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graphic novelist and part-time library circulation clerk. Mostly posting about Bob Dylan and movies. Based in Sackville NB. Type 1 diabetic.
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I've never used a substack. You should post your newsletter as a thread on here.
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If you like Fassbinder, it's definitely worth watching. But it's a big commitment.
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Anyways, Tangled Up in Blue remains one of my all-time top Dylan songs. Only definitively beat by Key West, Workingman's Blues #2, Brownsville Girl, and Tight Connection to My Heart.
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The Rolling Stone documentary also got me into Springsteen, Talking Heads, and Prince. Maybe some other stuff too. But since non of the song titles were given, it took me years to figure out what the song about a beautiful house and a beautiful wife was.
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The song title wasn't give, I thought it was "Talladega Blues," and it was introduced by George Harrison saying something like "Bob's my friend, but I wouldn't say I know him."
I obsessed over it and eventually went down to the Fredericton Library and took out whatever Dylan they had on CD.
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Angelina nearly got played?!?!
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In Le Petit Soldat, there's a line "once we fought for ideals, now we fight for territory" (or something like that). The New Republic should experience a similar moral decay.
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If Andor is a French resistance film, its follow up should be the equivalent to The Battle of Algiers, where suddenly the New Republic are the ones committing atrocities. This is a government that fails, we should see what leads to their failure. Show how they lose their way.
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I also wanted to take a moment to pitch an Andor follow up to the void. It would be easy to make a Rouge One/Andor that leads to Return of the Jedi. But I think that would be too repetitive (though very Star Wars).
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The last 10 minutes or so of Andor would have read as overly sentimental and incredibly cheesy in any other Star Wars show (I found them pretty similar to the Harry Potter epilogue), but Andor did the work to make them succeed. Cheesy endings are fine as long as they're earned.
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I hope whoever is running Star Wars recognizes what a success this show is and looks for spaces to tell similar stories within this universe. What about a show that is set immediately after the end of Return of the Jedi and deals with the difficulty in establishing a new government?
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I also really appreciate how consistently Andor doesn't leave the main event of its 3 seasons arcs until the third episode. Dealing with the fallout of events as much as the main events has lead to some great storytelling.
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This is also why moments that might seem cringe in other Star Wars shows, the appearance of a force-sensitive person, or digital de-aging don't ruin the show. They are used for very specific purposes and not to appeal to the fandom.
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I rewatched Mandalorian season 3 this week (which I liked), but that show consistently sidelines is main themes for action and intrigue. Andor never forgets what it's doing.
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Each person needs at least 10.
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The artwork is the cover to a bootleg of the show called "Through a Glass Darkly."
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Other highlights include two Zevon covers, a great acoustic Baby Blue, and an incredibly energetic opening trio of To Be Alone, In the Summertime, and Tombstone Blues. I love it when gospel songs pop up outside that era, and In the Summertime is one of the best.
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I am hopeful that Andor season 1 > Andor season 2 > Rogue One will one day soon be the best trilogy.