I think I just realized this is an AI image courtesy of the tried and true “Are the hands fucked up and weird?” method of identification. But still enjoy those helmets especially the blue guy on the right.
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hey! did you guys know they’re building the deathstar? remember that? the big one, with the laser? that one was something, huh?
but no, really, this show was great, fuck
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an entertainment reporter tries to ask questions to a writer that actually has a view a percent broader than that of a hollywood dinner party in the year 2022
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how diseased in the fucking brain do you have to be to watch something that doesn’t suck and want to talk about nancy pelosi. no, sorry, I mean CATALYST TO MAKE A DIFFERENCE nancy pelosi, my bad
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nancy fucking pelosi lmao. yeah she’s definitely sending all her insider trading money to DSA. no wait she’s just buying multiple freezers of Jeni’s Splendid Ice Cream™ like a freak
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in awe of that article…
It’s those type of Easter eggs that Andor has thrived on
you what?
this person thinks the end of the season was a cliffhanger??
it’s wild that disney propagated this approach to media, but also produced andor.
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having a hard time deciding whether or not i hate myself enough to read the rest of this interview
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It’s like Disney is a mega bureaucracy so massive it can’t manage its own oppressive apparatus, inadvertently creating the tools of its own destruction. I feel like I just watched a TV show about this
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Big fan of that one imperial officer getting clocked with the brick made from Maarva’s ashes. That was a good speech.
Like everyone’s been saying, this show miraculously has salvaged hope in the Star Wars franchise. Literally was done with this franchise for good after Obi-Wan, but here we are.
I think the biggest thing I enjoyed about Andor is how the Empire acts like an actual empire, invading and strip-mining planets, building up its military with slave prison labor, slowly but steadily taking whatever it wants, and putting this all behind an existing justice system and government that people generally have trusted. All the fascists in this show acted like the ones we’ve seen in history and in real life, they weren’t cartoonish Hux-types.
Highlights for me were just the main cast - Mon Mothma’s story was probably my favorite, Lucian was pretty gripping as the leader of an actual, ugly-ass rebellion, that incel guard guy made for a consistently enthralling B-plot, and Andor himself felt like an actual regular-ass person trying to survive in this world.
Standout overall for me was Dedra Meero, who just felt completely believable. I love watching that character be this completely vindictive, mundane, routine style of evil.
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I really hope they can rope forest whitaker in for an expanded role in season 2
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i binged this show in three days, best star wars thing i’ve seen since like uh watching Empire as a kid. i truly was going to write off this whole franchise after the last movie but holy hell does this thing bring me back in
who knew that centering your show around people actually trying to create the circumstances for a rebellion was a much better idea than incel religious super wizards with tension killing super weapons
anyways it’s super funny to me that there’s a character in this universe named Tim
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glad they added an extra m as in “Timm” to make it the space version unlike those heathens “luke” and “ben”
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good way of subtly reintroducing “luuke” to the post-disney star wars canon
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it fucking rules that there’s a character in this universe named Kino
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Keef Girgo is a glup shitto ass name
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Chief Keef Girgo
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A friend and I watched the entire series in sets of 3 episodes and I think it was close to the ideal way to watch it.
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andor discourse has me feeling like I watched a different show from everyone else, I found it such a slog. it fixes things I disliked about rogue one (zero actual understanding of fascism, radicalization, etc), has a very decent cast and spurts of really strong writing, and still feels like kind of a lifeless meandering mess. ~halfway through I started dreading any scenes involving mon mothma. I think at some level I just find it really off-putting to see “good politics” in modern tv, squid game was basically repulsive to me for this reason as well.
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I don’t trust supposed good politics in these shows, and all the citations of the russian revolution makes me wonder if they’ll actually try to make a complex portrait of how real world politics go awry (what’s the star wars equivalent of kronstadt? nothing because they would never do the wish fulfillment dirty like that)
But by the standards of star wars? at least it isn’t the terrible shit we’ve been offered before
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