Welcome back it's Charlie this will be my full Star Wars and or episodes one through episode 3
video they just released the first three episodes the series is going to be 12 total I'll be doing
videos for all them so be sure to subscribe to get those careful for spoilers if you haven't
seen them yet we'll start at the beginning and go through shop by shot talking about Easter eggs WTF
moments as we go along and I will explain what's going on just in general with the series because
most of you probably know this is meant to be a prequel to the events of Rogue one like that's
what they say it takes place five years before the Battle of Yap and that's what 5bby means
the events of Rogue one are meant to take place right before the events of A New Hope with them
stealing the Death Star plans their whole plan for this series is that this will take place
over the course of a couple years and then season two will cover the rest of the timeline right up
to the beginning of Rogue one like the ending of the Andor series will be the very beginning of
Rogue one and they've already confirmed it will get a season two like they'll start filming it
sometime soon one of the other big differences in this series is that it's going to be 12 episodes
normally the Star Wars Disney plus series have been about Eight Episodes so love of
the expanded run wish they did more episodes of the Mandalorian like the Mandalorian season 3 is
going to start in February it'll still be Eight Episodes but the whole idea with this series is
that it's meant to show you how the Rebellion formed because that's basically what's happening
at the beginning of Rogue one like the Rebellion is already the Rebellion for the most part when
this series begins five years before that they're still called the resistance like they haven't
become the actual Rebellion they're going to show you how that happened like all the legwork
the behind the scenes stuff in how that actually took place before the events of this series they
say canonically that there are three people that were critical in the formation of the Rebellion
there's mon mothma who's a character during this series you saw her a couple times in the trailer
bail Organa who will also probably show up at some point during this series and then also
Princess Leia the only person I'm not sure how they're gonna handle during this is Princess Leia
because at this point in the timeline I believe that she has not become an imperial Senator yet
I don't think that happens for a couple more years they had to recast a new young actress but it'd be
older than the version that we saw in Obi-Wan like the little girl Leia if they did that then they
could recast another version we'll see how they handle it but it's like with this series they're
trying to tell you that there's this fourth person in the creation of the Rebellion named Luthen Rael
played by stellen Skarsgard who's really behind everything like the person who got everyone else
on board all the important figures into the idea of creating the Rebellion the actual series was
written by Tony Gilroy most of you will remember him as the person who basically fixed Rogue one
and turned it into the movie that everybody loves so much today like it's one of the better
Star Wars movies that they've done since Disney bought Star Wars they actually just signed him to
develop more Star Wars series Beyond this more live-action Series so we don't know what those
are going to be but it should be pretty cool but when I started making this video like when they
first uploaded the episodes to Disney plus they didn't have actual titles on the episodes they
were just called episode one episode two episode three they might add actual titles later just
starting with the events of the first episode they start with the title screen in the brand new Andor
theme they did have different theme music that they did for each of the episodes in the actual
opening title scene the planet that they start on I believe is meant to be the canary planet that
he's from originally and it morphs into the symbol of the Rebellion because the whole series is about
the creation of the rebellion and because they go to so many different brand new planets that
we haven't seen in Star Wars before with a few exceptions like they mentioned a couple familiar
planets but a lot of them at the beginning of the series here are brand new they give you a lot of
title cards a lot of text to explain where you are when you are on the timeline so in the opening
scene casting Andor is on the morlana one planet within the pre-ox morlana corporate Zone which is
basically like a group of planets in a system that a corporation owns this pre-ox borlana Corporation
it's in the mid Rim but they want to show you that they're like a lot of large corporations out there
that control big parts of the Galaxy that also have to operate within the purview of the Empire
like the Empire Still controls everything but the whole idea is that you have a lot of like really
large corporations who are also pretty terrible like the Empire terrible but corporations also
pretty terrible too who want to have nothing to do with the Empire like there's a whole thing during
the episode we don't want them up in our business it is bad for money so like even this terrible
corporations hate the Empire but the first couple of episodes take place on a couple of different
planets that this Corporation controls and he's coming to this planet trying to track down his
sister that we see in the flashbacks the canary woman that he's looking for that he was separated
from like the little sister he was separated from when Marvaa basically took him or rescued him from
the Republic I'll explain the timeline with those flashbacks too like when is this taking place when
are these flashbacks happening how old is he in present day but they make it seem like this is
just meant to be the CD underbelly red light district of this corporate owned town when he
passes by the first alien it sounds like she's speaking hadees in this whole first part of the
episode it's just meant to show you some of the quote-unquote terrible things that Cassian Andor
did in his past that he references during the events of Rogue one later like he says I've done
terrible things and he winds up killing these corporate people to try to shake him down they
just want to show you that the people who helped form the Rebellion also did terrible things in the
formation of the Rebellion just like the empire did terrible things so even though some of the
figures in the Star War Universe are meant to seem like truly good people like Luke Skywalker Leia
Organa meant to seem like truly good people most of the regular people like Cassian Andor these are
the like Rank and file Rebellion people also did a lot of terrible stuff very morally gray when they
start talking about the kenari planet they treat it like it's this huge deal meant to be this huge
secret Cassian has been keeping his entire life ever since Marvaa saved him when we start seeing
the flashbacks though I think that's meant to take place a little bit after the events are around the
events of phantom menace just based on how old he seems I believe he's meant to be in his 30s
now like Diego Luna who plays the character is in his early 40s but this is taking place earlier in
the timeline from Rogue one so that's why I say he's probably in his 30s and I think the flashback
version of him is just meant to be like early teenager maybe a little bit younger than that so
like this would be before the events of the Clone Wars when the ship is crashing so that's why they
keep referring to the Republic ship that's coming to investigate the crash marvaa also kind of makes
it sound like the Republic is going to do some shady things too like are going to round up all
those kids and arrest them because they killed that Republic officer the weird thing about his
backstory that they don't completely explain yet like we'll probably figure out the rest
of it later but the Imperial records state that it was an imperial mining planet that they just
mined for resources where there was an accident that rendered it hazardous for human occupation
so nobody can go there anymore they don't make it clear if it's meant to be a cover-up and it
was this particular ship crashing because like all the regular looking people have yellowed skin like
there was an accident and that's what turned their skin yellow but clearly these characters are all
running around the ship and they're totally fine so it sounds like it's a big cover-up and I think
the idea is that when the empire was formed they just took over the planet and they claimed that
it was an imperial Mining facility and whatever was going on on that ship it was just something
super secret I think the reason why Cassian kept his identity secret for so long the fact that he
was from that planet is because Marvaa drilled the fear into him that the Empire would hunt him down
for killing that particular officer even though he himself wasn't really to blame for that but there
could be some something larger going on in the flashbacks they haven't fully revealed yet you
can let me know in the comments if you think it was just like that one thing the way they showed
us in the episode or if there was something else that's way more secret that they haven't fully
revealed yet but I think the whole idea with the Empire sweeping that under the rug in the
past is meant to dovetail with the officer in the present who tries to sweep the murder of the two
officers under the rug most of the places and the things that they talk about in the first couple
of episodes are brand new stuff that they created for this series like there's a couple things that
existed before but for the most part it's all brand new stuff although the hallways in this
Cantina that he walks into do kind of look that they're shaped like a star destroyer then after
he kills the guards we go to the farrix planet which is also within the same system that the
same corporation owns but it seems like most the planet is used for General Scrap Processing
the brand new Droid character is named B2 emo we also see him in the flashbacks way shinier
in the flashbacks too they'll be selling a toy of him soon if they aren't already he's voiced
by Dave Chapman who's also done voice acting in Star Wars before he did the voice of bb-8 in the
sequel movies and he also worked on the Rogue one movie obviously that's the sequel to the events
of Andor so big connection there it shocks one of the animals that's pissing on it R2D2 style
and when it says that this is inside the free trade sector like I explained there are parts of
the Galaxy that corporations control and they're kind of neutral but kind of not at the same time
like they still have to pay a lot of taxes to the Empire and they service the Empire's requests but
mostly they're there serving their own corporate interests like that's what they care about more
than anything so it's just an area of the Galaxy that the Empire doesn't directly control like they
only get involved if things get really crazy which makes it easier for people like Cassian people
like luthin still on skarsgard's character who are trying to create this Rebellion to actually
operate that's why you have a lot of characters like Ahsoka who travel to the outer rim or like
Luke Skywalker who's in hiding in the outer rim because even though this is taking place in the
mid Rim they let you know that there just aren't a lot of Empire out here that's even more true in
the outer rim like the further out you go the more space there is the harder it is for the
Empire to police that area so it just becomes way easier for really important characters to
hide out in the outer rim the scrapyard seem like they contains scraps from all kinds of Imperial
non-imperial ships I'm sure there's some Easter eggs for Clone Wars stuff in the background too
like really old ships when he mentions all these characters Jesse Fermi are his friends
Marvaa Fiona Shaw's character is kind of like his surrogate mother becomes his surrogate mother the
Brasso character is his best friend that winds up helping him Escape later in the episode the whole
idea is that this town is basically kind of like a mining town but it's for the scrap yards like
everybody who lives here Works in and around the scrap yards and the whole thing with this
elaborate lie that he creates with his Brasso friend is just to show you some of the skills
he has in talking himself into situations and out of situations like this like he's a real
fast talker engaged in a lot of spycraft so that's why luthin wants him like oh you seem like the guy
I'm here to talk to the person with the special skills that I need then we travel to morlano one
the planet where the corporate headquarters for this party regular Corporation has their security
Force the true transports that you see flying in the background the ones we also see later in the
episode 2 also seem similar to the designs from the prequel movies like an evolution of the ones
from the prequel movies just a little bit smaller but this whole scene is just meant to say that the
whole personality of the serial car and character this inspector character who's kind of like the
inspector javer of the series to make a Les Mis reference the guy that just like Won't Let It Go
like he's obsessed with finding Cassian Andor obviously it becomes a bigger thing at the end
of episode three like it's now his life's mission to find Cassian Andor if he seemed obsessed before
that's nothing compared to what it's going to be like probably for the rest of the episodes
in all of his superiors dialogue is just meant to get across the idea that the Empire is way
worse like however bad their corporation might be like it seems like pretty big dirt bags the
Empire is way worse they don't want them getting up in their business so they're just gonna brush
this little problem right under the rug obviously by the end of episode 3 that goes out the window
like with all the attacks these explosions this big fight that happens on the farrix planet the
Empire probably will will get involved but his whole speech and a lot of what luthan says later
in the episode when cassian's whole speech about how he's able to steal from the Empire is just
meant to hammer home the idea of how fat and lazy the Empire has gotten in their superiority for the
last many years like they've been in power for so long that the Empire has grown too big too
overconfident in the people within the Empire that form the Rebellion use that against them
so his boss is meant to be like one example of a bunch of different types of people all over the
Galaxy and explain how the rebellion was able to use that against the empire because if everybody
was as hardcore as Karn and the other Sergeant here it probably would have been way harder for
the Rebellion to actually form then we meet Adria rona's biggest character who has this like weird
chemistry going on with casting Andor they aren't together or anything like that but it seems like
that's going to change eventually she's a mechanic who just seems like she's going to eventually help
Cassian in the formation of the Rebellion like she's the contact that Luthen Rael uses for all
of his black market dealings and Cassian sort of uses that to piggyback in to meet Luthen Cassian
also says he's going to come back to the planet eventually he'll find some way and also in the
trailers you have the Imperial characters getting involved on farrix with bix's character so it
seems like she's going to be a much bigger part of the plot going forward as well and the way
they explain the star path unit that he's trying to sell to Luthen Rael is it is a navigation unit
that allows them to track the movements of the entire Imperial Fleet within like a giant part
of the Galaxy obviously very critical for a group of people trying to create a rebellion because
they have to leave it in the warehouse at the end of episode three we don't see anybody go back for
it Bix might wind up picking it up later like it's still there we didn't see get crushed so
it still exists they had that whole drama with her current boyfriend Timm that winds up selling
out casting Andor he gets his Just Desserts like that's what you get for being a rat even though
they want you to sympathize with him just like a little bit when he mentions wobani that's actually
one of the few Easter eggs in the episode it's an Easter egg for rogue one and for Obi-Wan Kenobi
the name wobani is an anagram of Obi-Wan but is also the exact same planet from the opening of
the Rogue 1 Movie it's the prison planet that jyn urso was being held at they introduce you
to some of cassian's friends in and around the town people that he owes money to just to give
you an idea for what his life has been like these last several years until Luthen Rael recruits him
to help him form the Rebellion Cassian doesn't have anything to do with the actual Rebellion or
the resistance he's just doing all these things to try and track down his sister like that's why he's
running around all over the place borrowing money from everyone as far as I can remember they don't
reference him having a sister during the events of Rogue one at all so what might end up happening
by the end of this series maybe season one season two he'll eventually find that sister like that's
his basic Arc in all this like he doesn't care too much about the Rebellion right now he does
hate the Empire but he's not like Luthen Rael he doesn't have grand plans all he wants is to
find his sister Luthen Rael sounds like the very high-ranking Imperial figure who actually wants
to form the legit rebellion in the way they set his character up it kind of seems like he's this
hidden figure that you didn't hear about before like they wrote him into the Canon obviously for
the series but there trying to say that he's the person who started everything like he's the person
who gave the idea to Mon mothma and then to bail Organa like he's the person that got them on board
and then together they all worked to create the Rebellion a couple side notes love the blue Ramen
looking noodles that this worker is eating the Imperial census is from six years ago obviously
this is an older version of casting Andor than we saw in the flashbacks but much younger than the
one that we see in present day the galactic census would be the Empire trying to or attempting to
catalog every single person living in the Galaxy but obviously obviously there are going to be
some gaps in their information like obviously they missed Ahsoka they miss people like Luke
Skywalker he wouldn't be on that census you just had to picture Darth Vader reading over the sense
it's like hmm Luke Skywalker that name sounds familiar Skywalker where did I last hear that
name a couple different characters in the episode reference chop as if he's like this really famous
person in the Galaxy or a deity that everybody worships but the chob name is brand new into
the Star Wars Canon like they wrote it into this series so you can let me know if you think it's
a really important person or like this deity that a group of people worship and a lot of the stuff
that Cassian does like the really shady stuff or him swapping ID logs and the ship here is just
to show you some of the spycraft skills that he has that Luthen Rael wants so badly like oh wow
you're actually pretty good at this why don't you come with me I need your help also love the Bell
worker like seems like he really really gets into his job like all he does is just ring the
bell in the morning once and at the end of the day to signify the end of work but he really
really gets into his job we finally meet the Marvel character played by Fiona Shaw who most
of you will remember from the Harry Potter movies she's the surrogate mother that winds up rescuing
him in the flashbacks when he went into the ship to try and to destroy it and they do this funny
thing with casting andor's backstory where she starts talking to him like how did they find out
that you were from kenari we didn't tell anybody about that except we told a whole bunch of people
the reason why everybody thinks that he's from Fest is because when the Rogue one movie came
out they said that he was from Fest so like that's the way that the Star Wars people wrote
it into the Canon but I think what happened is when they created the Andor series they wanted
to create this more dramatic attic backstory for the character so they just explained that he'd
been lying this whole time and that's why there were records of him being from Fest when really
he's from this kenari planet they introduced the sergeant character love how trigger-happy is like
he and Karen together just want to go so overboard trying to catch this one person how many people do
we need do you think a couple will be enough no we better take like 12 maybe 14 people then when they
actually start flying to the fairix planet and they're briefing the other officers it seems that
they're playing car and kind of like Lieutenant Gorman from Aliens just with like a darker spin
on him look the super green higher ranking really awkward person trying to do a bad job of leading a
bunch of more experienced grunts we finally meet stellen skarsgard's Luthen Rael rail character
as far as I know he's just a really high ranking Imperial figure they haven't completely explained
his backstory in the Star Wars Canon yet but I think we'll learn about that in the next couple
of episodes and like I said he's the person who has this grand plan in mind to form an actual
Rebellion so that's why he's dealing in all these black market items like why he's willing to pay
so much money for this special Imperial control unit so they can track all the Empire's movements
around all these sectors and they have that whole speech with each other where they both kind of
explain the ethos and how the rebellion was able to do what it did like the Empire is so fat and
lazy so overconfident it's so easy to steal from them it's so easy to walk under their nose and get
away with all this stuff they also want to show you how resourceful Luthen Rael's character is how
he's been able to get away with all this stuff for so long being such a high-ranking figure inside
the Empire naturally you'd be heavily watched so we'd have to be very good at what he did to
go for this long without being found out the whole fight in the warehouse was great just the way they
filmed it the way it all went down but the even funnier thing is when they get to drop on corn
all these inexperienced officers here he smashes his calm because he literally just learned that
lesson from Luthen like Luthen Rael's like give me your comp smashes it his friend from before also
winds up helping them Escape by tying out the troop transport so that it winds up destroying
himself R.I.P to that grunt officer who went back to get it and I think they went up taking
out most of their squad that they brought with them through the course of of the episode with
all the different explosions but obviously these first three episodes are just meant to show you
how Cassie and Andor got involved in the Rebellion itself like the formation of the Rebellion it
hasn't actually become the Rebellion yet I still think it's called The Resistance I believe in next
week's episode we'll see the empire for the first time like there's a couple big Imperial characters
during the series I think we'll meet them in next week's episode because of what happened
on the planet the big fire fight that they had and we also might go back to Coruscant and see
mon mothma's character some of the other big characters that'll be involved in the series
but if you spotted any other big Easter eggs or references during the episodes that it didn't
talk about in the video just write down below in the comments in general the series was built
to have fewer like direct references to like the really big Star Wars stuff like we're not going
right back to Tatooine like ah we went back to Tatooine again most of all this is meant
to be brand new stuff so like if it doesn't look familiar that's on purpose but like we will see
mod mothma we'll go back to Coruscant we'll see the Imperial Senate so there will be like a lot
of familiar stuff we'll see if like the Emperor or a version of Princess Leia eventually shows
up I think the bail Organa will definitely show up with the later episodes the episodes will be
one per week after this up to episode 12 in the finale so my episode 4 video will post next week
after they release it I've got a bunch of other big videos I'm working on this week my She-Hulk
video will post on Thursday I've got new Lord of the Rings my house of the Dragon episode 6
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thank you so much for watching everyone stay safe and I'll see you guys in the next one!