The Reel Rejects - REJECT RECAP: ANDOR Episode 12 (S1 Finale) - "Rix Road" REVIEW!!

Episode Date: November 23, 2022

EPIC FINALE EPISODE! Andor Ep 12 Reaction, Recap, Breakdown, & Review w/ Death Star Reveal! Characters culminate in a Ferrix Battle Fight Scene. Featured in episode is Luthen (Stellan Skarsgard), Cassian Andor, Mon Mothma, Syril, Marva, B2EMO, Diedra, Stormtroopers, & MORE! #Andor #StarWars #Disney #DisneyPlus #CassianAndor #monmothma #Jedi Become A Super Sexy Reject For Full-Length T.V. & Movie Reactions + FULL LENGTH ANDOR Watch Alongs! https://www.patreon.com/thereelrejects Support The Channel By Checking Out Our High-Quality Merch: http://shopzeroedition.com/collections/reel-rejects-merch Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/the-reel-rejects/support Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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Andra quote. I'm not actually calling you guys that. That's Andrew calling you that. Claim him. Be racist for something. All right, guys. Let's do it. Oh, wow.

Oh, wow. That's so cool. that's a hell of it that is an image yeah what is that what is that I don't know man we have to wait to the easter eggs

breakdown kino loy is just floating by I think I said that I can't be the other one predicted it they were building stuff for the death star yeah yeah it's the old that would be perfect poetic irony that was the main thing to tie it into not only are you building parts for the death star but you're building parts for the most lethal part of the death star yeah the most

life erasing part of the death star crazy crazy stuff that shit cry let's talk about it you mother f words all right that was a wonderful culmination episode everything came together in the end it did it all worked out all worked out everything turned out the room empire they beat the empire everybody wins no i loved uh marva's speech um giving her own eulogy thought was great a goodbye message kind of reminds you of like when you my first thought was actually um oh my god who did uh would jim care play a man on the moon oh andy cough i have any coffin of yeah like prepping something in advance i mean many people do that and i thought it was great that you know like it was such a bummer that she stayed behind and a big part of her reason to stay behind

was to give fuel and provide help and be a part of the rebellion in some way because she could feel that there was a rise happening but her her death and the gathering and her speech was the lynchman to it all yeah and i thought that was so beautiful that this all got to go down at her funeral like there's no other way she would have wanted this funeral to go dead and granted she did she want her some her own people to die from ferricks not no however the fact that the rebellion did with ferricks like this this was such a monumental moment and watching this rise happen and um you know one thing i remember when i first walked out of rogue one i think we shared the same sentiment here was that that movie kind of put the war in star wars and this really did that into an even more grim effect because you know you're like yeah good let's go let's go but it never turned into badassery the way how you think it might turn into yeah it stayed very bleak and just so so sad the entire time it felt like you see the ugly side of war here where even in star wars a lot of the time it is like a rousing and spectacle and whatnot

and it never it never turned into that it remained this felt like real brutality and like a real war zone basically is what I'm getting at it's about like actually seeing blood so yeah but it the way that the images they chose to to capture would like the police holding the front line and the bashing the people with their batons you know and opening fire into the crowd yeah yeah it was really ugly And, like, thematically, I just thought everything tied in and plot-wise, everything, you know, unfolded together, too, with all the characters coming together at this one meeting point. And I do feel like it is a completion of a season one, because, yeah, it ends on a cliffhanger. And not that I feel like the story would end here, but I feel like this specific chapter they decided to tell because we've gone in, you know, like every three to four episodes, it was kind of telling a new chapter of the season. and then here they brought it all around where it sort of felt like part one of a novel sure you know or like the first the first novel in a series of novels

yeah yeah and I thought they did an excellent just exquisite job but you know bring them something different yeah no this was so so rich and yeah I thought that they it's like Rogue 1

is really well proportioned as a movie because it is like the story of one particular battle and that's great fodder for a war movie whereas this is yeah honing in on there are battles there is the actual fight but so much of what war is is the strategizing and the buildup and the really harsh decisions and the weird things that you have to live with in the ways in which you have to cross your own moral boundaries and yeah this was very this was rousing but in a completely a different kind of way because yeah you do associate i associate you know star Wars with a certain amount of hope and then and not to say that there isn't hope but it's it's

showing you just how much you have to put into hope like I feel like people look at hope is this external force that lifts you up but you have to fill that well and you're watching you know over the course of this season as Cassie and Andor commits to going to that well and nurturing that well and I thought it was really beautifully handled the way they brought everybody that seems so disparate And it was never really telegraphed this way, but they brought everybody here and you see how everybody is and isn't, mostly isn't prepared for this.

And I thought that was a really cool thing because we've watched so like over the season, all these machinations, all these plans being built, and especially through characters like Deidre and Luton, you see the two sides that are very assured of their hand. And even though there are variables, you see the prowess of strategy. And here everything comes together,

in a complete mess for everybody, which I think is especially striking, but it puts the hands back into the, it puts the power, or at least the momentum, the moment back into just the people's hands. Like, I love that as much as you have all of our main figures of the ensemble

throughout this episode, and you have that tension of their proximity and kind of what each of them, what role they're playing, so much of what really is impactful about this episode is just what the people of Farix as led by Marva choose to do. and then we zoom into these little personal moments in between that

but I think especially for again a Star Wars series honing in on the idea of war I think that's a really beautiful thing because it does kind of show it in a stark sense and I think it's the first time I've ever watched something like this and thought to myself you know what I'm happy that there isn't blood with these blasters because for what this is we can level up and we can use the fact that you can get pretty gritty and pretty harsh and pretty realistic to a degree with violence if you do not have the blood and so here i thought that plays

to a really great effect a really harsh effect but an effect that really grabs you and it's like it's i'm sure it's happened before but this is the first time i can remember where like the the culmination of the the just the all the pent-up emotion that boils over at the start of a battle really hit me in this episodes. You're watching them process through the street when it became clear that the funeral procession was also about to become a full-on fight, a full-on, like, rebellious act in the moment. Like, that really moved me. Like, this is a really moving episode in a way that I didn't ever really expect, but I'm, just as the best of Star Wars can give you that, like, whip your fist and like, yes, you know, that catharsis, this was a wholly different catharsis, but, you know, a part

of that same picture of hope you know just in again the harsher more formative stages of what that hope can do and be in the fact that you have to you know shine that light so intentionally through the dark um but yeah this is this was i mean i feel like this is going to sit with me and sort of process through my system for the next several days but i was really wowed by this and as a culmination of the season i just hats off so much of the discourse of about star wars is about like who had a plan and what that plan amounted to and this series feels like the product of excellent planning and an excellent grip on themes first and foremost yeah and i like that they had this attention to detail with luthan and vell and all them as being the center point

for where the rebellion really sprung up and it did you know with al don't being a major moving point to turning that needle even for marva like if that didn't happen marva wouldn't have been moved to do what she to stay with ferrics and perhaps even give that speech you know and i like that they show up and it's like they don't they're not even prepared for for this yeah you know and yet you have of course i'm blaking on the name now the book the one who left behind everything for Andor. Oh, Emick. Yeah.

Like, you even bring that back around and you see that he, that andor has been absorbing all of that because, you know, he is that character in this series where him being such a centerpiece for it all and like everyone's here just preparing for we're looking for Andor, we got to get Andrew, we've got to kill Andor. You know, it's all coming down to. And yet they're, they're so focused on that that they're, they've kind of turned a blind eye to the fact that oh wait we got all these other people here that are actually feeling a lot of hostility and are really not handling the oppression you know

like they're ready to throw down and i like that luth and novell they're not even prepared for that yeah when this is such a big cause for why they exist and what they're fighting for and this all stems within the the family of andor you know and i like how cassian through his journey being that art type character who you know you can tell that obviously we know we catch up with him in rogue one and whatnot that he's going to be that guy who is like so resistant towards resistance who's so resistant toward the rebellion and doesn't believe in it but through all the cards that keep being dealt his way he's moved through to joining the rebellion in the end of course bringing the back full circle from that fourth episode when he is on the ship with luthin and

And Luthan is trying to convince him into fighting for it. And with, I forgot as if you can't know, what the hell. Oh, Nemeck. Nemic. You want to call him Ecom. I'm like, I know that's not it. With Nemeck. And there's always, and in Marva, too.

You know, always trying to instill the willingness to fight back and fight for this cause. And it's taken a lot of sacrifice and a lot of personal movement and experiences for him to get to that point that didn't feel cliche in how we got there it it wasn't just like marva's dead all right i'm i'm now feeling it because she died and i got to do this for her did it turn into that which is what i thought they were going to do and it it didn't go down that path i mean sure it's it's a part of it i imagine with this character but so much his performance is so internal but you can pick up on it just from the little as bits of details even from him going into the prison uh and and seeing just wow these guys are not messing around you know they

they don't even give you a second chance at life at any capacity so i i love the way how we got and or to the closing point of i'm going to fight now not for money not for monetary again not to escape and not not for just pure selfish reasons or anything like that it is because he has found a reason to fight in this rebellion and it's something that he now believes in so they they brought that all around with the characters too like i love the little look of exchanges that he has with luthan at the end this whole time wants to kill him but he can like that smile he gives that little yeah that little tiny smirk of hope like he's come he's come around this luth this and or he's come around he's part of it now um i love that i think i think that was really great i think some things i could

use a little bit more flushing out for me are val and sinta sinta i mean cinta i mean cinds to feels like it's like an important character but could use a little bit more detail with her and getting to know who she really is just a little bit better and there are some people on ferrics who i'm like i really like them when they're there but i i wish i got to know them a little bit better to care a tad bit more about them you know yeah who we have checked in with periodically um so yeah there are some things there that i feel like can be um explored a little bit more come the next season and yeah it's like we didn't really get a good a solid like we really just got a good cliffhanger with bond mothma we didn't really get a chapter close so much other than you know

with her getting the money and handing off the kid yeah yeah like that's a good cliffhanger but i i felt like we could use a more of a chapter of close for that yeah but i like how hers ends on such a dark note you know like everyone else's kind of ends on a semi hopeful note if you're one of the good guys, one of the protagonists, but hers is just so, so bleak. Oh, yeah. It's like everybody is, everybody on the ground is stepping out of the shadows, and now she has to step further into the shadows. Yeah. It's all aimed toward the same goal, but yeah, how much, how much more harsh in the moment, in a way, personally, at least that seems. Yeah, so I actually, I do like where it ended with her. I'm not saying I don't, I don't like it.

I do like where it ended with her because of that contrast. It just feels like a step rather than like a whole arc yeah yeah yeah yeah um but you've been watching her descend through this whole season and i do like how just uh unprepared the empire was for what came their way in this episode too yeah which felt like a realistic way of depicting it into a certain extent because they are just so they underestimate and they're so focused and you know they did bring it back with Krieger dying and even with

the ISB officer saying you know like this this was about I forget what exactly what it was exact sentence was but you know it was to send the statement and to wipe it clean which is what Luton wanted

was for them to feel like they have ultimate power over this like oh they just walked right into this and it was easy peasy so now the emperor is happy yeah the emperor's happy and because of an incident like that it probably made it easier for what happened at ferris for them to fight back too just like that little bit of a give enough to underestimate that can give more power so i i thought that was great and like didger and cyril even coming together in the ender's like one twisted ass duo here but

i like them together i do they're creepy as hell together i like them i'm very excited there's a bunch of freaks those two yes i'm very excited to see who they become in season two they're going to have a very kinky relationship moving forward. I can already tell. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah, yeah, that was great. And the use of music,

you pointed out that there's so much just folly and so much just natural sound, and then they have these extended patches. Like, there's a little bit of score music because I started to pay attention. But I love that, yeah, you have so much that's just sound effects of the environment,

and then you have this long, extended sequence of music where the music itself is sort of the main character and everybody else is focused in on that and it's completely motivated by what's on screen like there's so many really lively creative choices throughout all this too like as as as great as like the storytelling and the writing and all that stuff is like it's also really beautifully realized and and you know it's one of the most immersive star war shows i feel like we've had in a way as much as i love galivantic about the galaxy and there are things i love about you know each of

the series this one feels the most like you're just there yeah yeah well it's sucks you into its mood and atmosphere this episode in particular because of its choice with its more longer lasting shots and with um the when to when to use music when not to use music and then a big portion when you got the music was just from the procession you know like that letting that drive the mood more oh that was great too that B was the one to um project the hologram yeah yeah and then what I Half-ass attempt that one guy to cover it up. That is be a guy.

It was his coat. If you didn't do that, man, they might not have fought back. I know. There might have been still some hesitation. One, it's great because they don't wink at you and they don't go, ha, ha, ha. He was right about, you know, the empire back in the, you know, in the prison. You know, and, you know, you can see how, I love that, basically, that you have the whole Krieger thing play out in the background almost the entire time. And I love that even the guy here is like,

you guys aren't, you guys are to hear about this? Like I feel like it's a bit of detail. It's been kind of hard for people to keep track of. But I love that you have that. And then you kind of come back around to a situation. You watch so many people, even on a low scale,

like the guy, the two guys who tip off the Imperials that Andor is here and get them looking for them. You know, the guys who betray them. Like you watch so many people agree to letting circumstances happen. just so that your opponent won't be any the wiser

and then you end up in a situation where both sides aren't none the wiser about what's about that weapon. And so, yeah, it also kind of gives a good kind of call to both sides that you've got to really pay any attention. Most definitely. Most definitely. And even with Bix, like what you're talking about with hope, I think the one person who and or directly gives hope to is Bix.

you know she's someone who is completely hopeless at this point and doesn't even know she's physically all there like she has a lot to regain physically and mentally you know after the torture she endured so that moment at the very end where they all felt like there's hope within and or when they are getting away i thought was really powerful and really elevated the and or character himself yeah there's i think there's a lot of beauty on display in this episode and i think it was just fleshed out really really well with uh with uh with with the more human side of the war in star wars i would say like even the after effects that you see when when the wars when the battle's done and you're cutting around to seeing some people who are just drained and tired and emotionally distraught yeah i appreciate that that like i said it's it there's more of it like an adventurous spirit usually within the battles of star wars and you don't really get at this side where you just see people are torn apart and it makes you, it made me appreciate it. And so, yeah, I think you really capture the human side.

And I feel like that's kind of the point of this series is to show you that the human side of the rebellious spirit. And that usually starts with hopelessness. So, yeah. And too, so much of, I guess, the last thing is I feel like so much of, again, Star Wars has these really iconic heroic characters. and one thing I appreciated about Rogue One that I think they've also carried over in a beautiful way here is the way in which a person who maybe played a brief role

can be so important. It's like Nemek hasn't been around for a while and yet he feels like a real presence in this episode and like a crucial presence. And even having Andor, the complaint many people have of like, andor doesn't even really seem like the fully main character. I feel like that even still goes

to kind of bolster that overall theme of like you do see where his arc his journey and why he is at the center of all this but also you see the contribution of so many other smaller players who might not be you know hoisted to the level that a luke skywalker kind of character would be or any well it's not like the show seems this interested in and or nor does it seem like they're forcing and or to be the star yeah you know uh i think that they they could have put themselves in a position where it felt that way or like clearly they're not that interested in writing and or

they're interested in everyone else yeah uh but they i think they naturally make and or the center of the show i think he does a great job i think diego luna does a really like an excellent job it's yeah the other characters are more exciting and and uh they're fresh they're new and they're sometimes they're just given more to do and in acting wise and plot wise

you know so sometimes you do give them more stuff uh but and or is is the main moving puzzle to all this. Yeah. You know? He's not exactly like Mad Max, but kind of, you know? Yeah. You watch him go from Mad Max to the, you know,

yeah, I mean, kind of, if he really, if Mad Max really found a cause that he wanted to stick with for the rest of his life. Yeah. You know, instead of moving on to the next one. Yeah, yeah, yeah. And I do think the post-credit scene was fun. Yeah. Tying it back to this.

I think a lot of us might have thought that, right? The Rebellingship of the Death Star. I was just more like the timeline of this, right? Because did they get Urso, Galen, to start building it? When did that start? Like, I was trying to put it up. I had been like, okay, Jen was a child. They'd like the same in age, her and and or so.

That would make sense if they're already starting development on it. Yeah. Yeah. So it's far that far along, especially. Yeah, because it took him a very long time to build that thing. So, yeah. When did they break ground on the Death Star? Yeah, no.

It took the mage to put that together. So, you know, and I think, like, maybe next season is when you do see Crenic, or you do see Galen. And you probably get K2SO. That's when you get the Rogue One characters who come in. And get Milshey back. Yeah. I think you start to get more of these other characters here, which is fun. Yeah.

And then we could finally get and or Mon Mothma meeting each other. Bob Iger agrees to green lights. Keep season two going. They just started shooting today. Did they? Apparently. We got to start shooting before Iger shuts this shit down. Our numbers haven't been the best.

Quick. Streaming is already a tricky one. Start shooting before he says no. Start shooting. We're going to be shooting until next summer. I don't know. We already started. We just shut us down now.

It costs you more money. That's not a tad. don't be a warner brother just there it don't don't tax right off us yeah all righty well um yeah it's a slam dunk i thought every episode was great uh there wasn't a weak episode of me i mean some are more exciting than others but uh as in terms of was there a week episode no this was a very a wildly consistent show in my opinion i know there's a big bar to the fan but It didn't rely on the old streaming show Just make the opening and the ending good

And whatever's in the middle This is up to the fans Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah It wasn't just about getting you to watch The next episode And it felt like the appropriate length, too Which is almost shocking these days And I feel like as much as I like the week to week

I feel like it'd be a good binge Sure, yeah Yeah, it's just a well unified piece Yeah, for sure, for sure all right guys what did you think about the and or finale this show hit the landing for you leave your thoughts down below it's kind of crazy how like book of boboffet ended in a city with the people fighting back and stuff and and they did this too in the hometown turf but just so much more interesting this feels just so much more real yeah it's like a fun house all right guys let's end us with a patron Gabrielle. Ah, beat me to it. Guardian Angel here.

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