I started watching S2 of Andor last night, and since I enjoyed S1, my expectations were hopeful. I'm pretty much spoiled for the major plot points that come up later, but other than that, I'm going in blind. I got to the beginning of episode 4, and so far, the writing quality seems to have declined, at least in these first few episodes. Specifically, the fact that I just watched three episodes of straight exposition, there was little to no tension, and no direction so far.
I was a few beers deep, and I couldn't stop laughing at the fact that the Galactic Empire would care so much about illegal immigrants on an outer-rim farming world. How does immigration work in the Star Wars Universe? If you have the money, you can travel anywhere essentially, and if you can't and have to pay for another person to transport you, like a commercial flight, the empire could simply stop you at a spaceport if you had a space warrant, etc.
Yes, they could write up any excuse for the sake of the plot. On the other hand, they could've just made the audit/census check workers for warrants/records, and gone from there. It's implied that the planet has a labor shortage, so why would materalistic autocratic imperials give a shit about immigration status unless the worker was a criminal/rebel? It just felt so forced; it took me out of any of the tension during the scenes on the farming planet.
All I could think about was some reddit/twitter post I saw where some retard commenting on an ICE video said, "Look how quickly they take to walking around like STORMTROOPERS!!!". I guess Disney decided to make that a reality in this show, and start pushing down on the director to add more direct SJW slop, since the blatant lazy messaging wasn't a thing in S1.
The Bad Batch show displayed that the Empire forced everyone to register themselves and their chain-code to allow for safe passage. Anyone without proper identification would not be allowed to travel on a ship or through a spaceport.
That, and it makes perfect sense for the Empire to check for illegal immigrants, because there is a rebellion against them going on, and illegals could be rebels in disguise, hiding in plain sight. Which, in the case of Bix and her friends, is
exactly what's going on. If that rapist Imperial officer did his job, he'd lock Bix up along with her friends, because not only are they border-jumpers without the proper paperwork, they're
traitors, as well.
lso even if it's the case, the sequels and RatCo slop also says that it's fine to blast out the Dark Side so long as the Sith never touched it,
The canonical position of the old EU is that neither the Dark nor the Light Sides of the Force are innately good nor evil, but what you use them for is what counts, hence why Starkiller went to Space Heaven while Palpatine's soul rotted in Space Hell, despite the fact that they both spam Force Lightning like there's no tomorrow. Luke Skywalker also used his dad's signature Force Choke on the Gamorreans, despite his soul being closer to the Light than even Yoda or Ben Kenobi ever were.
It has routinely shown that democracy is retarded and doomed to fail, since RatCo's shit showed that no matter what the Galactic Republic was doomed to be run by evil retards in corpo pockets or whatever. Which hey true, that means demolish and rip apart Disney by this logic oh wait.
To be fair, that's the same case with the Republic in the SWEU; it's practically thanks to the Jedi that the Republic didn't fall apart, but the Republic turned a blind eye to Czerka enslaving the Wookiees, and they also turned a blind eye when the Trade Federation was running around, ravaging worlds for profit. They only cared about Naboo because that world had a senate seat, so they were forced to care.
The only time the Republic was shown to be decisive and good was during the SWTOR era, when they were under military law with the Jedi leading them, but even then, you had a lot of rotten apples underneath, from the Republic using Belsavis as a prison for political enemies, to the corrupt chancellor who tries to upstage the Alliance Commander.
It also shows that dictatorship is retarded and doomed to self implode due to one man fucking holding it and failing. Sheev failed twice even when the alleged protagonists attempted as hard as possible to self sabotage and shoot themselves in the fucking head. His one last hope was a fat blue dude who was trained wrong on purpose and thinks getting sodomized and watching your loth cat get eaten is a win.
I'm sure that was the failing of the old Empire as well, to the point where most of the Empire's forces were lost in a civil war after Palpatine died on Endor, since there were no legitimate successors strong enough to hold the throne.
Except this time, the blue dude in the old SWEU was actually smart and was able to hold the fort long enough until Sheev returned in Dark Empire.
It also shows that whatever garbage belief they have is wrong thanks to RatCo signing off on Andor and they want to be Sturmabteilung goons so bad probably. Your professional shitstirrers were fuck ups that spedrun deaths and asset loss. All ideologies and philosophy in all stripes is dumb, wrong, and gay thanks to RatCo.
Basically, the main difference in the Rebellion between the old canon and the new. The old Rebellion didn't want to needlessly sacrifice people, and they tried their best to preserve their assets as much as possible, because they knew the numbers game wasn't on their side. Far unlike the Andor rebels where they couldn't care less if entire populations died fighting the Empire, so long as they have a byline for Mon Mothma to use.
The old Rebellion in the OT and the SWEU were the conservative reactionaries who didn't like how Palpatine was rocking the boat, depowering the old Senatorial aristocracy and getting rid of the established Jedi Religion. The new Rebellion in Andor are Marxist revolutionaries who wouldn't give a shit if half the galaxy died just so they can "show the galaxy the Empire's true colors." Not to mention Andor himself saw Force-users as scum; with him calling that one Force-user on Yavin a kook, thinking that her powers were a sham.
Notice how the Andor show tried to make the Rebel Alliance proper (represented by that general on Yavin IV who didn't like Andor just coming and going) look like assholes. And how a lot of Andor fans are trying to make the old Rebels from the OT look like credit-stealing jackasses. The old Rebellion wasn't radical enough in their eyes, when they missed the point entirely; the Rebellion was trying to restore old traditions, not upend them.
Ironically, this is a practice in redudance; they didn't need to make the Rebels gray when Saw Gerrera already exists as a darker shade of gray among the Rebels. The other Rebels can retain their shining knight status, while Saw plunges his hands into the filth, so that others can keep theirs clean.
