STAR WARS: ANDOR: Episodes 2.1 through 2.3

Name: STAR WARS: ANDOR: Episodes 2.1 through 2.3
Item: STAR WARS: ANDOR: Episodes 2.1 through 2.3
Author: Review

"Mindlessly Politically Correct and Disappointing"

Family Content: -3 Excessive sex, violence, immorality, and/or worldview problems. (Sometimes excessive content such as violence is in otherwise redemptive movies.)

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What You Need To Know:

The first three episodes of STAR WARS: ANDOR: Season Two on Disney Plus has Andor on a mission to steal an experimental tie fighter from the Empire. Meanwhile, his friends wait for him to return to the agri planet where they’re hiding from the Empire. Some stranded rebels capture Andor and don’t believe his story. Also, Luthen, Andor’s handler for the Rebellion, attends a fancy wedding for Mon Mothma’s daughter. Finally, Syril, an imperial bureaucrat, and his girlfriend, Dedra, an imperial security supervisor, have a tense dinner with Syril’s annoying mother.

The first three episodes of ANDOR: Season Two have some nice action scenes, but they also have boring scenes where not much happens. MOVIEGUIDE® started to stop caring about these characters. The pointless bickering among the rebels is pretty funny, however. Sadly, the first three episodes are politically correct and woke. They contain strong politically correct content with silly overt attacks on policies on illegal immigration and energy independence. Finally, Episode Three of ANDOR: Season Two has a gratuitous scene where an immigration soldier tries to rape Andor’s female friend.

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Dominant Worldview and Other Worldview Content/Elements:

Strong mixed pagan worldview with strong politically correct content with one army officer rounding up the illegal immigrants tries to rape a young woman although he doesn’t know whether she’s illegal or not (earlier it’s revealed that her visa papers are forged because she’s a rebel hiding out from the evil empire), some villains representing the evil empire mention in one scene the empire’s desire to have “energy independence,” and they plot to steal a planet’s resources by hook or by crook (the scene even has an allusion attacking fracking for gas and oil), and series seems to promote a modern leftist attitude against colonialism, with strong Romantic elements about society, series seems to promote pro-socialist ideas about society, but the negative elements are mitigated by strong moral elements against totalitarianism and promoting liberty, plus a minor female character mentions her past lesbian relationship (she’s recently broken up with her lover);

Foul Language:

An “s” word is used in Episode 2.1, someone calls a group of villains “bastards” in Episode 2.2, and Episode 2.3 has no foul language;

Violence:

Strong and light action violence in all three episodes include young woman in Episode 2.3 desperately fights off an army officer acting as an immigration policeman trying to rape her where they both hit one another, and he flings her, but she hits him with some objects, would-be rape victim eventually mortally wounds her attacker, and he stumbles and collapses outside the single-level building where she was living and working, pilot steals an experimental spaceship fighter, but the controls are unexpectedly new to him, and the ship bumps around a hangar while some storm troopers in white armor shoot at him, and the hero makes the ship fire back at them, pilot eventually blows a hole in the hangar and escapes with the stolen ship into outer space, pilot lands on another planet and rebels surround and capture him because they are stranded and want to steal his ship (they doubt his story about having stolen the ship for the Rebellion), the rebels fight among one another and divide into two camps that try to shoot one another dead with their space blasters, pilot hero is tied up and held captive, pilot hero subdues the man holding him captive and escapes with his stolen spaceship while the pirates are too occupied fighting with one another, an unknown monster attacks a camp of people one night, and people are shot dead and wounded by laser guns and other futuristic weapons;

Sex:

Episode 2.3 has a scene where an Imperial officer tries to rape one of the heroines in the story (she lacks proper visa papers so she’s an “illegal migrant”) but she successfully fights him off but with great difficulty, a wealthy woman with financial problems who’s secretly part of a political resistance movement is accused of having an adulterous fling, and one minor character mentions her lesbian relationship that recently ended, but there are no depicted or implied sex scenes;

Nudity:

No nudity;

Alcohol Use:

Some alcohol use and there’s a wild dance revelry after a wedding and a person is drunk in Episode 2.3;

Smoking and/or Drug Use and Abuse:

No smoking or drugs; and,

Miscellaneous Immorality:

Some strong miscellaneous immorality such as bureaucrats and military/security officers serving an evil empire oppress citizens and plot to take a planet’s energy resources, woman angrily warns her make lover’s annoying mother to be nice or else, pilot hero steals a small experimental enemy spaceship for the resistance movement against the evil empire, and woman and teenage daughter seem to have a strained relationship, as does the girl’s mother and her father.

More Detail:

The first three episodes of STAR WARS: ANDOR: Season Two on Disney Plus has Andor on a mission to steal an experimental tie fighter while his friends wait for him to return to the agri planet where they’re hiding from the Empire, and while Luthen, Andor’s handler for the Rebellion, attends a fancy arranged wedding for Mon Mothma’s daughter. The first three episodes of ANDOR: Season Two have stretches of not much happening and contain strong politically correct content with silly overt attacks on policies on illegal immigration and energy independence, with a gratuitous, obnoxious scene where an immigration soldier tries to rape Andor’s female friend.

The three episodes begin with Andor stealing the experimental spaceship but finding out that his training on driving was useless. He escapes with the spaceship and lands on a jungle planet to meet his contact, only to find that a group of rebels has crash landed and killed Andor’s contact. The rebels argue among themselves on what to do with Andor. They don’t accept Amdor’s claim that he’s part of the rebellion. Eventually, the debate among the rebels turns into an all-out civil war between two factions.

Meanwhile, Andor’s friend, Bix, is with Brasso and Wil. They’re posing as techies working on equipment related to large wheat silos on an agricultural planet. However, their immigration visas are forged, and the Empire has sent a platoon of troops combing the agricultural sectors to check the documents of the local farmers and techies.

At the same time, Mon Mothma and her husband have organized a fancy wedding for their teenage daughter, who’s marrying the teenage son of a wealthy friend who helped Mon pay some debts she owed. However, the wealthy friend is now having money problems of his own, and Mon’s husband thinks they’re having an affair.

Meanwhile, back at the Empire, Syril, an up-and-coming imperial bureaucrat, and his live-in girlfriend, Dedra, an imperial security supervisor, have a tense dinner with Syril’s annoying mother. Dedra decides to read her the riot act when Syril leaves the dining room.

The first three episodes of ANDOR: Season Two have some nice action scenes, but they also have stretches of boring scenes where not much happens. So, MOVIEGUIDE® started to no longer care anymore about these characters. The pointless bickering among the rebels is pretty funny, however, because it’s so petty.

Making matters worse is that the first three episodes of Season Two are strongly politically correct and woke. For example, they contain strong politically correct content with silly overt attacks on policies on illegal immigration and energy independence. The creators of ANDOR carry their woke agenda too far when they have an immigration officer attached to the Imperial Army try to rape Andor’s friend, Bix. Strangely, the scene with the attempted rape is juxtaposed to scenes of Mon Mothma and other wedding party guests dancing wildly during the wedding reception. The series ANDOR is meant to be a version of STAR WARS stories for older viewers, but such an attempted rape scene doesn’t belong in a STAR WARS product, which was originally meant to be a child-friendly space opera fairy tale. In fact, George Lucas, the creator of STAR WARS, recently said he aimed the first movie at 12-year-olds to teach them important values about society.

However, movies and television programs are not real life. And, creators of entertainment can produce and distribute almost anything they wish, however illogical, wicked or stupid their movie or TV series may be. Of course, that doesn’t mean we have to watch it, much less approve of it or let our children and grandchildren see it!

The first three episodes of ANDOR: Season Two are too politically correct and false, in an arbitrary, gratuitous and mindless way. So, despite their positive qualities, MOVIEGUIDE® judges them to be excessive and unacceptable overall.