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great content once again, Mr G Tech, you obvs do appreciate the nuance a lot of 'fans' are missing when they say this show is slow and boring as far as SW goes 🙄 I've got two small points of discussion. One is the line from a senator your draw attention to in the vid, 'If you do nothing wrong, you have nothing to fear'. This is absolutely the indoctrination the Empire wants to engender. I lived for years in an authoritarian society i wont name but is out East, and many people would parrot this EXACT sentence throughout my time there, as a justification for conformity. The question that should always follow that is, who determines what is wrong or right. The other is something you refer to in a director making sure each element portrayed in a story is relevant, I just thought to sugest you look up the concept of 'Chekovs gun' to better illustrate that point in your mind. I find these labels help in my conception anyway🤔

Hey Alan and team, Do you guys have a forum or discord? Cause this is the kind of stuff I really love about Star Wars' potential and I'd love to discuss it with people who enjoy the meatier and more realistic anthropology and sociology Alan is presenting here.

Porg? Really? Might as well be Porn lmao

like a bunch of kids" yes thats how it works even in real life,

Definitely around the smoke pit, everyone is chill

Yeah, other than the gung-ho officers and SNCOs, mostly everyone is just normal people who happen to be in the military

@Connor Bernier No, its a small area in every garrison where smoking tobacco is authorized. Something about sharing a vice drops any pretense of superiority between officers, NCOs, and enlisted.

As someone in the military now, i always treat my enlisted as the people they are. sure we have different titles and billets but at the end of the day, we're all just people trying to do a job. maybe if the empire did the same it would have survived lol

I've had decently casual conversations with generals. Of course we still refer to each other accordingly by rank and show that respect but at the end of the day I see most of us treat each other as regular people. You learn who to do it with and who not to.

well put

Andor gives us the "banality of evil", as Arendt put it.

Makes me wonder how the officers of the Final Order lived.

This comment reminds me of an old picture that exists of the concentration camp guards on their time off. If you saw the picture and didn't know what their uniforms represented, all you would see is a bunch of college age kids having a goofy group photo.

@@ColinTherac117, yep. They enjoyed wonderful Christmas Eves at home with their children, five miles down the road from their “day job”.

It's such delicious irony that the person that genuinely made that claim gets shot to bits by soldiers of the regime that he loves so much not even a few seconds later.

Long live the Galactic Empire

Long live the Galactic Empire

Long live the empire!

By depriving you of your rights, land, and if you’re too troublesome, your life. Fuck the Empire.

Yeah well we see how Vader and then Thrawn were involved in the story of Phoenix Squadron after that so yeah I'd say the Empire took these events pretty seriously.

The system lead to people like Tarkin being put in charge of a super laser which accounts for most of the rebels' battle cries.

Bix is tortured, using a device that bombards her with the dying screams of an entire alien species who were massacred by the Empire. That is some 40K levels of messed up evil

Shows like Kenobi are enough to make me want to join the empire

@@kylemundy8871 good for you 👍😊

I still don't really understand what is shown that makes the empire bad. It's usually just a few cartoonishly mean guys in posistons of power. Very petty and low brown evil imo.

Episode 2 of Kenobi (I think) the villain makes a speech at the space bar that was so cringey I shortly stopped watching. Cartoon level bad guy speech, how do writers even keep their jobs.

@@kylemundy8871 surprised you got past the Millenia old sushi. That’s when I opted out…

@@omnitheus5442 oh no...was that creature really meant to have been something from Tatooine's watery past?? I thought it was just another sand-dwelling animal.

​@@kylemundy8871 Yeah, Kenobi was cringey all around. I really can't understand how some people were able to enjoy that crap. It's really, really bad. I forced myself through it but the terrible dialogue between the three Stogers villains in the first episode was already too much for me to take. Were we supposed to be afraid of them? Lol.

@@R.a.f.a.e.l. people feel a desperate need to belong to something...or they feel they've invested too much to walk away. Either way, eating a poop sandwich and saying it's amazing for a pat on the head is where we are as consumers lol.

@the Learner makes me wonder who this show is for....the rebels or the Overlords....and which is which, when comparing it to society now .

They started off as rag tag brown shirts and ended up as polished and terrifying sturmtruppen.

First names on the list should be the UK and France. Hitler was simply following in their lead. Everything about his ideology, eugenics, imperialism, genocide to take over land, was started by them. Just look at the white settler colonies like Australia and north America.

"absolute power will corrupt absolutely"

They've already committed to at least 2, 12 episode seasons. Production on S2 starts at the end of the month

Sarsgaard claimed he'd signed on for 3 seasons. Fingers crossed

Disney has already stated its a two season series, 12 episodes each.

@@IamHomelander I knew Sarsgaard was a dirty liar

I'd also like to see how the Imperial officer corps transformed in the years between the Clone Wars and ANH, and to what extent the seeds of the Empire already existed in the Republic military. We got a taste of this in Clone Wars, but I'd like to see it covered more fully.

If he did that, wouldn't the Hutts declare war and no one wanted to mess with the equivalent of the Drug Cartels (even the empire knew not to mess with those bastards)? I mean even in real life, no one messes with the Cartels, if they ever united, 2-3.2 million gangsters with adequate enough training/experience... I'm pretty damn certain even the US Military would fail to quell a united paramilitary assault on that scale. On a galactic scale, HA! As if, even the Empire made deals with the Hutts, not outright conquer them. The hutts have a large enough force to apparently have the Republic, Separatists, now the Empire, to be concerned with avoiding confrontation. Like real life with actual drug cartels. If someone declared open war on them, they return the price in blood, tenfold, literally. They would turn cities into warzones, murder entire families (or sell them into slavery, organ trade, prostitution, whichever), it's probably also the tolerance of governments being on their payrolls, same with the Empire no doubt, why no one messes with a Cartel. Hutt or South American.

Vader, (if the Novel is to be believed) was not impressed by the Death Star and saw the will of the Force as the highest power. If the Force did not want a Battle station that could destroy planets it would find a way to remove it. A technician would trip and cause a malfunction or a design flaw would blow it up, as it would happen a Rebel pilot who was strong in the force managed to destroy it proving him right. Now this is probably non-canon now but I saw that as an interesting view as to what Vader thought of the Technological terror that the Empire was bringing.

@@SgtHawk45 Hutts would get Death Star annihilated too next

@@TheWarmachine375 thats just it though the hutts had a whole swathe of space under their control,at least a whole 3rd of the galaxy was considered hutt space, they would've been using the deathstar on hundreds of worlds not just nar shada or nal hutta,even with the deathstar a war with the hutts isn't something that the empire would have been able to carry on very long in any successful way

@@angelohowardii8907 Yes, the Hutts are like paper before the storm. And the Empire is the storm that is approaching.

What nods?

Im curious can you explain more?

@@thenewstanza9069 russian - Ukraine, even in the background, wheat and blue sky...or thats just me, to creditable?

Andor reminds me of what kind of new shows I hoped for when I first started reading the EU books back in the day.

@@TheInfinitecheese It compares favorably with the somewhat cheesy Imperial portrayals in Obi-Wan Kenobi, at any rate.

It's not Star Wars. It's too dirty and gritty. Also too off topic. How does it relate to the First Order or Snoke? Where is Admiral Holdo's origin? Where's General Leia? It's a burn notice ripoff with a dirty, ugly blade runner aesthetic. Dumd!

@@BungieStudios the og trilogy was dirty and gritty. I don't care how it relates to the first order because the Disney wars ducking suck.

@@TheInfinitecheese I'm sorry you feel that way, but this is not Star Wars.

Given that your post is so vague that it leaves me unsure what politics you were thinking of caused me to wonder what the Imperial Propaganda looked like regarding the Rebel Alliance and non human species. That would be rather fascinating to see...

They were planning to make the Dhani disappear through displacement policies rather than outright sending stormtroopers to murder them all. Don't get me started with Narkina 5. "Innocent"...I guess, compared with the later "obey me or I will blow up your planet".

I hope you don't mean to imply that the public hysteria after 9/11 was justified when it reached the federal level.

In that era, few people remember or know what a Jedi actually looks like and how they act.

@@TammoKorsai but that actually that provides more confirmation on Cassian Andor meeting Kanan Jarrus

It's more likely that folk in the galaxy just associate anyone who talks about 'the force' with the Jedi. Remember that, at that stage, the Jedi would have been utterly demonised and mystified through propaganda and misinformation, so very very few people would have had a clear mental image of what they actually were/what they did/how they looked - just that they were Force followers.

@@garethmiguel yes but if you look in Rebels, Kanan Jarrus, Ezra Bridger and the rest of the Ghost crew were stationed at Yavin as well...look at the end of season 3 and 4 of Rebels

@@Colombiarican31 lol Gilroy said no lightsabers or fan service

Yeah I was wondering how high school was any different from any other childish office politics.

And the thought that if he DOES live through this, the ISB are going to show up and demand to know WHY you lived through it and haul you and your family away for interrogation, torture by alien death-screams and then execution.

Nah, he's okay, I guess. 🤪

I lean more toward the idea she'll first be a victim of ISB politics. One way or another Andor will escape her clutches and she'll be blamed for the failure. Perhaps Blevin will see the opportunity to twist the knife. Or maybe her assistant. I do agree she will die, but it will be after a fall from grace.

That type of thinking is so prevalent. Sounds incredibly depressing.

Bridger's rallying cry will have inspired some to take up arms, others will have still tried to live normal lives until atrocities like Alderaan made it clear that was no longer possible

Unfortunately Agent Kallus was KIA in terminal list

@@V.B.Squire lol, Agent Kallus havent even joined the Rebels at the time of Andor. Agent Kallus is protected by the indestructible plot armor.

Blowing up Jeddah city angered people. It rallied people to fight the empire. The liberation of Lothal showed everyone that you can beat the empire. Blowing up Alderaan pissed people off. It rallied people to fight the empire. Blowing up the death star showed everyone that you can beat the empire. What Ezra did wasn't the sole rally cry it was just added to the pile. Not everyone in the rebel alliance was from Alderaan but a lot of people in the rebel alliance were from Alderaan.

@@MercenaryPen good point.

Its a sith thing

Its Simply, Palpatine was being petty, as far as he was concerned The Empire belonged him and only him, everyone and everything in it was his property, He did not want to suffer the indignity of what was his falling into hands others. The result was that he wanted what was left of it destroyed out of spite. We have to remember that this guy is a genocidal megalomanic who wanted to use a Doomsday weapon to rule a galaxy through sheer terror, and was willing to destroy a planet and kill Millions of people just to make an example out of them. He did not care about moral cost of such actions because non-Sith were deemed lesser beings and he could do what he wanted to them out of virtue of being a Sith. When came to his followers, they had no right to hold what remains because they had failed and were not worthy of living, which is in accordance with Sith belief. There is a real life example of this of which Cinder was based on, Hitler's Nero decree, which was his last order before killing himself, destroy what remained of German infrastructure to leave nothing for his enemies as well as punish the Germany people for losing. It Shows how much of a monster he was and how selfish and cruel as well.

@@cane6074 Yep. "Let him rule over charred bones and cooked meat. Let him be the king of ashes! Burn them all!"

You touched on this at the end of the video

Basically this was how it happened in Legends. The basically feudal nature of the Empire's society meant that without Palpatine, everyone began to fight for the scraps in something that rivaled or even surpassed the Warring States periods in places like Japan or China. You might even compare it to a Third Century Crisis kind of clusterfuck, and that's the one that nearly brought Rome itself to it's knees (and unlike in Legends, the Empire doesn't have their equivalent to Aurelian or Diocletian to right the wrongs and clean up the mess)

That is because adults are just more layered kids. There children nature doesn't go a way. Just more layers are add