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ruby-red-inky-blue · 20 days ago

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#just off the top of my head: centering luthen as the sole reason for the rebellion existing. not showing us how yavin base was founded.#cassian doing almost no spy work. dantooine retcon. barely spending any time with the ghorman front to get to know them as rebels#there wasn't this sense of COMMUNITY among the rebellion & different rebellion cells. like obvs not all ppl rebelling against the empire#know each other. but there's still a collective feeling of 'we all have the same enemy and we are all fighting for hope and a free future'#the hope was missing and honestly it was missing that sense of (in nemik's words):#'dwarfed by the scale of the enemy...even the smallest acts of insurrection pushes our lines forward'#like.....aside from krennic's plans being laid out for ghorman and the actual massacre being orchestrated the way it was#the empire didn't feel as BIG and menacing as it did in s1.#like this season was just MISSING something (or several somethings) that are VITAL to that sw brand rebel Hope(tm) via OP

can i say something. i've seen quite a bit of agreement that gilroy should've just made it a show about rebellion, since it seems like that's what he really wanted to do in the first place and, despite the other issues with the season, it at least succeeded in that area. except i don't think andor s2 was that successful as a show about rebellion either.

#yeah! I've seen this take so many times and like. fam i don't think this season was good about showing rebellion on a grand scale either #like the only organised rebellion we saw all season really was Ghorman which was ineffectual hesitant and ultimately doomed #and the show got so caught up in being the Leftist Infighting Simulator that they forgot to show the Rebels actually... doing stuff #it was all failures and going rogue and vague talk of 'missions'. not gonna get into it too much but it's almost like #the thesis statement here isn't that gathering disparate resistance movements together is how a rebellion forms and the challenge is #working together but more like... idk the show became very 'one lone man needs to take charge' and 'committees are ineffectual'#and that's not just very un-Star Wars in how it actively devalues communal effort #it's also a kind of sus political stance for something people are touting as oh so leftist idk #WHERE WAS THE SENSE OF COMMUNITY?? we got like one scene of people bonding over a common cause and they already knew each other #and like our main pov character isn't even living WITH the other rebels he's off in his cottagecore chic New Mexico air bnb yurt #and yeah the empire did feel smaller! i think this was mostly because the rushed writing often made them look comically inept #like Cassian can just clown his way through stealing that tie fighter AND be seen rescuing guys from mina rau in it no problem?#Bix and Cassian can torture and murder a guy inside a secure ISB building and blow that building up ON CORUSCANT and... crickets?#one of two big rebel deaths this season was a straight up accident? op sec so bad someone could read a year's worth of secret email?#cassian and melshi can fly INTO CORUSCANT with no cover or prep and shoot their way through a building and bounce???#like idk the one thing i will give them is that season one was very good about the feeling of constant oppression in every aspect #this season... nah the empire was just swinging between intensely violent and overpowered and complete idiots with no security or intel #andor critical #also op i feel you so hard on the last tag. had to rewatch the bix cassian breakup to fact check for a post and took psychic damage lol

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