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menaceborn-a · 5 months ago

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i've got andor brainrot again and it annoys me so much how i've seen people relate the line "oppression is the mask of fear" in Nemik's manifesto to vader. I know I've talked about this before, but I'm already a bit annoyed by how everything in star wars has a tendency (both by fans and by writers/canon) to have to be related back to the skywalkers, but to me, that line from Nemik is very obviously about the power the oppressed, as a group, hold. it's not about one individual who has been retroactively made the main character of an entire franchise, it's about normal everyday-folk standing together and fighting for their freedom and for each other.

#obviously the manifesto goes a lot deeper than that #but nemik talks about being / feeling 'alone' and 'dwarfed by the scale of the enemy'#and then he immediately goes on to talk about 'battalions that have no idea they've already enlisted in the cause'#and yes ultimately anakin does end up making one choice that is instrumental to that cause #but to relate a line to be about him simply because it mentions a 'mask of fear' when that line and the entire speech ultimately (to me)#feels like a rally to stand together #and when it comes from a character who not only died for the cause but whose death was almost completely unknown to the rest of the future #rebellion (which is a large theme in andor (and rogue one) i'd argue)#just feels so.... ARHGH #not everything has to be about anakin/the skywalkers!#sometimes things are about how we are stronger than we think. especially when we stand together and hold onto hope and love for each other #i do think there's a point to be made about anakin being kept under sheev's boot with oppression moreso than with real genuine power #(especially with how anakin ultimately kills sheev by just lobbing him down a chasm)#but it's the tendency to relate it ONLY to that and not to how the empire worked at large that annoys me #sorry i disappear for months then i come back with an andor rage post about a youtube comment i saw years ago that got a lot of likes #andor (to ME) is explicitly about the people who were forgotten but whose actions and deaths and torture was instrumental in creating a #more hopeful future

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