The Kristian Harloff Show - ANDOR EPISODE 11 Spoiler Review! | Star Wars | Cassian | Bix

Episode Date: November 16, 2022

Andor Episode 11 debuted on Disney Plus and it is the latest episode in the Star Wars universe. Cassian is on the run again and now the empire is trying even harder to bait him into a trap. Luthen finds himself talking with Saw again, can they get on the same page? How great is Andor? Is it Star Wars? Is it just a great show but missing Star Wars elements? Kristian Harloff gives his review of the episode. #Andor #StarWars #Cassian #Disney CARBON HEALTH: http://www.carbonhealth.com OUR MERCH STORE IS LIVE: https://www.teepublic.com/stores/the-big-thing-kh-channel?ref_id=27393 AMAZON WISHLIST: https://www.amazon.com/hz/wishlist/ls/1KPH42T0TP0PG?ref=cm_sw_em_r_un_un_djbxgIW5ZQMMg PATREON: http://www.patreon.com/thebigthingshow SCHMOEDOWN ARCHIVE CHANNEL: https://www.youtube.com/c/TheMovieTriviaSchmoedownArchives Ask Kristian questions for next time! https://facebook.com/harloff Become a Patreon of the Schmoedown: http://patreon.com/schmoedown OTHER GREAT CONTENT: REVIEWS https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLSJdE28YyUT368qY7sfE0nKE4c04CqGvu TV REVIEWS https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLSJdE28YyUT1LU-t2Z9AD5UJDiWW4pS_E STAR WARS SHOW https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLSJdE28YyUT0XmfpbblkF9PY7uO2qhbN6 THE BIG THING PODCAST https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLSJdE28YyUT3KAwbzDsv6mdR-gwUiydQg FOLLOW KRISTIAN + FIND HIM ON CAMEO https://cameo.com/kristianharloff https://twitter.com/kristianharloff https://facebook.com/harloff https://instagram.com/kristianharloff Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

All right, everybody, it's episode 11 and or. This show is awesome. I was going to say that. It's such a great show. I love this show so much, and it's just getting better and better. Before we even get into it, I want to say thank you to our sponsored carbon health for sponsoring this episode. And the Monday episode is a big thing. They're so great.

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I just keep seeing people that I, people I'm friends with, people I like saying that this is not Star Wars and it's boring. You're out of your minds. You're out of your minds. Nuts. Yes, this is absolutely core Star Wars. Star Wars. And it continues in.

in with Cassian on and run with his buddy who's seeing it in Roque 1 and they, his poor bastards hands are numb. They wait for people to flee. They look like, okay, we got it. These two aliens just fishing. And we're going to be just fine. And the aliens are like, look at these assholes. Yeah, they put them in a net.

And then right away, it just looks, I mean, they're about as creepy as they get, right? And one of them's talking gibberish, Yoda style. and the other one is just like, yeah, I'm going to go straight up. I'm going to talk in my language and we'll just mess with these two. And it turns out, oh, yeah, you know what, we got the same enemy. I'm not a big empire for any either. We'll give you a ride. Just don't try to steal our shit next time.

Don't piss in the water. And they get off there, and it's fine. And it was a little convenient. Yeah, maybe so. But I didn't mind it. And I like the fact that we're blending in aliens. There's no aliens. There's no this.

Take it. Build. Again, slow building. I don't mind slow building. There's a big difference between slow building and boring. Major difference. Every little thing counts and the emotion of what happens in this show counts so much and what has continued to happen throughout this episode. Because we find out also that Cassian's mom has passed, you know, Fiona Shaw, who was his adopted mom, but his mom nonetheless. And I liked how they did it. They didn't show. show it. She just passed and a little, a little piss bot who got pissed on in the first episode, who was a sweet little guy. He just doesn't want to come out of his shell. And people are like, come on, buddy, you know, we need your help here. Come on. Help us out. And he's just, he just wants

company. I loved the scene. He just wanted to, he just wanted to hang out. I think he wound up saving that dude's life. Stay over. He's just for the night. I think, well, that staying over that night's going to wind up saving that dude's life because the empire and, um, and Dedra, they're, They're making a plan. And I love this plan of just, this is ruthless. She's showing once again how ruthless the empire is. Like, yeah, you know what?

Give them the funeral that they want. Sure. Let me know as soon as Cassian. Everybody's looking for Cassian. We got our boy Cyril, who is still in his mom, who I believe is the tan lady now at this point from something about Mary.

I know she's not, but she seems like, hey, you don't get any stopped allowed phone calls at night. Come on. Trying to take a rest. Watch the midwife. But either way, it's that whole scene when the guy, the guy that I liked in the first few episodes was screaming at him,

come on, man, wake up, snap out of it. He's on patrol somewhere and he can't really be heard. He's telling him Cassian, his mom passed away at the funeral, and that's enough to get our crazy lunatic potential serial killer, serial out there and out and about. So they just these little set up pieces of showing, because they've set it up so well, how obsessed he is with finding Andor.

He's just obsessed. And that's the wrong thing, isn't it? Yeah, it's fine. And so either way, they get back, Andor's on the run and, you know, he's able to do his thing. And then they have the other side piece that they've been working on. And so now Val comes in and she's like, okay, where is he? And she's trying to put on the whole schick of, well, what piece would you lunch?

She said, cut the shit. Where is he? You're not following the rules. Where is he? Does he know? Does this, that? And he's out doing his own adventure right now. He's got something else going on.

Vell is like, I'm sick of this. And she's starting to throw that weight around. And to which he has a great conversation with Mom Mothman down the line who we'll get into. But then the main story to me again once when Lutthin is the one who is the, he runs this story. I mean, he's been running it. And I was a little nervous for him in this episode. But he shows up him because we had this conversation. myself and I think it was Kalanowski. I'm not sure.

We were talking about how many times we think we're going to see Saw again. And I said at least once by the end of the season, at least once. And he showed up and he came back in. And I loved this scene. It's a great scene. The writing just continues to get better and better and better. He's like, yeah, all right, I'm going to go on your mission for you. And Luton's like, no, I don't think you will.

We're good. What? He was so into it. before and now it's just gone and uh luthan's like yeah well here's the here's the deal uh that guy I was gonna set job but he's gonna be dead

and all his buddies too and saw's like and saw gets it's what I love he's like you know about this you're letting him go and it's this whole conversation that the two of them are having and then he's just like who inside

you have it working working in my crew he's like yeah it's two tubes and what he talks? What are he talking? talking about. And the two tubes thing when he shows up and he doesn't, two tubes isn't speaking basic. He's talking to his English, his alien language. And he's, he's sick of the whole of the people. He's that a lightsaber. He's got with the guy, who knows, who cares? He's, he goes in and two tubes is like, that's not me. I'm, this is a bull. He's like, I'm proving a point. He takes the gun and he's a, you know, you're not going to make it out of here alive. It doesn't matter. It's not, that's not the point of this.

Point is this. You want to play the long game? You know, like, think about this. I just want you listen. Do you want to play the long game? Do you want to try to win this thing? Or do you want to just warn this guy? And then we warn them and then they know the gig is up, jig is up. I always miss those two up. Either way, something's up. And Saug gets it. Let's call it. Whoa. So that was a great scene. Bringing that back in. Now, even and I was, I was satisfied through this already. And I'm watching this whole thing going. And I remember saying to myself one point, Oh, man. You're going to ready hear people going, oh, nothing's happening.

They're just talking the whole time. Well, and nothing more is true than with Mon Mothma, who is really in a position right now. You see how in debt she was and the money and covering up the 400K credits and Valus come and trying to help, and you see how she got in, and Luthon warned her, and then her daughter is starting to join like a cult, and she's got to marry the daughter off.

And there's such, Amman Lothma is such a complicated character now, and they added so much to her. But for those people that wanted the action, well, then you got it. Nobody can complain about the action now in this one. This scene was fantastic. Luton is on his way out. He's like, all right, and then the empire comes up behind him. They want to board him. And he's going through these whole things, and his ship is just, of course it is,

it's armed to the max. It should be armed to the max. And he's got all these cool toys in his, and he's, waiting and he's you know stalling and and finally what they that my favorite part of the whole thing the whole scene was fantastic but my favorite part was this when he when he just brings out those lasers and sideswipes the tie fighters and the tie fighters are coming out and then he zips away and and the empire at one point the guy the imperial literally shakes his head and goes that hasn't done good and it was like it was such a great scene where you just see the power of what luthan is not messing around

luthan's like i got something to do and i was a little nervous for him in that in that scene. I'm like, they can't take him out yet. He hasn't, there's no successor yet. Mon Mothma has not stepped into that role yet. She is still figuring her way out of her life as it is now. She's still in that. She's still in that. Tate's got to help her out and she's got to figure all this stuff out. She's not in that position yet. And I love the fact that, and Luton is, I'm from, I'm from Alderon. Fit that in there. It's what, and it's a, this was a, but this is about a spy thriller of an episode as you get, even from the Imperials that are sitting around watching at the funeral

and watching everything going on, the back and forth with everybody. Everybody's concerned about this funeral. And the one person who didn't even know about the funeral was Andor, which is really a heartbreaking scene, man. And he's on the phone. And he's telling the guy, he tells the guy six times. Stop using names.

He goes, yeah, sure, Cass. But don't say my name. I'm sorry, so sorry. Hey, stop. No more names. You got to cast, but listen, I'm got to tell you something about your mom. She ain't here no more. And then he just, like, he has a conversation.

He's just like, yeah, everything was fine. And our boy from Rogue One is like, hey, we got to split up. So they got to know what's going on here because this is messed up. We got to figure it out. So he's like, yeah, and he's just devastated from his mom's loss. But he's still listening. And then there's a great, great scene that is mimicking the end of road. one where he's looking out of the ocean he's he's at he's at peace for just a moment even that

that scene he's just saying like you know it seems like a dream at this point but it's kind of like a foreshadowing to the ultimate end of cassian but not yet he's got more to do in this show he assume he's going to go back i hope he doesn't go back it's all going to go down in that last episode because there's going to be a few more i don't know if if krennick will show up yeah they'd probably get him for season two if i was the guest i saw a couple comments saying that wished that K2SO would have shown up to lighten up the mood. I don't want the mood lightened yet personally. I don't want the mood lightened up yet. It's not time to be lightened up. Lighten it up in season two. And even Pissbot is sad right now. Everybody's

sad and they should be sad because it's not, it's not happy right now. Things are, things are dire and I love it. And that scene with Luton inside of that ship, man. And this is what I was trying to tell people like, too. I did a few polls on my, I did one on Twitter and one on on this channel about what is the best Star Wars show. Now, I will say this. Mandalorian is still my favorite Star Wars show. I think that Mandalorian combines all of the things of Star Wars that makes Star Wars great, like all of the thing.

There's a lot of lore. There's a lot of, you know, the force is my favorite thing, for sure. But Andor is to me, easily, the best written and produced, directed, acted Star Wars show that we've gotten. It's one of the best shows this season, this year, excuse me, in general,

not just Star Wars, just in general. And it's because of the writing, but it's like, and I push back so much. And again, people that I, that I'm friends with that say that this is not a Star Wars show or that it doesn't have core Star Wars, and it's not, it's, it's, this is about, this is a portion of the Star Wars galaxy

that is expanded, and you're learning more about it is about as Star Wars, wars as you get. The politics behind the, the influence of what George Lucas originally made with all the, with fascism and all this stuff in general in the way that it plays and the building and constant building throughout it, you see, and there's stuff and you look whether there's the Thai fighters and the X-Wings that Saw has and the alien language, it's all, it's just not thrown at you like, bum, bum, right, it's right in your face, it's Star Wars. It's like gradual. And the thing that I always loved about the original trilogy, everything seemed lived in. Everything seemed like it was there. Like it's been,

that's what this show is. That's what this show is. And I'm, look, I'm awful. I, Acklead is probably my most anticipated show in Star Wars for a very long time because of the Sith lore. That's, that's my thing as well. But I'm also not going to say because there's no Jedi, there's no forces, nothing this, there's nothing, there's no space opera stuff that it's not Star Wars. Of course it is. This is about as Star Wars as it gets. And I love this show. It's really, what a pleasant, pleasant surprise this show has been. But I want to know what you guys think. What's your thoughts?

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