#andor s2

[burningfudge]

seeing mon and kleya’s thrilling escapes from coruscant makes leia’s first reaction to luke and han even funnier. leia must’ve heard about these highly skilled rebels but then when she gets captured, she gets a hillbilly farmboy and an idiot smuggler to rescue her

[demonsandpieohmy]

[nobody-expects-the-inquisitorius]

We interrupt your regularly scheduled political tragedy to bring you SPACE PIGEONS.

[altaire]

I started Andor expecting everyone was going to die. And that was ok, because they took the main point of contention for this show - who cares about a prequel for a character who died in Rogue One? - and turned it on its head. They wield the symbolism like a sword. The main soundtrack is a funeral march. A dead woman speaks from the grave and wishes she'd fought before the end. Everyone here is already dead, fighting for a future they'll never see.

But Bix? Bix is going to live. And somehow that's worse.

She's going to live. She's going to make it home to Ferrix. This show will end with her laying bricks for them all.

[kamillahn]

Andor - 'Welcome to the Rebellion' - S02E09

[superectojazzmage]

Cassian: *going through one of the worst weeks of his fucking life as rednecks kill each other around him, his weird-ass ship craps out on him, and the Empire comes after his family*

Mon Mothma:

[liquid-bonhomme]

List of things in Andor that absolutely snatched my weave fucking Star Wars Disney let be in Andor:

Attempted rape.

Visceral and realistic police brutality.

A meaningful queer relationship.

A none-insignificant amount of blood and violence.

Implied drug abuse.

Imperial characters that were very real people-- and not just British cartoon villians.

Pointed depictions of bureaucratic laziness and incompetence.

Consistent, coherent, well rationed Marxist, socialist, anarchist, and revolutionary theory and philosophy.

A realistic depiction of the practicalities and morally compromising nature of fighting a totalitarian regime. The degree of physical, emotional, and spiritual sacrifice that actually goes into it.

Genocide.

Genocide being called explicitly genocide.

Prison abolitionism.

A fancy white woman forced to sacrifice her daughter for the cause drunkenly dancing her feelings away like the queen she is.

"Make it stop, make it stop."

Weaponized old lady brick being a highlight kickass moment.

Several characters fates being left hauntingly ambiguous.

"Work visa."

A care to squeeze in these strangely humanizing moments-- like Luthen taking a moment to get into his Antique Dealer headspace in season 1, or Cassian taking the time to water plants he likely never had a chance to return to in the final episode.

[nijigasakilove]

“It’s everywhere now” is such a dope line. No matter how much tyrants want to suppress the spirit of rebellion and desire for freedom they can’t kill an idea.

“The frontier of the rebellion is everywhere. The imperial need for control is so desperate because it’s so unnatural. Tyranny requires constant effort.” -Nemik

Real world parallels are immense