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[Artamo]

Sweet Summer Child, "The Secret Empire" was an epic from the early 1970s (Cap 160-179) and it ends with the President of the US (whose face is never shown) committing suicide.

The "Secret Empire" you remember was an homage to that story decades later

Ooooooookay.

 

[sabrinathecat]

So, out of interest, did u not like Andor? or have you not watched it?

Never watched. I was too disgusted by "Book of Boba Fett," and "Kenobi" that I have lost all faith, confidence, and interest in Di$ney's $tar War$ to be willing to take another chance on being so disappointed ever again. Not until KK and her lot are gone will I give any SW product a chance.

 

[Reef]

Never watched. I was too disgusted by "Book of Boba Fett," and "Kenobi" that I have lost all faith, confidence, and interest in Di$ney's $tar War$ to be willing to take another chance on being so disappointed ever again. Not until KK and her lot are gone will I give any SW product a chance.

Your choice, but you are missing out. If Boba Fett and Kenobi were the karmic price we had to pay for Andor, I’d happily pay it again. Not only was Andor the best Star Wars I’ve seen in decades, it was one of the best shows I’ve seen…period. And so eerily relevant, I’m amazed they got away with making it.

 

[Rabulias]

Never watched. I was too disgusted by "Book of Boba Fett," and "Kenobi" that I have lost all faith, confidence, and interest in Di$ney's $tar War$ to be willing to take another chance on being so disappointed ever again. Not until KK and her lot are gone will I give any SW product a chance.

You are probably sick of hearing this, but Andor really is different from just about anything else in Star Wars (it is close to Rogue One, obviously, but even that is a different tone). Did you see Rogue One? Did you like it?

Andor is really worth a watch.

 

[jian]

Yeah, Andor is just very different. Tony Gilroy basically said, "they're going to let me make a prequel to Rogue One so it's going to be an extremely engaging person-level examination of how fascists come to power and how that changes everyone and everything, and how there are as many paths to resistance as there are people" which is a hell of a reaction. Andor is probably therefore the best fictional examination we have of how we go from apparently business as usual to all-out fascism, it barely needs the Star Wars veneer. It stands proudly alongside the classics of the genre - The Iron Heel, It Can't Happen Here, 1984, The Man in the High Castle, The Handmaid's Tale, Julia - and is incredibly relevant in these troubled times.

I must commend Disney to some degree for letting creators play around with the premises they're given, especially in the TV series. It hasn't always worked out - heck, it usually doesn't work out - but we get gems like WandaVision and Andor. And even flawed gems like Eternals, which I really liked but I can see why many other people didn't.

Lanterns feels like a similar idea - let the creator go with an off the wall idea that they really like and see where it goes - but WB/DC aren't really as far along that road as Disney is, so we'll see how it gets implemented.