news culture Star Wars Andor: A very old joke crept into Episode 5 of the Disney+ series and you might have missed it!
Last Wednesday, the fifth episode of the Star Wars: Andor series aired! This new format in the universe imagined by George Lucas continues on its happy path and for the moment the fans and by extension the spectators seem to be very satisfied with the quality of the show! If Disney decided to please Star Wars fans by offering them a series that lives up to their expectations, the showrunners were even smarter by giving a very specific nod to one of the Star saga’s great memes: Wars.
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- Andor, the Star Wars nugget from Disney+
- “What kind of milk bottle is that? »
Andor, the Star Wars nugget from Disney+
In recent years, the Star Wars film saga has seen a well-received return to theaters and homes, but not always for the right reasons. Especially because of the inconsistent quality of the various formats set up by Disney. Inevitably at the start of the first season of Andordevoted some time only after the series aired Obi Wan Kenobithe fans were more than interested but mostly worried about the final rendering. It has to be said that on the Disney side we played big with this series with a darker and more mature tone because it had the heavy task of fitting into an already busy chronology and preceding one of the films war of stars the most popular, viz Rogue One: A Star Wars Story.
Luckily for the company with the big ears, the launch went smoothly and the reactions are unanimous: if we were wondering about its status as the best series in the saga, You don’t have to look far on the fansite, because in their opinion “It hits” Quite easy ! The hardest thing now is to keep up the enthusiasm that fans have developed around this series: there are still a good handful of episodes left for fans to finally win over. In any case, with Episode 5 and the presence of this famous joke dear to the hearts of fans, it is certain that the new Disney + hit is on the right track.
“What kind of milk bottle is that? »
As recently announced, Star Wars: Andor opened the fifth of the twelve episodes that make up the series on Disney+. Beyond the unfolding of this movie prequel’s plot Villain Onethe showrunners wanted to test fans’ experienced eye by placing a reference to one of the most famous jokes in the universe war of stars. And it worked ! At the turn of Episode 5, viewers who were most familiar with the work of George Lucas noticed that ex-investigator Syril Karn decided to drown the despair over his failure against Cassian (the hero of the series) and his dismissal, bathing by dipping his spoon in a good bowl of cereal… in blue milk!
For those who know their classics and their references well, this is not the first appearance of such a drink. From the very first part Star Wars Episode IV: A New Hope – and we don’t talk about The Phantom Menace —, Luke Skywalker didn’t mind using a giant jar. A fondness for this liquid that he will retain until the episode viiibaptized The Last Jediwhere he quenches his thirst with a gulp of this green-blue substance, which according to the encyclopedia is the milk of banthas (when blue) and thalas (when green). As a result of this appearance that has become one of the big memes war of starsIt’s not insignificant and has been used many times, so fans will appreciate this wink in Season 1Andor !