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A Quick Update
🕑 Added 2022-09-28 10:00:07 +0000 UTC(You may have read this over on the main feed episode description for this week, but just in case you missed it...)
The jokes that we made on this week’s Andor podcast aside, A More Civilized Age has never been a show with a plan so much as a set of interests. We’ve never even really known what is coming in the primary topic for our show, The Clone Wars, and that’s allowed us to have some incredible experiences and, we hope, some fun surprises to share with you that compensates for the fact that we can’t analyze this with a complete knowledge of the text.
That also meant that we never really had a plan for “what happens after we watch The Clone Wars?” That was a conversation for the future. We’d wrap up our project and then think about whether or not there were any other shows that we felt so passionately about that we’d want to widen the scope of AMCA.
But it turns out that if you spend two years working on a Star Wars podcast the future might just become the present and force the issue before you are ready.
As you might have gleaned when we watched the trailer, this had all the hallmarks of a show that would speak to the things we were most interested in when it came to Star Wars. And indeed, from the minute the first episodes came out, it was clear we needed to drop everything and let our own excitement be our guide.
So: For the next couple months, we’re going to leave Ahsoka on the steps of the Jedi Temple at the end of Season 5 and spend some time with Andor.
Now we have a plan for the rest of the Clone Wars and we’d already started work on Season 6 when we made this turn, so we’re not scrapping the heart of what AMCA has been about. But for the next couple months, we’re going to be hitting the latest episode of Andor every week and continuing with our monthly Q and As.
We hope you're as excited about these next few months of AMCA as we are. It’s fair to say that the post-Disney, post-Abrams era of Star Wars has been very hit or miss, but if nothing else it feels like Andor already feels like a show that has paid attention to and is ready to spark more of the most interesting conversations you can have about Star Wars and its fictional history. Will it stick the landing? Your guess is as good as ours, but we’re excited to take the ride with you.
Comments
I voted, but not sure what options we have television wise unless its non-American. Is this correct?
Jon Larson
I'm a new subscriber and just started listening from the beginning. At the end of the 2nd episode (I believe), Austin states that they have a plan for when they are planning to cover the Tartakovsky Clone Wars show, so we must not be at that point yet.
Katie Knaebe
They won’t get there for a long time, but also a Rebels-related relic there, too
Surprised Austin didn't catch that the Easter eggs in Luthien's shop were almost all Jedi/Sith relics. Starkiller's Sith Stalker armor from the Force Unleashed dark side ending. The Plo Koon face mask.
Oh yeah, I’m here for the ride no matter what.
TheSpiderDork
it is a bit of a bummer to hit pause on Clone Wars right on the precipice of some of the most fire episodes, in order to transition to watching a lot of frankly rough/mid Rebels episodes before the show works itself back up into "yooo let's gooo" territory although as always I'm more interested in what the crew has to say about them, and they never fail to make recounting even bad episodes entertaining
I kind of subconsciously knew this would happen as soon as I finished the third episode of Andor lol
@NotInventedHere
Loved this pod, especially the analysis of Karn & Mosk. Got big "Lt Gorman on his second ever combat drop" vibes from Karn on the dropship heading for Ferrix. re: the Ferrix locals clanging when the corpos show up, someone on another forum pointed out this mirrors the scene in '71 where Northern Irish locals clang trash can lids on the street when the army arrives. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2TrHn6fILG8
Hell yeah
Nathan Roberts
Hope the Tilony Zone continues in future episodes
I get the logic, but I think there’s a big difference between watching episodes in the Clone Wars as they were released and watching Star Wars as it was released more generally (like are they seriously going to watch Resistance before going back to S7?) without delving into spoilers, I feel like there’s another live action show that looms large over all of this, and I think it would be good to get through s7 before it comes out (though, to be fair, also rebels).
Tom Dickinson
this is the right choice and I am obviously here for this, but I am absolutely itching to hear you talk about season 6
Matt
Yeah, it's arguably in the same remit as "we're going to watch them in the order they were presented" they expressed when the question of whether to watch in chronological order came up. As someone who is watching along with the pod for the first time I can't say I'm *completely* jazzed to switch out of CW for an extended period right around when I think it's gotten unequivocally good, but I'm also eager to catch Rebels, so.
Kiruvi
I mean.... if you watched these shows when they originally came out, you saw Rebels before season seven. Seeing them in that order will preserve the experience had by original fans of the show who saw them in that order and enjoyed them in that order. So far their approach to Clone Wars has been strictly release-order despite people insisting on chronological watchlists so this tracks with their philosophy to date.
Hell yes give me Andor
Nathan Roberts
The new artwork is hot
It's been 5 seasons of very much Filoni's vision of Star Wars, Andor's the first thing to come along in a while that feels like it's from a different creative vision. Might as well take the time with it as a nice refresh. I hope your long term plans include the Genndy Tartakovsky Clone Wars eventually. I feel like that could also be something of a refresher next to the main show.
This is a good choice. BUT doing Rebels before S7 is a HUGE MISTAKE.
