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I’m also pogging every time Cass kills another fascist
That last 3 episode arc was soooo fucking good
It’s been such a solid season so far. The 3 episode format works quite nicely. Just hoping the last 3 don’t go too hard on the fan service stuff.
I’m not gonna lie, it really put a damper on my enjoyment of the show when they went all-in on the shamanistic great man theory shit with the force healing prophecy scene.
Like, I get it, prophecies and shamanistic powers literally canonically irrefutably exist in the world setting, but to me this show was supposed to be about how revolutions are made possible by people, their material conditions, their labor, their sacrifices, and their decisions. Not destiny or wizards.
Otherwise an incredible show though, what a refreshing piece of “prestige” mainstream media in a world full of slop.
Cassian Andor makes his own history, but he does not make it just as he pleases; he does not make it under circumstances chosen by himself, but under circumstances directly encountered, given and transmitted from the past.
The tradition of all the dead generations weighs like a force ghost on the brain of the living.
Yeah I read that scene not so much as prophecy but just as some vague residue of precognition, she knows somehow it’s going to be on Andor to do this thing, not because it could only ever have been him, but because the material conditions just are going to shake out that way and she knows it in a similar manner to how we us materialist analysis to make reasonable assumptions about the course of broad future events, but maybe that is just me being generous. It didn’t take much out of the show for me though.
I had the same reaction to that scene as you and was pretty bummed out at first. I have since come around to having similar feelings as XiaCobolt does in this thread
For me it was a bit of an indication of gilroy’s lacklustre writing when it comes to female characters. BUT I liked that they made the jedi into the local evangelical chaplain type.
Like Bix whole arc and cassian not “throwing rocks at tanks since age of 6” but being motivated to stay in the rebellion because his “gf left him”.
What an incredible face Genevieve O’Reilly pulled there, and what a good show. Can’t believe the spin-off streaming TV show for the only serviceable Star Wars movie Disney put out has becoming one of my GOATs.
Thinking about buying a lot of all the de-canonized X-wing novels just to get a fix. Even considering buying Alexander Freed’s sequel-era trilogy (Alphabet Squadron) because he wrote a good book about rebel grunts in the age of the empire (Twilight Company, which is actually a spin-off of the terrible fucking battlefront game Disney put out) and he also did the novelization for Rogue One, which I thought was quite good, better than the film. But my disdain for the sequel era stops me, for now.
Host, or play in, a star wars RPG.
did you know the Ghorman massacre was first mentioned in a WEG star wars RPG source book? so much old lore shit is from that game
If this situation happened twice, then Mon Mothma probably shouldn’t look so shocked on both occasions.
I haven’t seen this season (don’t care about spoilers).
The first time was a random ISB agent, the second was her driver, who she knew was an ISB plant, but was still someone she’d known for years.
Also the first one was waving around a blaster while the driver was acting friendly. And both happened in or on the Senate building, where she’d worked for years.
Both moments really made it sink in that what was happening was real, after years of planning and maneuvering and playing politics, and it only took a few minutes for her life to transform forever.
She’s a part of the rebellion but not a blooded soldier.
It makes sense to me that this would be shocking to her.
Yeah, I guess so. I was mostly joking.
Stepped on your joke, my bad.
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