The recap is quick: Andor is sentenced to prison, and he's being sent to the titular planet - Narkina 5. I presume he will be escaping from there.

While Andor is locked and loaded [vice-versa, actually] onto the ship, Syril Karn has been brought up from the factory floor by Dedra Meero.

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The fifth episode: The Axe Forgets, and the spectacular sixth: The Eye.

You know what, the prisons on Narkina 5, which is a WaterWorld very much reminiscent of Earth, remind me of the Raft prison in the MCU.

The floors of the prison are Tunqstoid steel - Tungsten on steroids. Nice.

Apropos steel, I am waiting very eagerly for the new beskar steel-fueled season of The Mandalorian. The previous two have been a gas, for sure:

Andy Serkis-sss! Golly, Gollum! Were you not repulsively adorable enough in The Lord of the Rings, or manipulatively cunning enough in the Marvel Cinematic Universe, that you had to climb aboard Star Wars?

I love this dude. He played Einstein, y'know, alongside David Tennant.

42 minutes! Yay! I love every encounter I have with this lovely number.

Mon Mothma, meanwhile, is mingling in with many mean men of many means. Politics. Ugh. I have my set convictions, even if they convict me.

30 shifts! A month by Earth standards, although I do play around with it in my science fiction The Martium Chronicles Part 1: An Android Awoke.

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Back on Andor's adopted home planet, Dedra has got a garrison setting up for drilling down and finding him. His family & friends are worried: Bix & Brasso [which is a brand-name brass polishing solvent, prevalent in the Indian Army for burnishing brassware; Silvo for silverware, duh].

Surprise! Vel and Cinta are on Ferrix, too, not too far away from his F&F.

[Beren and] Luth(i)en + Kle-ya [antiques are clay, aren't they? Yeah? Yes.]

People are gettting left behind left right and centre : March of the Rebel!

One of the co-worker labour camp residents of Cassian fries himself. :(

Luthen meets rebel Saw Gerrera, played by the incomparable Forest Fire Whitaker, whose turn as the The Last King of Scotland won Oscar!

Let's take a moment or two to talk about forest fires and climate change:

I'll find more to say about this but let's Get Back by The Beatles to Andor:

"Anarchy is a seductive concept." Nice script writing, Jared Bush. Kudos.

Salman Pa(a)k. I should've know, given Star Wars' penchant for naming people and things with just slight variations of actual, real people et al.

It's 00:42 in India [IST] right now, on the first evening/night of Chhathh.

Andor hasn't yet escaped Narkina 5, which is Narak [Hell] in Hindi. Ciao.

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