You know I said a few months ago that Andor was so good it made me re-evaluate my opinion on the Mandalorian. I guess the showrunners felt the same way because that last episode reeks hard of them trying and FAILING to do political intrigue.

Just putting aside the fact that every single person in the "Amnesty Program" should have faced a firing squad: whose bright fucking idea was it to house them all together???? "Oh golly gee wiz, let's just stuck a whole bunch of space fascists and collaborators in a tiny little neighborhood. Surely nothing will go wrong!!!" I suppose its technically canonical that the new republic is incompetent as shit given how things play out with the first order but sheesh guys.

Just stick to what you know guys. More pew pew and vroom vroom. Leave the political drama to the adult writers in the room. You will never ever be as good as Andor....and that is OK.

  • Thordros [he/him, comrade/them]
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    2 years ago

    I decided to go ahead and catch up on this show based on the reactions here, and... I'm coming away with a very different interpretation.

    My key takeaways were:

    1. The scene right after Space Mengele is really sad to a big stadium and he has to engage with the audience. They're all a bunch of ghouls who don't give two shits whether or not the Red Team or the Blue Team (lightsaber-wise!) is in charge. As long as the money keeps flowing, the Republic is the Empire is the New Republic is the First Order. Line goes up under Space Hitler? Well, thanks, Space Hitler!

    2. The mind-flayer scene. Sure, we kept using The Torment Nexus, but it's fine now that The Good Guys are using it! Surely no bad actors exist under neoliberalism! God's back in heaven, and all's right with the galaxy.

    3. The New Republic is totally fine with fascists keeping on doing their thing, as long as they Follow The Rules. Good Citizens snitch on their friends.

    4. You're literally not allowed to touch grass or a droid gets mad at you. I just thought that was pretty fucking funny.

    I came away thinking to myself, "Well, fuck me. The New Republic is just the Empire with a spit-shine and a bit more politeness. The dudes in charge are still evil as shit."

    • Thordros [he/him, comrade/them]
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      2 years ago

      My partner wants me to add:

      "They don't mind whitewashing Space Nazis, because the Republic has always been turtles Space Nazis all the way down. They just have more palatable talking points now."