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Minor Andor Spoilers
k so the meeting about Ghorman was a clear reference to the Wannsee Conference right? I’m not the only one seeing that.
little to no record of the event, spelling out how to do a genocide, justifying it with racist propaganda, all that?
you’re seeing this too, right? right?
maybe that’s just what fascism looks like but i thought it felt intentional
why does modern star wars always go for a scifi pop dubstep sound for their club music and not the absolutely unbeatable pipe organ jazz thing they had going on in the original tatooine cantina
Little sequel to this
It’s time for all the companies and organizations to change their logos to rainbow and pretend it makes them the worlds best allies!
Happy pride everyone! ❤️🧡💛💚💙💜
i need fic about perrin and or leida’s immediate reaction following ep9 and there’s nothing. i cant find anything please i cant be the only one who wants this
If Leida is on Chandrila then the senate speech wouldn’t make it to her. So it’s possible that the ISB makes it to Leida before Mon makes her speech in rebels. Before most of the galaxy is even aware of her defection.
right? isnt that horrible?
your mom, who you thought was a stuck up bore, is suddenly a wanted fugitive. you only learn that from the cops at your door, your dad didnt even get the chance to warn you because he’s also being investigated for collaboration.
and you cant even ask her because she’s disappeared and you’re stuck in a police station and nothing makes sense anymore
Some thoughts on Andor, and that final shot everyone hates so much.
I don’t. I’ve been sitting with this show for a while now. This whole season I’ve been waiting to hate Bix’s arc with the same fervour that some of the more vocal fans do. I’ve been waiting to feel the injustice done to a “strong female character” (a phrase I fucking hate by the way, but that’s an argument for another time). I’ve seen the arguments that she should have stayed with the rebellion, that she was a fighter sidelined for the sake of a man, that she was reduced to a baby-factory straight out of right wing propaganda (Jesus Christ). And I disagree with every fucking one of them.
For me, in season two, Bix is the heart of the show. She is the ethos, the drive, the reason that rebellion matters. Bix becomes, in a way, the most important character Andor has to offer us.
Andor has always been very clear in its ideology. Blatantly so. And one of the ideals it strives to impart to its audience is that we are not meant to live in fear. We are not meant to live under oppression. We are not meant to live looking down. For Andor the heart, the drive, the reason behind rebellion is to create a future where we are free. And where love, and peace, and community, and kindness, and hope are our foundations and are the only matter of our lives.
Andor doesn’t want its characters to be fighters. They are forced to be. Andor doesn’t want its characters to live hiding and scared and clawing for any glimpse of peace and love and hope they can get. They have no other choice. Rebellion is important. It is so so fucking important. But it is only important because of what it fights for.
Bix is not a fighter. In Andor’s first season she is a mechanic selling to Luthen on the side for extra money. She is not struggling against the empire. She is not joining a rebellion. She is getting the fuck by and living her fucking life. And one day her connection to Cassian puts her under the empire’s gaze and she is invasively tortured and horrifically traumatised because of it. And she endures.
Bix is, also, an incredibly important character to me personally. There can often be a narrative surrounding trauma that it should make you the fighter everyone seems to think Bix should be. That you should take your pain and terror and suffering and turn it around and let it make you stronger. Use it to beat back against the person, or group, or institution that traumatised you. That you should pick yourself up, dust yourself off, take that horror, and fight back (girlboss-ify yourself and take those motherfuckers down). And to that I say, no. I don’t want that. I’ve done my fighting. I’ve lost my battles and I’ve come out the other side scarred in ways that still hurt to touch. What I want is to stop. Is to rest. Is to put this pain down and move out the other side of it and live, finally.
For me, watching Bix as an horrifically traumatised woman live stuck in that fight for the first half of the second season was harrowing. To see her spend her time in the Coruscant safehouse grappling with the true cost of what it means to fight the way she needs to in this war, never at peace as the life she lives and the things she must do force her to stay held in her trauma, had me aching in ways I didn’t realise I would. To see her stuck in the dark and the gloom and the cold, and yearning the whole time she is in Coruscant to be able to go out and live without having to look over her shoulder, hurt in ways I struggle to put words to.
And then, to see her get out.
I know there is a lot of contention about seeing Bix have little to do on Yavin. And to that I will say, it’s a big show, there are a lot of characters, and she is on Yavin during a storyline that arguably should not narratively or structurally be focusing on her anyway. I know there is also a lot of contention about writing her leaving Cassian for the sake of the rebellion. That it diminishes her character to a plot beat. And while perhaps the tropes at play feel trite in comparison to the more grounded beats the show is known for hitting, this is still storytelling. All the characters are, functionally, still devices serving a narrative. Bix leaves, and narratively becomes our ethos. Becomes the heart of this story. Becomes the reason we have been watching this all play out for our two-season run. Bix becomes the most important character in the show. Because this is why we must fight. For Bix. For everything she represents in that moment. She becomes the way Cassian’s life should be if it weren’t for this war, and in doing so becomes the way all of their lives should be. Should have always been. And will be one day soon.
She is the reason. For all of it. For every loss, for every death, for every fight. It is her. She is the hope at the heart of the rebellion.
That last scene on Mina-Rau; the gentle light, Bee playing, the table set for a community to eat and laugh and be. People smiling and content and together and peaceful. And Bix, free. Of the trauma, of the loss, of the death, of the fight. Looking up at the open sky with her child. Literally holding in her arms the life that the rebellion has always been fighting for.
That is the hope at the end of our story -- that Bix is the one that gets to live.
And you can pry that fucking ending from my cold dead hands.
kind of hilarious to think like a week ahead of where that all leaves off and imagine vel and kleya in the back of that medal ceremony for han and luke just going “..............what in the actual fuck”
ok but dedra being in an imperial prison gives room for a very funny opportunity.
consider: dedra, serving a life sentence in imperial prison, when the rebellion, for whatever reason, leads a raid on the prison.
and now she is, for an amount of time, forced to deal with the rebels, who did save her from a pretty horrendous fate but are also everything she is against and she has no idea how to handle this situation.
ANDOR SPOILERS (and predictions)
ok so somewhat a continuation of this post from last week
after discussion with a friend, our predictions for this season are:
(i want to be wrong. i want to be wrong so bad i want them to live. i want so badly for them to live. this show is going to be the death of me)
each arc so far has ended with a character from last season dying in a needless and tragic way. Brasso in the first, Cinta in the second. so. Wilmon is going to die at the end of next arc. Bix is going to die at the end of the last arc. Wilmon will be in an accident while working with Saw, Cassian and Bix probably never find out what happened. Bix is going to die in front of Cassian, probably protecting him as a parallel to how much he talks about protecting her.
I think Syril is going to die in the crossfire on Ghorman. (it will affect Dedra but in the wrong way). I don't think Dedra is going to die.
Mon has to go join the rebellion pretty soon, we're catching up to rebels quick. i believe season 3 of rebels is 2 BBY and this arc was 3 BBY. Leida and Perrin are not mentioned in the OT or Rebels. Either they something happened before or after Mon left but there's no way the Empire wouldn't use them as collateral.
Vel might live and just be on the other side of the rebellion for rogue one but i think after Cinta, she's probably not surviving the next arc. Luthen will last longer but i don't think he's making it past the last episode. same with Kleya. I think Luthen and Kleya most likely are caught and executed but they might also die trying to run. I think Lonnie's getting executed. he's super dead, there's no way he's living.
In order from most likely to die to least i think it's: Bix, Wilmon, Syril, Lonnie, Luthen, Vel, Kleya, Perrin, Leida, Dedra
this show is going to be the death of me
Reblog with your predictions so i can be reminded of all the Horrible ways this can end :)
i’ve never been so glad to be wrong in my entire life
i need fic about perrin and or leida’s immediate reaction following ep9 and there’s nothing. i cant find anything please i cant be the only one who wants this
Some have characterised it as a poor business decision when George Lucas started handing out copies of the West End Games Star Wars tabletop RPG to authors of licensed Star Wars media because he didn't feel like writing the setting bible they kept asking for, then proceeded to simply rubber stamp every supplement West End Games put out with minimal review because he couldn't be bothered to read them, thereby creating a situation where, between 1987 and 1998, the canon of the largest transmedia franchise on the planet was essentially being dictated by an unsupervised pack of tabletop RPG nerds from Pennsylvania, but to this I counter: it was also extremely funny.
🚨ANDOR S2 SPOILERS🚨
Can’t stop thinking about how The Empire prioritizes subordination over competence.
Dedra FOUND Luthen. She solved the puzzle. She found a key part of the Rebellion. The Mastermind behind Aldhani. The guy who had a mole in the ISB’s inner circle for YEARS. But because she stepped out of line to do so she was thrown out. It didn’t matter that her insubordination was for the good of The Empire. The Empire lost one of their best minds because she hurt egos.
Anyways you know who would’ve loved Dedra?
no, star wars fans, a woman having a child at the end of a series isn’t misogynistic
and while i’m here, bix and cassian’s relationship isn’t a threat to whatever else you ship
i’ve got the feeling that this will be an unpopular take but i really like Bix and her arc this season. She isn’t just a woman whose story revolves around a man,
We see her struggling to deal with her trauma and at the same time struggling with being a rebel and the consequences that follow (ig. her anguish when Cassian killed an imperial to protect her in the 2nd block of episodes). She believes in the cause, but she’s tired and ultimately just wants to live a normal life.
In the end she kinda gets both; she sacrifices Andor, who’s a big part of her happy ending, for the cause because she believes that he’ll be able to do great things for the rebellion (also her agreeing with the force healer who saw something important in Cassian). She sacrifices her life with him for the rebellion but as a result she gets to live an ordinary life. She got her ‘happy’ ending while also being a rebel to the best of capabilities, even if that wasn’t in the more obvious and palpable ‘bad-ass shooting guns’ way.
I love how on Bluesky everyone is like "Wow, Bix surviving made me feel so much better after what she went through :)" and half of Tumblr is raving and saying shit like "Tony Gilroy letting even ONE woman live and not die in an explosion means he HATES WOMEN" and it's like haha... Yeah this site is still kind of media illiterate, huh?
yall make it seem like women who are not soldiers with a gun out killing people are not inherently strong and are weak because they choose to heal themselves and settle down to live a life where they are happy and at peace
yall not as progressive as you claim to be
They should’ve let tony gilroy have the 5 seasons of Andor he originally wanted so we could have stupid filler and had an episode dedicated to how Saw Gerrera and his crew obtained psychic sentient octopus Bor Gullet
