Despite my best efforts, I watched Andor.
Despite my best efforts, I watched Andor.
Holy Fuck. ::: spoiler spoiler It's good. :::
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if it's not Michael Clayton in space I'm going to be really disappointed.
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It pretty much is Michael Clayton in space. It's basically pandering to leftists who liked that movie.
Tonally, it's more inspiring and humanizing than Clayton, but it's pretty smart.
It's still got that bleak darkness to it.
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I see the "watch andor" proselytizing swarm is keeping up the good work
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I feel like every time a big piece of media comes out now there are a lot of people who come out of the woodwork to say "Yeah yeah, the rest of it is bad but this one is good" or in the case of video games it's often "This piece of DLC or patch fixes it" and I usually find myself still saying "No, actually it's still not for me." Or it's still just bad. All of this is doubled when you're talking about Star Wars. I loved it as a kid, but I outgrew it. Hence my reluctance to even watching it.
Also, I'll be honest here, the more radicalized I become the less I can stand the taste of most media.
This show is different. It is incredible. The writing, acting, plot, themes, visuals, all of it. It's borderline offensive in the sense this is what Star Wars could of been.
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This show is different. It is incredible. The writing, acting, plot, themes, visuals, all of it. It’s borderline offensive in the sense this is what Star Wars could of been.
lmao, totally. watching it made me realize just how much star wars stuff is mostly a bunch of fan service mixed in with high dollar special effects of weird beasts, laserswords and telekinesis. then fuckin' Tony Gilroy shows up and puts us in the living places to tell a story about living characters in living communities changing under the heat and pressure of a pervasive, ascendant oppression. for shit's sake, he made me fear tie fighters.
i was in the same boat, having just come out of Obi Wan (on a friend's recommendation) thinking like, "man, who even gives a shit about this anymore?" i thought Moses Ingram was compelling, but i was so fatigued on it all. i started the first ep of Andor fully expecting to not give a shit and quit, but it had me in just a few minutes and only set its hooks deeper over time.
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its fine, at best. the entire prison planet concept was dumb as fuck and poorly executed, but i haven't seen the final episode.
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felt like the prison planet arc existed to sideline andor for a minute while other stuff happened
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its what tips him from mercenary to revolutionary, its quite important
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I choose to believe the rest of the Star Wars canon is in-universe lib fan fiction: “oh, if the good Jedi could just get rid of the evil Emperor, we could fix the Empire and everything would be fine again,” etc.
The events in Andor are the only things that actually happened in-universe. And maybe Rogue One.