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Andor Season 2 sets new IMDB record

The second season of Andor has become the first television series ever to have a run of five consecutive episodes with IMDb user scores of 9.5 or above, with the episode “Who Are You?” currently holding the highest rating of 9.8.

With history made, it’s safe to say that Season 2 lived up to the hype from critics and the supreme confidence from Disney. Even in a year that has thus far included popular, high-profile hits like Severance Season 2, The Last of Us Season 2, and The Studio, Andor stands comfortably alone. For comparison’s sake, the Adam Scott sci-fi series only had one episode with a 9.5 score in its much-lauded second outing, while HBO’s video game adaptation starring Bella Ramsey has yet to crack anything above that mark halfway through its sophomore run. The red-hot Studio, too, has maxed out at a 9 with only one episode to go in the Seth Rogen comedy.

It’s unheard of to have an audience so consistently impressed by a show, though Star Wars has flirted with this feat before. Before Andor, Star Wars: The Clone Wars was the gold standard for small-screen adventures in a galaxy far, far away, yet it came just one episode shy, with the final four episodes of Season 7 never falling below a 9.7 score. More recently, The Mandalorian also had a respectable run at the end of Season 2, topping out at a 9.8 with its finale. source

IMDb Scores for Andor Season 2’s Final Five Episodes
• Episode 8, “Who Are You?” – IMDb Score 9.8
• Episode 9, “Welcome to the Rebellion” – IMDb Score 9.7
• Episode 10, “Make it Stop” – IMDb Score 9.6
• Episode 11, “Who Else Knows?” – IMDb Score 9.5
• Episode 12, “Jedha, Kyber, Erso” – IMDb Score 9.6

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New Star Wars movie when?

Star Wars movie rescheduled from December 2027

Disney is making big changes to its upcoming schedule. And though no Star Wars movie has been directly named in the announcement, they have effectively confirmed that the untitled project they wanted to release in December 2027 will no longer be on the calendar.

The biggest piece of news to come out of the announcement, and also what affects Star Wars the most, is the delay of the next two Avengers movies. Doomsday, previously dated for early May 2026, will now bow on December 18, 2026. This clears the runway for The Mandalorian and Grogu, which is scheduled for May 22, 2026. To replace Doomsday, Disney has placed the Devil Wears Prada sequel they have been developing on May 1.

Avengers: Secret Wars used to be dated for May 5, 2027. Now, it has moved into December 17, 2027, where an untitled Star Wars movie was also placed. This is also significant for Star Wars: Starfighter, the Shawn Levy-directed Star Wars movie starring Ryan Gosling, which is targeting a May 28, 2027, date — three days after the 50th anniversary of Star Wars.

The December Star Wars movie has not been mentioned in the media, as far as we’ve found, but putting Secret Wars into its slot has basically turned it into a ghost project. They could even wait to reschedule it until they have put a name and a face to the project. There is no shortage of candidates for that next movie after Levy’s: new features from Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy, James Mangold, Taika Waititi, Dave Filoni, and Simon Kinberg are in development, Kathleen Kennedy confirmed at Star Wars Celebration Japan. source

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"True or false: R2-D2 originally had a dialogue, with actual speaking parts.“

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Get to know the best casino in the Galaxy - Canto Bight

The most high profile casino in Star Wars by far is the one on Canto Bight, the gambling haven for high society figures across the galaxy on the planet Cantonica. This place had it all: slot machines, card games, roulette and betting on Fathier races. It didn’t exist until The Last Jedi came out in 2017, but it has reappeared and been mentioned in lots of stories since.

It has since appeared in the Star Wars Outlaws videogame as well as issues of the Doctor Aphra and Bounty Hunters comics, among other places. It has also been mentioned in Andor. Canto Bight was the first proper casino to appear in a Star Wars movie, and was severely damaged when Finn and Rose freed the Fathiers and rampaged through the place. In Star Wars Outlaws decades earlier, it was the site of a shootout between Kay Vess and the Zerek Besh crime syndicate. It recovered enough that it was still thriving by the time of The Last Jedi and it seems likely it got back on its feet after Finn and Rose’s exploits.

Behind the scenes:

Canto Bight was created for Star Wars: Episode VIII The Last Jedi, and it was described by director Rian Johnson as "a Star Wars Monte Carlo–type environment, a little James Bond–ish, a little To Catch a Thief."

Canto Bight is also themed after the American city of Las Vegas, due to its debauchery and number of casinos.
The city and its casino design and look were heavily inspired by the city of Dubrovnik in Croatia. Parts of Star Wars: The Last Jedi (Canto Bight scenes) were filmed in Dubrovnik in March 2016. Canto Bight chase scenes with Finn and Rose are filmed on the city main street Stradun.

During the late design process of The Last Jedi, Lucasfilm president Kathleen Kennedy said that Canto Bight's design didn't feel enough "Star Wars" to her, reason for which the creative team scrapped many of their original ideas for Canto Bight and ultimately drew inspiration from early drawings by Ralph McQuarrie for Jabba the Hutt's palace during the development of Star Wars: Episode VI Return of the Jedi in the 1980s. source

Cosplay of the Week

Kel Dor Rebel by reddit user The_Platanogalactico

Comic Book of the Week

Hyperspace Stories - Codebreaker 1

Hyperspace Stories—Codebreaker 1 is the first issue of the 2025 canon comic book miniseries Star Wars: Hyperspace Stories—Codebreaker. The issue was written by Ethan Sacks, illustrated by Marc Yarza, Jose Marzan Jr., and Nicola Righi, and published by Dark Horse Comics on April 30, 2025. The issues contains the story "Mission to Nar Kaaga."

Publishers summary

Poe Dameron, ace Resistance pilot, and his droid companion BB-8 are sent to investigate a piece of First Order tech used to decode Resistance messages. Standing between them and their objective is an infamous TIE fighter pilot. Can Poe out-fly his enemy, or will the mission go down in flames before it begins?

• Poe and BB-8 are back for an all-new adventure!

• Celebrate the 10-year anniversary of The Force Awakens!

• Four issue series.

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