ANDOR
S1 | E6
“THE EYE”
“So no rebellion for you?”
“Oh, I'm a rebel. It's just, uh...me against everybody else.”
There’s just no words to encapsulate the unfathomable feelings i’ve experienced through this episode. The thrill those final 20 minutes bring is a high i’ll be chasing forevermore. The spectacle is out of this fucking world. This is where Star Wars lives and breathes, this is where the soul is and I never want to leave.
There’s such an atmosphere, a feeling in the air surrounding this heist because of how incredible this arc has been in setting the foundation and the result delivered what i confidently call my single favourite piece of Star Wars media.
The mirror put in front of Cassian in the form of Skeen and how he can’t stand the man he sees. That mask behind a mask identity so many people live behind and then the truth comes to light, that scene alone is one of Andor’s best. Nemik as a character and as an idea of a truly good person who’ll die believing in the rebellion, someone who I have to imagine subconsciously plays a part of Andor’s mindset by the time we reach Rogue One. This is what i love about Star Wars, the complexity every character comes in, it’s spectacular.
To bring it home, The Eye is a visual masterpiece, sequences and brain altering shots on my TV that make me so thankful to own an OLED and so speechless to process it. It’s an epic, a cinematic event and it’s only 6 god damn episode into a 24 episode series. This is absolutely the “WOW” moment that takes things into the next stage but to focus on right here, right now, this is such unbelievably good shit.
And to end the episode with Luthen’s manic joy. The Nicholas Britell score on overdrive and his fight against the empire transitioning from a visual to a reality…
Pitch. Perfect. Television.
Finally pressing play on a series i’ve owed to myself for years.
#NW ANDOR (First Viewing)