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comms chatter from a galaxy far far away

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rogue one text posts 4/?

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Rogue One (2016)

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A Hanna pendant, or Chandrilan medal of freedom, was a piece of jewelry that was awarded as a symbol of freedom on Chandrila.

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Visit Original Link

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STAR WARS: ANDOR

S2E1 - One Year Later

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!

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still here.

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deadbeat dad luthen and the dad who stepped up draven

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Vel and Cinta’s relationship is so wonderful because they are so gently fucked up. They are so sincere, so heartfelt, so knowing in their ruin. They know they’re coming from wildly different angles. They know they’re not seeing eye to eye, and they can’t do much to change that. They know this. And still Vel asks Cinta to turn around. She knows how Cinta feels about the watch, the fight, the cause, but she can’t help it. And Cinta knows she can’t give Vel what she’s craving, knows that Vel knows that - and still turns around, because she can’t help it. They still love each other. They can’t help it. They still love each other

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star wars but the war is watching jyn and cassian's 3 year slow burn

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DIEGO LUNA as CASSIAN ANDOR ANDOR (2022-) “Episode 2/Episode 3” (1.02/1.03)

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of all the plot holes in Andor season 2 (and Andor season 1 if we’re being honest) the one that just might haunt me the most is the question of what retributional violence was carried out on the citizenry of chandrila in response to Mon aligning with the rebellion and publicly leaving the empire.

Because we know exactly what happens to the next senator who does something like that: every one of the five billion people he represents is murdered. So what happened to the 1.2 billion people Mon represents, who simply do not exist to the narrative? She’s the brave woman who steps in to make a case for the 800,000 people of Ghorman but what is she to the 1.2 billion she represents? What is the cost of her rebellion? There’s an endless level of fucked up possible ethical and moral storytelling to unpack with the fact that she and bail are both on some level playing and being the role of active imperial collaborators for over a decade and yet at the same time serving as representatives for billions of people (!!!!) who will, point blank, be tortured and murdered in reprisal for their rebellion if Palpatine finds out about it. I wish this had exerted force in the narrative

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Suppose Voren Na'al published a book about lesser celebrated factions of the Alliance to Restore the Republic, where he detailed Cassian's Separatist origins, honored Saw Guererra's contributions to the Rebellion, what would the title of this Howard Zinn style history book oh --

The People's History of the Rebellion

obviously

[reyerso]

The Voren Na'al that lives in my head, recording peoples' stories for posterity, if you care:

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There is an essay sitting in my drafts about Cassian and Lawrence of Arabia. It started off as a commentary on the failings of bixcassian but quickly went off the rails. But it basically amounts what I think the sort of conflict Cassian should have had if they had kept his original backstory. A lot of Andor apologists say that being a loyal, fully committed member of the Rebellion would have been boring because there's no character arc. You want conflict, I'll give you a conflict: Fest versus the rest of the Galaxy. The crux of the argument were these two quotes from Seven Pillars of Wisdom (edits mine):

"It was evident from the beginning that if we won the war these promises would be dead paper, and had I been an honest adviser of the Arabs I would have advised them to go home and not risk their lives fighting for such stuff [...] In other words I presumed [...] that I would survive the campaigns, and be able to defeat not merely the Turks on the battlefield, but my own country and its allies in the council-chamber."

"Always feelings and illusion were are war within me, reason strong enough to win, but not strong enough to annihilate the vanquished, or refrain from liking them better; and perhaps the truest knowledge of love might be to love what self despised."

I think putting Cassian in the situation of becoming a spy very young, messing with his sense of self, and divided loyalties between his home world and the rest of the rebellion are delicious sources of conflict. An absolute goldmine! Think of the richness and depth you could have given Cassian if you gave him the Lawrence arc of an idealist adventurer/partisan to burnt out spy, that sets up for the redemption arc of Rogue One. I think a lot of people who worked on Andor completely forgot that Cassian's arc in Rogue One is about redemption, and is about coming back from the brink of cynicism and despair.

If you wanted conflict within the Rebellion, then dig into what the different leaders and factions of the Rebel Alliance want. The conservatives who think just getting rid of the Emperor is enough to fix everything. The liberals who think some changes are in order, but are nostalgic for the Old Republic. The reformers with increasingly radical agendas and plans. Revolutionaries who want to upend everything. Anarchists who want to do away with the old hierarchies completely in the name of absolute freedom. And you stick Cassian in the middle of that, trying to figure out what he wants and what he needs to do and who he's supposed to be. He shouldn't be a lazy, flaky dirtbag until the Empire takes an interest in him - and even then he has a tendency to fall back on bad habits. Cassian should have intense amounts of imposter syndrome, wracked with guilt, and a tenuous sense of self. At war between his own flesh and his ideals.

That is the sort of conflict Andor should have had.