Andor 1x09 "Nobody's Listening!" Review

With Cassian stuck in jail, I wasn't sure what to expect going forward, but I'm really hooked on Andor now. It's nice because for the first half or so of the season I was having trouble getting into it. That's not a problem anymore.

Bix is tortured by being forced to listen to people dying. Not just people actually. They've pulled out recordings of children to make it even more cruel. We don't get to hear the sounds themselves, but that makes it even more chilling.

While the torturer, mentions the effects the sounds have on people, I'm curious about the people who actually did the slaughtering. There's no mention of them. Were they unable to hear the calls as they were murdering everyone? If they have the effect that they supposedly do, you'd think it would have made them incapable of murdering them all.

Cassian wastes no time in getting to work with other inmates to plan an escape. Those plans hit a road bump when they learn that a whole unit was killed because a released inmate was sent back into the prison. Now it seems that none of them will ever be released.

But already at the end of the episode, we can see the leader of Cassian's floor become energized and determined to help them all break out. It seems like their plan to keep everyone locked up forever is going to backfire by making them more determined than ever to get out. I look forward to seeing how they do it.

Vel comes to visit Mon Mothma, and it seems like they're longtime friends. I like seeing how all of the characters are connected even more. Mon's husband tells Vel she needs to find a widower husband and continues to make himself look even worse somehow.

I know that he and Mon got married young, but the more we see of him, the more that not even that fully explains how she ended up married to him. Was he different back then? Was she pressured into it? I feel like there's still more of a story to tell there.

Syril manages to get even creepier this episode when he stalks Dedra. She even calls him out for stalking, and the excuses he gives for why it's not stalking are exactly what a stalker would say. There's a strange dynamic there that I'm not sure what to make of. Syril definitely seems to have an obsessive personality, and I'm curious about how much that's going to turn to Dedra as well as Cassian.

I'm looking forward to the next episode.