The Reel Rejects - REJECT RECAP: ANDOR Episode 11 - "Daughter of Ferrix" REVIEW!!

Episode Date: November 16, 2022

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what he left with marva always comes back to her oh boyish really just how much

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knows the value of a good VPN. The death of... That was really sad, man. Yes. That was a very somber episode. That was very, really sad. everyone's broken it's the dark night of the soul uh before we get to the finale is what it felt like to me next week's the finale yeah yeah normally it's like an all is lost

there's a all's lost moment the death of marva yeah yeah and just them being entirely ostensibly alone the two of them for now man even with bix she's like so broken they've done a number on her man holy shit yeah that was to the point where i was like is she ever gonna like is her is her brain gonna be scrambled just from here on out like is she gonna have to like have someone take care of her for the rest of her life due to this she's like that horror movie character you visit

an insane asylum when you're looking for answers and she hasn't been able to talk clearly in years you won't pay anything out of her and she just like rips your hand just as you're about to leave wait eyed the rebellion empire is real

remember this code yeah yeah totally yeah she's really morphed yeah and i mean it's funny how like one you only see her for like one brief sequence but it's among every like everything no matter how brief it is always seems to come with like a lasting punch and impact like no matter how i like it it's it's interesting to see a show where yeah it's like you have a lot of characters and a character that could feel small just showing up for one moment in an episode rarely ever gets lost in the shuffle like they're really good at making everyone's

time important true whether that be through yeah you know direct advancement of the plot or just heartbreaking circumstance well what's her name clear yes the the sona sona yeah yeah i'm waiting for clea to i like the presence of clea still waiting to latch on to her more as a character though she's kind of just there to whip some things in the shape she i think she rides the line well because she is the sort of like executive assistant who you can tell probably does a lot of badass and difficult shit behind the scenes but mostly we just see her be it very direct and this episode in particular i was like okay this is like the most we've sort of seen you in action and i want to know more about you now yeah yeah but to me i think like vell and and and genevieve o're

riley mon mothma it's cool this is the first time i felt like they're really cousins yeah there is a real history with them and i i i think just the slowly broken soul of Mon Mothma and the sacrifice that she really had to make because you know it's sometimes in this act of rebellion it's more like yeah you got political figures with money who are secretly helping out um and then here with mon mothma you you really see that she wasn't just secretly helping out that she was truly instrumental but she also had to make some of the toughest choices of her personal life and sacrificed so much much and how much sacrifice can she keep enduring until enough is enough like how far can't she go

is she willing to give up her family in like the most literal ways it's really painful to see what she goes through and like i feel like even when like last episode you know like the highlights where the monologues of like andy circus and stirl and scars guard uh but mom mothma did have a really powerful scene she's been so consistent and then her scene here with Vell when they're sitting on the couch together you know braiding each other's hair and shit

painting and nails having a pillow talking about guys because they can't pass the Bechel test that's right man do you think Luther is cute I think Luther is cute no you don't show them I want Luther no you when they are

when they are talking with each other it just keeps getting worse and worse for her and my notion of what her how pivotal she would be would be more that hopeful spirit of the of the rebel

to the rebel rising are you gawning in the middle of my rebellion yeah I'm sorry but did it turn into that at all it's it is crazy just how relatable of a figure they have made her

and not just one of the nice people from Choruson yeah Well, because she suffers, this makes it clear how much she suffers in silence. And, like, she's already got Perrin, who's a real winner. But, you know, even with her daughter, it seems like, you know, her family can't really know her. She can't really be, like, emotionally close to the people who do know her because of what they have to work on. So it seems like a very, it really clues you into how harsh her position is.

And I did love getting a moment between Vell and Clea and that whole, you know, like Vell, I like the way they draw the fact that, yeah, you have their familial tie, but you also have both of their ties to the rebellion and how different those things are and how in one doing their job that can step on the other's toes or make the other's life that much more difficult. And it's just like a really fascinating nuance that they don't really even necessarily have to speak all the time. But yeah, especially here, it felt like they were, even in the emotional beats, like, actually. Yeah, it's funny you should say that because, yeah, they do feel.

like actually related I can see the sisterly kind of rapport between them and it's funny because this is an episode that has so much humanity despite all the you know vicious circumstance and I love that they chose to make be like

the most vulnerably emotional character even going so far as to start like inside of his vision inside of his eye just inside of like his perspective when so much of the rest of the episode is shot in ways that are very illustrative of isolation you know when vell and clear are talking they're

both talking to negative space essentially uh and all these like when marva's being carted out it's all in these wide like there's so much uh of the sterility and of the distance created i thought it was an interesting way to to pull everything together yeah well i think would be too he's a lot of times are droids they they one thing i've always liked about star wars when he came to the artificial intelligence if you will is that they've never sometimes they're those bits of like shut the ripio off just turn him off he's being annoying you know yeah but more often than not they treat droids like they actually have souls yeah and that they're they are a living being and i love that this show really leans into that would be too the same people would create

k2s oh yeah like the tony go roy and So it would be, too, he is like a child, lonely pet, and I just feel so much compassion for him of this joy, learning humanity. And it makes me worried for him. I wonder what life, B2, ultimately has, because he's not a Rogue 1. So what journey does he go on? You know, mates with other droids and have baby droids? There are two possible outcomes, either.

He does a daring sacrifice the last minute that allows the rebels to get away one more time, or there will be one that was like Cassie again like go on boy get out of here yeah go on i don't need you anymore go it's for your own good you know or would he go he's who's created and apparently there's only one charge of the city and it's just in marvis house uh yeah there are some things that i wish we would get a little bit more flushing out on like and or melchie that moment would hit a little bit harder for me other than the poignant themes of rise

of rebellion and such like I don't really know who this guy is like I wish we had gotten a little bit more time to see live with their survival because I was enjoying the survival tone of

of just being like something that was like borderline you know like those survival movies and nature of like the edge or revenant or some shit because you know like they're they're barefoot and barren cold harsh wastelands and it's it's so it's so isolated and and such a vulnerable situation to be in the most physical way and to me i'm like i wish we got to see was some friendship bond with them so we could hear like that way you feel a little bit more of a

emotional impact when they are like we have to tell everyone or feel like what they've overcome together to get there that part i feel was a little bit glossed over like it was good what we got i did feel we needed more of what of that though well yeah you could fill a like a webisode or for my money you could fill a whole episode yeah them to having to stick it out and then finally get off world and then they you know go back to the beach and find his case and all that stuff there's a lot of emphasis on Lida, Lida, the daughter

of Mama. There's a lot of emphasis on her and I guess kind of feel like whenever we see her she's in a mood and the horse

she just happened to be in a good mood today Vita Chandrellian girl I want to I want more is that or near the end

I'm like there's emphasis put here and you're kind of just like moody kid yeah and then this episode

with them being like oh she she's really into you know this you know this this spirit you know the the is it they're studying the customs of like the arranged marriage and stuff like that is that what she's studying at the table there with her friend do whatever they're getting into chondreli and chandrillion customs or whatever yeah like the the old ways they barely talk about they just barely focus a spotlight on them in ways that feel nuanced that that is the one way in which it does feel like the show is like yeah, we're not really that concerned with her

and I think it could say something and add more to both Mon Mothma's character but also Lada's character if we did maybe drip into her perspective for a second and see what she likes about these customs that Mon Mothma isn't necessarily trying to thrust upon her or whatever. Yeah. Because that's all

part of the conversation as well and especially because it seems like Lita skews more towards Perrin is probably like I doubt that Mon Mothma could full on just reliably say I could trust Lita if she were to find out all the extent of what I've been doing here. So, like, yeah, I feel like you could explore an interesting realm of indoctrination through

that, which, yeah, is pretty glossed over here. And in glossing over it, it does feel like, you know, moody teenagers is still over there, just not connected with me, you know. And I think this is one I'd probably get the most push back on. Whenever you say something you got an issue with, there's always someone who comes in to tell you why, actually, and I'm open to it with it, you know, I respect that. tell me the more positive perspective of this you know um you hope cyril wins uh yeah cyril needs to win they can be like here's my certificate of approval mama i got a job in the

actual empire no more private security for me show but i'm married didra here's my wife now she tells me what to do it gets my cereal um she emasculates me on the daily not i love that didger's morphed into oh you're that one who appears in the monitors looking evil now The I knows who needs it done and done now. The Krieger, I wish we see him instead of just hearing about him because I get the choice because no one's really spending time with him so it could just feel kind of random to just cut to him. Like, I don't even Luton knows him.

Like Lutthin knows him, but Kregor doesn't know that Luton is Luton. and so i like i i can see that the reasoning to not cut to him but there's so much talk about him and there's so much of a debate about what to do with the creaker situation should they just sacrifice him or should they help him but by helping him that takes care of the isb officer that you know like there's there's the dangers him so i i love the debate and i love the scene with saara because you know saw is like the ultimate case of a paranoid junkie sure and and as i love saw a scene and like i think that's all great and it's wonderful debate like it does not eliminate at all um how how wonderfully fleshed out these these uh scenes of dialogue are and to be it's it's more

of like i guess it makes the debate what i like about it is it it makes the debate what i like about it is it it makes the debate strictly about the morality choice and the and the choice of sacrifice even if you don't know who they are which is much like war you're like we got to go save this these people or these people are in danger but they don't know them people I know where my allies are about to be sacrificed to one degree or another yeah so like ending on that note of I call it war call it war I am the perfect person to go to battles Let me cut my breath Before we rise

I wonder if we would But I'm saying I would I would Find it just more I guess It makes sense to not show him Because it just puts you in the position Therein where you're kind of choosing as an audience member

Whereas if you're hanging out with Krieger You might just be like Well go save it him, he's Krieger. Yeah, we like Krieger. But removing that for the audience makes us just think about the debate itself. That's why I see the strength in it. And I just kind of want the emotional conflict more.

And I would be more conflicted if I knew Krieger, just a little bit. Yeah, that's a good point. And it makes me wonder if we will see that happen in some way next step is. or he gets his own Disney Plus series after he dies. That'll be the new trend of how to do good Star Wars series is get characters we know are going to die

at the end or will die. We've seen them die already or something and then yeah, we can tell a story and leave nothing on the the credits don't even say who plays that out of his face and it's not the guy from Borat. It's not Ken Devidian

that would be awesome. Yeah, I wonder if we will see it in some way. I mean, again, judging by how certain things were handled, especially in this episode, but have been handled throughout, I wonder if whatever glimpse we do get will still be removed somehow. Sure, yeah, but I could also imagine doing some kind of thing where you have the echoes of this debate or something that isn't that battle, maybe intercutting with that operation going sour or something like that.

It just seems like because they established that this thing's like happening tomorrow and we can move immediately you know and we've had this as a thread and like they've talked enough

it would also just help to see Krieger so that you know it's among many names and places thrown out there that are in conversation that aren't always on screen so it would just make it easier to keep track of anyway but also yeah I feel like they've done enough building on this

the same way they kind of did with Aldani where it's like they can They laced that in and built it up, and I feel like it would factor in. But if it doesn't, I think. I agree with you in the context of this episode. I'll be more maybe vexed about it if we just never see it before the season's done.

It'll be interesting. Cyril Rising, he had the funniest scene of the whole episode. There was, what we got? We got two tubes credited here. I read that wrong the first time. I know who that is. like two tubes

pit one and pit two yeah woo the son one and yeah lieutenant keysacks

my dude dude and I feel like there's oh yes then dude luthin's fight scene that was a great fight

yeah that was a great fight he pulled some shit out of his ass he did he turned on his VPN like John Wick the Empire if he wanted to dude he

He seems like you really could. He just took out like five tie fighters. What just happened here? In a ship that's probably not designed to take down five time fighters. Because they underestimated him. That's true. He took them all out. And it was like one of those spy cars where you're like, look at this piece of shit.

And you find out to equip with all like all kinds of spikes strips, grenades, toothpaste launcher, whatever you need, oils lick. Yeah, this is so cool. and he just whooped their asses. It was like so fast. Yeah, that dude just stand there and watch. Did he get out of, what are those called?

The magnet puller thing is. Oh, the tractor beams. Yes, yeah. Tractor beam. Release the tractor beam. One million credits. He really,

he gets out at Not only is he break out of the tractor beam, he also whips a bunch of tie fighter asses. I was like, God damn, how'd this guy not make it to Rogue 1? Well, he's going to, I bet he's going to die terribly. I feel like he has to make it through this season 2, but he's going to, they're going to make an example of him, I'm sure. Cardiac arrest, do you think? Yes, he's going to die completely unrelated. He's just going to slip and fall down a big flight of stairs, break his neck.

They're going to be like, shit. a lot of stress that guy has there's so many plans he didn't tell us about what do we do yeah i just love how things ramp up the colder he gets like the further they get in this fight the colder he has to become and and like the more his struggle to maintain his morality is like a logical endeavor yeah you know the whole thing about it like i love partly that scene between him and saw because it is like i'm giving you the choice you clearly seem to have like like less dirt on your metaphorical hands. Right, right.

Like, also, I'm leveraging you. Also, I'm trying to make you see what I see. But also, also, I think I need this, like, clash of vitalities just to make sure that I'm still here as a moral being because of how much I have to operate in the tools and means that, you know, my enemy does. So true. Good, good shit. Hey, what are you going to do, right? What are you going to do? What are you going to do?

What are you going to do? What are you going to do? What are you going to do? sometimes your mom dies but and we're finding out that is really sad man and if bick's that bix doesn't probably get to attend the funeral no I'm sure she doesn't

and I don't like part of me wonders if she will ever recover and part of me thinks she won't and part of me thinks that's cold but also bold when she has makeup on that means she's recovered that's the sign of female character recover your lips are all pale and your eyes sunken in your whole soul has been destroyed but you clean up nice no i respect them for putting her out of makeup sure it bothers me in shows when they're like too afraid to put their actor i mean she's

obviously wearing makeup she did lip wearing for torture film makeup to enhance the physical distress turmoil she's in the no makeup makeup makeup but they didn't yeah make her like her like let's pretty her up despite this terrible situation she's in yeah because obviously she is just we can't tell if she's beautiful otherwise without being like geez her natural looks are just so not doing it for me to be fair it doesn't matter really if she's wearing makeup or not yeah just oh my god like horrendous looking woman what she really got to be worried about The guy who sees this episode and goes, that's your best look, baby.

Be wary of that guy. Yeah, no. Adria Arona is a gorgeous woman. And a talent to behold as well. True that. To turn tables and the microphone. Yeah, guys. What did you think about this episode?

Leave your thoughts down below. And, uh, yeah, I'm just fucking, I'm yawning. All right, let's, uh, let's give us to do a Patreon. Mikhail You have been here for 55 months That's over four years You've served In the rechecked for belly

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