No spoilers for Season 2 other than the magic is back and go watch it.
It’s so good it makes other Star Wars almost unwatchable by comparison.
I’m also really inspired to go fight some fascism and blast some space Nazis.
"We’ve been sleeping.
We’ve had each other, and Ferrix, our work, our days. We had each other, and they left us alone. We kept the trade lanes open, and they left us alone. We took their money and ignored them, we kept their engines churning, and the moment they pulled away, we forgot them. Because we had each other. We had Ferrix.
But we were sleeping. I’ve been sleeping. And I’ve been turning away from the truth I wanted not to face.
There is a wound that won’t heal at the center of the galaxy. There is a darkness reaching like rust into everything around us. We let it grow, and now it’s here. It’s here, and it’s not visiting anymore. It wants to stay.
The Empire is a disease that thrives in darkness, it is never more alive than when we sleep. It’s easy for the dead to tell you to fight, and maybe it’s true, maybe fighting is useless. Perhaps it’s too late. But I’ll tell you this… If I could do it again, I’d wake up early and be fighting these bastards from the start.
Fuck the Empire!"
"There will be times when the struggle seems impossible. I know this already. Alone, unsure, dwarfed by the scale of the enemy.
Remember this, Freedom is a pure idea. It occurs spontaneously and without instruction. Random acts of insurrection are occurring constantly throughout the galaxy. There are whole armies, battalions that have no idea that they’ve already enlisted in the cause.
Remember that the frontier of the Rebellion is everywhere. And even the smallest act of insurrection pushes our lines forward.
And remember this: the Imperial need for control is so desperate because it is so unnatural. Tyranny requires constant effort. It breaks, it leaks. Authority is brittle. Oppression is the mask of fear.
Remember that. And know this, the day will come when all these skirmishes and battles, these moments of defiance will have flooded the banks of the Empires’s authority and then there will be one too many. One single thing will break the siege.
Remember this: Try."
It’s genuinely insane that this was a TV show that aired on a Disney streaming service, and they were dropping lines like this.
“Freedom is a pure idea” will be forever seared into my soul.
So much of Andor is like that. Absolutely unforgettable. The writing, the performances, the ideas.
There are shows, movies, books that I can barely remember a word of. But every frame of Andor is alive in my mind. Even if it had never gotten a season two, it would still be one of the most perfectly executed pieces of television I’ve ever seen.
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Is it just me or does this thread title not make sense?
It’s the beginning of a sentence. We’re supposed to end it.
I guess it’s edgy. It’s what young people do these days. Non-commitment as a lifestyle.
Greetings, a grumpy old person.
It’s so you click the post to read the second part written in the post itself. In this case that Andor makes other Star Wars shows unwatchable.
In other words, clickbait?
<3
Is there an Andor community on lemmy? It’s the one thing I’m really missing from reddit.
The way Luthen organizes his cells is a great class on how to organize a resistance.
I saw ICE trucks rolling down the street in my town for the first time today.
It’s a treatise on radicalization. And it’s very good.
I’m hoping season 2 picks up more, as besides some sweet moments, I feel like the first 3 episodes had a lot of filler material compared to the first season, which was a masterpiece.
I’m watching on Disney Plus and it’s always a big of a shock coming back to mainstream TV advertising, but for Andor it feels like it’s an unintended continuation of the whole message and blurring into reality. “The fascists are oppressing everything and don’t care about the inherent value of people, now here’s 10 full minutes of for-profit medicine ads.”
