Spanish Civil War didn’t ring any bells? Tony was exploring all revolutions.
Yes, and in that war, the Spanish Republicans were killing Catholics, who were the majority of people in Spain, causing the people to side with the Nationalists, killing the Republicans. Translated to Star Wars, imagine if the Rebels began killing everyone who believed in the Force, Light or Dark, and this drove the Force-believing galactic populace into the arms of the Sith and the Empire, who protected them by killing all the Rebels.
That's your problem. I can differentiate from the Rebellion as it was portrayed in the Original SW films and EU, and the way they're being portrayed now. Both Gilroy and Filoni have destroyed them. The Rebels suffered a worse character shift than even the fucking Mandalorians.
You have to remember that Tony Gilroy didn’t give a fuck about the lore. He remembers the original trilogy, but I’m sure that anything outside of that was ignored. He was depicting how revolutions develop with Andor, using Star Wars as a lens to explore the concept.
Even the Original Trilogy had the Rebels remain squeaky-clean. Leia saw Han as an outcast because he was self-serving scum, and Luke openly sacrifices advantages for the sake of saving those he loved. The OT Rebels were political idealists who believed in things like honor, truth, and justice. Someone like Cassian Andor would've been regarded as a renegade by them. And they would trust Luthen as far as they can shoot him.
Revolutions that develop through terrorism end in terror; as we see in the French Revolution. If Andor was being realistic, Palpatine's death would lead to the kind of chaos, betrayal, murder, and slaughter that would make anything Tarkin did look like a joke in comparison. Then Thrawn retakes the Imperial throne and makes a new Empire that is even more tyrannical and more powerful than Palpatine's Empire ever was, as a response to Luthen's rebellion throwing everything into chaos.
Thrawn would find Palpatine's proverbial crown in the gutter, and he'd pick it up with his proverbial sword. That's where Andor's revolution should've ended.
To me, it’s an examination of the dirty part of revolution. Look at the American Revolutionary War. The narrative is about militia rose up at Lexington and Concord, or General Washington crossing the Delaware. Less praised are the tarring and feathering and property destruction of British tax officials. The treatment of British loyalists are not given mainstream attention. There was the spying and criminal skullduggery.
We learned a lot of the tarring and feathering of the tax officials, even at school. That, and we also learned much of how Spain and France carried the war, not the Continentals. If the Bourbons decided to turn a deaf ear to the woes of Washington, the American Revolution would've ended in failure. We'd just be calling it the "colonial rebellion" and we'd just be talking about how stupid it was that they rebelled.
The Sons of Liberty were doing what could be considered terrorism, but they were part of the foundation that led to the establishment of the United States of America.
I'm sure tossing tea into the harbor is not the same as shooting your own allies or pushing a population to rebel, knowing they will lose and get massacred, just so you can bitch about it. The Continentals picked their battles and their allies wisely. Andor's rebels did not.
Luthen’s Axis is Star Wars version of the Sons of Liberty.
False. The Sons of Liberty didn't betray their allies the way Luthen fed the Separatists to the Empire to protect his ISB mole, or the way Luthen killed said mole to cover his tracks. They actually honored their alliances with parties like the French Bourbons.
You could trust the Sons of Liberty. You can't trust Luthen's Axis network for shit. The shit they put Lonni through, only to kill him like a punk, shows that they can't be trusted. They do all that horrible shit, just so they can recreate the same clown show we saw in TPM that couldn't even reign in local powers, let alone enforce laws. What a fucking joke.