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Seriously. I hope she didn't miss an important surgery or anything. She's precious.

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Ok but... we all saw that right?

The Death Star's existence was leaked because someone cc'd the wrong person in the Imperial Email chain!

Some dumb little imperial intern hit reply all!

The Empire is so fucking ridiculous! I Love it!

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it’s the monster that comes for us all

Dedra's downfall is really fascinating to me, because it perfectly encapsulates how an oppressive regime will implement oppressive systems within itself. Dedra is an ambitious woman within a fascist and sexist system. Despite her work ethic, she is still up against that systemic sexism that her male coworkers don't face.

Her line about having to scavenge is a direct callout of how much more work she has to do to prove herself, but it still isn't enough. She still falls. Fascism still consumes her because that's what it does: it eats up anyone who doesn't perfectly conform to its systems and spits out whatever is left.

This is what the show is telling us through Dedra: that it is a failure to believe that success can be achieved through allying yourself to the current regime. No matter what you do, it will come for you. Dedra's ambition fails her and lands her in a Narkina-like prison, where she becomes one of the same detention numbers that she was praised for keeping so high in season 1.

There is no graceful fall for someone like Dedra. It is a sharp decline to ruin and obscurity.

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There's a fitting element to denying Dedra a glorious end in the service of the Empire. She doesn't get to die taking out a dangerous rebel. She doesn't get to be a martyr for the Imperial cause. She doesn't even get to walk the hallways of the Death Star before it's destruction. Instead, the Empire turns on her the moment she makes an error and consigns her to a labour camp. In the end, she becomes a victim (and yes, victim is an accurate term because no one deserves to be stripped of their personhood and imprisoned no matter what they've done) of the very system she spent her career upholding...or maybe she's returning to the bottom of the same system she's spent her entire life in. Forcibly orphaned as a child and raised in a Kinderblock, she grew up institutionalized. And eventually she rose up in the ISB, got some power, it might have seemed like she had escaped the prison of her childhood. But no one is ever truly free under a fascist system. The bars just become more gilded. And no one, no matter how exceptional or accomplished or dedicated they are, is ever going to break through them alone.

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okay tumblr dot com don't be hating on bix!!! she sacrificed having her family be whole so cassian could be who he needed for the rebellion.

she knew if he knew about the baby he'd drop it all in an instant. she made an incredibly hard choice, no easy answers, and sacrificed her relationship with cass and a father for her child because of the greater good. She took away his choice because she wanted him to make the right one for the galaxy as a whole, and for their child, and unfortunately him being with them would only be temporary happiness. She clearly had some attunement, or bare belief in the Force enough to know he needed to go on a different path than her. it's tragic. but there was hints towards it, it wasn't a surprise. yeah i hate a random baby final scene too but like i get what they why they did it, really drilling in the impact of loss and love in war, but also hope for the future generation.

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I love love love the focus on rituals in Andor. Rituals are something inherently transformative. If you go through a ritual, you are a different person afterwards – that's the whole point. And Andor uses rituals in the narrativ as points where everything shifts. We have the Aldhani heist planned around the Eye and afterwards the rebellion is suddenly visible across the galaxy. Maarva's funeral is the turning point for Ferrix. The openly start a rebellion against the Empire. But also Cassian becomes aligned with Luthen and the rebels. Then we have Leida's wedding: Here Mon's relationship with Luthen changes and she starts a death count of her own with Tay's assassination. She starts to realize the gravity of the rebellion. And even with the Ghorman massacre: It starts and ends at the memorial – also a cultural site, which I imagine has been used for memorial services. I think this entanglement of rituals and narrativ turning points is very clever and works on so many levels (world building, tension) and grounds the story in a sense of realism that we can all relate to.

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Kleya kinda the raddest character in Star Wars.

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sometimes family is the guy you escaped prison with and the droid that tried to kill you

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I didn’t like the baby reveal ending at first but I started thinking about kleya and suddenly it hits a lot harder and I get it now. it seems a bit cheap on its own maybe, but if you think about the baby as a mirror to kleya it’s really more impactful I feel. we only just found out that luthen and kleya had a father-daughter relationship—that was a baby reveal in its own way—right at the moment of luthen’s death. he really did sacrifice everything (except kleya!) for this rebellion, and he will never see the sunrise, but she will. she’ll know it was all worth it. and she’ll be free. the bix/cassian baby reveal works the same way. right at the moment he’s heading off on the path to his final mission, one that will be instrumental in bringing about that sunrise, one we know he’ll never come back from, we see bix, and their baby, who will not only live to see that sunrise, but will probably not even have any memories of a time before it came. that’s what it’s all for. that’s why all these sacrifices matter. everyone vel and cassian toasted to, and the ones who survived too, like kleya and bix, vel and mon etc. that’s why they’re heroes. so no one else has to be. so others can just live

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KLEYA MARKI YOU ARE A BAD BITCH 😩😩😩😭😭😭 DONT EVER LET THOSE NASTY ASS SKANKS ON YAVIN TALK DOWN ON YOU OR LUTHEN EVER 😭😭😭😩😩

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"average rebel goes rogue 3 times a year" factoid actualy just statistical error. average rebel goes rogue 0 times per year. captain cassian andor, who lives in a jungle yurt & goes rogue on death star business whenever the rebel alliance isn't keeping up with the intel, is an outlier adn should not have been counted

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one of the hundred things I love about Andor is that in the end, all the villains were destroyed not in an epic showdown with the rebels or whoever but by the machine that they worked for. syril was a faceless casualty of the genocide he helped create. dedra was done in for putting ambition over conformity to the machine, and she took down partagaz, who essentially created her, along with her. even heert was quite literally killed by his own droid and his own men. all of them were crushed by the wheel they dedicated their lives to keep turning. it's just so deeply deeply satisfying.

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Kleya studies (and a tiny Luthen)

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I love how s2 of Andor shows us how all the sacrifices the Imperial characters make for the Empire are ultimately worthless. Syril, Dedra, and Partagaz all have different variations on the same ending. and to them Krennic is the big bad guy who represents the Empire but then in Rogue One we learn that essentially he’s in the same situation: giving everything to the Empire and it amounting to nothing in the end.

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cuz those are Bix’s plants…

cassian watering his plants before leaving to begin his final mission ahaha i’m totally fine 🙂

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oh this?? this is diabolical, I love it

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Rebellions are built on hope.