• Corn@lemmy.mlEnglish
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    14 hours ago

    I kinda felt like there was a lot of filler. They didn’t need to spend an hour of the first two episodes focusing on drama within the group of dipshits who presumably

    spoiler

    will get used by the empire to justify the genocide of Gorman.

    • wjrii@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      7 hours ago

      Agree it was a slower part of the first arc, but I don’t think they’re filler. They’re a microcosm of the current issue with a disunited rebellion. With that in mind, they’re likely going to play a part in convincing our other players that it’s time to come out of the shadows and take the risk of becoming a single fighting force; you could already see how frustrated Andor was with Luthen to have to deal with them at all.

      To your other point, I won’t be surprised at all if they end up as Dedra’s reliable rebels (good thought… it hadn’t occurred to me), but they could just as as easily be dead by this time next week, as I guess we’re getting something of a time jump between each arc. In either event I don’t think “tangential to the overall progress of the Galactic Civil War” is narratively the same thing as “filler.”

  • Squorlple@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    19 hours ago

    The thrill and tension is back. You never really know with this show how a situation will end up when it constantly comes down to the wire. I was happily surprised that so much of the first season cast has returned.

    The long takes are almost too well done that you don’t even notice that it’s shot in one take. Dedra’s dommy mommy monologue got a laugh out of me. The Yavin IV reveal was pretty cool. I was not expecting Star Wars to explicitly call out by name the threat to Bix in episode 3.

    I love this series, especially how it gets to the darker and more insidious intentional effects of fascism. It would be cool if fascists were to become not extant in real life too.