when the Son tells anakin, “know what you will become” before showing him visions of his future and of vader, and when ahsoka has a vision of anakin in the jedi temple on lothal and he starts shifting into vader as he says, “do you know what i’ve become?” and when obiwan sees anakin/vader for the first time in ten years and asks, “what have you become?”
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WOW. Andor is really the best Star Wars output ever made, and the best Star Wars has ever been. Tony Gilroy and the team really put a lot of attention into the writing and IT SHOWS.
They have clearly done the research into the historical significance of anti-fascist movement, revolution and the various ideologies around it. You have folks like Luthen who is an accelerationist and Saw Gerrera who mirrors African Revolutionary Leaders like Samora Machel.
BUT, that doesn't mean the show is inherently leftist. Do I agree with the assessment that the show is a "controlled release" of leftist ideologies too?
No. Not really. The ideologies, except for scenes where Luthen and Saw are on the same table, were never the front of the story. But we do see the moral implications of accelerationism, prison industrial complex, and how neo-liberalism collapsed under the weight of authoritarian and fascism (or become fascist as form of rebellion against neo-liberal structures).
But that's merely because the Galactic Empire has always been fascist-coded, whilst the rebellion was never clearly defined. Under George Lucas and Sequel Trilogy, the rebellion was only seen like an aesthetic "resistance" front. The cost of fighting back against a fascist state with overwhelming force was never in the picture because we have space wizards and shit to save the day.
The rebellion was merely a supportive character in most Star Wars media.
By removing space wizards and putting the story at the early age of rebellion, Andor provides context and definition of what the rebels looked like by using real world examples. Coincidentally through our own history a lot of anti-fascist movements were leftist / marxist. Who would have thought?
I suspect it was never the intent of Tony Gilroy and team to put "leftist anti-fascist" message in "Disney's Star Wars" because Star Wars has never been a political franchise in the first place (unlike Star Trek). It only uses politics as aesthetics of the world in a galaxy far...far..away.
But this time around, they understood the assignment. They understand how within the context of anti-fascist movement, you cannot avoid leftist / marxist politics, and they use that to enrich the world of Star Wars without saying it outright...and I doubt the larger team that worked on Andor even realized that they have made one of the best fictional anti-fascist, anti-imperialism sci-fi stories.
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“𝑾𝒉𝒚 𝒊𝒔 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝒇𝒐𝒓𝒄𝒆 𝒄𝒐𝒏𝒏𝒆𝒄𝒕𝒊𝒏𝒈 ��𝒔? 𝒀𝒐𝒖 𝒂𝒏𝒅 𝑰?”
Thinking about this parallel a lot…
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