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NJ's avatar

How are you publishing this in the middle of the State game right now? Lol

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Jeff K's avatar

Typing during halftime and TV time outs. Hell of a win!

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Paul Riddell's avatar

You know, keep joking about Darth Jar Jar, and that’s what you’re going to get for “Andor.” Either that or Kylo Boomhauer.

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Jeff K's avatar

If Darth Jar Jar ever gets an 8 episode show, it will be because I willed it into existence.

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Paul Riddell's avatar

I hope you’re already making plans for the royalties, particularly the action figure rights. You’ll be buying Elon Musk and putting him in a Slave Leia outfit in a week.

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Jeff K's avatar

I wouldn’t give him the enjoyment. Musk goes straight to the sarlacc pit.

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Matthew Freeman's avatar

I feel like Gilroy only adds legacy characters by (ahem) force, and Vader introduction isn't his style. Then again, Vader does appear in Rogue One. Given the tone of Andor, you could be totally right that she's being confronted by Vader, or just having a personal anxiety attack because she was called out in a conference call.

I feel like Vader in this show would be like when Dragons show up at the end of Season 1 Game of Thrones. Suddenly, this very down to Earth universe has a major fantasy element.

Exciting to see how they'll thread that needle!

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Jeff K's avatar

Yeah, I would have to imagine the Disney bigwigs were demanding/pleading/begging Gilroy to give Vader or Palpatine a cameo to get the online chatter going. Definitely will be interesting to see what happens and if they keep the show “grounded.”

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Malcolm Collie's avatar

We know from Vader’s dispatching of Admiral Ozell that he can force choke over video so she could be BOTH confronted by Vader and being called out in a conference call. That would be a great way of handling it. You wouldn’t even need to see Vader, just hear the breathing then WHAM!, she’s choking. I’m up for it but I’m sure the technicalities of doing that would drive people nuts.

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Jeff K's avatar

I like that idea. Imagine you’re sitting at your desk in the ISB and you get a meeting invite from darth.vader@theempire.com. Terrifying.

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