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Message: <blockquote data-quote="jian" data-source="post: 9874746" data-attributes="member: 78087">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.</blockquote>