With the show now finished, it is time to finally make a proper review of the show, my final thoughts on it and maybe some theories for Season 2 when it comes in the near future.

Note: To not make it longer than it should be, i will talk about theories on another post.

1) The Bad: First i will start with what i don´t enjoy from the series. Interesting enough, i had a good time watching the entire thing, so my only issues were just the so called "nitpicks", as some would said. First, there was a big vacuum of aliens appereances in the show, this could be explained mostly because of the Empire politics / racism towards species that were not mostly humanoids (they even were racists towards humans from Wild Space outside of the Core Words), but still i feel that the show needed more than just a few lads pooping up in the background. The second and main issue was the way the show was released: Sure, a 3 arc episode is a good way to tell a story, but people won´t be happy to just wait probably 2 weeks to see the big episode that culminates the entire arc. The show should have been released either the entire thing like sometimes Netflix does, half the season or by arcs (probably the best the benefits both parties), but knowing the Mouse and their power/money hungry that would never happen. There could be other things to complain but for me there is not that many issues compared to the previous shows that we got in the year. Something that i remember while wrriting is that i got doubts about Andor's sister though, not sure the way it was closed that arc was a good one; as it seemed to be a huge part at first.

2) The Good: Now this one is gonna be longer, mostly because i really want to appreciated and explain why this show was really good for me.

A) Acting and character depelopment: One of the big attributes this show got it right was the great acting by all the actors involved and their constant growth in the entire season. I could talk about all of them, but i will put emphasis in some that were really underrated in it regardless if they were my favourites or not: Kyle Soller as Syril Karn, Diego Luna of course as Andor, Andy Serkis as Kino Loy, and Stellan Skarsgård as Luthen Rael.

Syril Karn at the stort of the show was scared, not ready to be a leader, surprised to see his superior lack of emphaty or care towards the job and the deaths of two man. He got "PDST" for seeing Andor getting away with a big explosion killing most of his men. Later on we saw that he was "under his mother wing" to call it one way, always depending on her overproptecting mother that tried to control his life, even though she founf him a new job. And it all end with him boing what hebelieved in the entire show (trying to get back to Andor) but instead saving the life of the ISB Supervisor Dedra Meero and becoming a "simp" (haha jk.), hopefully finding his love of his life and maybe getting a promotion/job in the Empire as more than just a regular man controling the traffic sitting on a desk.

Kino Loy stole the "Prison Arc" as i call it in my opinion. Truly showing the talent of Andy Serkis (and how he was wasted in the ST but i am not going into that) as a actor himself (he is well known mostly of mo cap tbh myself). He started as a "authoritarian man" controlling the prison / factory from within while keeping his men alive as much as he can. Then later on we see that he has emphaty for his men rather than being a cold man that he was at the start of the arc, even respecting Andor in a way. His sotry ended for now in a very tragic way, delivering a impactful moment as he couldn't make it out as he didn´t know how to swim. Perhaps he took over the prison, or was executed we will never know, another story for another time.

Andor really shows his change towards a guy that was "all killin, questions later" to a proper fighter, a one that believes in a cause, that wants to protect the ones close to him, even returning to his planet that was living before the incident at the start of the show. Diego Luna showed his talent in the entire series as the leader role.

Luthen Rael definitely was my favourite character in the entire show. Loved the mystery surrounding him, the amount of theories created mostly theorizing if he was a jedi / a jedi temple guard (which would be cool giving the idea of his "weapon" that carries as well as the mask being in his shop, perhaps his own). Stellan showed his acting in every appereance that he got on screen, making him a very likeable character with convictions and having his own "revenge" against the Empire and the system.

B) Visuals: Now it trully shows that the production didn´t use the volume at all, instead using practical effects as well as real life places. The amount of money expend was worthy in my opinion, giving us stunning visuals that helps expand their vision.

C) Story: For some, it was slow and not really well as a whole, boring and could be better. For me it was perfect, exactly what i was expecting, building up every episode to a proper final arc episode with a huge tension that raises at any moment. A lot of actually hidden details that can be explored and talked for a long time, even thought the main character is not a jedi. Dividing the shows in arcs was a good decision, it kinda reminds me of TCW show as well. The timeline of each episode was nice, not feeling short as Mando did sometimes.

D) The Empire done Right: Now finally, as mostly bc of my bias towards the Empire, it was a joy to see my boys done right. Seeing Yularen even for a brief moment was great (still sad of what happened to Tom Kane a while back, would have loved to see more of Yularen in animation..), the actor looks the part as well for his brief appereance portraying him exactly as how he should be; not the man who served under Anakin during the CW, a more cold and evil man corrupted by the system and politics, as well as one of the key members close to Tarkin as well as the leader of the ISB. There was also a lack of Stormtroopers which was also great, as those are "elite soldiers", and when they showed up they trully show it: Shooting everything that moves, brutally killing civilians as well as rebels, not missing many shots; while also using the "army military, as i called the black uniformed troopers". 

E) Darkness of the Show: First i would like to give Genevieve O'Reilly her props to always delivering her acting as Mon Monthma, hopefully we will see her again in content post ROTJ (perhaps Ahsoka?). Now this show definitely is not a "normal show" to say the least, it already had an aura when i first started watching it (like the "adult club" at the start to say an example), and then it kept going even further. We saw a prison which tortured their prisoners against their will, rememering what happened in real life years ago during the II world war, we also got a child that in order to keep and save unknowly her mother from debt and the ISB she has to marry the son of "a thief, a burglar".

To end the post, as i don't tend to give numbers or rank by grade everything (except movies perhaps, shows are different and cannot be compared) i will say that for me this show was the best content that we got in terms of Star Wars in the year. Would love to hear your thoughts, althought i saw some of them early on on previous posts.