What made me love Andor was the "everything makes sense" kinda vibe. It clicked early on the first episode when Syril is talking to his boss, and the chief just nails the case shut right there and there. Him knowing exactly what happened and brushing it off made so much sense, and it felt so fresh.
It's grounded and mature, and still manages to gracefully expand the lore in ways no other show or movie ever did.
The only other time I felt this way about SW was while reading some of the 90s legend comics. There were a lot of dark and mature content to dig there.
The thing is, it's been a long while since I had seen something that really made me feel like "Woah" while watching it. And the Narkina Five arc really just took my breath away. It was 2 and a half episodes worth of tension and build up, and when they finally revolted and started chanting "One Way Out" it was just incredible. That and also seeing Cassian's growth as a character and realizing that progress only happens when he works together with others was amazing. Especially, right after seeing his "I only care about the money/it's every man for himself" attitude during the Aldhani arc.
I always obsess over whether the baddies have a system that would work or not, it's hard to take seriously a threat that I could imagine predictable ways of overcoming. That's why Narkina 5 is so scary, because it works. And even if it is overcome, it makes itself scarier when it zooms out and shows multiple facilities in the water. And then you think about the other planets that the Niamos prisoners were sent off to, Belsavis being one of them. (Belsavis was a prison world used by the Rakata, later used by the Old Republic as well) And like imagine okay, out of all the people who somehow survive the prison break, a lot are gonna die trying to get back to civilization. A lot will probably be reinterred or executed. Of the people who make it out and get to freedom, imagine being in their shoes and having to convince people of what the Empire is doing.
Cassian, we know, is going to go dark a bit because, in Rogue One, he doesn’t hesitate to kill people for the Rebellion’s cause. He kills in cold blood and is skilled in assassination. But ultimately, we see with Jyn’s father, he doesn’t pull the trigger. There is humanity left in him. In Luthen, I think we are going to see someone who’s lost that humanity for good, and it will cost him.
