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Looking at all of the Star Wars books that involve Darth Vader, he must have been that absolute god of scheduling. Like, this is the Dark Side power that Palpatine was talking about. Vader was practically everywhere during the rise of the Empire, according to the books.
People think he was angry because he got burned alive, he was angry because he was sleep deprived.
It is such a quiet thing, to fall…
But far more terrible is to admit it
Aight, ya’ll were probably right
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Mail Shadow Lords Episode 2
Crime Count:
Grand Larceny x 1
Theft x 1
Burglary x 1
Destruction of property x 30
Murder x 5
Conspiracy to commit theft x 1
Conspiracy to commit murder x 2
Cabral and PinkishPurple are climbing up something whilst being shot at by the cops. PinkishPurple tries to escape and is stunned by Maul’s robot friend. Silly PP, doesn’t she know he doesn’t care that Maul is racist?
The cops commandeer what I presume is a garbage truck.
The Zabraks and the Mandalorian are trying to escape and are being chased by a cop car. They use ROCKET LAUNCHER. It is SUPER EFFECTIVE. Unfortunately PP’s Jedi master has sensed his padawan. He jumps from one highway onto the other. He uses THE FORCE. It is SUPER EFFECTIVE.
Maul jumps out the truck. FORCE WIELDER FIGHT LETS GOOOOOOOOOO!
And the fucking cops show up. Maul uses the force to snap the pedestrian walkway above. PP’s Jedi master is forced to help save the civilians stopping us from getting our force wielder fight. Boo.
PP’s Jedi master escapes from the cops as well.
The next day Lawson speaks to his commander who demands that he close the case before the governor calls the Empire for help. Lawson says that if the Empire comes they’ll lock the planet down.
Back at Mauls base — mauls hideout? Mauls Mansion. He’s nice to PP and says his Mandalorians can help with her injuries. He then tells one of them that PP is a Jedi and that he will fashion her into a weapon that can help them defeat Darth Sidious. Maul, you have gotten your ass kicked by Obi Wan, Obi Wan again, Obi wan and Ventress, by Sidious (who murked your brother), and by Obi Wans grand-padawan. Your life is a series of L’s brother, let it go, get a hobby, start writing poetry.
Oh I should mention this isn’t Coruscant. If it was the “governor” wouldn’t be talking about calling in the Empire.
Lawson has a son but is apparently separated from the boys mother. Still I’m assuming he’s the primary caregiver since the boy is talking about “visiting” his mother.
Lawson goes back into the office. Still wants to hunt down Mail without calling in the Empire. Lawson is Dumbson.
Back to Maul. Apparently Vaario helps the Pykes smuggle spice into this system. Maul is going to attack the shipments until the leader of the Pykes (somebody named Krim) organises a meeting with Vaario to deal with the attacks. More vague threats, how seriously I take this show will depend on whether or not Krim is dead by the end of the episode.
Lawson driving through the night, his eyes lit up by neon fire. It’s a long drive to get to the Entertainment district, especially when you’re on your way to meet a dame as dangerous as Sul.
Lawson wants information on the Shadow Collective. Sul gives him the exposition.
PP imprisoned. Maul gives her the Dark side is a pathway to power speech, flavoured this time with “times have changed man, you gotta be evil in an evil galaxy, use the dark side to open the prison door.”
Maul and the Minions steal the Pykes spice. I’m guessing the Zabraks will snort most of it they seem like that’s their jam.
Oh wow Maul kills the Pyke henchmen. They aren’t droids. Found the next group that Maul is racist to.
PP didn’t use the dark side. Maul gives her the “it’s time to grow up and stop believing in goodness rant”. PP tries to use the force to open the door and fails. She sees light through the back. She uses the force again and is somehow able to push the back open. She escapes into a cave.
Not the biggest fan of this episode. Ends weirdly. Will put it at 5/10. Not obviously bad but doesn’t really have anything outstanding going on.
Maul Shadow Lords Liveblog episode 1 (part 3)
There’s a whole sequence with Lawson and a locked door. Eventually Lawson robot buddy is able to get the doors open and Lawson manages to flank the Zabraks and they continue down the hall with their FUCKING MINIGUN. Unfortunately Maul manages to knock out Lawson by hitting him in the head with a lightsaber. Doesn’t kill Lawson though, cause Lawson is human and Maul is super racist.
Maul finds Vaario. Vaario begs and claims he did what he had to do. Maul says “you had to abandon your oath”. Maul expects loyalty from organised criminals. This is because Maul is an idiot.
PinkishPurple overhears their convo. Vaario offers to help Maul find someone else Maul thinks betrayed him. Maul chooses to bring Vaario in alive.
I hope against all reason that this show won’t just be Maul going after bad guys that are somehow worse than him cause they aren’t “honourable” whilst he is just threatening in a vague way and doesn’t hurt anyone that’s human. Like, Maul is a bad guy. Let him be a bad guy.
Maul sees the kid. Actual evil music plays . The kid knows who he is. Definitely a Jedi. The show ends.
Decent opener. Think kids will mostly like it and the art direction is good. Story is a bit janky so far and I don’t think I have a clear sense of the characters in my head. 6/10.
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Vaario is being interviewed by Lawson. Vaario asks if the cops have enough guards to protect him. Lawson asks who from. Vaario — like a dumbass — asks Lawson “ever heard of the Shadow Collective?” Vaario, you’re in Star Wars. The clone wars was like 5 years ago. Tell him you’re being attacked by an evil space wizard.
Wait this jail is housing career criminals with underage girls? This is why the recidivism rate in the post-republican imperial state is so high. In this essay I will —
Lawson still doesn’t want to alert theISB. Grabbing onto that idiot ball with both hands.
Maul and his henchmen march menacingly in the rain.
A cop wanders the halls. One of the doors is cracked open. He reports a malfunction before mauls henchmen drag him around the corner.
More malfunctions on level 8. Lawson demands a status report from all personnel on the level. He gets one answer, muffled by static. More reports of malfunctions.
A service droid reports that they’re losing control of the station. The lights turn red. Lawson realises they’re under attack. No jokes, genuinely a great little sequence.
Lawson grabs some men and runs to protect Vaario.
Some troops are separated from the main group and the two zabrak goons march through the hallways with a FUCKING MINIGUN and kill them all while laughing. See Maul, the evil laugh. Your henchmen get it.
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Maul Shadow Lord liveblog
Opening is pretty cool v. Atmospheric
They’ve gone with the Andor s2 aesthetic for what I’m guessing is coruscant
Okay so we’re robbing a bank?
Oh wow mandalorian bank robbers and what looks like 2 Zabraks.
Cops on the way remember ACAB!
Robot cops get killed by the bank robbers human cop survives #racism #nemikwouldntapprove
Our thieves are surrounded by cops and then are rescued by none other than DARTH MAUL DUN DUN DUNNNNNN
(Maul should be dead this show shouldn’t exist sorry not sorry)
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Got ourselves a pinkish-purple Twilek talking to a lizard man who is telling her begging is better than stealing food.
From their dynamic seems like this is a Jedi and his padawan which, blergh.
Pinkishpurple gets arrested Lizardman tells her not to resist.
Okay so we’re introduced to our Heroic Antagonist, Captain Lawson who is investigating the robbery. We run through possible suspects but Lawson doesn’t know he’s in Star Wars so he doesn’t immediately assume a magic space assassin did it.
Introduced to the owner of the bank, someone called Veemis. Three eyed alien, he gives off bad guy vibes.
Cut to Maul. Apparently he’s been having visions of (what I presume to be) PinkishPurple. He wants an apprentice. You aren’t Qimir Maul, stop looking for Acolytes.
Okay so the bank seems to be a criminal bank. Maul describes Deemis as a “gangster” and Maul is punishing him for “taking what’s mine”.
Maul is now intimidating a droid. Man, it must suck to be this guy. Trained to be 2nd in command to a Sith Lord, now reduced to hiding in basements threatening literal machinery.
Okay PinkishPurple has been introduced to Lawson. No idea why a detective is dealing with a minor accused of stealing a tiny amount of food but hey.
And now Lawson has found out that Maul is the one who killed the police. Maul was caught on camera.
Lawson is hiding the fact that maul killed the cops from the ISB. This will not end well.
Dermis meets with some other gangster. Think the guy is named Vaario. Doesn’t feel like a Vaario. Feels more like his name should be Wormzy Sluug.
Deemis thinks that Vaario robbed the bank. Maul snuck the droids head into the meeting on a dinner plate. Deemis thinks that means Vaario set up the robbery. Bit of a leap there Deem me old chum.
Deem pulls out his blaster and starts shooting. Maul and his friends are watching through a spy camera. Maul stares grimly. This is why you lost to Sidious Maul, that was a perfect place for an evil laugh.
The police have been called. Vaario kills Deemis by sneaking out of his armour and then shooting Deemis in the back. Very Wormzy Sluug move.
Mauls henchmen chase down Vaario. The police chase them both.
They almost kill Vaario. Lawson literally shoots the gun out of the henchman’s hand. Good shooting Lawson. Should change your name to Shotwell.
Vaario gets arrested. Mauls henchmen escape. Maul says he’s going to attack the prison directly to get his revenge on Vaario. Still no evil laugh.
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carol not even bothering to meet any of the non-anglophone uninfected people, expecting them to all agree with her perspective and cut off their loved ones, and immediately getting mad enough to kill said loved ones when they don’t. crazy but unsurprising stuff
Didn’t read it as that. Carol is monolingual. She doesn’t trust the infected to translate accurately.
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There are a lot of questions that Syril Karn, Star Wars Andor’s tragic bootlicker, invites the audience to ask themselves. When do you stop being worthy of redemption? When is it too late to make the right choice? Is it okay to stalk a CIA interrogator? What does it mean when a man wants to wield violence?
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Still thinking about a post I saw that said Syril choking Dedra on Ghorman was disgusting and wrong and perpetuated misogynistic violence and shouldn’t have been in the scene.
Like, sure girl, Dedra’s currently standing in a room overseeing a violent massacre and attempted genocide that she knowingly helped orchestrate, but you’re right physical violence is a step too far.
Like, damn, if I was Syril I would have finished the job. Not to brag, but I’m built different. Bitch woulda dieeeed.
I think the answer to whether it's OK to choke Dedra while she's doing Nazi crimes depends on whether you are choking Dedra because she is a Nazi and you are trying to stop Nazi crimes, or if it's because you're a petulant man-child and you're doing intimate partner violence because you can't restrain your emotions and you feel undermined.
Like, I do think it's great fiction that illustrates the complexity of the ways in which they are both slimy shits, no matter how we might sometimes sympathise with them as people, and this reminds us that Nazis are human and fascism can work its way into most people's hearts if given an inch.
But whether I, personally, *mind* Syril choking out his Nazi girlfriend has way less to do with the genders involved than whether I think he was doing it to stop Nazi crimes.
I don't think he was really doing it to stop Nazi crimes. I think he told himself that, but what he was doing was an intimate partner violence. He was wrong for doing an intimate partner violence. He wasn't wrong for choking out a Nazi in the process of doing Nazi crimes, but we also shouldn't praise him for it, because ultimately he didn't do anything to stop the Nazi crimes, and he didn't really want to.
And anyone who thinks it's not OK to depict that in fiction is pro things that allow Nazis to creep into our midst because it makes them harder to recognise.
For anyone interested, this is an interesting example of the importance of how we individuate events, and whether Syril's choking of a Nazi is the same as him choking his girlfriend. We can distinguish these two events mereologically (by category) even though they are spatio-temporally co-located, because they have different causes and consequences.
Hope this helps.
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The Sound of Fate
Aka Palpatine Listens to Nemik’s Manifesto
"Remember this: Freedom is a pure idea. It occurs spontaneously, and without instruction," the voice droned. A young voice, Palpatine noted. Young, and passionate, and filled with ideals.
"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."
Oh but there was truth to that. Sheev could sense it, he could hear them, those rats, gnawing away, gnawing away.
"Remember that the frontier of the Rebellion is everywhere. And even the smallest act of insurrection pushes our lines forward."
For so long the darkness had reigned. It had felt like he had an eternity. Time enough to gather his thoughts, time enough to plan. Yet now? Little fires kept spreading everywhere, bursts of light that inflamed their little minds. Too much light, too much light.
"And then remember this. The Imperial need for control is so desperate because it is so unnatural. Tyranny requires constant effort. It breaks, it leaks. Authority is brittle. Oppression is the mask of fear. Remember that. And know this, the day will come when all these skirmishes and battles, these moments of defiance will have flooded the banks of the Empire's authority and then there will be one too many. One single thing will break the siege. Remember this. Try."
He spat. He stood up from his desk and spat on the floor. He looked around him, at the rivers of fate and force as they swirled around him like a typhoon.
"Try?" The Emperor whispered. "Do you really think that will be enough?" The Force roared in response, he saw a woman carrying her child through a field of wheat, he saw a boy with blonde hair helping his uncle on his farm, and a pilot racing out for his last mission.
"Send them,” he hissed, summoning his strength. “Send them all. I will break them all, and I will break you."
And the Emperor reached out with his hand, and his fingers delved deep into the current of fate, and he began to turn.
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Syril, Dedra, Partagaz, Krennic, Tarkin, Vader, Palpatine.
Each of these losers spent their lives searching for power. They had different reasons to be sure, Syril wanted to be a hero, Dedra wanted to serve the thing she worshipped, Partagaz wanted personal success, Krennic wanted to show off his wits, Tarkin wanted to be the Emperors Right Hand, Vader wanted to put everything in the galaxy that he loved in a bottle, Palpatine wanted to create a monument to his own ego.
And what was the result? The evils they committed did not elevate them, it debased them. They destroyed themselves, one and all, for nothing.
Syril died alone, just another enemy killed by the Rebellion, his hopes and dreams turned to mist on the Ghorman Plaza along with his brain matter.
Dedra, who for so long imprisoned the masses to be enslaved for the Empires purposes all so that she could be "rewarded" with an apartment with a slightly better view than most of Coruscant was herself enslaved by that corrupt system.
Partagaz heard the words of a boy who inspired billions more than he could intimidate by fear and then shot himself whilst a man who was infinitely less talented and less competent than he was waited in line to take his job.
Krennic burned alive on Scarif, destroyed by the weapon he spent so long building and killed by an enemy who he could never outmatch.
Tarkin died, killed by the Rebellion at the moment he was hopped up on his own sense of power, never to understand that his terror was nothing compared to the power of faith. Faith in oneself, faith in one's purpose, faith in one's friends.
Vader, Anakin, who so desperately wanted the power he needed to protect his family, died after being beaten to a pulp by his son and then watching his son reject the power he mutilated the galaxy for.
And Palpatine, the orchestrator of all of this , the man who burned half the galaxy in an insane search for Godhood, died screaming after being thrown down a well by a paraplegic in an iron lung.
Well done Andor, you made it matter again.
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Dedra realizing she is not exempt from hands-on male rage and violence, including intimate partner violence (even from someone like Syril who we know to be quite passive with her), just because she vastly outranks him socially and politically and usually wears the pants in the relationship???? her face when he put his hands around her throat and yells at her?? even with all that education and climbing the ranks and scheming and military rank, it still doesn't fucking matter in that moment, not in the slightest. she is completely at his mercy and you can see it in her eyes when she realizes her miscalculation and oversight in this situation. incredible.
Dedra Meero worked every day to uphold a system of government that led directly to her boyfriend choking her and threatening to throw her out of a window. She will never examine this and she will never ask why.
