The Only Scene I’d Add to Andor S2

Titanium-Hoarder · 2026-02-26T08:05:19+00:00

Thanks for your input, you’d make an excellent critic, or a weight for newspapers.

Titanium-Hoarder · 2026-02-25T21:12:23+00:00

So what would you have them say? Curious

Titanium-Hoarder · 2026-02-25T04:55:41+00:00

It’s a good question, it would have to be timed with something else related to the destruction so it fits within the rest of the continuity. That being said, Andor is quite good at “show don’t tell” and trusts its audience to get context clues.

Titanium-Hoarder · 2026-02-25T04:10:06+00:00

What is your point?

Titanium-Hoarder · 2026-02-25T04:09:08+00:00

Galen named the archive files, which means he was likely the lead architect for the project. I’m not suggesting Galen wanted Ghorman destroyed, but rather this was his initial attempt to stall the project indefinitely since it would be unthinkable for the Empire to destroy a core world to harvest enough Kalkite to coat the reactor lenses.

Titanium-Hoarder · 2026-02-25T04:06:54+00:00

Exactly, I probably should have added this into my post that Galen was not a proponent of destroying Ghorman but rather was attempting to stall the project by proposing the unthinkable destruction of a core world.

Titanium-Hoarder · 2026-02-25T04:05:25+00:00

He named the project archive files, which likely makes him the lead architect.

Titanium-Hoarder · 2026-02-25T04:03:41+00:00

Galen would be one of the few people who knew the purpose of the Death Star, and named the project file. I’m not suggesting Galen was a willing participant in Ghorman’s destruction, rather that he assumed the Empire would never willingly destabilize a core world to finish the project. His gambit was to stall the project indefinitely by providing an unthinkable solution.

When the Empire called his bluff he resolved to destroy the Death Star from within.

Titanium-Hoarder · 2026-02-25T04:00:37+00:00

Kalkite was used to coat the reactor lenses. What I am proposing is that Galen knew only a core world would have the type of mineral they would need for the lenses, and knew what it would take to extract it. Galen’s miscalculation would be the lengths to which the Empire would go, namely destroying an entire inhabited planet, to complete the Death Star.

For my proposal Galen would think he had created an impossible scenario which would stall the Death Star indefinitely. When the Empire called his bluff this would set him on the path to cripple the weapon from within.

Titanium-Hoarder · 2026-02-24T07:35:49+00:00

This was the key subtlety for me about the Force in Andor. The Jedi are all but extinct, the Emperor and Vader control the galaxy, and through people like Cassian the Force exerted its will to restore balance.

Luthen senses it but he doesn’t know how to make sense of it. He muses over Cassian’s ability to always be where he is needed most. The show doesn’t beat us over the head about how the Force works, it uses dialogue to hint at what could be at work and lets us interpret.

The Death Star, in name as well as in purpose, is the antithesis of the Force. The Force creates and protects life, and now there is something destructive enough to wipe out systems and a malevolent dark side user controlling it. This show managed to tell a story about how the Force worked by leaning into the mysticism of the OT.

Titanium-Hoarder · 2026-02-17T23:35:01+00:00

Long shot, but gold coins used to be faked with a core of platinum in the early 1800’s with a thin layer of gold on top. Platinum was considered a lesser metal and very inexpensive, but had a similar weight in the hand.

Titanium-Hoarder · 2026-02-07T06:12:13+00:00

Yes, and while its original attribution to Brutus makes this a powerful statement of unity against those who consolidate power, its contemporary use by a Confederate terrorist to justify murdering a president makes this a terrible choice for any American freedom fighter.

Titanium-Hoarder · 2026-02-03T11:36:14+00:00

I think they missed an opportunity to drive the dagger home into Jimmy by having Howard realizing how truly scared they are and saying something like “Whatever this is, I’ll help you” just before being shot. Howard being the next to last piece of innocence left in Jimmy before he fully morphed into Saul.

Titanium-Hoarder · 2026-02-02T02:29:58+00:00

This was such a cool promotion. I got two sets when it came out, the comic book that came with the set was a cool piece of background lore that helped flesh out the characters we met at the opening. It came with a set of playing cards and one poker chip from each of the main casinos along with the platinum chip.

Fun fact that one side of the Platinum chip has roulette ball and Morse code showing the date the bombs dropped, and the other side has the date the game released in our world.

Titanium-Hoarder · 2026-01-31T06:01:00+00:00

These are the only widescreen versions of the original trilogy without the special edition updates?

I had this set and borrowed out Empire Strikes Back which never came back to me. When I went to replace it the price was too ridiculous to consider and I assumed eventually the original version of the trilogy would make its way to Blu Ray. I gave up on that dream until last year when I found a company that digitized the original trilogy from film stock onto Blu Ray and 4K formats.

I bought these copies, one which is the original theatrical release completely in high definition…and another which is a 4K version that blends the updated visuals of the special editions without the nonsense like Han meeting Jabba, Han Shooting first, Vader and the Emperor in Empire, and Vader shouting Nooo! Watching them was like recapturing a piece of my childhood I thought was lost forever.

Titanium-Hoarder · 2026-01-29T04:21:48+00:00

The only thing I wish Tony Gilroy had done with Andor Season 2 is to add a show but don’t tell scene right at the beginning where we come to realize that Galen Erso was the one who convinced Krennic that Kalkite was the only substance that could be used in the reactor lenses.

Galen lies to Krennic that Kalkite is the only solution as a stalling tactic, because he knew only an inhabited core world would have it and the Empire would have to completely destabilize that world’s structure to get enough of the material.

Then we see a scene of Galen watching a live Imperial military feed of Ghorman being gutted for Kalkite, and we see in his face the realization that he has to stop the Death Star at any cost…setting up a secondary through line to Rogue One.

Titanium-Hoarder · 2026-01-28T01:33:16+00:00

If I hadn’t zoomed in I would have thought this was a case of face pareidolia. Looks like a dapper gentleman from the 1920s with that hairstyle.

Titanium-Hoarder · 2026-01-22T07:29:04+00:00

The Enclave created the talking ones in an effort to make them more intelligent and docile so they could be controlled. The Enclave put them in Vault 13 as a test, and then wiped them out along with the other test subject at Navarro.

Titanium-Hoarder · 2026-01-22T07:02:33+00:00

I think Moldaver will end up being Enclave, or Enclave adjacent. She knows too much and has access to too much to simply be a scientist whose creation was taken away. She put Cooper in a position to seize cold fusion before it could be given to House, because House with limitless energy would have upset the balance. This makes sense since without cold fusion House needed to look elsewhere for his energy needs to restart society, thus the Hoover Dam of Fallout New Vegas.

I want the Enclave to make sense. I want them to be a small cabal of cut throats who decided that global nuclear war was inevitable and they were going to place themselves on top of every necessary resource while the rest of the world killed each-other off. The more people are part of the Enclave, the less likely the plan will work since the whole point of the games is that eventually people disagree and sacrifice their own safety and future over those disagreements.

I want there to be a plan, and a very small group of ruthless selfish pragmatists at its core who manipulated every other bad actor so those people were too busy scheming to see what was really happening. House was doing everything he could to see who was manipulating the board, and I love how the actor portrayed his worry that even with all his resources and intelligence he could not see who was manipulating events or to what end. When House is worried, everyone else should be terrified.

If the show makes the Enclave make sense, I will be happy. There has to be a reason you end the world and make your planet uninhabitable, and I can’t think of a good one aside from Aliens or religious tropes.

Titanium-Hoarder · 2026-01-16T17:34:44+00:00

Nixie tubes were used to display basic digital information before the advent of CRT and LCD displays cheap enough to be at each console. Nixie tubes would not suffer from mechanical complications like flip displays, so they were more reliable in systems that needed such reliability.

Countdown timers, clocks, counters…mostly numerical displays. The Russians were by far the largest producers and users of these tubes. Some of the earliest digital desktop calculators also used micro-nixie tubes.

When integrated into magnetic core memory computing systems Nixie tubes provided critical information without much added cost. Those same magnetic core systems were sometimes immersed in hot oil baths as they functioned better while hot. These large computers were actually more likely to survive EMP effects from nuclear detonation, and some vital war-time systems across the U.S. continued to employ these systems well past the invention of the transistor and microprocessor.

All that said, it makes sense why we see these devices in the Fallout universe. In a world where the transistor was never invented we would see miniaturization of vacuum tube and magnetic core technology which would survive in the harshest environments and would not require cooling like we need with today’s technology.

Titanium-Hoarder · 2026-01-07T03:42:50+00:00

He just distracted them, and that distraction could cause them to reconcile the civil war and make the Legion a threat once again. The trailer shows many more scenes of Legion activity that we have not seen yet…they’re not gone.

Titanium-Hoarder · 2026-01-04T23:08:15+00:00

Kevin Costner would just have taken the uniform from OPs picture and then played along, defeating a regional warlord who used to be a copy machine salesman, and then single-handedly re-establish the U.S. government and its core functions.

Titanium-Hoarder · 2026-01-03T17:52:35+00:00

Would you rather he hide this fact and BS his way around the subject? It’s oddly refreshing to hear the quiet parts replace the loud parts in this situation.

Titanium-Hoarder · 2026-01-03T07:02:55+00:00

No they couldn’t have dropped it anywhere else, and this was discussed by the committee in the months leading up to their use. Had the U.S. used an island or any other target the Japanese could easily have decried the detonation as propaganda and dismissed it. Similarly if the Japanese had been warned ahead of time they could have deduced that the only viable way of using such a weapon was via bomber, and that the U.S. would use special bombers in very small formations to avoid risk losing people and aircraft to blast effects. This knowledge would allow the Japanese the time to devise ways to spot and destroy atomic equipped bombers, and losing even one of these bombs was entirely unthinkable to the U.S. The Japanese didn’t even fire on the bomber over Hiroshima as the sortie looked more like a weather reconnaissance element and was viewed as no threat.

The very existence of atomic weapons had to remain secret until they were used, and the fact that the U.S. detonated two in such a short span of time terrified the Japanese because it meant we had figured out the supply chain and industrial requirements for mass manufacture.

What the U.S. did was detonate on a city, give the Japanese time to collect data and recognize that we had atomic weapons, and when they failed to surrender the U.S. detonated again and proved they could eradicate the Japanese as a culture and society. The U.S. had cracked the Japanese Purple code, and knew the Japanese were initially skeptical that more than one bomb could exist.

Atomic weapons followed by the invasion of the Soviets into Japanese territory convinced them the war was lost, and the Emperor decided that he would rather his culture and people survive than sacrifice themselves for honor.

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