I wonder if the people making andor felt a certain way when severance came out earlier this year
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Love to pay thousands to have the same living conditions as a swabbie on a nuclear submarine so I can support My Brands
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every time they go to the senate i keep waiting to see jar jar i dont need him to talk just let him walk around
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this arc, and moreso this week, is the first time it’s really felt egregious imo
shame they couldn’t avoid that trap but hey
the face acting in this is amazing. the way meero’s cheek twitches in the interrogation, the exchange with syril stalking her, every single prisoner. they make the talking extra tense because it’s actually sparse rather than merely presented as dangerous
it’s wild that one show ago we were grading hayden christensen on a curve when i’m never taken out of the moment here
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yeah it is absolutely mind blowing to have to deal with a star war where the dialogue writing and the acting are the most impressive elements. i mean, not to dismiss the great production design of the show, but the former has literally never happened before whereas basically the only compelling reason to engage with most other star wars media is Fun To Look At
on the other hand, i do still endorse my earlier assessment that even though the writing is incredible on the micro level i have some issues with the overall narrative stuff they are doing like, even though the scenes where cyril gets berated by his mother are so great moment by moment, in the latest episode it sort of seemed like they were moving rapidly towards uhhh idk travis bickle/norman bates cliche with that character, kind of similarly to how the Big Rebel Heist thing ended up engaging a lot of stereotypes of those kinds of stories in the end (the young idealist getting offed, the double cross, etc). i do love the show. the only way i know how to engage with media is by poking holes in it
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someday a cleansing rain will come to Coruscant
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i hated obi wan at the time, but it’s an absolute embarrassment after this.
it’s hard to believe they let something that wrote it’s villains as badly as it did out, when this was sat ready for release.
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sorry
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honestly a bizarre idea that there is a star wars product where the main draw is very good dialogue but when this show fukken rips it rips
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lol
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New Strange Magic movie???
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the jokerfication is closing in
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ive decided that the funniest thing this could possibly be is something related to Mishima: A Life in Four Chapters, which is technically a LucasFilm co-production
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Wind Rises x Red Tails crossover with porco rosso cameo
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yeah I’ve watched thru EP 6 of Andor and some of the rebels are immediately recognizable to me as archetypes I’ve met thru socialist organizing. but hits all the harder when you realize the scope and scale of what’s required to take on the reign of capital, and how hard capital will fight against it
they have to try really hard to say “freedom and liberty” instead of “communism” in the show but given they base the heist off of Young Stalin (literally) it’s not that far off
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if it helps their freedom and liberty are much less abstract than in modern liberal usage but it would be fun to have a flame war on wookiepedia over the canonicity of communism
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I obviously didn’t come with a huge Star Wars resume. It wasn’t my go-to Friday night. … So the mandate was to do something completely different. And from my point of view, I look at it and go, my God, this is about the making of a revolution.
This is about the history of a revolution. This is a five-year period that leads to this titanic thing. My God, what an incredibly fascinating tapestry to pull together, if you could find a way into this that they would let you make.
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So yeah, this is about oppression. This is about colonialism. This is the abuse of power. This is about revolution. It’s been happening from the time that people first started gathering together in a town square.
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There’s an amazing book called Young Stalin [by Simon Sebag Montefiore].The opening chapter is this incredible [potential] movie sequence where Stalin is part of staging a major bank robbery in a Georgian town in 1907. It involves 15 people and hookers and teamsters and all these things. Stalin was Lenin’s financier. He was a thief. And the reason Lenin loved him so much was he kept bringing the money. They needed money. This shit all costs money. People gotta eat, they gotta get guns. You gotta get stuff.
It’s knowing that and wanting to say something about that. Almost no one ever pays attention to that part of it. It’s an underutilized area of storytelling. I’m always obsessed with what my characters make and where they’re getting their money.
I spoiled myself a little on the rest of season 1 but oh well
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