Disappointing how no one seems to notice that he baited them into raising the tractor beam power level, so that they would unwittingly increase the velocity of his countermeasures.
This whole premise is clever. Luthan gets his countermeasures armed and calibrated to the tractor beam force. my thought is that the flechettes are launched with enough force to be pulled in by the tractor beam on its current power level. Then he starts to take off knowing that the imperial ship will increase the tractor beam strength. He releases the flechettes and the tractor beam pulls them in, effectively using the tractor beam to destroy itself. We all really should take the time to realize that teams of writers sit in rooms coming up with these concepts, and scenarios, its all quite brilliant and even then, no guarantee its going to "work" on screen.
couldn't of explained it better. flechettes alone would of bren enough to destabilize the tractor beam, but as you said they increase the pull him, and what was dangerous his speed flechettes, became damn near metal blaster bolts to a target shielded against blasters, but not the flechettes.
The Cantwell class was named after graphic artist Colin Cantwell who helped design the ships for A New Hope, this was an early design of his for the original Star Destroyers, discarded in favor of the giant wedges we all know and love, but the design was kept and made into an Arrestor Cruiser, a medium cruiser armed with three powerful tractor beams, its purpose was to capture smugglers and bandits and, well, anyone the Empire felt like putting in their work-camps, "Capturing lawbreakers alive and Arresting them".
And those counter measures also seem to me like they could be something James Bond would have in his Aston Martin DB5 and it sounds like the gun on an A-10 Thunderbolt II which is a gun with a jet and/or plane attached to it
This scene is arguably the best 90 seconds of Star Wars space battle since ep. 4. Maybe even better...writing and screenplay that had me jumping out of my seat. And I am old! Andor rules, it's Star Wars for adults. Concentrated Goodness!
It's not entirely unnecessary, because it helps further characterize just how insanely well prepared and good at spycraft, Luthen is. Even when he's seemingly caught with his pants down by an Imperial patrol, he's got plenty of tricks up his sleeve to escape.
Flying to the bridge, knowing the TIEs would limit their shots was so smart, and a great FU Empire moment. Like “hey watch this shit, get a good look”. So badass. Luthen is my new favorite character. Can’t stand Disney anymore but I will re-subscibe just to see season 2 of Andor.
He misunderstood because of that actor's accent. It happens. And he presumed it was Corellian because of the style of the cockpit, which is understandable.
@@PlutozReal Right, but to be fair you said it yourself, it looks like a bomber. It shows up for only a few seconds so it's hard to pick out those small details unless you go back and really scrutinize those few seconds, but also that design is very famously associated with the TIE Bomber, so most casual fans aren't going to pick up on it being a transport even if they go back and re-watch that part.
It's more that shields protect well against energy weapons, but not kinetic projectiles. Like in Empire Strikes Back when the Star Destroyer gets hit by an asteroid, it tears right through the shield and destroys the bridge. The countermeasures that Luthen fired, were solid metal projectiles being accelerated to a very high velocity by the combination of Luthen firing them and the tractor beam picking them up and accelerating them even further.
Love the scene, but my ONE complaint: I wish he'd lasered through like 6 TIE fighters at the end instead of just the 2. Same with in The Mandalorian, when Boba Fett drops seismic charges on only 2 TIE fighters, shoulda been a squadron.
Why do you say that? I assume your reasoning is that it would simply make Luthven look more badass, at the expense of the Imperials looking like a joke. But the scene accomplishes the tension, then the shock and awe it's supposed to; plus if we never see the villains as anything more than bumbling cannon-fodder who are there just to look pretty while they get blown up, then why should any of the characters ever feel threatened by them, and we - the audience - ever feel tension in a scene like this. And this scene is definitely supposed to be tense. Keep in mind, this is a small patrol cruiser in a middle-of-nowhere piracy zone, not a fleet in a war-zone. It's not a classified, high-security base like Scarrif marshalling it's defences against an entire Rebel fleet for a decisive battle - it's an everyday border-patrol inspection gone wrong.
@@mitchellhayward6492 In both cases, it's an excessive use of a powerful weapon. Luthen could've just used his normal turret to finish off the last two. Boba Fett could've used his normal lasers to finish off the last two. It's reminiscent of killing a mosquito with a gun.
@dylanjc We know from this scene that Luthven's targeting computer needed to lock onto each target before his turret would take a shot, and we've known since the very beginning that those things aren't always accurate. The LAAT landed on Geonosis with all guns blazing, not simply their blaster turrets. There's no such thing as overkill when you're fighting for your life. If you have such weaponry at your disposal, it would be foolish not to use them.
@@dylanjc Well, the dialogue is obviously supposed to line up with what we see on-screen. Being a small patrol, you don't want too many ships in the scene in the first place. Plus, putting that many kills under Luthven's belt would simply undermine the tension that built up this exciting but very brief dogfight. In Empire Strikes Back, there's a deleted scene of C-3PO ripping a warning sticker off a door while they're trying to escape echo base, and a few seconds later a trooper opens the door and gets dragged in by a wampa. It was a funny moment, but it undermined the tension of the Imperials winning the Battle of Hoth with casual ease. You also pointed out Boba Fett using a seismic charge to wreck 2 TIE's in the Mandalorian - which I don't watch. But I'd like to mention that when we first saw them used in Attack of the Clones, Jango deployed 2 of them against Obi-Wan's lone fighter - which never killed anything - *before* he resorted to simply shooting at him.
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Disappointing how no one seems to notice that he baited them into raising the tractor beam power level, so that they would unwittingly increase the velocity of his countermeasures.
Oh I did first time round. I said exactly that to people who questioned why he powered up... They created their own doom!! Incredible
Exactly his same plan with the Empire: get them to ratchet up the constraint, and use it against them
This whole premise is clever. Luthan gets his countermeasures armed and calibrated to the tractor beam force. my thought is that the flechettes are launched with enough force to be pulled in by the tractor beam on its current power level. Then he starts to take off knowing that the imperial ship will increase the tractor beam strength. He releases the flechettes and the tractor beam pulls them in, effectively using the tractor beam to destroy itself.
We all really should take the time to realize that teams of writers sit in rooms coming up with these concepts, and scenarios, its all quite brilliant and even then, no guarantee its going to "work" on screen.
Star Wars is great with great writers....can't wait to see what they have in store for season 2
Agree, he waited until they was up to lvl 5, they was shot out and the tractor beam accelerated them even faster. Just perfect 😃
couldn't of explained it better. flechettes alone would of bren enough to destabilize the tractor beam, but as you said they increase the pull him, and what was dangerous his speed flechettes, became damn near metal blaster bolts to a target shielded against blasters, but not the flechettes.
Luthen increasing his thrust so they would increase the Tractor force and thus increase the velocity of his countermeasures, was genius.
The Cantwell class was named after graphic artist Colin Cantwell who helped design the ships for A New Hope, this was an early design of his for the original Star Destroyers, discarded in favor of the giant wedges we all know and love, but the design was kept and made into an Arrestor Cruiser, a medium cruiser armed with three powerful tractor beams, its purpose was to capture smugglers and bandits and, well, anyone the Empire felt like putting in their work-camps, "Capturing lawbreakers alive and Arresting them".
I swear, the Fondor is basically the Batmobile of Star Wars. And Luthen is Batman.
This.
He has a secret lair.
Even his alter ego is a rich playboy.
Next season, we find out Palpatine killed his parents.
And those counter measures also seem to me like they could be something James Bond would have in his Aston Martin DB5 and it sounds like the gun on an A-10 Thunderbolt II which is a gun with a jet and/or plane attached to it
"How did you do that?"
*Deep breath* "BECAUSE I'M LUTHEN!!!"
"No. We can use the practice". - Rarely have some words been regretted so profoundly so quickly....
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Got to be one of the best escape sequences in Star Wars.
That dumbfounded look on that imperial captains face never gets old.
This scene is arguably the best 90 seconds of Star Wars space battle since ep. 4.
Maybe even better...writing and screenplay that had me jumping out of my seat. And I am old!
Andor rules, it's Star Wars for adults. Concentrated Goodness!
"pocket sand" aaaaahahahahahaha
Now the Arrestor's captain will have a debriefing with Lord Vader.
A debreathing, perhaps
This scene perfectly follows the rule of cool, it was superfluous and entirely unnecessary but nobody cares because it’s so fucking cool.
It's not entirely unnecessary, because it helps further characterize just how insanely well prepared and good at spycraft, Luthen is.
Even when he's seemingly caught with his pants down by an Imperial patrol, he's got plenty of tricks up his sleeve to escape.
The weapon Luthen uses the destroy the tractor beam actually exists. It's called Metal Storm.
I never watch reaction videos…except when this broadcast, I was so astonished that I went looking for reactions to this scene. Thanks for the video!
16:18 "oh ! ... Oh ! ... OOH!! ... What the hell was that ? That was phenomenal !" 😂
Stop and Search works.They could have got those laser sword beams off the Spacelanes.
The Fondor looks like a redesigned Rogue Shadow from The Force Unleashed. So nice
The levers for the hyperdrive are just like the ones on the Millennium Falcon at Galaxy’s Edge.
Characters can never be smarter than the people writing them. These writers are pretty sharp!
Flying to the bridge, knowing the TIEs would limit their shots was so smart, and a great FU Empire moment. Like “hey watch this shit, get a good look”. So badass. Luthen is my new favorite character. Can’t stand Disney anymore but I will re-subscibe just to see season 2 of Andor.
So that instantly became the best ship in all of the Star Wars universe... no contest
My favorite ship in SW... and that's kinda amazing to say
Millenium Falcon, you WERE so badass. You've been dethroned.
That was phenomenal.
11:42 I died.
Guy in blue was wrong about so many things. It's not a Horcrux ship it's a Fonder Haulcraft, It is NOIT Corillian it is from FONDOR!
He misunderstood because of that actor's accent. It happens. And he presumed it was Corellian because of the style of the cockpit, which is understandable.
Also called it a bomber. It wasn't. It was a boarding ship. Looks like a bomber but full of storm troopers instead of bombs.
He was making a joke about the name because of the actors accent.
@@PlutozReal Right, but to be fair you said it yourself, it looks like a bomber. It shows up for only a few seconds so it's hard to pick out those small details unless you go back and really scrutinize those few seconds, but also that design is very famously associated with the TIE Bomber, so most casual fans aren't going to pick up on it being a transport even if they go back and re-watch that part.
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Oh that last girl is cool, never seen her before
Did he bring more heat on Alderaan, which would cause them to rebel?
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I think you can't have shields up while you're using the tractor beam, lol.
It's more that shields protect well against energy weapons, but not kinetic projectiles.
Like in Empire Strikes Back when the Star Destroyer gets hit by an asteroid, it tears right through the shield and destroys the bridge.
The countermeasures that Luthen fired, were solid metal projectiles being accelerated to a very high velocity by the combination of Luthen firing them and the tractor beam picking them up and accelerating them even further.
Love it!!
What the hell was that? - That would be a pair of very large Lightsabers. From the colour I would say he got the crystals from the Sith.
I don't think they were light sabers, just huge lasers, similar to what they use in security gates, just scaled up.
It always has be Jedi, or Sith, with you people! ;)
Unlikely. Probably just a continuous stream of plasma that'll keep going until it hits something in a few million years
Luke did this in one of the Thrawn Trilogy books.
Love the scene, but my ONE complaint: I wish he'd lasered through like 6 TIE fighters at the end instead of just the 2.
Same with in The Mandalorian, when Boba Fett drops seismic charges on only 2 TIE fighters, shoulda been a squadron.
Why do you say that? I assume your reasoning is that it would simply make Luthven look more badass, at the expense of the Imperials looking like a joke.
But the scene accomplishes the tension, then the shock and awe it's supposed to; plus if we never see the villains as anything more than bumbling cannon-fodder who are there just to look pretty while they get blown up, then why should any of the characters ever feel threatened by them, and we - the audience - ever feel tension in a scene like this. And this scene is definitely supposed to be tense.
Keep in mind, this is a small patrol cruiser in a middle-of-nowhere piracy zone, not a fleet in a war-zone. It's not a classified, high-security base like Scarrif marshalling it's defences against an entire Rebel fleet for a decisive battle - it's an everyday border-patrol inspection gone wrong.
@@mitchellhayward6492 In both cases, it's an excessive use of a powerful weapon. Luthen could've just used his normal turret to finish off the last two. Boba Fett could've used his normal lasers to finish off the last two. It's reminiscent of killing a mosquito with a gun.
@dylanjc We know from this scene that Luthven's targeting computer needed to lock onto each target before his turret would take a shot, and we've known since the very beginning that those things aren't always accurate.
The LAAT landed on Geonosis with all guns blazing, not simply their blaster turrets. There's no such thing as overkill when you're fighting for your life.
If you have such weaponry at your disposal, it would be foolish not to use them.
@@mitchellhayward6492 I'm not talking about the in-universe stuff. I mean from a film-directing standpoint.
@@dylanjc Well, the dialogue is obviously supposed to line up with what we see on-screen. Being a small patrol, you don't want too many ships in the scene in the first place. Plus, putting that many kills under Luthven's belt would simply undermine the tension that built up this exciting but very brief dogfight.
In Empire Strikes Back, there's a deleted scene of C-3PO ripping a warning sticker off a door while they're trying to escape echo base, and a few seconds later a trooper opens the door and gets dragged in by a wampa. It was a funny moment, but it undermined the tension of the Imperials winning the Battle of Hoth with casual ease.
You also pointed out Boba Fett using a seismic charge to wreck 2 TIE's in the Mandalorian - which I don't watch. But I'd like to mention that when we first saw them used in Attack of the Clones, Jango deployed 2 of them against Obi-Wan's lone fighter - which never killed anything - *before* he resorted to simply shooting at him.
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