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Spoilers Andor - Season 2
- Thread starter Fuddles
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No, it shouldn't have been. The show did more than enough to play fair with rebels, but the last thing it needed was to kowtow even more to a kiddie cartoon from over ten years ago.
You know, that makes the ending of "Who Are You?" that much more meaningful!...
It took a while (and rewatching season 1 was where it clicked) but I've realised who Dedra Meero reminds me of - Liz Truss (for non-UK/people not really into politics she was PM a few years ago and managed to cause a shambles lasting only about 100 days before being replaced)
Over ambitious, just enough competence (or ego dressed in competences clothing) to become dangerous, and ultimately massively overpromoted and the main creator of their own downfall.
Over ambitious, just enough competence (or ego dressed in competences clothing) to become dangerous, and ultimately massively overpromoted and the main creator of their own downfall.
I actually think, looking at how the Empire manipulated and controlled the narrative around their conquest and strip mining of Ghorman, it enhances the Sequel Trilogy and why the New Republic was on hard mode....
Also, despite being deposed, the First Order and Moff Gideon, etc, likely still had too many of the galaxy's military subcontractors on their side for decades after Endor.
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If Palpatine was able to hide a major clone army contract and a war machine subcontract during the Galactic Republic for a decade (and even when it came out it was blamed on the Jedi), he can probably hide a number of subcontractors in the Unknown Regions during the height of his own powerful Galactic Empire. They hid the Death Star for two decades, and the second one as well. A galaxy is a vast place, and there are still places to hide.
Or more accurately the more corrupt companies helped forge supply lines into the Unknown Regions for the Imperial Remnant hardliners that evolved into the First Order and Sith Eternal.
Plus space is big, planets and solar systems are seemingly massive civilisations in themselves (making it hard for a very young NR to get off the ground) but for some reason a huge, vocal number of fans can't seem to get their heads around that years later. I have have my issues with the dissonance riddled, formulaic The Rise of Skywalker and Solo arguably didn't feel necessary like The Book of Boba Fett, but too many critics of Disney SW have fallen down internet rabbit holes (either neck bearded background lore obsessions at best or Far Right Neo-Nazi mania at worst).
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... Really big. You just won't believe how vastly, hugely, mind-boggling big it is. I mean, you might think it's a long way down the road to the chemist's, but that's just peanuts to space.
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The, maybe, 12 to 18 month time period of the Sequel Trilogy was the last few rolls of the dice by the exhausted, fragmented Galactic Empire - they were impressive rolls, but even after totally destroying the NR's seat of power and a big chunk of its conventional navy, the First Order's fleets and armies were likely already hitting a strategic brick wall and were looking at a countdown by time of The Last Jedi (similar to what the Empire in its prime was facing by the last episode of Andor in the weeks before the DS1 blew up).
And then history rhymed or repeated at Exegol....
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That would never happen because of hubris. The Death Star had that massive in order to terrify the galaxy. The Empire could simply never believe anyone would be able to destroy something that big.
Starkiller base, I mean.
But it goes to 11
The First Order, secretly guided by Palpatine, led by cultists, and recruiting slave soldiers, did not mature much past the Tarkin Doctrine - besides which Starkiller served its purpose in throwing the New Republic into disorder and fear (their real set back was the fatal crippling of the Star Dreadnought Supremacy, their giant all purpose mobile base and factory).
