One thing I liked about Andor is it fleshed the Empire out. Yes in the original series they are just cartoon villains with a Nazi coat of paint. Andor got into the details of how the Empire is exploiting and oppressing people. Cassian is born on a planet that was strip mined by the Empire, he grew up on Ferrix, a planet of ship breakers who are under the authority of a private corporation who the Empire has licensed regional power to, his first mission is to a planet where the Empire is driving indigenous nomadic people into urban manufacturing centers, he helps the resistance on a middle-income planet who the Empire is manufacturing justification for an intervention in because they need to mine a resource that they know will fuck up their environment.
All of this is being under the guise of an “energy program” that’s actually just a massive WMD development program (granted the WMD in question is the Death Star which is kind of a goofy concept scifi wise). Andor show the Empire is a extractive colonialist power harvesting resources to develop their military industrial complex.
Cassian is born on a planet that was strip mined by the Empire
Actually, Cassian was born on a planet that was strip mined by the Republic.
I’m not saying this just to do the nerd correction. It highlights the continuity between the Republic and the Empire, and how fascism is colonialism turned inward.
They don’t even shy away from pointing out that the rebellion was taking the form of the Republic at the end. The more radical revolutionaries all die and the liberal reformers take control
One thing I liked about Andor is it fleshed the Empire out. Yes in the original series they are just cartoon villains with a Nazi coat of paint. Andor got into the details of how the Empire is exploiting and oppressing people. Cassian is born on a planet that was strip mined by the Empire, he grew up on Ferrix, a planet of ship breakers who are under the authority of a private corporation who the Empire has licensed regional power to, his first mission is to a planet where the Empire is driving indigenous nomadic people into urban manufacturing centers, he helps the resistance on a middle-income planet who the Empire is manufacturing justification for an intervention in because they need to mine a resource that they know will fuck up their environment.
All of this is being under the guise of an “energy program” that’s actually just a massive WMD development program (granted the WMD in question is the Death Star which is kind of a goofy concept scifi wise). Andor show the Empire is a extractive colonialist power harvesting resources to develop their military industrial complex.
I’m not saying this just to do the nerd correction. It highlights the continuity between the Republic and the Empire, and how fascism is colonialism turned inward.
They don’t even shy away from pointing out that the rebellion was taking the form of the Republic at the end. The more radical revolutionaries all die and the liberal reformers take control
Despite how fucking bad the sequels are, it’s amazing to know that the fascism returns because the liberals did nothing useful.
Somehow, fascism returned.