PEL Presents PMP#198: Andor: Grown-Up Star Wars
The Partially Examined Life Philosophy Podcast
Mark Linsenmayer
4.6 • 2.3K Ratings
🗓️ 7 June 2025
⏱️ 50 minutes
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Summary
Mark, Lawrence, Sarahlyn, and Al discuss Tony Gilroy's Star Wars Disney+ two-season TV show. Should this actually be a Star Wars show given how different in tone it was? The show adds meat (and banality!) to the evil of the Empire and the rough life of a rebel. We talk characters, themes, settings, and all that other literary stuff.
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| 0:00.0 | This is pretty much pop, a culture podcast, the gritty down-to-earth pop culture analysis podcast where non-humans are only decorative. |
| 0:15.6 | Today we're discussing Tony Gilroy's Star Wars Disney Plus show Andor, whose first season was released in the fall of 2022, |
| 0:23.3 | whose second and final season is just wrapped up. |
| 0:25.3 | This is Mark Lintonmeyer. |
| 0:26.5 | Though I'd like to thank you all for listening, I'm going to have to kill you just because you've heard too much. |
| 0:31.6 | This is Al Baker, and I'm just so happy to be talking for once about a piece of pure sci-fi escapism with no bearing on any current |
| 0:40.8 | political realities. I'm Sarah Lynn Breck, and as an English professor, I think they forgot the |
| 0:46.7 | slash between and and or. This is Lawrence Ware. I am the designer of the Death Star, |
| 0:53.9 | and I cannot believe they discovered the thermal |
| 0:56.9 | exhaust port. |
| 0:58.0 | If you had been on the writing team for this one, then maybe we would have gotten a different |
| 1:03.2 | backstory. |
| 1:04.3 | Yeah, it would have been great. |
| 1:05.4 | It would have been great. |
| 1:06.3 | Galen Erso was a figurehead. |
| 1:08.1 | I assume we like the show. |
| 1:10.3 | Yeah. |
| 1:11.0 | Are we just going to jump straight into praising the pants off this thing? |
| 1:13.9 | Because possibly, I mean, I'm fresh off having seen the second season, which didn't disappoint. |
| 1:19.1 | I love the first season. |
| 1:20.3 | And I just think this may be one of my favorite TV shows that anyone's ever made. |
| 1:25.8 | And a part of that is that it's the best Star Wars thing |
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