Andor S1 E1 Kassa
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I know! I was shocked to learn this about Tony Gilroy too!! Heidi
Heidi Elizabeth Marcum
2022-11-16 16:27:28 +0000 UTCThat's so interesting about the writer and director, I had no idea!
Jessie Dobbie Reactions
2022-11-16 16:18:10 +0000 UTCKassa- Yay! Thank you so very much for your amazing reaction to this first episode in this new phenomenal Star Wars series, titled... Andor, Jessie!! I absolutely love this show and have from the very beginning. And I am so happy that you've begun to really love this show with its first episode as well! You're absolutely right that people are bored... possibly frustrated with Andor, because they do want nothing but action and excited that is seen within the Star Wars movies. And it's so sad. We've unfortunately grown to always want bigger, louder, flashier, and more exciting from the shows and movies we watch nowadays. Especially when it comes to anything and everything Star Wars. And if a show or movie doesn't deliver, and even exceed our expectations, then we dismiss them and choose to stop watching them, which is so sad. For me... Andor absolutely delivers, no matter how slow the build. It's amazingly well written, and by a director and writer who was never a fan of Star Wars until he wrote and directed Rogue One: A Star Wars Story. And he's still not a big fan of Star Wars. Tony Gilroy is a genius in directing and writing the movies and shows he works on! I'm not like most people when it comes to the shows and movies I watch. I love a good story that is well written and deeply driven into, with a good plot, good music, and most of all... great characters who are played by great actors. And Diego Luna is most certainly a phenomenal actor, who plays a marvelous character I've loved ever since Rogue One: A Star Wars Story. And I've loved Diego Luna in a great number of his other movies too. :) Unfortunately, Cassian Andor has always been seen by most Star Wars fans to be one of the weakest characters in Rogue One, which I absolutely and completely disagree with. I've always loved him, and he's actually always been my favorite character in Rogue One. I don't understand why the fans see him as one of the weaker characters, because Diego Luna is phenomenal, and phenomenal in this role of Cassian. And he's fascinating! Cassian Andor was always a character I wanted to learn so much more about, even after he dies along with all the rest of his Rebel team down on Scariff when they're fighting to get the Death Star plans. So, when I learned that they were creating and writer a whole two seasons all about Cassian, I was absolutely so excited!!! As for this first episode of Andor, titled... Kassa... I really love it!! It always flies by whenever I watch it, as does every episode, no matter how many times I watch all of this show's episodes. Kassa does have a slow build, but only because it is trying to help us get to know the rest of the characters outside of Cassian, whom we already know and get to meet in Rogue One. The whole opening, as Cassian walks into a bar within a shady area under the control of those similar to the beat cops' part of the Empire, struggles to ignore the officers trying to rile him and interfere in his business... all the while trying to find his sister or any information about where she's disappeared to, and then is eventually forced to kill these two men, mostly out of self defense, with the exception of the one guy he must outrightly murder in order to protect himself from any reprisal he hopes won't come... It's all absolutely fabulous!! This whole scene is brilliantly acted by Diego Luna, and beautifully shot as well. Clearly, Cassian didn't want to kill these men harassing him. He didn't mean to kill the first guy, and he felt forced to kill the second guy in order to keep him from ratting him out to the higher ups. They attacked him first when one of them struck him across his face, and they were trying to rob him of the little money he had on him. And from seeing where and how Cassian lives on the planet Ferrix, you can see that he and the people on Ferrix are all very poor. So, the money he has on him is clearly precious to him and much needed. He couldn't allow himself to be robbed. And the rest of this episode of this episode is wonderfully written as well! I love seeing Cassian on Ferrix, as he goes around to talk with a number of people... both friends, as well as acquaintances. And I love getting to know a number of the other characters introduced to us from his home. Characters such as B2-EMO, whom Cassian simply calls Bee, as well as two of his close friends, Bix Caleen and Brasso, and a few other acquaintances close with Bix... Timm Karlo, Salman Paak, and Paak's son. I absolutely love Bee, Cassian's droid whom you can see means a lot to him, and who loves Cassian too. And yes... It is absolutely incredible that we can see and feel so many emotions from the droids within this Universe. And Bee is absolutely adorable. I also really love Bix's and Brasso's characters as well. On the Imperial side... We become introduced to Syril Karn, the officer who becomes devoted, if not obsessed with bringing the murderer of the two officers to justice. Not good. And while we route against Karn, he's a very interesting character, whom I look forward to getting to know more about. Especially so we can see why he feels so strongly about coming after Cassian, against his commander's orders. And lastly... We are also shown a backstory throughout this episode, as we get to meet Cassian from when he was a young boy known then as simply Kassa, living on another planet called, Kenari, amongst his native people, whom we see are all made up of just a small tribe of young children, and no adults. We also learn that these children speak an unknown, and long forgotten language. And he lives on Kenari with his even younger sister. Together, a number of the older children get ready to leave their home to investigate a mysterious ship that crashes on their planet. And while it appears that a number of the other kids don't want Cassian, or Kassa to join them, most likely because he is too young, their leader allows him to come with them. And even though we don't understand their language, and we're given no subtitles to help us understand what the children here on Kenari are saying, we can see through these children's actions and especially through their facial expressions, what is happening. And upon seeing Kassa mark his face with the paint, in the same manner that their leader does, you can see that Cassian likes her, even admires her, just as she does him too. Tony Gilroy and the other writers have purposely chosen not to give us subtitles for the Kenari language spoken by these children. Gilroy believes he can reveal to us exactly what is happening, without there being a need to include them. And he feels that without the subtitles, the overall backstory being told will be far more impactful for us. And I admire, Tony Gilroy for this decision, most certainly. Overall... I really enjoy this first episode of Andor a lot! I love getting to know Cassian Andor, from before he joins the Rebellion and becomes the amazing hero that we know him to be after he and Jyn succeed in transmitting the Death Star plans to the Rebels, just before Cassian and Jyn are both heartbreakingly killed by the Death Star themselves. And I love that he is seeking out to find his little sister, whom we meet briefly within the backstory as well. What a phenomenal show!! And such a fabulous first reaction for Andor from you too, Jessie! So, thank you once again for watching Andor for me. I cannot wait for all to come for this show from you!! So, until December for more Andor... Thank you, my dear friend! Sincerely, Heidi
Heidi Elizabeth Marcum
2022-11-16 15:15:20 +0000 UTC
