Anyone else find it odd we’ve seen no stormtroopers?
I mean, we’re several episodes deep, we’ve been to multiple Imperial worlds and buildings, I know they wanted to focus on the corporate security force for the start of the show, but now Farrix is under imperial control.
Coruscant had very little, Aldhani has billions of credits sitting there and no troopers guarding it, and we have no B-roll like footage of them on random patrols
My point is this; they have to be holding out for some reason.
When we first see a TIE fighter, it was the first time in a long time I’ve watched A SINGLE TIE FIGHTER be terrifying in canon. The sound echoing off the mountain valley, the wind when it swoops down low to the ground, the characters dive for cover and hold their ears and their breath in case the TIE starts shooting.
In other SW media, Rebels and books mostly, TIEs are trash ships, they are deployed like a swarm of bugs from cruisers and x-wing pilots joke about their tallies of kills, the Ghost crew bonded over stealing one and painting it, Finn and Poe meet and escape in one, Rey takes one down with a swing of a saber, and in general they’re just another method the Empire/FirstOrder designed to overwhelm opponents.
But not in Andor.
In Andor they are scary, they are loud, and that was only one of them.
Andor is real, it’s showing the story of those fighting a war without magic Force tricks or incredible power or resources.
If that TIE in ep. 5 wanted some target practice…those Aldhani rebels would be done. Gone. And there would be no way to defend themselves.
And stormtroopers? Same set up.
The Bucket-heads are foolish and infamously bad at shooting, they hit their heads on doorways and march in silly lines, their minds are weak and can be Jedi-tricked, their armor is ineffective and is stolen for sneak~reasons, and they are NOWHERE in Andor…. yet
Whatever they have planned, whatever their entrance could be, it’s not going to be silly or stupid. Characters will die and the audience won’t be laughing.
