Star Wars: Andor (TV)

[Bleib]

Andor is far too psychodramatic and dystopian for Star Wars in a way that is too real for me.

I think real world fascist governments tend to be worse. I'd expect experimentation a la Mengel or Japan's Unit 731 depravity. Almost any time I watch some of the more realistic war movies we still see a sort of censored version of all the horrors that goes on. Reality isn't really even shown in fiction.

Or Nazi-Germany Aktion T4 for that matter...

But this is also the problem I have with the OT and the sequel trilogy. Since they have the power to blow up planets and are that strong, isn't the real goal to rule over people?
When they blow up 5 planets in one of the sequels the only thing I can do is to shake my head. What for? You have the power to control vast numbers of people.
And the same time once ONE planet is blown up the blowback should be gigantic, there should be a bigger resistance movement against any version of the Empire we've seen.
Yet in the dumb sequels the resistance movement is quite minuscule again. OK, it's true that history repeats itself, but this is basically forms of ultimate evil that nobody really benefits from.

 

[Audionaut]

Reality isn't really even shown in fiction.

Yes, the reality of human brutality is usually more pronounced than any cinematic fiction can show if it wants to get the appropriate age rating.

Just watch the news and Andor is quite cute in comparison.

There are very few series, not just Star Wars, that are free of flaws, lengths and holes in logic.

In this respect, Andor is clearly at the top end of the good series for me, thanks to the script, the good set, but also the good actors.