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Is it peak Star Wars? I Hey guys. So, as
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we get to this review of Andor, I want
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to make sure that you're all aware of
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the Emperor 2 saber that has been
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released and is a limited edition. All
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of you guys asked for another Emperor
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model to be released, but we felt it
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wouldn't be right for the people who
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originally got the first 200 for us to
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make more. Um, of course, we would love
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to, but it just didn't feel right. So,
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we made this other version, which I
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personally I think looks doper. It's
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black and gold and it was his second
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version. So, that's on sale right now.
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You can go and grab it and pre-order it
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right now on the site. Enjoy this video.
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A lot to say about it. Andor season 2
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full
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review. What's up, guys? How are you
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doing this video here? Just chilling a
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little bit right before I go to bed. and
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I wanted to do my andor review because I
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did watch it. Now, originally, I didn't
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want to comment on the show. Didn't mean
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I wasn't watching it or anything like
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that, but as I said in previous videos,
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I didn't want to comment on the show,
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make money from the show, review the
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show online because I felt like I had to
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have a certain opinion. And quite
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frankly, I disagree with my original
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statement. Uh I think I've always stayed
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true to just being myself and saying my
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opinions. And for some reason, I allowed
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it to get to me. I think I was just
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spending too much time indoors and
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working a little too much and I uh I was
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just being soft. It's not going to
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happen again. At least most likely not.
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So anyways, the show um look, the first
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three episodes really put me off. I
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wasn't into it. I didn't enjoy the whole
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jungle scene. I felt it was so slow. It
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was so pointless. It was so just not
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enjoyable for me. And some of the other
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scenes that I felt just didn't feel like
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Star Wars at all. And I just wasn't into
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it. I didn't want to watch it. I had
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also seen Tony Gilroyy's comments
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regarding Star Wars and how he wasn't a
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fan of it and didn't really care for it
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and I just rubbed me the wrong way. I
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didn't want to watch it or support it.
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Um, weeks went by and I returned to old
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lore content which only the OGs really
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enjoy, but I'm here for that. I'm here
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for my entire audience and subscriber
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base cuz at the end of the day, you guys
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made me who I am and are responsible for
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this entire thing. And every video had
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thousands of comments about Andor, you
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know, like troll comments. hate
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comments, pleading comments, please
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watch it, you know, and and then I went
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to Nashville ICC Con and a lot of you
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were talking about a lot of like face to
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face being like, you know, give it a
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shot. Give it a chance. Heartfelt
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comments just not not being trolls, just
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seriously like you in person. I figured,
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okay, you know what, man? Like at the
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end of the day, I'm a man of my
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community. You guys have got me here and
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so I'm going to watch it and then I'll
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give my take and if I still don't like
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it, then I'll say I don't like it. And
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of course, the nail in the coffin was
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Roger Christian telling me that I should
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watch it. So, I watched it. Episodes I
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started episode four because I'd already
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seen the first three. Episode four,
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slow, boring. Five, slow, boring. Six,
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slow, boring. Seven changed a bit.
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Episode 8, 9, 10, 11, 12. For me, I know
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a lot of people are going to say
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something about this. Probably some of
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the best Disney Star Wars. You know
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what? After the first six films in the
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Clone Wars, probably some of the best
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Star Wars I have seen. And it was
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nothing like the first three episodes.
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It was nothing like the first six
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episodes. But after episode 7, after all
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the slow slowness, after all the not
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feeling like Star Wars, after all of the
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exposition, really started to
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change. And you really start to see how
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something so grandiose in the first
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three films, four, five, and six, which
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affected all of the main characters. And
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we know it affected the rest of the
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galaxy, but mainly just focusing on the
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three main characters of Han, Luke, and
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Leia, and how the Death Star impacted
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them and how the oppression of the
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Empire impacted them. We never really
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got to dive into the little details of
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the everyday people, of the start of the
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Rebellion. Now, we can argue that George
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Lucas created the Rebellion, the rebels,
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and all that, and I am a true George
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Lucas fan. But if I'm to judge this
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project and to take my hate of I'd say
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probably the 90% of Disney projects that
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they have created that have just made me
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so disillusioned with Star Wars. If I'm
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to take that and try to imagine that
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doesn't exist and judge this fairly as
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its own standalone thing and connect it
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into Rogue One, which I feel like was
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one of Disney's best Star Wars projects,
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which isn't really saying much, but I
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feel it was really good. and then
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connect it into episode four. I think
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episodes 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12 of Andor
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season 2 was actually really phenomenal
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for me. Listen, if you guys have been
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riding with me for a long time and you
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didn't watch the show, just jump into
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episode 7 of season 2. Start right
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there. I mean, seeing the level of
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turmoil that the Empire has caused on
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the first attack, public attack of
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Gorman and and their seizing of what
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they want, right? All right, cuz
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Palpatine is very political. He'll do
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everything that he can with a smile on
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his face, and we know this. But when it
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gets to the point where he needs one
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thing, which is a mineral from Gorman
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for the Death Star to complete it for
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the lasers, at the end of the day, if
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they're not going to give him what he
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wants, he's going to take it by force.
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And to see how the Empire did that,
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Krennic's involvement, Ben Mendelson,
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who's brilliant actor, his involvement
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with all of that, overseeing everything
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and and and who we thought were the
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higherups at the ISB are really just
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little dogs to him. And if we go above
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him, we see Tarkin Krennic is like the
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little dog. It's a really interesting
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story. And we see how they manipulate
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that entire overtaking of Gorman by the
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Empire doing the first shot and making
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it look like, you know, when one of the
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snipers took out one of the uh the
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Imperials and making it look like it was
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a a first instigated attack by Gorman
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and they're they're now just protecting
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themselves and retaliating. It it's um
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it plays into a lot of themes of
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politics today and it really shows the
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level of brutality and what the Empire
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really is all about, which is
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themselves. Well, what Palpatine wants,
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taking what he wants. You either give it
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to us or we're going to take it by
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force, and that's always been what the
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Empire is about. Wow. And now I just
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realized that that rape scene was
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literally encapsulating that. All
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right. Okay. I was probably blinded by
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my hatred of the acolyte and of uh a lot
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of the other Disney projects and just
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the sheer annoyance that Disney Star
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Wars fans have where you just can't have
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an opinion other than it was amazing. It
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was perfect. It was peak otherwise
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you're racist, sexist, and homophobic.
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And I I I hate that. And I think it
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almost at this point it makes us write
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off so much off the bat because we're so
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angry and pissed off at this type of
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behavior and treatment that it doesn't
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really let us judge things fairly and
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accordingly to judge each project
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project by itself. And I feel like with
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Andor season 2 beyond episode 7, look
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the episodes before episode 7 in my
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opinion are still Boring, lame,
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not Star Wars. episode 7 to 12, I feel
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like it did a fantastic job of not only
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getting you involved in the characters
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lives and their involvement in the start
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of the real rebellion, but it really
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painted the whole picture of just how
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dysfunctional the Empire is when it
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comes to keeping their on lock. The
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secrets of the Death Star got leaked
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out. Luther started telling people and
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yapping away and how Krennic was so
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angry that this information got leaked
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that he then had all basically all the
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colonels lie to create some sort of a
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fictitious story that uh Luan's daughter
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that he found on that ship which by the
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way those backstory episodes were great
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on episode 10 I believe it was to say
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that she's diseased and she's going to
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spread a disease and she's like a threat
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to the public or something like that. I
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think those are really well done. I
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remember watching it and I was getting
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messages for work for Theory Savers and
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I was like, "Yeah, you know what? I'll
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answer these later. I want to watch
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this." And that to me made me really
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realize that I like this, that this
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is good. I watched the whole thing and I
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watched it unbiasedly and I liked it. I
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felt it was really good. I felt it
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really portrayed this era in Star Wars
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quite well. I enjoyed the time jumps. I
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particularly really enjoyed I think it
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was episode 9 where Mon Mothma is
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explaining to the Senate and to the
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galaxy on air live. She's like the
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whistleblower essentially. She's she's
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the one telling everyone that this
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massacre on Gorman is Palpatine just
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essentially taking what he wants and
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he's not going to stop. And it's just
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the start of many Imperial totalitarian
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control. And for me, it was quite a
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moving scene. And then her escaping and
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Cassie and helping her escape. I think
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the writing was very good. Episode 7 to
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12. I think everything was really well
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done. I can't there's nothing I can say
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that I didn't like about those episodes.
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The music, acting, the dialogue, the
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pacing. I feel like everything was
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really well done. And and if that is due
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to the fact that there was so much
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exposition and the jungle episodes,
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fine. Personally, I don't think so. I
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think if you are wanting to watch some
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really good episodes of Star Wars,
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Disney Star Wars about the Empire, it's
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not going to be about Jedi and
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lightsabers and stuff and the Force
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about the Empire and world building and
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giving you a more of a clear
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understanding of how the Death Star and
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the reg and the Empire and the
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oppression of the Empire affects
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everyday people and the first instance
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of that on Gorman publicly and how the
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how the galaxy reacts to that and how
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the rebellion is starting to spread and
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Yavin, you're really going to enjoy this
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from a prequel original George
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Lucas purist. You're really going to
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enjoy this Forget all the other
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episodes. Forget season one. Well, you
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can watch some of season. Season one was
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boring too for me. Oh no. Season 2,
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episode 1 to six. Boring. Did not like
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it at all. Fighting to stay awake.
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Seven, eight, dude. Like I just I I
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actually I can't get over it. Like it
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was actually freaking good. You guys
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know me, man. When I like something, I
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really like it. When I don't like
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something, I'll let you know. Nothing
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more I can really say. I'm trying to
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think if I'm leaving anything out here.
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So, if you can get this uh level of
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competency and this feel and gravitas
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and writing and apply it to something
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with Jedi and the Force and Sith that is
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true to George Lucas Star Wars, you're
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going to win some people back and you're
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going to start making some money. Uh you
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won't win everybody back, but some
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people for some people it's just far too
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late. And uh I might even be one of
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those. But you know what? I can judge
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things accordingly. I can disassociate
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quite well.
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Compartmentalize certain things,
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projects, events. I recommend episode 7
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to 12. Give it a shot. You can even jump
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to episode 8 if you want. Episode 7.
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Yeah. But it gives you the bit of a um
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the warm-up to to 8, which was pretty
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cool. Oh, and and and all of these all
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of these dicks who said that it plays
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into my narrative to hate things. First
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of all, you're a weekend Star Wars fan,
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okay? I've been in this game. I've been
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in this fight my entire life, so don't
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come at me with that kind of
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If I really wanted to monetize this
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I would have made videos about
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Andor until the cows come home. I know
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what makes money. I know what titles
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make money. I know what content makes
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money. If I was trying to do that, I
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would have never stopped making content
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about Andor. I skipped the entire thing.
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No watch parties, no videos, no weekly
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breakdowns, nothing. I have integrity
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and I stuck to it and I didn't want to
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watch it. I didn't want to cover it. But
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after you guys braided my ass to watch
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this, I realized that look, at the end
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of the day, these are a lot of my
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community, the people who got me here,
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who are requesting for me to watch this,
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they want me to watch this, they want me
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to watch it with an open mind. So, I
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did. And you guys weren't wrong. I can
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see where you were coming from. Uh we're
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on the same page. Uh if we're talking
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about 7 to 12. So is it peak Star Wars?
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I don't think it's peak Star Wars. Peak
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Star Wars is the first six films. That's
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real Star Wars to me. Is this peak
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Disney Star Wars? Yes. But besides that,
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um it was very good. There's nothing I
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can say bad about it. But to say it's
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peak is a disrespect to the first six
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films cuz the peak is the peak. The peak
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is as high as it can go. And as high as
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it can go is George Lucas Star Wars. So,
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um, this can be right below the P, but
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it is a great addition to the lore and
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the start of the rebellion and the
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explanation of how the empire and their
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regime affects everyday people and their
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lives. I think it did a beautiful,
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fantastic job of that. Anyways, this
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review is like 18 minutes long now, but
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um, well deserved for the praise that
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it's getting and and all that. And I
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don't know how it's doing in terms of
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views or people watching it. I don't
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know how it's done, but uh I I can
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definitely vouch for it. Episodes 7 to
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12 are fantastic. So, that closes the
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door on Andor. Next up,
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Visions. And then we got Ahsoka season 2
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and the mall show. I'm looking forward
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to the mall show a lot. Can't wait for
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that. I hope it's good. So, um
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especially with them putting Talon in
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there. But yeah, man. Give it a shot.
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you got nothing to lose. If you don't
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like it, let me know why. But, uh, you
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know, it turned someone who was
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literally like disliked Andor, disliked
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Tony Gilroyy's statements and disliked a
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lot of the, uh, Andor fans who would
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like just bate the out of me for
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years. Bricks and screws, this it turn I
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was so turned off and I I was being a
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little bit of a about it to be
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honest. I was just being kind of soft.
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Uh, but sometimes I guess gets to
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me. I was spending too much time inside
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and I uh needed to get
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outdoors. I work a lot, non-stop
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working. So, um anyways, love you guys.
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Thanks for uh pushing me to watch it and
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I hope you have a great day. May the
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force be with you.
