Showing posts with label Genevieve O'Reilly. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Genevieve O'Reilly. Show all posts

Monday, August 25, 2025

TV Review: *****Andor Season 2 (2025)

 Andor Season 1

Andor Seson 2 dropped 12 episodes, in a month, 3 a week for four consecutive weeks.  They are now all available on Disney +.  

This series has been great fun.  The character of Cassian Andor (Diego Luna) is very intriguing and conflicted.  Added to this is Luthen Rael (Stellan Starsgård) who is the master spy.  Dedra Meero (Denise Gough) is with the empire and trying to catch them.  In the end it turns on her head and she becomes the scapegoat.Her helper is Syril Karn (Kyle Soller).  And of course Mon Mothma (Genevieve O'Reilly) who says what she has to say to the Senate and is able to escape to become the leader of the rebellion.  This show has many other interesting characters.  It tells the story leading up to Rogue One and A New Hope.  It is vrery well done and the feel of the show is just right.  This is Star Wars without light sabers.  Not everyone is s Jedi.

Monday, March 3, 2025

Disney + Star Wars mini series Review: ****^Ahsoka

 Rosario Dawson stars as Ahsoka, continuing from Clone Wars, Rebels, and Mandalorian.  This is the period after the Empire has been defeated, but Ahsoka is worried about the return of Thrawn.  Sabine Wren (Natasha Liu Bordizzo), was her intern, and becomes that again.  She is also accompanied by a droid, Huyang (David Tennant)a who served at the Jedi temple and help many Jedi construct their light sabers.  Other characters who help them are Hera (Mary Elizabeth Winstead) and Mon Mothma (Genevieve O'Reilly)

Thos who are pursuing the return of Thrawn (Lars Mikkelson)  are Morgan Elsbeth (Diana Lee Inosanto) of the witches, Baylon Skol (Ray Stevenson), former Jedi knight turned to the dark side and his apprentice Shin Hati (Ivanna Sakhno).  Skol appears to be helping, but is more interested in getting to Peridea where he can continue his studies of the dark side of the force.

The first few episodes revolve around finding thrawn and/or Ezra Bridger (Eman Esfandi).  There is a dilemma, in finding Bridger, you also find Thrawn, who can make things very difficult for the New Republic.  The New Republic government however does not believe Thrawn is coming back, as he has been gone for some time.  Consequently Ahsoka and Wren have to solve this on their own.  However they actually get separated, and it appears Ahsoka has been killed.  Wren is taken captive by those looking for Thrawn, and thereby meets Thrawn, and is released to look for Bridger.  And Skol and Hati are sent after her to kill both her and Bridger.  In the meantime, Ahsoka is on her way having traveled by purrgil.

This show is very enjoyable.  It ends with Wren and Ahoska in a terrible fix, and Anakin Skywalker (Hayden Christensen) watching over them.  There is plenty of action, Skol vs Ahsoka, Ahsoka vs Morgan Elsbeth, Shin Hati vs Sabine Wren.  There is a bit too much witchiness for my taste, but in flows into the show.  

Saturday, December 31, 2022

Disney+ TV Review: ****^Star Wars: Andor 2022

 Andor is incredibly good as it keeps building until we hit the climax in the last episode.  Cassian Andor (Diego Luna) is nothing more than a mercenary or thief.  He is recruited by a rebel organizer, Luthen Rael (Stellen Skarsgärd) He and Mon Mothma (Genevieve O'Reilly) work together in funding the rebellion.  Andor and some other reels carry out a successful heist of an imperial payroll, thus getting needed money for the rebellion.  Cassian hangs low, but in doing so is unjustly imprisoned.  He is set to work on some unknown device.  Escape is impossible as the floor is wired with electricity in it which is turned on at any hint of escape.  But when we realize that any sentence is a life sentence in this prison (a whole floor was killed when one was due to be released) escape becomes the goal.  

Andor's adoptive mother, Maarva (Fiona Shaw) passes away.  He must return to the funeral.  However the epire want him captured so they can torture him and learn secrets of the rebellion, particularly the identity of Luthen Rael.  Luthen Rael also wants to kill Andor so as to prevent being exposed.  It seems there is not much hope for him.  The highlight of the whole series is when Luthen's mother, through a droid, gives her own eulogy and calls for rebellion.  The tension just builds and builds to this point and finally pops.  In the chaos, Andor gives his life to Luthen.

The sage of Mon Mothma (Genevieve O'Reilly) is weaved into the other stories.  However this story did not reach its head yet.

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