Episode 1, 2, and 3 dropped together; here's my tempera-mental review!

I could not watch all 3 in one go, so I stopped my review at Episode 2.

Let's get down to business. Episode 3 is a huge humdinger, and a setup.

Stellan Skarsgård is awesomax as one willing to take a chance on talent.

On that note, I would like to represent, for all of the Internet's ubiquity, the complete star cast of Andor according to Wikipedia : Diego Luna, Kyle Soller, Adria Arjona, Joplin Sibtain, James McArdle, Rupert Vansittart, Stellan Skarsgård, Fiona Shaw, Alex Ferns, Gary Beadle, Genevieve O'Reilly, Denise Gough, Faye Marsay, Varada Sethu, Elizabeth Dulau, Kathryn Hunter, Alastair Mackenzie, Anton Lesser, Alex Lawther, Sule Rimi, Ebon Moss-Bachrach, Gershwyn Eustache Junior. ~ Axat

Andor's savior was saved by an old Ferrixian's prattle. That's all I have to say about that, in the Forrest Gump tradition of well-meaning nicety.

The ruthless Corpo and his instigator [380 slug penetrator - courtesy Under The Influence by D12 feat. Eminem] descend on the p-p-pplanet.

The episode smash cuts between Cassian Andor's childhood as Kassa and the present pursuit of the adult Cassian by the Republic's fanatics.

These idiots harass Cassian's adoptive mother, Fiona Shaw's Maarwva, by doing the usual toss-the-place-apart tactic. Only B2EMO is a li'l weak.

Meanwhile, Cassian enligtens Stellan's character about how he got the Starpath navigation unit that he's gonna sell to get the hell outta Dodge.

The locals start a Native American style sound-based alarm trip to warn their neighbors that unwanted Imperial troops are disturbing the peace.

Luthen, Luthien with a minus i, an imaginary square root of negative 1, is not the sort of fellow you want to piss off. He builds exits on the way in.

Cassian DOES save him from a couple of fallin' & swingin' debris pieces.

Timm's character's story arc is over before it began due to his betrayal.

One double-bluff later, the Imperials are given a brutal reality check.

And Cassian and Luthen are wll on their way to Luthen's awesomax ship.

B2EMO and Maarva are back together again like Egg Humpty Dumpty.

Episode 3 ends aboard Luthen's suspiciously FTL-capable ship. It is a throwback to his escape from Kenari, at the courtesy of Maaarvwaaaa.

I really like how Star Wars barely ever has any mid- /post-credits scenes.

Episode 4 has its Previously On, but we are barely into the series to care.

The opening dialogue is predictable: Luthen convincing Andor to fight.

I guess this first season will be five days bankrolled by Luthen for Andor.

The Imperial Security Bureau is infiltrated by one of Luthen's moles, no doubt. She learns of the developments regarding Ferrix as well as Scarif.

My apologies, she's actually on the villain's side looking for the Starpath.

Skeen [where have I seen him before? Oh yeah, that's right - The Bear, a ridiculous chef-turned-sandwich-shop-owner show], Taramyn, Nemik, Cinta are the rest of the crew, along with the leader, named Vel Sartha.

A slap [and a hug] from Karn's mother might not be the worst welcome...

Clem [the new name of Cassian] expectedly endears himself to the crew.

Mon Mothma...the name had always intrugued me in Star Wars : Rebels.

I think Karn is going to have a scene like Prison Break had with Bellick. I say that because Bellick also went to his / his mom's place after he was fired for getting bamboozled by Michael Scofield in Prison Break.

Episode 5 coming up next, and is hyperlinked here, if I remember to, lol.