Spoilers Andor season one

[Amaris]

the Empire has the technology to automate all that and it would be a lot more efficient.


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That doesn't matter, though, because it's not about efficiency. Efficiency is just a bonus because any efficiency costs are offset by the slave labor itself. We use it today in the US prison system, for example, despite the fact that we can automate a lot of the processes, and since the Empire has a strong allusion to the United States (the original Star Wars was an allegory of the Vietnam war, with the US being the Empire), the pattern is consistent with our current carceral economic interests.

So it's not about efficiency so much as it's about a continuous, free flowing stream of slave labor that offsets the costs and requires little in return for the workers, while still contributing the benefit of that labor to the imperial machine. The reason we see so much punishment is because it is still a carceral system. The goal of working you to death and replacing you as one would a cog in a machine is a part of the system.

 

[YellowSubmarine]

This is before Saw needed the oxygen mask he used to help him breathe. So I'm guessing this is before his encounter with the lethal gases the Empire used to exterminate the Geonosians on their homeworld.

Should be, that was in later seasons of Rebels, Rebellion was more out in the open, and we haven't yet jumped a year, and we may be running concurrently – or before – Season 1 of Rebels.

 

[JirinPanthosa]

No, he wasn't. Sometimes, silly characters can be funny. Look at Han Solo.

His only mistake was thinking that Jar Jar Binks was at all funny to the average person above six years old.

Grogu, on the other hand.

 

[Crewman6]

Grogu, on the other hand.

Isn't funny, either.

 

[JirinPanthosa]

Isn't funny, either.

Many more people above the age of 6 think he is than Jar Jar.

 

[Crewman6]

Many more people above the age of 6 think he is than Jar Jar.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Argumentum_ad_populum

 

[fireproof78]

Aside from a few moments featuring droids, "Andor" feels more like a sci-fi series made in the early 21st century than Star Wars. Also, the writing still needs tightening.

That's literally what it is. It is working off of the idea of real world politics that Lucas drew upon with the original.

His only mistake was thinking that Jar Jar Binks was at all funny to the average person above six years old.

Grogu, on the other hand.

Is more cute than funny.

 

[CaptainWacky]

Another excellent episode. The show hasn't missed yet. Diego Luna did some great reaction acting in this one.

Forest Whitaker and Stellan Skarsgard together!

Looking very unlikely that Syril will have a turn around and join the rebellion, with only four episodes remaining.

 

[Imaus]

Saw made a very good point.

Human Cultists, hmm? We got some Pius Dea, Alien Sacrificing Cells around?

 

[Ethros]

Brilliant episode, and nice to see Mon Mothma in two different shows today

 

[Imaus]

Another excellent episode. The show hasn't missed yet. Diego Luna did some great reaction acting in this one.

Forest Whitaker and Stellan Skarsgard together!

Looking very unlikely that Syril will have a turn around and join the rebellion, with only four episodes remaining.

I'm still betting on Syril getting too close to the Empire and getting burned. Bet you - one episode he snoops around again and gets beaten by the ISB for fun and then just thrown out like garbage.

This is not a show where everything gets a reward. The manifesto? Thrown out. Andor's mom? Probably going to die under a hotel of all things. Syril? Probably going to get the end of a baton and fired.

 

[CaptainWacky]

Hey, Cassian might go back and get the manifesto from the hotel room where he stowed it, whenever he breaks out of prison. It could still be there...

 

[Crewman6]

Hey, Cassian might go back and get the manifesto from the hotel room where he stowed it, whenever he breaks out of prison. It could still be there...

Aw, crap! The manifesto!!

Hopefully his one night stand stumbled across it and started her own rebel faction. The Peezo Brigade or something.

 

[Crewman6]

Is more cute than funny.

Wait, don't you remember that hilarious scene where Grogu...ate something? And that side-splitting moment in a later episode where Grogu....ate a different thing???

Comedy gold right there, my friends.

 

[Amaris]

My niece loves Grogu, so that's all the motivation I need for more of him to show up in Mandalorian.

 

[fireproof78]

Wait, don't you remember that hilarious scene where Grogu...ate something? And that side-splitting moment in a later episode where Grogu....ate a different thing???

Comedy gold right there, my friends.

There are different forms of comedy. And speaking as someone who has kids who enjoy Grogu I think the appeal is cuteness not comedy.

 

[valkyrie013]

Ep 8.. Meh..

 

[kirk55555]

I almost fell asleep watching the latest episode, I really shouldn't have watched it right after getting up in the morning Basically nothing particularly interesting happened, this show is basically the Star Wars version of those listless "prestige" dramas that are absolute shit but critics eat up. It sucks that they wasted so much money on great looking real sets for easily the worst live action SW show. I've seen bad Star wars, annoying Star Wars, frustrating Star Wars and infuriating Star Wars before, but this is the first outright boring Star Wars.

I say that knowing I'll watch every episode, but I'm sticking with the (I'll watch the new episode when I remember it exists) schedule I've generally stuck to.

 

[Amaris]

There are different forms of comedy. And speaking as someone who has kids who enjoy Grogu I think the appeal is cuteness not comedy.

This. I love Grogu because he's cute.
My niece and nephew love Grogu because he's cute.
My brother loves Grogu because he's cute (though he'll claim he doesn't like Grogu, there's a mini-Grogu he got for Christmas from yours truly that sits in a prominent place in his office).

 

[Jayson1]

Like with Weird Al, They who hates Grogu has truly given up on life.