44: "Aldhani" (Andor 04)

A More Civilized Age: A Star Wars Podcast

A More Civilized Age

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4.9 • 1.7K Ratings

🗓️ 3 October 2022

⏱️ 127 minutes

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Summary

Three episodes can trick you. It's enough that you think: Okay, I have the gist of the show. I understand what's going on here. I get the moves the filmmakers like to make, I understand tone and theme. I get what the actors have at their disposal. But three episodes is nothing. Sometimes a showrunner handles the introductory arc themself, only to step back afterwards. Budgets dip. The relationship between actors, directors, and others on set can sour. Three episodes can trick you.

But Andor first three episodes didn't trick us.

Join us this week for our dive into the fourth episode of the series, where we dig into all of our favorite topics, including cultural deterritorialization, the penchant intelligence agencies have for falling into paranoia, and, of course, extremely shitty husbands.

NEXT TIME: Andor Episode 05

Show Notes

Hosted by Rob Zacny (@RobZacny)

Featuring Alicia Acampora (@ali_west), Austin Walker (@austin_walker), and Natalie Watson (@nataliewatson)

Produced by Austin Walker

Music by Jack de Quidt (@notquitereal)

Cover art by Xeecee (@xeeceevevo)

Transcript

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0:00.0	What has returned once more to a more civilized age of Star Wars podcast, and we'll set
0:12.9	a Clone Wars podcast, because it's still a force of heaven, I'm stumbling over it.
0:17.2	I'm Rob Zachary, joined by Aliyah Kampura, Austin Walker, and Natalie Watson.
0:21.9	So a criticism I've seen leveled against people's stories and frequently agree with, honestly,
0:26.9	is that they end up telling stories that do not really need to be told, tied to familiar
0:31.9	sporting characters who don't really work as a primary narrative focus.
0:36.7	But with its first three episodes, and now with episode four, Aldani, Andor is really
0:40.7	making clear that its emphasis is on giving characters and events context more than origin
0:45.3	stories.
0:46.3	Does Rogue One need an origin story for Cassie and Andorre to become more interesting?
0:51.2	Patently not.
0:52.6	How does the world end up creating someone like Cassie and Andorre?
0:56.2	Well, now we have a story that makes Star Wars itself a more interesting subject.
1:01.2	Context is the theme tying together of this banquet of character actors in Aldani, not
1:06.5	a lot happens in this episode.
1:09.1	Andorre is deposited on the planet Aldani to become the final member of an insurgent strike
1:14.0	team targeting an imperial payroll shipment, where Lutheran Rail has insisted that the
1:19.7	rebel commander leader, Valsartha, take him aboard her little band of true believers as
1:24.8	a mercenary.
1:26.4	We get context for Lutheran himself as he returns to his life on Coruscant as a soft
1:30.6	posh art dealer, sick of it to the great and the good, one of his clients.
1:35.4	Not an art dealer, a relic, an antiquarian, a relic dealer, stuffs taken from other people's
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