ANNOUNCEMENT! SPOILERS!
Topics I will not be addressing related to “Announcement,” the seventh episode of Andor:
The Gilroy Administration’s dedication to making the Rebellion seem pretty darn Dark Side
Cassian performing a scene from Waiting for Godot with a Shoretrooper on a planet I can only assume is One Big Resort
The parallels between Andor and Syril (mothers, locked in their own jails)
Almost K2-SO!
How I would also consider starting a Rebellion if I had Mon Mothma’s daughter and husband
Stephen Schiff writing a Star Wars episode!
Syril getting all his clothes tailored
Instead, I want to talk about Fiona Shaw.
Fiona Shaw, let me count the ways.
If you were to combine the best elements of your mother and my mother and your best friend’s mother and the Royal Shakespeare Company, you would produce Fiona Shaw.
Douglas Adams once postulated that the answer to Life, the Universe and Everything is 42. He was incorrect. The answer is Fiona Shaw.
I saw Fiona Shaw perform Samuel Beckett’s Happy Days and it was profoundly good, the best Beckett I’ve ever seen. Happy Days is about a woman buried up to her waist, and then her neck, in a mountain of earth.
I once saw Fiona Shaw play Medea. After she had murdered her children, she splashed the actor playing Jason with water like she was just trying to get his attention. I mean, seriously, it was chilling.
Fiona Shaw can tell you what the weather will be for the next year, the Farmer’s Almanac has nothing on her.
Take heed, oh take heed, of Fiona Shaw.
If we elected Fiona Shaw President or Prime Minister or Queen, the whole thing would be fixed by now.
Fiona Shaw can consume whole stars by opening her mouth and inhaling towards the sky of a cloudless night. She can then turn that starstuff into entire new universes, which is where the whole concept of the multiverse comes from.
Fiona Shaw was the best part of the show Killing Eve, including the killing and Eve, who was also good, but it’s not fair, she’s Fiona Shaw.
Fiona Shaw was born in 1958 and so was NASA.
Fiona Shaw has Class 1000 strength.
There are three things that are certain in this life: Death, Taxes and Fiona Shaw will invent time travel.
There was once a beautiful swan on a still lake in a countryside that caught one glimpse of Fiona Shaw. It immediately founded her fan club.
Fiona Shaw once arm-wrestled Galactus, beat him, and then made fun of his big silly helmet.
Fiona Shaw is very kind to children and animals, but is not kind to everyone, so watch out.
When Fiona Shaw met the puppet of B2EMO it actually came to life like Pinocchio. That is a real living thing you’re watching on Disney Plus, a living machine. That’s how much vitality Fiona Shaw radiates.
There is no mountain Fiona Shaw cannot climb, there is no river she cannot ford.
Fiona Shaw’s co-stars have been known to spontaneously applaud in the middle of scenes, ruining take after take.
If Maarva Andor, portrayed by one Fiona Shaw, isn’t the person who provided Luthen Rael with information on her adopted son Cassian, I’ll eat my hat raw. That’s right, I won’t even cook my hat before I eat it.
Fiona Shaw is the Grand Poobah, the Champ, the holder of the World Championship Belt, the Star of Stars, and she undoubtedly gives super comforting hugs.
If Fiona Shaw were to grant you her favor, joy would follow you for the rest of your days. She grants this boon only once every eleven years.
Fiona Shaw glows in the dark. When she walks through a garden, the flowers grow faster. Fiona Shaw wrote all the great books. Fiona Shaw once flew through the sky like Superman, but didn’t even brag about it, because it was no big deal to her.
Fiona Shaw in Star Wars is like getting chocolate in my peanut butter.
Fiona Shaw can see for hundreds of miles, her eyes are magic.
During the casting process for Andor, Fiona Shaw auditioned by actually lifting rocks with the Force in a rehearsal studio in London. I can’t prove this, but I know it in my heart.
When Fiona Shaw says “That’s just love, there’s nothing you can do about that” in this episode? I rewound the scene to watch her say it over and over because that’s what I’m talking about people. That’s it right there. That’s the whole thing.
This is the liturgy of the only church I'm interested in attending.