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"WILL YOU CHANGE??"

Always wanted to illustrate that one scene...

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it’s gotta be so hard if you really liked rogue one to square up with this ending

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I'm still mad at how Andor S2 treated Bix, and was fuming over WHY the writers chose to have a female mechanic who believes in the Rebellion just.... sit at home doing nothing. As another poster mentioned, they could have easily filled her house with broken machinery and gadgets that she is fixing up. Have her casually mention finishing up a repair when Val comes to visit.

It would have been very simple to make her a part of the Rebellion, instead of having her seem like an outsider, a housewife, just waiting on the fringes for Cassian to come home. So why didn't they???

And then it kind of occurred to me, Bix doing nothing is the only way they could justify her exit. If she had actual ties at the base, or responsibilities to the Rebellion, if she contributed and was part of the structure, then her leaving would make even less sense than it does. If she was actually doing useful work, there is no way the writers would be able to justify Bix thinking the most helpful thing SHE can do, is to leave. To disappear so that a man can complete his great big destiny. This only works if she does absolutely nothing of worth.

Like, they flat out ignored the backstory they themselves gave her in S1, to justify this vile ass storyline. What a bunch of hacks.

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andor's antiblackness in s1 was one of the major issues of the show; almost every black character was either killed (gorn and taramyn; who also died quickest and first during the aldhani heist), or they were an imperial/antagonist (supervisor blevin, and then nurchi, who sold his community out for money and then was immediately killed.) i think the only exception was jezzi, who wasn't even mentioned in s2.

and in addressing s2, the antiblackness trend continued, and was almost worse in terms of there being hardly any black people present at all. (based off one watch-through of the season, so i might be missing someone) the only black characters i can remember are that imperial inspector (aka another bad guy) on ghorman, and two unnamed rebels on yavin (plus senator pamlo, though she's an established character).

the lack of care and thought put into the poc characters this season (especially the women of color) is so apparent when looking at all the development, screen time, and more consistent writing that the white characters got. and given that one of the main critiques to come out of s1 was their treatment of black characters, s2 has shown itself to be just as racist, and it's a massive disappointment to say the least.

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Okay, much more to say later, but amid a final arc where I found a lot to love, it is a real bummerooski to have Andor end on the laziest final shot I could have imagined, as a culmination of what I can now say feels to me like the show's most fumbled character arc. I tried to withhold final judgment on this season's handling of Bix until I'd seen the full narrative, but having reached the end, I can say that very few choices the writers made for her felt either internally coherent or ideologically compelling. The whiplash between arcs two and three was wild, and while I held out hope we would see in arc four that Bix had actually left Yavin to get involved in the fight on a different front/in her own way, the move to return her to Mina-Rau makes her first arc seem even less continuous with the rest than I'd thought. And beyond being a cliché, the final shot of her holding a baby we take to be Cassian's is such a depressing turn to reproductive futurism that it makes other parts of the season retroactively worse for me.

To whit, Cinta's death. I was split on it when it happened, and again, I tried to leave myself open to my feelings shifting as it became contextualized in the whole; but the heteronormativity of ending the whole series on The Child as the final figure for hope makes killing off one of the show's queer lovers feel like a bigger failure of political imagination.

There is a small balm for this, for me, in the final scene between Vel and Kleya, where Vel, a cousin, offers Kleya, an adoptive daughter-of-convenience, the non-lineal solidarity of "having friends everywhere." I would have loved to end on a scene like that, which turns the code phrase of this season into a way of understanding how mutual care and resistance work fuel each other. But in a show that has otherwise been much more daring and thoughtful about the tableux it creates to embody the hope of building a home, the final shot we got seemed to me to set a horribly conventional horizon for what could have been more radical politics.

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some of the bix ending discourse is really reminding me of this post lmao

how are people arguing that “it’s okay for women to want to be mothers” is any kind of contrarian or non-normative point of view

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ANDOR | 2.11

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"So what do I sacrifice? Everything." ANDOR (2022-2025) ROGUE ONE (2016)

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Elizabeth Dulau in the latimes

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He always used to say ... "Know your way out before you go in." (Andor 2x12)

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there is a Bix Thoughts post circulating in the mind but i’m trying to figure out how to word it; going to bed now

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good news dedra, new management in about 3 years

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Andor Who Else Knows? | 2.11

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dedra meero, girlboss queen. never thought the leopards would eat HER face

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ok i do sort of like the theory that that last shot implies that cassian and kleya are in fact siblings BUT i think it is much more meaningful for it to be a metaphorical gesture highlighting their similar backstories (orphaned children taken in by people who encouraged them to make a difference), and the ways their paths have intertwined as they both search for something greater. also seems like something of a full circle moment for cassian - we saw where his journey begins and now we’re witnessing that moment again as we watch him approach his end; the search for her is no longer the only thing that drives him. anyways, i’m not totally opposed to the theory but i don’t believe it’s the same actresses, the idea sort of asks more questions than it answers, and most of all it would be just way too cliche for the show to rehash the luke and leia plot at the last minute. in a series that’s populated by its families of choice, let this continue to be the case. our leads have friends everywhere!

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REALLY DON’T KNOW HOW TO FEEL ABOUT ALL THIS WITH THAT FINAL SHOT

truly not sure how i feel about bix’s storyline especially as she has never felt more doomed with that Dead Wife Flashback ass video. i like that she’s making a choice and it’s to give everything to the rebellion; don’t love that the biggest character decision of this part of her arc is for a man, especially since pretty much all her appearances this episode block have been Supportive Girlfriend and not much else. i had hoped we were going somewhere from her lowest point as last seen on screen, and i read an interview where someone on the show implied it was a much more complex recovery than that last bit of e6… but we didn’t even get her, like, fixing ships on yavin, just hanging out at home waiting for cassian. i knew something would happen to separate the two of them but man it just feels kinda bad that this is how it played out

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THE BABY FUCK MY LIFE

PERRIN WITH SCULDUN’S WIFE? DEDRA ON NARKINA?