The Kristian Harloff Show - ANDOR Episode 8 SPOILER Review! | Star Wars | Disney

Episode Date: October 26, 2022

Andor Episode 8 is the latest chapter in the Star Wars universe to land on Disney+. Cassian finds himself in a prison, how will he get out? We saw some familiar faces return, what does it mean for the show? What is going on with the rest of the characters and how will it all shape the galaxy? Kristian Harloff gives his SPOILER heavy thoughts on the episode. #andor #starwars #cassian #Disney #TV THANKS TO CARBON HEALTH FOR SPONSORING THE EPISODE! 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

What's going on, everybody? Spoiler heavy review here. Probably a shorter review because we got a big Sith Council discussion tonight, but spoiler review and or episode 8. A lot went down. Lots going down. How you doing? Nice to see you.

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So, let me further. I do. Let's get into Andor. Remember me like THX a little bit too. The old George Lucas one. I think that was kind of the point with the, what they do with the prison here. And I was worried about if they were going to spend too much time in the prison,

if the whole episode was just going to be the prison. And for Andor's storyline, it certainly was. But they didn't just stay there. They moved around a lot. They moved to Monmouthma. They moved to Luthan. They moved to Luton and Saw. They moved to Bix.

They moved to the empire. I mean, they moved all over. And these episodes are now getting a little longer now. And he was probably with credits, realistically, around 45 minutes. But that's longer than most of the live action Star Wars consistently. The first three episodes, I think, were like, well, the first one, I think it was 30 minutes.

Second one was like 34 minutes. And the third one was long. And it had been longer moving in. But there were so many surprises in this one. There were so many familiar faces in this one. Now, familiar in actors, questions with familiar in character for one particular, but we'll get into that in just a moment. But Andor is, he's just on vacation.

It's like Axel Foley. I'm on vacation. He was on vacation, and he got arrested for what? Nothing. Throw it in the cell. And now he's building stuff out, and now he's wearing his little outfit. The more and more, though, with this show, though, as it goes on, it's just so detailed. And as I'm watching, there's a particular scene when Cyril is talking with the lead woman who's the Empire Head,

we're running the, running an investigation for the Empire. And she's so smart, by the way. I love the character. She's just going through what she does with Bix. I wanted to see him. Oh, what are you doing? Why is he still in here? Get him out of here. The mental warfare that she plays with everybody and even with Cyril when she's talking to him. But that particular scene with Cyril when she's talking to him, I said to myself,

this seems like a page out of one of the novels, out of the canon novels, that they would write. And it just made me say even more so, this just proves. And this isn't written, this isn't based off of a novel. It's just a very well-written series. but it was just like if they adapted their novels, they could do more series like this with the, how involved everything is. And because the conversation that she has with him

and the conversation generally, little moments that you pick up throughout this about certain, Fiona Shaw's character about how she was the president of this one particular place at one point and how Belle was, came from this, running away from her rich upbringing and how that was just kind of thrown as a dig

the other thing. Ma'an Mothma getting married at a younger age and married off because of the culture that she was in. Just like little things and sprinkled into dialogue that you learned so much more about the character throughout the episode that just doesn't happen in a lot of these Star Wars shows recently and then it has happened here.

And that detail is in a lot of their novels and I've been preaching this to really to you guys because you all, I think a lot of you agree, because I never understood the argument of like, well, if I read it, for Star Wars, people say this. If I read it, then they need to change it up because it can and stuff and they wouldn't, and they wouldn't know, and you would know what's going on and it wouldn't be as good. What are you talking about? House of the Dragon comes from stuff that was written.

Everybody knew what was going to have, that read the books. Everybody knew it was going to happen in that season finale. I didn't, but people did, and it still was an effect. Harry Potter, Lord of the Rings, all those things. And I still think that you can do that. And especially now, I think Andor is proving it with how deep. detailed this show is with what's happening in this. And I like the idea that they're staying there.

And it's not like it's, they have, we had our big action thing. This is another lead up and how a hell are they going to get Andor out of this place. And Luton has to shut things down. Luton is, is being questioned. You know, you're, you're slipping. He's like, I'm not slipping. I'm just, I, and he starts thinking about Andor, trying to figure out what Andrew is.

And then Bix gets herself in trouble, gets other people in trouble. She's trying to help out because Fiona Shaw is, is, is on her way out. So there's so much at stake, and people are trying, and, and I love the conversation, and I'm between Bix and her lover, and they're having the conversation, and it's like, Bix is like, have we, have we given enough? Should we take a break? It's like, Empire doesn't break. Empire doesn't, is not going to give you time to rest.

We got to, we got to move. There's, because the second, that was kind of the theme of it all, is that you've got to, you got to be in sync and that that conversation that that luthan has with saw he's like i i know what you're trying to do and i get it but we we've got to all be on the same page because if we're not on the same page it's just going to be chaos that's ultimately what saw is as we know him leading into rogue one but i thought that conversation was brilliant you learned so much about the two of them and their relationship in general and where Luthan is as a character and what he's trying to do and he's the ultimate architect

of this bigger rebellion and I love how they're feeling each other out in the beginning like you did you did that uh that heist no you did it you did it you did it and it's like oh whoever did it respect you both know who did it but it was it was a great moment between the two of them Scarscgard and Forrest Witter great to see Forrest Wittaker back by the way but um so much. Now, obviously, Andor,

is put in this cell, and then this is the scene I was talking about. This scene when, when Cyril's was being investigated, not investigated, but it's questioned, and he's trying to show his worth.

And it's just, it just, it did. It reminded me of, like, something that you would read in one of the novels. And then Mon Mothma

now is pulling, um, is really all in. playing the politician and working to really start to build funds to help the rebellion overall. And it shows how important that is. You see Luton is the one getting his hands dirty, doing all these things, setting the missions in play.

And Mon has to work from the inside even more so, how important of a piece she ultimately is for this thing to work and ultimately what she becomes. Because, you know, Lutthin ain't going to last that long because they're looking for him now, as we found out in this. episode two with with um you know they they they know he exists they just don't know who he is and then there he is i wrestling terms big pop when andy circus shows up any circus is probably my favorite actor out there i've loved andy circus for a long time um not only have it a pleasure to meet the man and he's one of the most kind he's just such a kind kind kind individual but he's

very talented and he has just created so many iconic characters over the years and um and he's just great just watched him recently in, what the hell was it, Ultron again. And he just, he pops off the screen when he shows up because there's just something he's like, he's just not acting. He's just in, he just becomes whoever the person is. And he, the question is, and people are asking this question already, is this a version of, of Snoke? This, you know, he was, obviously Snoke was cloned into the emperor and, Emperor's image and whatever.

Who was the specimen? Was it, was it, this character? Was it circus character? Or is he just playing kind of a random dude? Because, you know, it was any circus and we wanted to give him a role. I'm okay with either one. If it turns out that this is the guy he's working for the Empire and they use him for something for experiments down the line.

He winds up becoming an emperor's experiment. Okay, fine. But just to have him back was so awesome. And he's so good, just kind of being the one. toss him down a line, telling him what to do and being the overall steward of this whole thing. Love having Andy Circus back. He's just the best. And watching him and Diego Luna together.

I mean, how special was that? I love both of these guys. So to watch them together in these scenes was pretty magical. Both of them. So we get the return of both Andy Circus and Forrest Whitaker. Well, Forrest definitely in his role that he played in not only Rogue One, not only in rebels, in some of the video games, but now he returns in Andor, and it was great to see him back, and you see this, he's still this chiseled.

He goes into this descent of madness by the time we get to Rogue One, because if you look at what happened, rebels, he's, when he's working with Canaan and those guys, he's, he's got his, he's got his wits together. When it's in, what's the, the other one? Shoot, the one with Cal Kestis. But he's, whatever, I can't remember that any of it. I'm telling you, I haven't had all my coffee yet, but you know what I'm talking about. Anyway, he's in that, and his, his voices, he's still got his wits together in that too. So he's starting this, this one you kind of see, even the beginning of the conversation with Luton, he's got, his marbles are all there, but there's hints of, uh-oh, he's starting to lose it a little bit. But either way, great to have both those guys back in an absolutely crucial episode it's going to turn out to be. Again, with Mon Mothma playing the, playing the smiling politician.

Oh, and then there's House of the Dragon. So anyway, this is a setup. Once again, I think it's a two-episode arc. They're going to have to break him out somehow. They're going to find out where the hell he is. But now Bix is in trouble too because Bix got captured. So how the hell they're going to get Bix out? Is this going to be one of those major missions or is Bix done for?

I don't think she's done for because she signed on for season two. So it seems like she'll be around. But are they going to break her out? They're going to do a total Star Wars mission? find a way to get her out, someone on the inside. Because if we're starting to pepper in these, and I love that they peppered in the characters, we saw two tubes, I call him Tony two tubes.

But we got two tubes, and he's, we see the return of him, we see the return of Saul, we see the return of Annie Circus. Obviously, Mon Mothma, the conversations that are having the empire. I'm pretty sure it was a Eulerian, right, that she's talking to, I thought it was. Anyway, either way, they're having these, these conversations that are leading more so into familiar territory.

I think Bill Argana will probably show up sooner or later, if not in the finale, because I had no idea, and I'd love to get your thoughts on this, and please put this in the comment section. Did you hear that Andy Circus was in this, or was this a total surprise? For me, it was a total surprise. The same way, now it's all over Twitter, but when I was watching Tales of the Jedi, Bryce Dallas Howard shows up as Yaddle. Didn't know Yaddle was in it.

didn't know that Bryce Dallas Howard voiced Seattle. So that was a surprise as well. And they held that in for a while. I wish they would have held that Bryce Dallas Howard thing until after the episode. It was a big surprise for me when I was watching it and then they announced it all over the place. And I was like, oh, okay.

But either way, I loved, it was more effective. You know, if I knew Andy was going to be in it, I obviously be really excited to want to watch it even more. But the fact that they held that in and he just showed up, interesting. It also makes me realize that they held that in. They didn't announce it. Is he playing?

Like a version of Snoke down the line? I don't know. I don't know how relevant it is to this overall story. So maybe, maybe not. I have no idea. But I think, again, like I said, once it starts to form, we're going to start seeing a lot of this stuff, whether it's Hera.

I don't know if they're going to do Kane. And I can't imagine that they would. At that point, I mean, I don't know. Are they going to tie it into rebels? I'm so curious. God, I love this show. It's such a great. show. Anyway, love to get your thoughts overall. As I've been asking people when you're watching this

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