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ANDOR EPISODES 4-6 RECAP: WHERE HAVE WE SEEN THIS BEFORE?

We are now halfway through season one of Star Wars: Andor , a series currently airing on Disney Plus. The show tells the backstory of Cassian Andor, played by Diego Luna, leading up to the events of Star Wars: Rogue One (2016).  Andor has been quite a departure from any kind of live-action Star Wars content we have seen to date. The pure action has been slow, almost to the point of non-existent, at least until the most recent episode "The Eye" which premiered Wednesday. I have taken a more critical view of this show than any other. It ranks a distant fourth of the four Disney Plus shows in my personal rankings for many reasons. In my view, the show makes an obvious effort to distance itself from other Star Wars content. The concentration on characters, their interaction and relationships with one another takes a far higher priority than plot or story. It is paced very slowly, as if each episode represents 1/24th of a larger story, which is technically true. Andor will span t