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[–] [email protected] 15 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Don't forget about me neilson I pirated the whole thing

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 week ago (4 children)

BTW, I want an unpopular advice - where to you legally get these shows as seamlessly as torrenting?

Suppose I'm a Linux or FreeBSD user, and don't like too many steps being required due to being autistic and thus easily irritated.

Because with Andor specifically would really want to pay for it.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 days ago

I want an unpopular advice - where to you legally get these shows as seamlessly as torrenting?

You can't, that's why I pirate it all.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 week ago

I have an asustor Nas, then use radarr, sonarr, overseerr, qbt. All of automates getting the shows and movies I want to watch. Then I just use plex(lifetime pass) to watch it anywhere.

If you are easily irritated you can just set this up once in containers and basically forget about it. All of these apps also set up the same so once you learn to set up one the others will be easy.

Worst comes to worst when I was first starting out I paid a guy on fiver like $12 to log in and set up an app for me because I got stuck.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 week ago

Disney+ I guess. That's pretty seamless and legal.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 week ago

Pretty sure they targeted onionplay for putting the new episodes on there ): they went down, came back up with a new url extension and now Andor is gone

[–] [email protected] -2 points 1 week ago (7 children)

I tried watching it, but since after 2 episodes still nothing had happened, I stopped and went to watch a movie.

Which is about the same length as those 2 episodes, but actually had a begin, middle, and end.

It might be good, but I will never know since the slow start is so off putting.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 week ago

Skip to the last half of the season. And if you decide you want to know how they go to where they are, go back and finish the first half. Honestly, with original trilogy coming out first, then Rogue One, then the Andor seasons, it's probably the traditional way to watch! :)

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I've fallen asleep during every episode. This does not happen with other shows, except for one or two really slow episodes of Severance. I have no idea what the problem is.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 week ago

Me too. I want to love it. Rogue One is maybe my favorite SW movie (sorry Empire, you're still maybe #1). And that's coming from a guy that saw the original in 1977.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 week ago (2 children)

You gave up 2/3 of the way through the first story arc. With the 3rd episode it clocks in at about 2 hours, there's your movie.

You stopped the movie a little over halfway through, what did you expect?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 days ago (1 children)

If the movie is boring, I will stop it halfway through.

Did the same with Twilight when I gave that a shot.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 days ago

Plenty of good moves are slow, it takes time to setup a deep story. I hope you'd give Casablanca or Schindler's List more of a chance.

But Andor is a political thriller, it's not a fun action/adventure. If you think the beginning is boring, you probably won't enjoy the rest anyway, it's not for everyone.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

(Not OP)

2/3rds of the way is asking a lot to keep my attention. And I want to love it.

"Slow as hell for the first few hours.", is not complimentary.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 week ago

Had the same experience but pushed through. It's worth the slow burn. Many early season scenes are horrid and worse than the first season early scenes. But the ending is just as good. It makes sense when you know that it is 4 seasons into one because production takes way too long.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I've watched the first 3, maybe 4, episodes. Still have no idea what it's about, just couldn't grab my attention. Which is a shame, I'm sure it's great Star Wars content.

BTW, never express any opinion about this except full-throated, roaring approval.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Keep going, the beginning of the season was mid but the end is golden. Motherfuckering show had me crying at the end

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 days ago

"I swear, it gets good after you go through multiple hours of slop!"

Yeah, not buying that. Rather spend my time well instead.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 week ago

I'll eventually take another push at it, but I sure as hell won't say I didn't like it online. "Get a rope!"

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 week ago
[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)
  1. Its incredibly good.

  2. A chunk of the episodes in the two seasons are practically dead air.

I'm still flip flopping on whether the slow pacing of some of the episodes was intentional (whether to try to build suspense or to hammer home a Lenin attributed quote about "decades where nothing happens and there are weeks where decades happen") or some wonkyness with trying to figure out the proper 'fit' of story and dialogue in an episode.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Apparently that quote was invented by George Galloway. Lenin didn't exactly say that.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 days ago

Don't revise my revisionism.

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