I like Andor because it's the first Star Wars property to successfully fulfill George Lucas' stated goal of getting Americans to sympathize with the Viet Cong
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Yeah, but the Rebels in Episode IV are too plucky good guys. Andor actually attempts to approximate the moral greyness of an insurgency against empire a la Battlestar Galactica's New Caprica arc.
That Lucas quote always stuck me as bizarre. The Empire in A New Hope was so overtly coded as (German-ish) Nazis—a “safe” choice w WW2 very much in living memory, but which allowed eliding any reflection on who the rebels were, what they were about, & cast the Republic in a fog of nostalgia
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And we're a lot more aware that we're also under their boot.
pt: i fucking hate dick cheney