• brynden_rivers_esq@lemmy.ca
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    20 hours ago

    Andor is the best piece of Star Wars media and the best TV show I’ve ever seen. You don’t need to like Star Wars. I don’t know if seeing Star Wars would even increase your enjoyment. I think seeing Rogue One would probably be good but otherwise just jump in. No space wizards or laser swords or destiny or whatever. It’s so adult and grounded. I can’t believe Disney let them make this.

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      16 hours ago

      Andor is a great show and an anarchist manifesto and a deep and undeniably timely study of the mechanisms of empire. Andor isn’t like other Star Wars media where the good guys and the bad guys both seem really cool. It shows the empire as something really shitty, and its agents as deeply sad, dysfunctional people who are essentially also its victims.

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        5 hours ago

        And it’s much more than that. It also comments on how violent rebellion can be both necessary and irrevocably traumatizing, as well as many other themes surrounding the central conflicts.

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      19 hours ago

      This, but you can go ahead and skip Rogue One as well. Its a good movie, no doubt - but Andor retroactively sabotaged it a little.

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      18 hours ago

      I’ve heard this over and over. But I can’t justify a Disney+ subscription no matter what content they have.