I’d really like to know what books the writers of the Onderon arc of the Clone Wars were reading when it was being produced. There’s a lottt of revolutionary history packed into a few episodes of children’s tv!!
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Absolutely horrifying. Palestinians gunned down while trying to access food. Leaders across the world have a duty to speak out against these continuing atrocities.
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yeah idk if these folks are just unaware of the role she occupies in the new republic or are just incorrectly equating being a revolutionary with being a leftist
I agree with that last point especially; I can’t remember seeing a single twilek on Coruscant throughout Andor’s entire run— it felt fully intentional by the end.
That being said, the fact that the rebellion didn’t fully kick into gear until a critical mid-rim world of primarily humans was massacred could very well be part of a larger thesis about revolution in general.
There are obviously practical and storytelling reasons for show’s reliance on humans, but it’s still noteworthy (and maybe good?) that a show about imperial fascism never fully explores one of its most defining features.
Curious as to people’s feelings regarding Andor’s human-centrism. Star Wars’ tendency to use aliens as stand-ins for non-white races is lazy and gross, but one of the canonical motivations for rebellion has always been speciesism, and it’s interesting that the series never addressed that directly.
Andor valorizes those throughout history who have anonymously made immense personal sacrifice to advance a cause greater than themselves, all while asking us to consider the circumstances that prevent others from emulating them. If that’s not art worth crying over idk what is.
Stormtroopers descending on Palmo Square on the Planet Ghorman. A huge group of Ghorman insurgents have gathered in the square, many of them waving flags in a smoke-filled air.
Anyone that has spent time in a crowd that was violently dispersed knows how well this scene replicated that feeling. The sound, the disorientation, the sense of impending danger— all of it evoked an eerily familiar physiological response in me. It was scary, incredible, and necessary.
I can’t frickin wait to watch Rogue One next week.
Americans must understand that Andor is so prescient because it is based on historical patterns— it attempts to summarize the form that revolutions take throughout history. There’s a lesson to be learned in the fact that much of Mon’s speech could be applied to Biden’s America as easily as Trump’s.
Remember when Ahsoka accused Obi-Wan of “playing politics” when he was preparing to pull his fleet from Mandalore to defend Coruscant from attack as if there wasn’t a TRILLION people living there lmao
Black series figures of Mon Mothma, Luthen Rael, and Saw Gerrera
just 3 besties
The Grand Vizier simply has to make an appearance in Andor. Enough with the name drops, I need to see him put the fear of god into some insignificant senator.
At least 34 Palestinians killed in Israeli attacks in Gaza since dawn - www.middleeasteye.net/live-blog/live-blog-upda...
^ That’s not an evaluation of accelerationism’s efficacy as a revolutionary tactic, just a statement about the individual. He may be miserable because of his commitment to the rebellion, but it likely pales in comparison to the misery he has imposed on those most disaffected by the Empire.
Luther Rael delivering his monologue on Coruscant in season 1 of Andor.
I’m becoming gradually less sympathetic to Luthen’s misery. He says he sacrifices everything for the rebellion, but as an accelerationist, he’s materially responsible for immense pain and suffering endured by the groups whom have already lost the most under Imperial rule (e.g., the Dhanis).
Seeing Revenge of the Sith in the theater for the first time since 2005 was pretty cool! Really appreciate that they do these re-releases.
seeing the mundane depicted in star wars is so enchanting
HATE to engage in any non-Andor discourse right now, but are other people finding him increasingly off-putting? star wars does indeed have room for both seriousness and silliness, but the silly stuff still has to have something to say, it can’t just be filoni’s personal dream fuel.
they are all peak but there are wayyyy too many Andor clips dropping
Did not expect the X-Wing Series to push the political buttons so hard but Wedge’s Gamble is giving major Bloodline/LPOA vibes 👀
Reminiscing on The Acolyte finale 🥺 that was such a fun night
dog how do you make the frickin star wars underworld look so lame
THIS. star wars should be a sandbox.
ANDOR creator Tony Gilroy says he hopes his show will inspire a Star Wars sit-com or horror movie.
“I always fantasised that the show would break new ground, that someone would be able to make a three-camera sitcom in Star Wars or a horror movie.”
Dewi Pamular goes fishing with his brother on Narkina 5 in “Daughter of Ferrix,” episode 11 of Andor Season 1
I revisited the final arc of Andor season 1 for Star Wars dot com! I've really come to love Dewi and Freedi because they embody Nemik's "even the smallest act of insurrection pushes our lines forward." All they did was give Andor and Melshi a ride, and ultimately that ends up saving the galaxy
Mahmoud Khalil, who has been detained and targeted for deportation by the Trump administration for speaking out about the atrocities in Gaza, dictated a letter to the public from his detention cell in Louisiana.
Jacobin publishes the letter here in full: jacobin.com/2025/03/khal...