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The Great Peter David.

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I'm working through @agramuglia.bsky.social thoughts on Star Wars and feel like I've found a kindred spirit in the idea that the best Star Wars is - and always has been - in your own head. There was a time we all seemed to know this. Battlefront ad about this idea www.youtube.com/watch?v=t7m7...

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The hardest thing to find in creative work is harsh critics who will be honest about where something fails.

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The atomics of game design are so interesting. If a turn takes 1 minute, and you plan for someone to have 36 of them, then you've got a 2 1/2 hour game. So you make turns simpler - Imperial style - or you have fewer of them, but those decisions seem fundamental.

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Shelf Stable is probably the best Board Game podcast at the moment, and this is the best conversation with Cole I've heard. It gets to really interesting places.

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My perfect Andor ending would have been Cassian leaving, then we pan down to the Reb HQ. Mon says "I need someone for a spy mission" and a guy puts his hand up, perhaps a handsome guy. "I'll do it". "Who... who are you?" Mon asks. "Manny Bothans, at your service." Smash cut to black.

submitted 21 days ago • 1 comment

Random Things I Love About Andor #17 Baby Box, not because she is a trad wife fantasy, but because in a saga about magic children inheriting special powers Baby Bix is not special, other than the fact we know their story, which is true of every one.

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Random Things I Love About Andor #16 How the Empire has changed fundamentals like love to being calculated, and cold, in the same way The Party has in 1984. Family is a hostile entity, and friendship is strategic.

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Random Things I Love About Andor #15 Perrin and Sculdun's Wife, not because they are doing rude stuff, but that are both left behind. Davo has gone into Imperial society and Mon into the Rebellion, and they are cast aside, but there is no joy in that, as Perrin thought, just oblivion.

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Random Things I Love About Andor #14 The haircuts. No, seriously, my beef with Episode Three is that it ends like a 2005 Playstation Game rather than building to link up with a 1977 movie thematically. 1977 is all static locked off shots and Ep3 is just not. The end of Andor has the style of '77

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Random Things I Love About Andor #13 Nemik's manifesto. That the call to arms is not a lightsabre passed down from one man to another, but an idea, passed on to everybody. Also, Alex Lawther as Nemik, was brilliant.

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Random Things I Love About Andor #12 The "two pieces of questionable providence" could Luthen and Dedra. She is bringing up the subject of decpetion, but he is calling her out on her role on Ghorman. He is telling her that they are both prepared to lie for their cause.

submitted 22 days ago • 1 comment

Random Things I Love About Andor #10 You never find out who kills Lonni. Luthen might walk away and Kleya do it, or Luthen might do it, but you get to make your decision.

submitted 22 days ago • 1 comment

Random Things I Love About Andor #9 How Dedra still thinks that she is working ISB even after she is arrested, and can't conceive life without it.

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I'm hiding from all Andor discourse until the series is done because I just wanted to enjoy the luscious plotting and ruch characters in the same way I enjoyed 1977 Star Wars. As fuel for the imagination. (Only now, I'm imagining how to organise better)

submitted 29 days ago • 0 comments

Imagine how you'd have sulked i you were playing Subutteo and someone did to you what City did to Walsall on Saturday. #bcafc stuff here, get it Bantamites

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Random Things I Love About Andor #8 "Calibrate your enthusiasm."

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Random Things I Love About Andor #7 The script often starts late, and by doing so creates these areas for your brain to fill in, like the Solider, or if Luthen does give Andor help at the end of 2.6, and that cuts against so much TV/Movies which have to fill in every space.

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Random Things I Love About Andor #6 "It is tough squeezing a whole year's worth of insincerity into three nights." Perrin, not the hero of the story, gets the respect of being a fleshed out person, and because he is fleshed out he gets a line like this.

submitted 34 days ago • 0 comments