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> The blasters in Andor are the first in any Star Wars IP that seemed lethal Andor did a good job with it, but I'd credit The Mandalorian for pioneering that.

> The blasters in Andor are the first in any Star Wars IP that seemed lethal Andor did a good job with it, but I'd credit The Mandalorian for pioneering that. Much of it thanks to the audio FX and sound editing—it made the blaster bolts seem a lot more like real, physical, violent and dangerous things than the "pew pew!" of most of the rest.

Fatnino 4y ago
Contrast to Bad Batch where the team inexplicably has their blasters set to stun (shoot blue rings) almost exclusively.
tptacek 4y ago
I watched the Mandalorian and didn't really get that feeling at all, but Mandalorian was also overtly cartoony (the army of Boba Fetts!) so that may have thrown me off. The thing in Andor that made me take notice was the TIE fighter buzz on Aldani. I think that's the first time any Star Wars ship ever felt kinetic, which is pretty funny since starfighter porn is part of the rationale of the whole property.
- yamtaddle 4y ago
  Mandalorian's pretty consistent about it, but it really stood out to me in the shootout when Breaking Bad's chicken man had besieged Our Heroes in the saloon. There's a crack to the impacts, and a speed to the bolts, that really makes you go "oh shit, those might hurt!" in a way that no Star Wars media I can think of (and I've seen/played/read just... way too much of it) had before. And it was mediocre in the way that basically all the Mandalorian episodes were, but I really enjoyed the use of the AT-ST as a Robert E. Howard, Summoned from the Darkest Jungle by the Forest Savages and their Witch Doctors, primeval monster-beast, in that one episode. Really made the thing seem scary, at least at times. Absolutely perfect example of how to rip off genre media then paint it Star Wars to turn out an above-average Star Wars thing (not that that's a high bar) with minimal effort.
  - tptacek 4y ago
    That's Giancarlo Esposito. He was a big deal before Breaking Bad, too. (He's also got a cameo in Trading Places if you watch closely.)

Fatnino 4y ago

Contrast to Bad Batch where the team inexplicably has their blasters set to stun (shoot blue rings) almost exclusively.

tptacek 4y ago

I watched the Mandalorian and didn't really get that feeling at all, but Mandalorian was also overtly cartoony (the army of Boba Fetts!) so that may have thrown me off. The thing in Andor that made me take notice was the TIE fighter buzz on Aldani. I think that's the first time any Star Wars ship ever felt kinetic, which is pretty funny since starfighter porn is part of the rationale of the whole property.

yamtaddle 4y ago
Mandalorian's pretty consistent about it, but it really stood out to me in the shootout when Breaking Bad's chicken man had besieged Our Heroes in the saloon. There's a crack to the impacts, and a speed to the bolts, that really makes you go "oh shit, those might hurt!" in a way that no Star Wars media I can think of (and I've seen/played/read just... way too much of it) had before. And it was mediocre in the way that basically all the Mandalorian episodes were, but I really enjoyed the use of the AT-ST as a Robert E. Howard, Summoned from the Darkest Jungle by the Forest Savages and their Witch Doctors, primeval monster-beast, in that one episode. Really made the thing seem scary, at least at times. Absolutely perfect example of how to rip off genre media then paint it Star Wars to turn out an above-average Star Wars thing (not that that's a high bar) with minimal effort.
- tptacek 4y ago
  That's Giancarlo Esposito. He was a big deal before Breaking Bad, too. (He's also got a cameo in Trading Places if you watch closely.)