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ANDOR: 2x08 "WHO ARE YOU?" (2025) // ROGUE ONE: A STAR WARS STORY (2016)

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I am hopeful that those of you who know me will vouch for my credibility in the days to come. I stand this morning with a difficult message... ANDOR | 2.09

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babe wake up, full canon accurate and up-to-date map of the star wars galaxy just dropped

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WELCOME TO THE REBELLION

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More stories from hell (retail) today I was ringing up this lady and she goes oh I want to do part of this on a gift card and the rest on normal card and I go ok and then she hands me a folded piece of paper. I think oh OK it must be folded around the gift card, right? Wrong. It is a folded sheet of 8×11 printer paper with "$40" written on the inside in ballpoint pen. I go what is this. She says a gift card. I say this is not a gift card. She says yes it is. I say this is a piece of paper with "$40" written on it. She says "well it's a gift card." I say it absolutely is not. I am grinding my teeth. She says well I want to use it. I say you physically cannot do that bc it is a piece of paper. I cannot scan or swipe it. I apologize, as if this is my fault, and not because she is completely insane. I hate it here

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a job on Coruscant will have you 28 years old with a 70 year old bestie like damn where's Luthen today 😂

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peak is back and more harrowing then ever!

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watched conclave with friends yesterday and now the pope is dead. anyway completely unrelatedly next weekend i’m gonna watch the hit disney+ show andor where they bomb a fascist government.

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ANDOR FANS HOW WE FEELING

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(my andor gifs)

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ANDOR SEASON 2 COMES OUT IN 1 DAY!!!

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The Rebellion and Infighting

I have so much to scream about in this first set of three episodes, but the one I want to yell about the most is the theme of destructive infighting that grinds everything to a halt.

It was a more background theme last season, because Cassian was still making his way toward Rebellion. But this time it came out front and center in all four storylines.

In the wedding on Chandrila, everyone was at odds with each other. Nobody could agree on what to do or how to support each other (or who should be supporting who). They sniped and sneered and took passive-aggressive swipes at each other, both personal and Rebellion-related. The one that most desperately broke my heart was Mon's conversation with Leida, where she tried to offer her a way out ("what I wish my mother had said.") And Leida slaps the offer away like a toddler slapping away a spoonful of peas, continuing the mini-theme of mothers and daughters not understanding each other.

On Mina Rau, they did a little better, but not much. What seemed like a lovely little agricultural community fell apart for the Ferrix contingent because someone who seemed to be an ally turned on them to save himself. Plus Beela's mom didn't approve of Wilmon ("a toolie") and fueled Beela and Wilmon's little Romeo and Juliet storyline and making him late for getting the hell out of there.

And of course, there was the Empire, coming around and exercising control over where they went and if they were allowed to be here. The wording in this segment was just *chef's kiss* so specific. They worried about visas and getting caught without them. The Imperial called them "illegal" and "undocumented," a speech that could just as easily be heard from the United States White House today. And then heavily implying (in a nauseating scene that just built and built and built) that Bix could save herself by trading her body. (Buy your right to exist by being useful to the overlords.) And then when she refused, made it clear he was going to take it anyway.

It was most obvious in Cassian getting held up in the jungle by the rebel group, who were so busy squabbling with each other and shooting anything that moved that they didn't even notice a) Cassian manipulating them and b) the giant monsters that leapt out and ate them. Blunt? Oh yes. Obvious? Yepper. Meaningless? Not in the least.

Interestingly, the one storyline that took this theme of infighting and flipped it around to show what it means to work together was Dedra's. Not the Ghorman part of it, although that was riveting. (And the tourist film that Krennic showed was hysterically funny in its WTFery.). But shockingly, it's the dinner with Syril's toxic mom, with Dedra watching Eedy gleefully tear her son down. Then when Syril has to leave the room, Dedra wastes no time in laying down the law that unless Eedy falls the fuck in line, Syril will no longer be part of his mother's life. I hated everyone in that scene as a person, but I admit I cheered.

To return to Cassian's storyline, the reveal at the end of the second episode that it was all taking place on Yavin made me hoot and holler and laugh like a loon. But it also points to something this set of episodes has been laying out in giant flashing neon letters.

The Rebellion is a baby. It's a mess. It's a bunch of people all more concerned with fighting amongst themselves about who's more right and morally pure then actually doing anything real against the Empire. Even Cassian's theft of the TIE fighter was a total mess. He got bad intel and bad training and mostly did a hilaribad job of flying that thing.

But one day, the Rebellion is going to destroy the Death Star. And they're going to do it from this rainy, smelly, monster-filled jungle where a bunch of idiots played Rock Paper Scissors to figure out who got to be the boss. That is going to be the scene of the Rebellion's big triumph.

If they can get their fucking act together.

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you’re literally never going to get me on the chatgpt ai bullshit like i’m a ride or die hater for this shit

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Brasso dying was significant because the way he died *wasn’t* significant. It’s showing us that the empire is going to reach into every corner of the galaxy. No one is going to escape the empire. To the empire, he’s just another nameless obstacle in their way to get cut down. But to us, the viewers, that’s Brasso. We love Brasso. We’ve followed him since season one and we’ve been rooting for him. But that’s the point. The whole point of the empire’s takeover is that the galaxy has so many Brassos who are going to die or be captured or tortured simply for existing and getting in the way of the empire. Tony Gilroy just picked Brasso for the same reason the Hedwig and Colin Creevey died in Deathly Hallows. To drive the point home to readers/viewers of how truly devastating and horrible war is. That it doesn’t discriminate and no one is safe.

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Andor s2 ep1 thoughts (no spoilers for other two episodes plz)

• Cassian’s little monologue about overcoming fear to the fellow rebel was such an amazing choice to start this season. I suspect that this will be the central thesis of this season, that you rise above your fear when you meet yourself by no longer allowing evil to grow

• Similarly, ep1’s focus on Cassian being captured by other rebels, who both bc their own discohesion and the discohesion of the rebellion in general interfere with his mission and lose themselves to their own squabbles. This is a snapshot of the exact issues the larger Rebellion is undergoing at this time

• You have no idea how glad I am that Cassian found the others from Ferrix and lives with them when he’s not off rebelling.

• Finally some fucking explanation of the fucking Ghormans. They were name dropped throughout s1 as a planet Mon Mothma was trying to protect from unfair legislation, but we never got an explanation. Now we know it’s about wanting to mine the planet into extinction.

• I feel bad for poor Leida.

• Luthen was not subtle about asking where that Naval guy was being moved to but I think that’s just the persona he has created.

• Kleya is a bitch and I love her. The “two single women” comment seemed like a jab especially with how Vel reacted. Her and Cinta seemed to be going separate directions in s1, are they broken up or is Cinta dead?

• I need to figure out how this fits in with Rebels timeline wise. Mon Mothma still being a public figure and the ununified nature of the rebellion is confusing me at 4 BBY