Brasso (cassian's friend) sabotages the ship not with high-tech skills or explosives, but by tethering it to a big piece of metal, it reminds us that 99% of resistance is normal working people using whatever they have to do whatever they can (simple is often better).
Kara
2025-10-09 01:50:24 +0000 UTCLM: "we want Timm to lose the girl, that's an appropriate punishment" Timm: *dies* He went a bit overboard there... On a more serious note, seeing your reaction is like watching the show for the first time again, loved it. The meeting between Andor and Luthen is so good "don't you wanna fight this bastards for real?" chills every time
HenryM
2025-10-09 01:42:23 +0000 UTCthey haven't confirmed yet either way
Kara
2025-10-09 01:36:57 +0000 UTCIt's a good choice. You don't really need to read what they're saying, it's obvious. This culture was destroyed by empire so badly we can't even get subtitles for its language in our world.
Kara
2025-10-09 01:36:31 +0000 UTCi cried, again. it obviously hits harder the better you know the characters but its just such a good idea, paralleling the two 'escapes', immediately drawing comparisons between situations and characters, 2 pivotal life moments for kassa. good show!
Kara
2025-10-09 01:34:12 +0000 UTCevery time i see that ending with the cut between child and adult cassian as the strings swell together i get emotional. nicholas britell (who also did the succession soundtrack) did such a masterful job with the score. he captures this perfect mix of sorrow, anticipation, and hope all brewing at the same time
Sebastian
2025-10-09 01:30:20 +0000 UTC🤣
Jesse S
2025-10-09 01:18:10 +0000 UTC"Corpos moaning in pain..music to my ears" This is why I love LM
Brakthir
2025-10-09 00:47:31 +0000 UTCYa episodes 4-6 are so much better than 1-3 and I love 1-3
Sam
2025-10-09 00:45:21 +0000 UTCAbsolutely, it's crazy how many chills this episode gives and it's only the third dang episode. Maarva is the best mom
Myeh
2025-10-09 00:41:18 +0000 UTCCan't wait until you guys get to episode 4! The world building becomes even richer and the new characters introduced are great
JustAMeloPancake
2025-10-09 00:37:22 +0000 UTCVIVA LA RESISTANCE
Brakthir
2025-10-09 00:35:15 +0000 UTCThey chose to not translate the language they spoke on kenari and I really like that choice. We know what happens to the planet and it feels like we don’t get to be part of that culture because they erased it. To me it adds to the tragedy of it. Also it’s cool to try and figure out what the characters are saying from context clues rather than language
BigJo H
2025-10-09 00:33:57 +0000 UTCYay Peakdor!
Sam
2025-10-09 00:01:34 +0000 UTCAlways can count on you two when i need to be distracted from life ❤️
sand_fl
2025-10-08 23:59:41 +0000 UTCSo I will summon their unofficial manager.. Robert! to give me an answer.. are they doing another poll or are they watching Bocchi? If you read this, let me know lol
Jack SV
2025-10-08 23:57:49 +0000 UTCHappy Belated, Lola!
Isaac
2025-10-08 23:55:22 +0000 UTC“Don’t you want to fight these bastards for real”? 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥
Jesse S
2025-10-08 23:55:21 +0000 UTC
