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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Swanosaurus" data-source="post: 9739504" data-attributes="member: 7044220">I just finished watching Andor, and I'm pretty impressed and moved by it. It has managed to kind of overwrite Star Wars (which I'm generally luke-warm on) for me; Andor is now the "real" story about the fight against the empire, with the OT as a kind of side-plot. It implicitly changes the whole metaphysics of Star Wars: Yes, the emperor is a sith, but really, that's just coincidental. As has been said, he could be anyone, and the empire would be just as evil. If the emperor was a Jedi who wants to bring order to the galaxy, it wouldn't be any better.The one thing that slightly bugs me about the series is that it frames rebellion mostly as cultural identity politics ("We are the Ghorm!" - "If we are not the Ghorm, what is there left to fight for?"). There's a lot of other good reasons to fight for than you cultural identity - you can oppose fascism on a purely political level (which is probably true of Luthen); the struggle against it can even be class struggle. Cultural identity is the easiest category to fall back on, but I think it's also among the most problematic ones.Consequently, I just love everything about this series that's about Mon Mothma. Actually, they should have called it Star Wars: Mothma!</blockquote>