48: "Narkina 5" (Andor 08)

A More Civilized Age: A Star Wars Podcast

A More Civilized Age

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4.9 • 1.7K Ratings

🗓️ 31 October 2022

⏱️ 199 minutes

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Summary

If you made fun of us for going long on a previous Andor episode, well the joke is on you, because you should've waited for this week. In what can only be described as (minute-for-minute and pound-for-pound) our MOST five star runtime episode yet, we delve into all manner of bleak material. There's prison labor. There's a bitter-yet-functional marriage. There's a snare slowly tightening around a rebellion so nascent that even two of its most important leaders can't come to terms about working together. And there's a little terrible man who is, one bad day at a time, learning that the world doesn't work in the the facile, cartoonish way he dreamt it did.

NEXT TIME: Andor Episode 09

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	Let us return once more to a more civilized age, a Star Wars podcast.
0:13.1	I'm Rob Zachney, joined by Alia Capora, Austin Walker, and Natalie Watson.
0:17.7	Right now we are continuing with our weekly coverage of Andor before we resume our analysis
0:21.6	of the Clone Wars, supported as always by our listeners at patreon.com slash civilized.
0:27.6	Hey gang, I am hard pressed to name the bleakest thing I saw in Narcina 5, and I'm just curious,
0:35.0	what was your biggest gut punch?
0:38.9	Oh, it's the biggest gut punch.
0:40.8	I, there's a lot, there's, I, okay, here it is, it's actually, and this is like a small thing,
0:46.5	because it's not a, it's not a, there's so many real material things that are brutal about
0:51.4	this episode of what we learned about in the world. But Andor is so lost, he's so alienated,
0:58.6	he's so confused, he's quiet, he doesn't even feel like he can talk his way into or out of anything,
1:04.8	he's not running a game, he's not running a scam, he has no angle, this is all new to him,
1:10.4	and it's hard to see this character who has always been, he's not like a brilliant thief. Do you
1:18.2	know what I mean, we're like, this is not loop on the third, you know what I mean, he's not like a
1:21.7	wisecracken, you know, anti-hero, like, he's incredibly observant. And at being, looking like he can
1:31.8	find the way out or through, he's always looks like he's, he's, he's found the exit, he has his eyes on
1:37.6	the door, right? And there ain't no door. And he, it shows on his face, and in these scenes, he seems
1:44.0	awkward and confused, and I fear from my boy. I do, I do too. I mean, we know he gets out.
1:53.2	But you can be there for six years. Thank God, like, we don't have fear in our mind.
1:59.4	But yeah, we just have the Palm certainty. Right. The, I think for me, I will just say this,
2:08.8	when Brasso and Bix are talking about Marva privately, and the discussion about
2:22.4	she's an elderly relative, but technically she's not a relative. What are we supposed to do here?
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