i can't believe I slept on this show it is the best thing I've watched in months. Narratively gripping and visually stunning and each character is on a fucking JOURNEY that has me in a chokehold. Binged it in a day but i don't think I could breathe if I was held in suspense trying to pace it out. The last episode was so stressful I had to keep pausing to cope but it was fucking amazing and delivered... an intense need for the next season (I hear there are 4 planned? I cannot fucking wait it's going to be a WILD RIDE)
I just watched the last episode (spoilers) and I just cannot get over it. These lines "Remember this. Freedom is a pure idea. It occurs spontaneously and without instruction. Random acts of insurrection are occurring constantly throughout the galaxy. There are whole armies, battalions that have no idea that they've already enlisted in the cause. Remember that the frontier of the Rebellion is everywhere. And even the smallest act of insurrection pushes our lines forward." from Nemik and then they are proven SO TRUE
Like in the last episode, it really struck me how little Cassian mattered-- okay, obviously he mattered, he saves Bix in the midst of all the chaos and it is his show and i'm obsessed with him so of COURSE my boy mattered but--
But so much of the rebellion is not because of him. he doesn't get a big action star moment or dramatic speech or direct role in the rebellion of Ferrix--tbh, he is less involved than he was in the prison break.
instead his success is directly linked to OTHERS spontaneously deciding to revolt. It's maarva's speech, yes, but it's also the town deciding to have the funeral at noon, like they wanted, instead of the time on their permit; it's them bringing many more than 40 people. it's the boy who made the bomb (who i THINK is the son of the man who was tortured and then hung, apologies for not remembering his name); it's brasso just swinging that brick for all he's worth; it's the man running up to start the anvil/gong sound again and just pushing off the storm trooper who tries to stop him; it's this little chain of rebellions-- literally none at all organized by any kind of higher power or group-- that made it so Cassian could save Bix, and escape to join the rebellion and ITS JUST SO GOOD.
I am just obsessed with this show. i want season 2 out immediately.
something about a character so good at shitting on people and making them mad and is a slut and acts above it all, being like that and then you find out he stays on the ice and practices till he collapses, puking multiple times throughout the later half, and defending himself verbally when hes about to get jumped by 3 guys without any of them knowing his exhaustion
and then being silently protected by someone completely opposite of him, seemingly, bc he witnessed his work ethic and knew what this guy was putting into his sport by putting himself on the line, and this someone (autistic hick) isn't gonna let anyone be jumped by multiple people, certainly not this guy who was just flat on the ice trying not to pass out.
Please just go watch this right now, I beg. It’s only $3 on Amazon and it’s kind of the best book to movie adaptation I have ever seen and I have seen 0 people talk about it so everyone who wants to see it needs to see it. And if you want to talk about it, dude, you know where to find me